RaceRoom Roadmap: New GT3s and Pau

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Raceroom Racing Experience has unveiled the content roadmap detailing car and track releases coming throughout 2023. Here are the different packs on the way.

Raceroom Racing Experience is often pushed to the side in the sim racing market. Titles such as Assetto Corsa Competizione and rFactor 2 jump to the forefront whereas this free-to-play game tends to hide in the shadows.

Every now and then however, KW Studios, the team behind the game makes announcements that shock the sim racing world. Today is one of those days as a full content roadmap has been released for the sim. With new cars and a rarely seen circuit, it is certainly a promising announcement for the game.

Car Content Coming to RaceRoom

A few weeks ago, we saw the On the Edge pack release for RaceRoom. It brought three new cars to the game including the KTM X-Bow GT2, Mazda RT-24P and McLaren 570S GT4. But these aren’t the only vehicles coming to the sim in 2023. Far from it in fact as many releases are scheduled for the year to come.


In half a dozen weeks, the BMW M4 GT3 will make up the game’s next release. This will form what KW Studios is calling the Q1.5 release. It will be a smaller release in between two major content drops. With many GT3 models in the game, the Beemer will be in good company and should provide excellent racing.

The next large release on the RaceRoom content roadmap is the title’s fourth Porsche Pack. This will add a trio of models from the Stuttgart brand: two modern racers and a vintage cup car. The all-new 992 generation of 911 is providing more and more racing variants. RaceRoom will get two of them in July: the Porsche 992 GT3 R and 992 GT3 Cup car. The addition of the Porsche 944 Turbo Cup car completes the pack and carries forth R3E’s love of unique content.

Another Porsche Pack is coming to Raceroom Racing Experience
Another Porsche Pack is coming to RaceRoom Racing Experience. Image credit: KW Studios
Lastly for the 2023 car announcements is an addition the wide array of RaceRoom Touring Car content. We don’t know exactly what cars will feature in the so-called Touring Car Pack. But it’s fair to say further TCR content is certain. Furthermore, the potential for all-electric ETCR cars is high when you consider the track coming along with it.

Unique Track in Sim Racing​

The Pau Street Circuit is making its official return to simracing having not been original content in a title since Race 07 over a decade ago. This twisty circuit winds its way around the city centre of South-Western French town, Pau. It is one of the oldest venues in France and held the French Grand Prix in 1930.

The Pau Street Circuit is making its simracing return
The Pau Street Circuit is making its sim racing return. Image credit: KW Studios
Today, the Pau GP is still an annual event with both a modern and historic historic weekend. The modern Grand Prix is set to host Euro Formula Open and TCR Europe in just a week’s time. Last year, it saw all-electric ETCR cars go head-to-head which might be an incentive for KW Studios to bring the series to its game.

More on the RaceRoom Roadmap?​

That’s not all in the pipeline for RaceRoom this year. The developers mentioned a six-week gap between content drops. So fans of the title can expect new releases every month and a half from now on.

With that in mind, the roadmap currently has a few gaps in its timeline. The Q2.5 and Q3.5 markers currently show as empty but expect more announcements to follow. Much like the M4 GT3 coming soon, this so-called intermediary content will be “smaller, very affordable releases.” Expect these drops to be skin packs and single cars.

Finally, Christmas also shows up on the roadmap timeline. Showing a “Christmas Treat,” fans can expect something special for release around 25 December.

Editor’s Take​

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Angus Martin

Having previously lived in the town of Pau in South West France, seeing the return of the Pau Street Circuit to official simracing content is huge news. I can’t wait to throw a little touring car or Formula racer around the streets I once walked.

Elsewhere, it’s great to see that KW Studios is still putting so much effort into its simulator despite its age. The game celebrated its tenth birthday in February of this year. So for it now be getting content drops every six weeks is a great sign. Keep it up, team!


What do you make of the content roadmap Raceroom has planned out for 2023? Tell us on Twitter at @OverTake_gg or in the comments down below!
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I think RaceRoom has significantly better FFB and physics than AMS2. The latter might have a few decent cars, but it's far too inconsistent, whereas every vehicle in R3E feels great.
One has been on the market for ten years now, the other for three. So there is still plenty of time for improvements in AMS2.

I still remember how, even years later, the vehicles felt like you were driving a motorboat in RRE. Fortunately, they've turned that off and everything feels more believable. Still, you can tell that the title has a lot of years under its belt, so I prefer the more current sims.
 
Ouais arrêt instantané pour moi. Il se trouve que c'est assez léger ici maintenant, mais d'habitude je suis "flashbangé" et je ferme la page.

Une fois qu'ils auront au moins repris le mode sombre, je commencerai à lire les articles

Get off my lawn ya damned zoomer - I started with this

I experienced even worse on the Atari 2600, with a monstrous joystick with a whole button. See the 4th minute of the video, it doesn't last long and that's good! But it was the Top of the simulation of the time! ;-)
 
I experienced even worse on the Atari 2600, with a monstrous joystick with a whole button. See the 4th minute of the video, it doesn't last long and that's good! But it was the Top of the simulation of the time! ;-)

Why are you quoting me in this?
 
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Looks like all development has ended on the title. Wouldn't be so bad if they opened it up for mod support.
Content drops are keeping it on life support at best, but the active player base continues on a downward trajectory.
 
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I've always felt that raceroom, after that major FFB update, drives consistently and understandably, but boringly,

I wouldn't say boringly. But when I did the RDGTC and some R3E club racing a long time ago, I must admit I got a bit confused that the difference between the old Skyline, the 4WD Audi Touring car and Mustang GT3 felt as small as it felt.
 
Does that delete all your in-game stats and online ranking too?
Well, yes, but Premium Pack was always meant to be a one time deal. You want to go around that and pay less for what you were supposed to buy separately afterwards? Deal with losing stats and ranking. Seems like a fair compromise for getting again a huge discount that you already used.
 
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Well, yes, but Premium Pack was always meant to be a one time deal. You want to go around that and pay less for what you were supposed to buy separately afterwards? Deal with losing stats and ranking. Seems like a fair compromise for getting again a huge discount that you already used.
Fair enough, thanks for the info!
I'll keep it in mind when they end development and confirm how they plan to allow the user to keep there content.
 
A classic version of Pau, please. Or maybe three versions just like the Pau-modpack for AC, each reflecting a stillshot in time for different decades.
 
Love the sim and still consider it the best. I play all others and still come back to RRE. Yes the graphics are not modern but they are far from being the worst. Much needed content thank you but please add endurance classes. A few new feature would be appreciated as well :)
 

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