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Now if your new to VRC Pro, well your not alone. I never heard of it and I've owned several real RC Cars, raced on local tracks and still own a HPI Baja 5b.
This simulation is all about replicating RC cars, buggies etc.. and even allows you to use a real life Radio Controller that plugs into a VRC USB Adaptor you can get from VRC Pro directly. Pretty cool! Many RC enthusiast use this sim to practice racing to get a competitive edge before running on their local race track. I can see the adaptor being used as a great tool. Lets say your son, daughter, wife, etc.. want to buy an expensive RC. You can just buy this sim, get any radio controller and plug this adapter in. You will learn to control an RC before you spend hundreds of dollars which as I know turns into thousands of dollars for this awesome hobby.
If you ever thought of playing with RC's you should pick this Simulator up.
Check it out on Steam or the RC racing community. Also read about this game from Steam's page below.
About This Game
VRC Pro takes you deep into the world of cutting edge, modern RC cars. You can race up to 15 different RC cars on real existing mini race tracks all around the world; all fully customizable & tunable. With top speeds of around 120 km/h (75 Mph) and insane acceleration on ultra tight tracks; get ready to experience a whole new level of racing! GAMEPLAY & REALISM:
Build your RC racing career in an online E-sport community with over 100.000 racers, from beginners to advanced. Join online championships and Internet Multiplayer racing with your electric or nitro powered racing machine. Or if you're a casual racer, have fun JUMPING, BASHING, FLIPPING and CRASHING!
Available cars: ✓ Nitro buggies ✓ Short course trucks ✓ Rally cross cars (coming soon!) ✓ Touring cars ✓ Drifter cars ✓ Pan cars ✓ NASCAR trucks ✓ more cars are being added all the time...
VRC PRO is by far the most realistic RC racing simulator available today, with over 14 years of non-stop physics and vehicle dynamics development. This sim is supported by over 40 industry leading RC brands and organizations. Real existing mini race tracks have been modeled in precise detail. E-SPORT RACING
Experience the world of high-end RC racing motorsport! VRC Pro features a serious, competitive E-sport game environment with over 100.000 registered racers, including top class racers from the real RC racing scene. Join online championships at your own level and make your way up to the top. All vehicles are cutting edge modern RC racing machines -fully customizable and tunable- exactly like in real world racing.
E-sport features: - Online championships (on-going race series, any day, anytime) - Internet multiplayer racing (up to 10 cars, anytime) - Time trials (best day, week and month records) - Training with opponent cars GAME FEATURES:
- 15 cars (onroad & offroad, 1:12 to 1:8 scale) - 22 tracks (indoor & outdoor) - online race events - internet multiplayer - time trials - ghost cars & practice opponents - achievements - car tuning & customization - build your car from scratch - rostrum view, 1st person view and behind-car view - keyboard, gamepad and joystick support
EXPERIENCE THE FLOW:
Get ready to experience the unique flow of RC racing. With RC racing, you are both spectator and racer at the same time. This form of racing feels a bit unusual at start, but once mastered it is one of the most rythmic, rewarding and addictive flow experiences you'll ever have!
This game delivers! I'm running at 60 fps (PC) and the handling and sense of speed on these naked bikes are fantastic! You must check this game out from Steam
Get your Sim Racing wheels dusted off as Project Cars went gold! No more dates dancing around on the calender now. Expect to get you copy on the following dates...
PLAYSTATION 4 BOXED & DIGITAL XBOX ONE BOXED & DIGITAL PC BOXED
MAY 7TH Europe & Australasia
MAY 8TH United Kingdom
MAY 12TH United States & Canada
STEAM
MAY 7TH MIDNIGHT WORLDWIDE RELEASE
Europe Australasia United Kingdom United States Canada
I'm really excited to get my hands on this long awaited title. It has been an inspiration to us sim racing fans and I just wish I had the chance to get in on the beta long ago. This game has been thru many changes as the passionate sim racing community has been helping the development process from day one to create the ultimate racing dream.
