Back in December, the Live for Speed developers announced that the VW Scirocco road car would be joining their simulation soon.
The release was postponed shortly after and there were no updates on the Scirocco until now. The developers have announced to be working on a new tire model since then, the old tire model prevented them from simulating the car accurately because they offered too much grip.
There’s no release date for the new model and the Scirocco yet, the new tires have already been tested sucessfully by the beta team though. More info on the matter can be found here, below are some fresh previews of VW’s popular road car.
I’ll probably give this a quick try when it gets released since I drove so much LFS before iRacing came along, but I doubt it’s going to be enough of a difference to compare to iRacing physics-wise. I think all LFS can do now is cover the low cost / indie / casual online racing angles. It would be cool if they could somehow prove everyone wrong, though. They achieved an incredible amount for such a small team but then things just ground to a halt… can’t do that when other people with serious money start playing in the same space.
I don’t think iRacing is any threat to LFS in reality – LFS has always appealed to the younger person who deosn’t have the disposable income for iRacing. Look how popular the demo is and always was. The numbers racing LFS on-line haven’t shown a noticeable decline since iRacing’s arrival.
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