Things Are Happening at Reiza Studios

[Paul Jeffrey]

Silence isn't always golden, and the silence from Reiza Studios has been deafening recently... leading many to remain curious as to what is happening behind the scenes..

As usual, the popular Brazilian team have been hard at work adding yet more goodness to both the venerable Automobilista title and the upcoming 'Reiza Pack' rFactor 2 DLC, however it looks like the level of work and time it will take to make everything happen has been a bit underestimated by Reiza, leading head man Renato Simioni to re evaluate just when things are likely to appear in the public domain. If recent form is anything to go by, I'm sure the wait will be more than worth it...

Taking to the Reiza forums today, Renato had the following update to give fans eager to know what is upcoming in the near future:

I understand and apologise that our communication hasn´t been the best lately, and our time estimates even less including the initial post...

Historically silence from us is not the sign of things stopping but rather too much stuff going on with a bit of uncertainty, and that´s the case again here including a couple of big developments since this topic was created.

With that said and without going too far making premature announcements, here is what you can surely expect in the very short term (3 weeks max):

• A new Automobilista update
• Announcing a new partnership that will bring free new (previously unforecasted) cars to AMS before the end of the year
• Announcing new official AMS competition
• Release of rF2 Bundle

And there is more still to come before the year wraps, but we´ll get to that once we´re through with the above..
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Good news for AMS fans, good news for rF2 fans and frankly good news for sim racing in general.

The next three weeks should be pretty exciting times indeed!

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Excited to hear of further, unexpected, development coming to AMS? Looking forward to hearing of the new announcement? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!​

 

[Lathander]

VR please

 

[David Ignjatovic]

Rf2 camaro and corvette into AMS would be welcome

 

[randMracer]

And to clarify, which is needed because of my shorthand writing, when I said the latest free cars, I meant the ones over the past year or so.

You should run for office.

 

[2stains]

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[tlsmikey]

Look. Lots of us want VR but that isn’t coming in the update. They’ve been clear about that. Realistically it sounds like an add-on car from an existing family. Metamoro? Dunno

 

[2stains]

Pretty sure we all know that but we can still dream and remind everyone how important VR is to Sim racing

 

[Case_]

I don't think anyone needs further reminding...

 

[Kurupt CDN]

Could be my imagination but wasn't there once talks about a possible Senna game as well Reiza 17......what happened with those?

If there not gonna create there own engine and possibly not using the rf2 engine.....that doesn't leave much options that i am aware of......UE4 or the madness engine?

Not gonna lie but I would love to experience Reiza ffb on the Madness engine and live track 3.0

 

[2stains]

Could be my imagination but wasn't there once talks about a possible Senna game as well Reiza 17......what happened with those?

If there not gonna create there own engine and possibly not using the rf2 engine.....that doesn't leave much options......UE4 or the madness engine?

Not gonna lie but I would love to experience Reiza ffb on the Madness engine and live track 3.0

Personally i don't like the look of the Madness engine ! But at least it has VR

 

[Kurupt CDN]

Personally i don't like the look of the Madness engine ! But at least it has VR

I like it on a 4k monitor....not so much in vr as I find it very blurry compared to other vr sims.

Reason I mentioned the madness engine was soley due to the amount of available tech. Reiza has similar content and the rallycross side could really shine with the weather and live track.

 

[numbersevenhull]

Could be my imagination but wasn't there once talks about a possible Senna game as well Reiza 17......what happened with those?

If there not gonna create there own engine and possibly not using the rf2 engine.....that doesn't leave much options that i am aware of......UE4 or the madness engine?

Out of absolute curiosity, does anyone know why the Id Tech engine is never mentioned in sim racing?

If you were looking for something with high frame rates, low latency and high fidelity it knocks UE4 out the park, and of course Rage had large driving sections.

Anyone ?

 

[roadyroad]

Could be my imagination but wasn't there once talks about a possible Senna game as well Reiza 17......what happened with those?

Excellent question, I had forgotten about the senna game. Did the project just vanish??? Or maybe the F1 periods covered (and the karting and F3) are not so appealing to justify a unique game... Or it may be not a good idea : what would you do? A game with only the cars that Senna drove? It's pretty limited and you would have only races against the same car. It would be just the same F1 than Automobilista with official cars and a slower mid 80s F1 (1984 toleman). The most interesting part would be the historical tracks, which I assume would be a lot of work. Or you could do z game with all the F1 for each season to compete against and, apart the licensing issue, you would have to make them available for the player, which is like creating 10 F1 games, or you could just make them available inly for the AI... This Senna game is not that easy to conceptualize...

Don't get me wrong, I'd like a Senna game, but not sure about the general audience and the feasablity of such a project. A Senna DLC for their next sim seems more reasonnable and feasible.

 

[2stains]

Out of absolute curiosity, does anyone know why the Id Tech engine is never mentioned in sim racing?

If you were looking for something with high frame rates, low latency and high fidelity it knocks UE4 out the park, and of course Rage had large driving sections.

Anyone ?

Is that the Wolfenstein 2 engine ? That would look and run great !

 

[SamuelSouza]

As a Brazilian and knowing how hard is developing games here, I'm really proud of these guys, I hope for the best, and I'm really hyped to see what they have for us!

 

[roadyroad]

Is that the Wolfenstein 2 engine ? That would look and run great !

Yes, the doom 2016 engine. the id tech engine performs very smoothly and allows great visuals. It may be too expensive or too uneasy to use. Maybe after rage2 some sim developpers will be interested. But it would be a great way to have a different look than the UE4 sims that are coming.

 

[B1LouTe]

No support VR

 

[Marc Collins]

Not gonna lie but I would love to experience Reiza ffb on the Madness engine and live track 3.0

The Reiza FFB is only possible because of the underlying physics of the gMotor engine. It isn't a separate entity that can be bolted on to any sim. Too bad--would love Reiza to fix many other sims The graphics could be swapped-out for something else, though. But not a simple transition as Kunos has explained with AC-->ACC.

 

[Durge Driven]

VR users must be the most opinionated self centered simmers ever


I guess it is that good

 

[Durge Driven]

The Reiza FFB is only possible because of the underlying physics of the gMotor engine. It isn't a separate entity that can be bolted on to any sim. Too bad--would love Reiza to fix many other sims The graphics could be swapped-out for something else, though. But not a simple transition as Kunos has explained with AC-->ACC.

Kunos fanboys rarely mention physics like they are totally happy to get the same year after year ....like codies does with F1 every year and people keep lapping it up

imho they would all be better sims using the same new engine jointly developed .......and yes that includes rF2

 

[2stains]

VR users must be the most opinionated self centered simmers ever


I guess it is that good

I map buttons to centre self in VR