RENNSPORT Revealed: New Sim To Start Closed Beta This Summer

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Esports on an entirely new level? This is what RENNSPORT is aiming for – the upcoming sim project promises a completely different approach compared to most other racing simulators. Focusing on competition first and foremost, a completely fresh start wants to achieve maximum realism.

Munich-based Competition Company has been working quietly on the upcoming sim since 2020 and now made its efforts public. According to the RENNSPORT website, an entirely different approach is meant to lead the sim to success: “Starting from scratch, technological advancement and modern software architecture enables us to take the next step in virtual racing experiences.”

Esports​

This is supposed to have its roots in the approach to esports already: A competition system is supposed to reward sportsmanlike behavior and competition spirit. Also, RENNSPORT is going to feature a base for broadcasts, including tools for interaction with the audience and streaming.

Mod Support​

Additionally, the community is going to be another focal point – “Real Digital Ownership” is one of the core principles in this regard, encouraging modders to use RENNSPORT as a platform. “Your assets will be owned by you. And you can trade them through the marketplace of your choice.” Individual tracks and vehicles are mentioned specifically, another toolkit to promote community creations is planned as well.

BMW and Porsche​

Speaking of vehicles: In BMW and Porsche, two famous manufacturers that have increasingly active in esports are already on board with the sim, meaning they have a leg up on marques like Mercedes-AMG who are absent thus far. The RENNSPORT website displays screenshots of the Porsche 991 II GT3 and the BMW M4 GT3 at the Hockenheimring.

RENNSPORT is set to use the Unreal Engine 5. Regarding the physics model, experts from the automotive industry will be consulted to create a realistic representation.

Closed Beta​

While the announcement came seemingly out of nowhere, RENNSPORT is not far from a playable state: Already in summer of 2022, a closed beta is supposed to start to prepare the sim for an open beta phase in early 2023. The sim is being developed exclusively for the PC.

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BBRacing
Will not turn my nose up especially as gtr3 and BTCC look to fluff their lines!
 
Ciba1991
The modding tools being placed next to "real digital ownership" on the site is such a scummy misdirection. One has nothing to do with the other, and Yannik should have known better. Like a few others have mentioned, this reeks of NFT, and just because i get to sell it to some other dude, does not mean it feels different charge me actual money for a "unique" ingame item. Given how proud the project is of this "ownership" thing, and how they started building their tech in the spring of 2022, i not only doubt there will be a 2023 open beta, but that this project will materialise in any meaningfull way.
 
G
A bit stupid to announce a racesim without telling the crowd if it has VR support or not(or at least: if it's planned to have it). Anyway, I hope that it has!

I think that we cannot compare UE5 to ACC, ACC uses UE4, we don't have VR examples with UE5 yet.
 
M
Dour simdads taking a dump on a sim for which we haven't seen anything beyond a press release. Why is this community so negative? I mean NFTs? Really? We should be applauding new releases in this niche genre. It's healthy for everyone involved, and I welcome this new entry. I'm old enough to remember when no one had heard of Kunos until a little sim called NetKAR was released. Now, they are giants. Perspective.
 
U
My dream would be a fully licensed VLN Nordschleife simulator. With realistic multi-class racing and also the whole surrounding at the trackside. Who needs other tracks?
 
B
It seems like YouTube and the main players are picking up on Rennsport's new Sim and their hype machine is in motion.

They are obviously looking very closely to the public's response to their digital rights tease.

So if you are against possible NFTs and the problems that the FTP model may or may not bring, then now is the time to speak up :)

Tinfoil hat off
 
G
So far, it feels like they just downloaded the m4 model and didn't shoot it very skillfully. Since the picture is very noisy and blur jumps. YouTube is full of auto videos from ordinary users, where cars on UE 5 look very realistic.

Also, the job listing hints that they want to sell a video picture, and not develop a game. It cannot be that all programmers, modelers, 3D animators are not required by them.

I want to be wrong, but most likely we are waiting for some kind of deception.
 
Mekonrider
cameron_etc said:
At the end of the day, the more options, the merrier. It's particularly rare to see a new sim racing franchise start up these days. Exciting times. I just pray it has decent VR support – the UE5 usage scares me a little...that said, KartKraft uses UE and its VR is fine so there is hope.
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Oddly enough I find Kartkraft terrible in VR. ACC runs better than this for me.
 
BBRacing
Got to admit, always excited when I hear a new game is close! Reminds of back in the day with AC and PC1 - UE5 could make this great looking
 
R
eracerhead said:
For a sim to have half a chance against the established ACC (and a German-made one at that), they'll absolutely have to acquire the VLN/Nordschliefe license that ACC lacks.

Of course, it'll be interesting to see what UE5 beings to the table, and how Kunos will react to that. Will AC2 (and a future ACC update) be forced to adopt UE5 to stay competitive, after saying they aren't leaning that direction? The screenshots look beautiful, and UE5 should have improved VR performance (which ACC desperately needs).
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R3E is the german sim including DTM and ADAC GT Masters Licenses. KW is apparently looking into new engines for R3E in the future so I doubt that they will be a big competitor as KW is an established motorsport brand with many connections whereas Rennsport (the brand is actually called R Rennsport since they couldnt claim Rennsport on its own) is part of a studio and publisher without a great track record and a studio which failed to deliver anything in 3 years (even contract work) and had to be shutdown. Some of the business moves of the owner of Rennsport are a bit sketchy to say the least (similar to the motorsport games scam) and seeing that the project is handeld by an ex Schalke FC 04 manager who does not have any videogame relation at all is interesting too.
 

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