After last nights great reintroduction of GTR2 it made me wonder why simbin made such a step backwards with the GTR series. We should of had GTR3 and not Devolution :sarcastic:
They had the opportunity to take this great GT series to the next stage and give us the sim that we all craved, but instead they decided to incorporate the GT class of cars into a touring car sim and thus what i see as a massive step backwards. I am not saying that the race07 series is bad, it was and still is a step forward in a lot of respects, but in others it was a compromise by simbin which i feel robbed us GT lovers of some great features.
What did we gain:
working windscreen wipers
better pit options
cleaner graphics
better collision detection
better gui
better damage effects
What did we loose:
Porsche & Ferrari
Working headlights (so no night racing)
Proper tyre choice (soft, medium, hard plus wet & intermediate)
Ability to restart race
Better feel to the cars.
(probably missed loads of points but those above are just what spring to mind first)
The biggest crime i think was tailoring the GT cars to the shorter touring cars race distances, hence the basic tyre choice and the loss of pit strategy.
In GTR2 the cars are all balanced for the 180 minute race distance in mind with tyres, engine, fuel capacity and consumption to suit. So with a 90 minute race and 2x fuel and tyres you could at least try and emulate the real thing, but in race07 (raceOn or whatever you are calling it now) this time/distance was reduced to 25 minutes.
In GTR2 you could have better mixed class races where the slower NGT cars could go longer and further without pitting so could gain some time back on the faster GT cars but in race07 it is the opposite in that the faster pro cars can now go the longest between stops so mixed class races now become bit of a waste of time as they are not nearly as interesting.
Rant over for now :shut-mouth: and hopefully looking forward to some great GTR2 races :bye:
They had the opportunity to take this great GT series to the next stage and give us the sim that we all craved, but instead they decided to incorporate the GT class of cars into a touring car sim and thus what i see as a massive step backwards. I am not saying that the race07 series is bad, it was and still is a step forward in a lot of respects, but in others it was a compromise by simbin which i feel robbed us GT lovers of some great features.
What did we gain:
working windscreen wipers
better pit options
cleaner graphics
better collision detection
better gui
better damage effects
What did we loose:
Porsche & Ferrari
Working headlights (so no night racing)
Proper tyre choice (soft, medium, hard plus wet & intermediate)
Ability to restart race
Better feel to the cars.
(probably missed loads of points but those above are just what spring to mind first)
The biggest crime i think was tailoring the GT cars to the shorter touring cars race distances, hence the basic tyre choice and the loss of pit strategy.
In GTR2 the cars are all balanced for the 180 minute race distance in mind with tyres, engine, fuel capacity and consumption to suit. So with a 90 minute race and 2x fuel and tyres you could at least try and emulate the real thing, but in race07 (raceOn or whatever you are calling it now) this time/distance was reduced to 25 minutes.
In GTR2 you could have better mixed class races where the slower NGT cars could go longer and further without pitting so could gain some time back on the faster GT cars but in race07 it is the opposite in that the faster pro cars can now go the longest between stops so mixed class races now become bit of a waste of time as they are not nearly as interesting.
Rant over for now :shut-mouth: and hopefully looking forward to some great GTR2 races :bye:
