New price model for NKP and new screenshots

[Bram Hengeveld]

http://www.racedepartment.com/content/998-netkar-pro-pricing-announced-new-screenshots.html

 

[Vilmos Vas]

For me the best NetKar car is the F1800...

Lee, you have a good taste. I know a few people hate that car, but I really think the F1800 is a MUST for every simracer, regardles of the actual sim he/she drives. The F1800 can teach you car balancing, tire managment and developing setups. Simply awesome!
Honestly, I drive better in iRacing since I drive the F1800 (I just don't want to drive iR until the new tire model will come).

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

I hope we see v1.3 before the new year. Really expected it to come around christmas #wishfulthinking

 

[Tomas Torasen]

I heard they plan to release it before the 6:th of january as a beta if they dont have it totally ready, to not delay release further.

 

[Peter Eckhardt]

I ll buy it when 1.3 goes out . Cant wait fir RF2 so long ,in the meantome i do netcar sim racing

 

[Adrian Herrera]

peter get it right now. when 1.3 comes out it will just be a free upgrade. 1.2 is pretty solid

 

[Jaireh Pahalla]

but the 1.3 for first time users will be cheaper by 5 euro, if you don't mind the 5 euro you can get it now. i agree with adriecoot, the 1.2 is already great by itself.

 

[nijeat]

my question is: do you feel that netkar offers a better driving experience than iRacing? i am mostly interested in medium to high power single seaters....

In my opinion, I think iracing corner feel seems strange especially in turn-in and braking. For example, when I enter the corner, even if I try with 'heavy' trail-braking, vehicle has always either neutral or safe-oversteer, like that in all of the grip not cost braking grip. And besides, while braking, weight transfer to the front does not create oversteer with unstability, even through bumpy sections or down hill, it just seems safe-oversteer or little understeer. If unstable oversteer would happen in iracing, it's almost always while middle or exit of the corner under acceleration. And the way of setup to be fast is so, I think it seems that has applied without consideration of the absolute amount of grip with 4 wheels. In iracing fast setup is, has to be more loosely, tricky and unstably, under consideration of the relative amount of grip between front and rear.

At the worst, there's more, release throttle, it makes also heavy safe-oversteer, at uphill, turn-in, middle of the corner, all the time, even better than braking. But everyone knows that effect of weight transfer is better in braking than release throttle. As result of these, for example you can very easily get hairpin by skiing than anything else racing sim, even hairpin need more mechanical grip. And I think this car movement was, in the more stable car(e.g. formula), the more.

I feel papyrus has been these from GPL, and will maybe give me interesting to have counter understeer, but the thing I want in simracing isn't, though I'm papyrus fan.

Anyway, I guess someone who used to iracing said that nKP has heavy understeer feel is from this reasons. Understeer is bad, but understeer in the situation for that is not bad.

For example, please see below videos,

(iracing, C6R(GT1) at mosport)

(real, C6(GT2) at mosport)

(iracing, star mazda at laguna)
+more in youtube

I think these just look like 'skiRacing', and I have never seem like this driving in real onboard video ever. Corvette has even heavy engine in the front.

Um..and I know I feel hard to say what I think at English correctly, but I hope you understand my poor opinion.

By the way, what does 'netcode' mean? ping?

 

[Jaireh Pahalla]

it's the code for the network of different computers at different places; in this case, would make different people race together. (though maybe someone would have a more technical explanation) i think when you say a game has better netcode then the ping would be lower, but ping is different from netcode i suppose.

 

[Günthar Rowe]

is the 14.99 deal not out till 1.3 is released?

 

[Günthar Rowe]

By the way, what does 'netcode' mean? ping?

ping is simple the time it takes for a packet of information to travel for your pc to the game server and back again.
netcode is the games programming that handles packets and prediction of car positioning etc

 

[Olaf1]

is the 14.99 deal not out till 1.3 is released?

As far as I know the deal is out when the 1.3 beta is released, which will happen before the 6th January. But the sim is already a bargain for 19,90 € imo

 

[Abdulhaq Elhouderi]

is the 14.99 deal not out till 1.3 is released?

I bought it yesterday for 19.99, so it's only 14.99 when 1.3 is released

 

[Sk3ptik0n]

I think the netkar Pro site needs a "donate" button, because personally I find the idea that I get two new cars, a long winding "drive up a mountain" hillclimb course, AND rain all for free just too generous.

I would gladly pay another 20 Euros for this update, I would have paid 20 for the Formula KS2 alone.
(...)

Jon.

I agree. I can't wait for the new version but I will feel like I am robbing it. I would like to at least be able to pay $10 or $20 for it and a donation button is a great idea so those that cannot afford it can at least contribute what they can.

 

[Andrea Lojelo]

buying one more licence will do the trick!

 

[Mattia Gottardi]

buying one more licence will do the trick!

and give emh to a friends that use simulators so we will have also another new driver!!!

 

[Jon Denton]

and give emh to a friends that use simulators so we will have also another new driver!!!

But that means the driver who has it won't buy a licence and Kunos don't get any more money at all. :S

 

[Adrian Herrera]

give the license to someone who otherwise would not buy netkarpro..

we could even come up with some sort of "system" in which one of us that already bought netkarpro buys a second netkarpro license to give away to someone who wants to try it, and then if that person likes nkpro, they buy another license and gives it to someone else under the same conditions... what do you guys think about this?

 

[SteffenLS]

Donation in for now would be a good idea - later on when more people knows about this simulator, Kunos should raise the prise. I think it has potential for higher prize ...

 

[Jon Denton]

It takes ten minutes to knock up a Paypal donate button, strikes me as the easiest choice.

 

[Omer Said]

It seems some people plan to buy some extra licenses. We have a put-pick prize system here. You can put your extra licenses there as prizes, but you know what to do of course, i said just to let you know