18th of July speculation and Twitter conversations.

Michael Hornbuckle · Jul 2, 2014

So Lord Kunos was a bit chatty on the Twitter machine this morning

EDIT: ask Stelios or Radek

Ben Lee · Jul 4, 2014

I'm not interested in some ripped car with dodgy physics. My threshold for quality demands a better finished product for me to be interested in downloading.

Chris · Jul 5, 2014

I love Aris.
Seems like a genuinely good guy, doing what he loves.

Joao Alves · Jul 5, 2014

I've always wondered how many GB, or even TB of data a project like documenting a car/track would be...

Really stoked to see all of this work come to see the light of day!

DennS · Jul 5, 2014

I am quite curious about that partnership

PS.: Maybe we should rename this thread to "news", where we can post anyhing new. Like we had before the early access release.

Stereo · Jul 5, 2014

Dennis Schuldt said:
I am quite curious about that partnership

Well Marco posted a pic of himself on facebook with Thomas Jackermeier of Fanatec driving at the 'ring, so... that's definitely a direction where "best simulation" means something.

Niki Đaković · Jul 6, 2014

Good stuff by Aris, but I hope they're not trowing cheez at us just for the sake of it. I am already considering 18th of July as my summer-time Christmas.

Joao Alves · Jul 12, 2014

More great news from Stefano!

"Good results from the first Cockroach Powered netcode test.. I was able to drive with the guys from PH with 380ms of ping.. very smooth..."

"Let's hope to get good results from the "crowd" test later today in Italy and early morning tomorrow for me."

Chris · Jul 12, 2014

Things seem to be coming together very nicely

Cheers for the heads up @Joao M Alves

Joao Alves · Jul 12, 2014

Chris Stacey said:
Things seem to be coming together very nicely

Cheers for the heads up @Joao M Alves

Yeah, hopefully no more warping like in that rolling start video!

Steve Lorenz · Jul 12, 2014

Joao M Alves said:
More great news from Stefano!

"Good results from the first Cockroach Powered netcode test.. I was able to drive with the guys from PH with 380ms of ping.. very smooth..."

"Let's hope to get good results from the "crowd" test later today in Italy and early morning tomorrow for me."

If that is true, the netcode would be nearly same good like iRacing

in iR you can race with 400 ping.

Cássio Amary · Jul 12, 2014

Joao M Alves said:
More great news from Stefano!

"Good results from the first Cockroach Powered netcode test.. I was able to drive with the guys from PH with 380ms of ping.. very smooth..."

"Let's hope to get good results from the "crowd" test later today in Italy and early morning tomorrow for me."

Very nice. Right now I can play smoothly on servers that I ping from 50ms all the way up to 200ms...that until cars are too close or touch each other, than they all teleport all over the place.

Joao Alves · Jul 12, 2014

Steve Lorenz said:
If that is true, the netcode would be nearly same good like iRacing
in iR you can race with 400 ping.

Yup, I've had some very clean races with people from Australia back in my iR days.

cassio said:
Very nice. Right now I can play smoothly on servers that I ping from 50ms all the way up to 200ms...that until cars touch each other, than they all teleport all over the place.

He also responded to a comment like that and said that the two are directly linked. So better netcode = cleaner collisions!

Blkout · Jul 12, 2014

Chris Stacey said:
I love Aris.
Seems like a genuinely good guy, doing what he loves.

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And no offense to modders, but this is what separates the official content from modded content.

yusupov · Jul 12, 2014

really excited for the ruf announcement, esp if it details plans (as theyve been doing) beyond the already known yellowbird.

Leemstradamus · Jul 15, 2014

Chris Stacey said:
I love Aris.
Seems like a genuinely good guy, doing what he loves.

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Honestly when I find out that a update has been delayed, I get disappointed for selfish reasons. Then I look at the amount of time I have in game from steam and quickly realize that I have more time in game at the moment then many of the games I have in my steam collection combined! I at the moment have payed pennies per hour, if that for the amazing amount of enjoyment I have had. So when you take that into account I really owe Kunos more money. Since at the moment they aren't talking any of my money, I will have to give them the benefit of the doubt for delay's since it will benefit us in the long and short term!

The passion exhibited by their team is unparalleled in my dealings with video games. I have been gaming since I was about 5 and I'm almost 32. So I guess this will be the first time I will say I am a bonafide fanman! lol

Ashley Cowan · Jul 15, 2014

@Saleem Hodge After discovering AC I went out and spent something like $300 on a graphics card to play a single $30 dollar game. When you put it in perspective we should be paying a lot more for software as each of us would have many times that expense in the hardware side.
I know I am racing against guys with triples and shed loads of hardware.
In fact NVidia, AMD, Benq would be wise to subsidise/support studios like Kunos.

yusupov · Jul 15, 2014

i actually believe nvidia does, to some extent or in some fashion, though don't ask me why because i've forgotten. maybe a thanks to in the credits or something of that sort. + i believe the bmw gt2 car has an nvidia livery though im not sure if thats a real word thing or what.

Ben Lee · Jul 15, 2014

I think game subsidisation for PC at least will be tougher to get these days. All the gaming big players are interested in is money, which translates into console sales. Helping the PC limp along isn't going to put many steaks on the table at amd and nVIdia. In fact one of the reasons that gaming hardware has slowed up so much is because there simply isn't the drive any more from the dedicated PC segment.

Leemstradamus · Jul 15, 2014

This article would say contrary lol

Forbes Now: The Console War Is Over: The PC Already Won. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwrYeZox8

Metla · Jul 15, 2014

or this one even...fresh off the press

http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/07/14/pc-dominates-gaming-hardware-sales

PC gaming has expanded its lead over consoles in the hardware market, and may safely be called "dominant" in the industry, according to a recent study by John Peddie Research. The study found the PC gaming market is worth $21.5 billion USD - over twice the size of its competitors in the console industry