rFactor 2 Hotfix Update Released

[Paul Jeffrey]

A small but important hotfix has been released for rFactor 2 today...

Addressing several issues with the latest build of rFactor 2, the new update released earlier today is a very welcome surprise to players of this outstanding simulation, clearing up some important bugs that have nagged at the playing experience recently, as well as seemingly adding some nice performance improvements for some who've been suffering with stutter since the last update.

Key highlights of the new build update include a fix for Real Road issues on some stock track content and a crash issue that causes problems when trying to use various content combinations. The new build should download automatically the next time players open their Steam client.

Full change log notes can be read below

11/05/2018 rFactor 2 Update Notes:
Steam Build ID 2759516

• Fixed issues with shadow and texture filtering introduced with performance update.
  
• Fixed Launcher sporadically hanging on verify with certain content.
  
• Fixed live replays not working when 'Record Replay' was set to OFF.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused missing segments of real road on certain tracks.
  
• Fixed missing brake disc glow.
  
• New: Corner and safety workers can now be two separate objects and
  animations instead of being one object with two people. Naming conventions for modders.
  The new safety workers are called SafetyWorker_001, _002, ... and the animations SB_FLAGDOWN, SB_FLAGHELD, ... similar to the corner worker
  
• New: Puppet mode was added to dev mode for modders. It shows up in the menus and allows you to remotely control certain aspects of a race. You can also drag select cars in the camera view and control them."

Note: For this latest update, if you are already on rFactor 2 Build 1110, server Admins will NOT need to update dedicated servers.

rFactor 2 is available exclusively for PC from Steam now.

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Have you tried the new update yet? Are you happy with the latest hotfix build release? Pleased with development of rF2 so far? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[Mike Kadlcak]

rF2... your crab hand simulator.

no seriously... when do they update this ugly gloves/hands model. Should have been next on the agenda after introducing VR for the gfx devs.

 

[2stains]

rF2... your crab hand simulator.

no seriously... when do they update this ugly gloves/hands model. Should have been next on the agenda after introducing VR for the gfx devs.

I have acrophobia and the hand freak me out in VR !
+1 to new hands please !

 

[MarcG]

It's when they come off the steering wheel that freaks me out..."WHAT...my hands aren't doing that!?"

 

[2stains]

The world movement makes me sick !
Please give us lock to horizon ASAP !

 

[Kai Syvertsen]

The world movement makes me sick !
Please give us lock to horizon ASAP !

I hope the same!

 

[Marcel Offermans]

We are working on a system that will help with that.

 

[Mike Kadlcak]

like what? if we can ask? r you guys re-inventing a wheel here for it?
or is it top secret?

 

[Marcel Offermans]

Not re-inventing anything, but we think we can do better so we're testing an improved system to ensure that we have something that for example also works well on heavily banked ovals.

 

[2stains]

Is it going to take much longer to implement?

 

[Marcel Offermans]

We are testing something right now. How things proceed from there depends on the feedback we get. It could be anything between "this is bad, please start over" to "this is the best, can I have it now". In general feedback has been positive so far, but we are still testing so it's hard to give you a solid date. We know this is important for some of our VR users, so we're trying to get it right.