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.

Join the discussion​

Click here to visit the newly opened RENNSPORT forum for all your community discussions, questions, polls and articles.

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I can already see the final product, so here's what we will see :

- **** pcars physics (at best, it will be close to automobilista 2)
- UE5 catastrophic optimisation
- mobile game UI
- NFTs
- unfinished and buggy
- people will quickly abandon it because why bother
- if there's mods, they will be very limited

call me when it's out, read this again
 
Sounds like either a bethesda style paid mod marketplace or nft's. Honestly It doesnt sound like they are bringing anything new to the table we dont already have. First off you cant "own" the mods you use in the game because the mods are using licensed content. I'm always willing to try more sims, as long as they use a consumer friendly open ended approach like assetto corsa I'm fine. But it sounds to me like another iracing scam where they want you to pay 5000 dollars for each and every bit content, eventually equaling the amount of cars you'd get in a normal AAA racing title. If its free to play, and they are talking about "owning your mods" those are two very big red flags.

And to be quite frank I'm sick of modern gt3 esports focused games. We have PLENTY! There are SO MANY diverse classes that have existed in racing. I still cant believe we havent gotten a game that properly depicts some more old racing series with realistic full grids like group c1 and c2, Vintage group 4 and group 5, GT1/gt2 90s series, Group A touring, GTC and GTB touring, 80's-90's GTO/GTU, Vintage 60's prototypes, BTCC, WTCR, STCC, Modern TCR, Modern TA1 and TA2. I'm tired of only seeing like 1 or two cars from these series make appearances in racing games and having them race unrealistically against cars from completely other generations, lets get some games that truly depict these amazing series for once.
 
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The developers have also confirmed that the development of Rennsport has been moved almost immediately to the Unreal Engine 5. The images you see attached to this article were all taken in game.
 

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