Project Cars is created by the community and for the community. If you don't like it, well go play a shooter game as I'm expecting this one to be the #1 Sim Racing Title of 2015! So what if you been living under a rock? What does Project Cars offer?
The largest track selection to date with 30 unique locations and 110 different courses.
Freeform and authentic career mode. (Means you take your own course of action)
World Class Graphics
Largest variety of motor sports I have seen from: Road, Karts, Track Day Cars, Supercars, Prototypes, GT, Open Wheel
Dynamic time of day and weather changes
Solo, Career, Online and Community racing
Free Cars each month starting with Lykan Hypersport from W Motors.
Custom Career
Quick Race Weekends setup the way you want it.
Don't wait to unlock the car you love. Get it day one!
Free Practice to hone your skills.
Pit Engineer to keep in informed while on the track
Pit crew of course
Full control of cars performance, handling, tuning setups, pit strategies.
As you can read there is a plethora of things to do in Project Cars. You pick your own route. Heck start 2 or 3 different racing careers and manage them all as you see fit.
Come on May 7th. This will be the start of the Greatest Most Adventurous Racing Yet!
Yes! Alright Dirt 3 Complete Edition is back online with a patch from the developers. The problem was customers including myself with various wheels manufactures would have the wheel pulling to the right as if you had a right front flat tire. Didn't matter what setting you changed, unless you turned off the (FF) Force Feedback the issue was their. Which for a driving game there is no use in playing it without FF. Duh!
Well glad to see the developers now fixed it. Enjoy drifting again my friends!
I'm pleased to announce that we've just set the FFB patch live and it should automatically download for you shortly.
Here's the patch notes
FFB Fix – (Wheel Input) – Resolved instances of certain steering wheels pulling to the extreme right.
We have however had the following known issue crop up – Logitech Formula Force EX Force Feedback Wheel under certain circumstances is not detected. (We're still looking into that one so please let us know if it affects you)
Please be sure to let us know if you experience any further problems and thanks again for being so damn awesome!
Let me know if it is working (or not) for you and sorry it took so long.
Sim Instruments new dash is coming! I can't wait to check it out. I'm in love with my existing sim instruments dash and I'm ready to check out the latest and greatest that is in development.
So what are some of the features of the new dash?
Take a look at the video above to see some of the new features in action. Not allot of info released yet, but what we know is this new dash will have a new square led shape along with the warning lights running vertically instead of the triangular alignment from the original dash. See the pic of original dash.
Sim Instrument have been working on this new design for over 6 months and are eager to bring it to market. Currently working with their suppliers and manufacturers to start production soon. As a bonus for the extended wait time the new dash will have more new features included.
Check out my original review and setup of the original Sim Instruments dash.
Tom Coronel takes you on a lap around Salzburgring, explaining the key spots of the track. This track is available later today: http://game.raceroom.com/store/
Also you will notice that Raceroom added a couple new packs I don't recall seeing before. Both packs consist of cars and tracks that already existed, but put together into a nice purchased pack.
Here I'm trying out some new camera angles with an overlay of my sim wheel with in game driving so you can see how the Fanatec wheel reacts. Hope you enjoyed it and Sim Racing is Fun!
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You can check out the Ride Premium events to. Just get it on Steam or Amazon thru my astore. It's really a blast and must have for any motorcycle enthusiast.
Pretty cool vid to watch about Assetto Corsa. They really have came a long way. It's my favorite sim to play with all the realistic physics and awesome graphics. All Assetto Corsa needs now is more tracks and a custom career mode to play on with more achievements to be awarded in the custom career modes.
So I'm a little late to modding with Assetto Corsa I admit that. It's not like I didn't try mods before on sims it's just the few I tried didn't warrant space on my hard drive. We'll I finally decided to try out some track mods from AC Mods. As you probably recognize Assetto Corsa is lacking in tracks so I downloaded a few. Well, Ok like 17 of them :)
Check out this 4 lap run at Barbagallo Raceway in western Australia. This track is known for the V8 Supercar races with it's short and really fast layout with some awesome elevation changes. It's really a blast to drive on. I can't wait to try more cars on this track.
For more cool mods from AC Mods check it out HERE and a direct link to this track Barbagallo Raceway
It seems with all the updates in Assetto Corsa they really have got the AI down allot better. It's extremely fun and exciting to race more then ever before.
This race is at Silverstone running version 1.1 in career mode with the Ferrari 599XX EVO.
If you don't have AC in your roster of sim racing titles then your simply missing out!
Finally Dirt 3 Complete Edition is out on Steam and for Free for those that already own Dirt 3. Get it on STEAM . If you don't own Dirt 3 the Complete Edition will cost $23.99. It came as a little surprise to most on Steam. I logged on and noticed it in my Library for a free download. Nice April fools present!
So why get it? Well it runs smoother with solid FPS and comes with all the DLC every released all in one release. Plus if your like me I couldn't make it thru a game without the original Dirt 3 crashing on me which was really a downer. Now I can make it through a game without crashing so YES!! Winner!!
Now the downside for us that like to use our force feedback wheels from Fanatec, Logitech, Thrustmaster and the like, the game doesn't work with those or most force feedback wheels! There is a big complaint list on Steam for this. Well that's to say it works if you don't mind the wheel pulling to the right as if you have a flat front right tire. Sooooo Yeahhh.
Needless to say it's not ready to review the new (incomplete) Complete Edition at least not with my wheel and I don't care to play racing games without using my wheel. So if you have a wheel and don't already own Dirt 3 Complete Edition I would hold off until a patch comes. For all those that use the gamepads well your good to go! Hopefully the devs will HOTFIX this quickly.
Well yes it seems that iRacing will be coming to your phone in 2016! Sounds really exciting and surly to give games like GTRacing 2 or Real Racing 3 a run for their money. I'm pretty excited to here about this and can't wait to buy it.
I believe this will help blow iRacing up and draw people into the sim world and most likely bring customer to the PC version of iRacing. Way to go guys!!
I absolutely love my Fanatec SQ shifter! It has to be the best bang for your buck on the market today. I mean really you can not go wrong with this shifter.
So what about the new version 1.5? Well basically the new version comes with updated electronics and hall sensor for a more rugged design making setting up the shifter with your Fanatec wheel even easier and improving shifts or missed shifts from the new hall sensor. I'm sure there is more to it what is being told to the consumer, but at the end of the day it's an improved design that looks and functions the same as the first version.
If you already have version 1 and it's working fine don't worry you are not missing anything with v1.5 from what I can tell.
So here is the great part though! If you own Version 1 and it fails on you (which BTW Fanatec extended the 1 year warranty to 2 years for version 1 customers) you can send it in and Fanatec will update your shifter to v1.5 for free! Soooo I just happened to have a faulty shifter in my hands. It appears that the return spring that would recenter the shifter handle in sequential mode broke. I notified Fanatec and sent some pictures in which Fanatec service dept sent me information to send it back. Now 2 weeks later I get my shifter, but wait! It's not my shifter. It happened to be a brand new shifter version 1.5. Sweet!!!
So what I noticed between the version 1 and version 1.5 is in the included video below. Check it out! and if you want quality sim gear from a company that truly seems to care click on one of my side Fanatec banners and buy something. It also helps out the blog
I also included for the people that don't already own RIDE, the Intro and menu options of all that is possible in RIDE. I'll be bringing more videos soon of Ride Action.
This simulation is all about replicating RC cars, buggies etc.. and even allows you to use a real life Radio Controller that plugs into a VRC USB Adaptor you can get from VRC Pro directly. Pretty cool! Many RC enthusiast use this sim to practice racing to get a competitive edge before running on their local race track. I can see the adaptor being used as a great tool. Lets say your son, daughter, wife, etc.. want to buy an expensive RC. You can just buy this sim, get any radio controller and plug this adapter in. You will learn to control an RC before you spend hundreds of dollars which as I know turns into thousands of dollars for this awesome hobby.
I absolutely love my Fanatec SQ shifter! It has to be the best bang for your buck on the market today. I mean really you can not go wrong with this shifter.
