RaceRoom: New Car Releases Tomorrow - Can You Guess What it Is?

[Paul Jeffrey]

RaceRoom Racing Experience will be in receipt of a new car tomorrow, and rather than the usual image previews... we get a sound teaser...

So, we already know our wonderful community here at RaceDepartment are some of the most knowledgeable folks when it comes to sim racing (and real racing for that matter), but do any of you know enough about engine sounds to workout which car is heading to R3E tomorrow?

In something of a surprise reveal, Sector3 Studios, the Swedish development team behind RaceRoom Racing Experience, published a very short preview video of some upcoming new content set to hit the simulation at some stage tomorrow - leaving sim racing fans guessing as to what the new car could possibly be.

So here you go folks, turn it up loud and have a listen to see if you can't work out what the next new content instalment for RaceRoom Racing Experience might be all about...


Let the games begin!

RaceRoom Racing Experience is a free to play racing simulation from Sector3 Studios.

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[Kenny Paton]

But in the context of RaceDepartment the game is not free to play.

If you want to join the club races etc, you need to buy content.

The club runs some FTP content events and there are many other servers outside of RD that run it constantly, so .with several cars, tracks and their variations it is entirely possible to play for nothing.
Add to this by buying 1 car in a class you can race that class in both sp and mp, as many do. Throw in the ability to test drive any car free before buying I think the only real major outlay can be in the tracks.
In the era of micro transactions and loot boxes appearing in full price AAA games I don't think there's much to complain about.

 

[Yetch]

But in the context of RaceDepartment the game is not free to play.

If you want to join the club races etc, you need to buy content.

Free content is raced on Tue/Thur nights occasionally, so not entirely correct. Then if you're gonna pay to become a premium member at RD the price of a coffee for a car in RR, should not be that much of a barrier to expanding ones content. What with Sepang and the FRJ being added as free (to new users) content and the ability to test drive any car before you buy, I see very few excuses to stay away, definitely not a play on words. I see RR as a racing sim and nothing else. The free content just gives people on the fence the opportunity to try it out and Newbies a taste of what sim racing is all about.
*Beaten to the line by the Flying Scotsman!

 

[Bambeakz]

I hope the new 935 but i will buy whatever it is. This has become my go to sim for racing ai after 'training" the adaptive ai. Its sometimes to aggressive (first corner) but its the best offline racing i have seen so far in a sim.

Would love multiclass racing offline though.

 

[F_B]

Hope it's the 962.

 

[ears]

The club runs some FTP content events and there are many other servers outside of RD that run it constantly, so .with several cars, tracks and their variations it is entirely possible to play for nothing.
Add to this by buying 1 car in a class you can race that class in both sp and mp, as many do. Throw in the ability to test drive any car free before buying I think the only real major outlay can be in the tracks.
In the era of micro transactions and loot boxes appearing in full price AAA games I don't think there's much to complain about.

I don't think anyone's complaining as such.

The original point made by @Vranq I think, and I certainly agree, is that to call this a 'free to play' simulation may be technically correct but it's marketing speak and could be seen as misleading.

The club does run *some* FTP events - I had a quick scan through, there was one in May 2018. I didn't go any further back.

Yes I could buy one car and one track for an event this week but I'd need to buy another car and another track for an event next week.

And the original article is centered around new content - which I presume will not be free?

The FTP download of RR3 amounts to nothing more than a demo. There's a similar demo of PC2 available so maybe we should categorise that as FTP too?

 

[BrunoBæ]

The FTP download of RR3 amounts to nothing more than a demo. There's a similar demo of PC2 available so maybe we should categorise that as FTP too?

I just checked Racerooms free content.
And eventhough I agree its just some kind of a demo then many of the free cars are pretty good.
Hehe eventhough I personally have bought a few more cars my favorite at the moment is the free Aquila and specially the DMD P21.
Not much free track content - but Lakeview is just so fu**ng great

Cars
Formula RaceRoom Junior
134 Judd V8
Aquila CR1 Sports GT
Saleen S7R
Canhard R51
Canhard R52
Cougar C14-1
Cougar C14-2
DMD P20
DMD P21
Mistral M530
Mistral M531

Tracks
Sepang
Portimao Circuit
Lakeview Hillclimb
RaceRoom Raceway
Stowe Circuit

 

[DND]

And now back to our regular scheduled OP, Porsche 962 please

 

[Will Mazeo]

My expectancy of the announcement:
24h cycle
weather
dynamic rubber and dry line
rejoin
physics update
FCY

Probable reality:
a new car

 

[Kenny Paton]

Beaten to the line by the Flying Scotsman

Thank you, must be at least a decade since anyone described me as in any way 'flying"

 

[Lestienofficiel]

Simbin work with sector 3 for the new physics, no? They create a new technology on GTR3 and the technology will be transfer on R3E later

 

[Kenny Paton]

There's a similar demo of PC2 available

There's 1 track and the same 3 races, only the conditions differ and the national version in 1 race. Hardly comparable.

 

[Zoltan76]

My expectancy of the announcement:
24h cycle
weather
dynamic rubber and dry line
rejoin
physics update
FCY

Probable reality:
a new car

And a free DD wheel.

 

[Dethrone1427]

Is it a Matra Rancho??

 

[ears]

I just checked Racerooms free content.
And eventhough I agree its just some kind of a demo then many of the free cars are pretty good.
Hehe eventhough I personally have bought a few more cars my favorite at the moment is the free Aquila and specially the DMD P21.
Not much free track content - but Lakeview is just so fu**ng great

Cars
Formula RaceRoom Junior
134 Judd V8
Aquila CR1 Sports GT
Saleen S7R
Canhard R51
Canhard R52
Cougar C14-1
Cougar C14-2
DMD P20
DMD P21
Mistral M530
Mistral M531

Tracks
Sepang
Portimao Circuit
Lakeview Hillclimb
RaceRoom Raceway
Stowe Circuit

There is content there that is not FTP for me.

 

[The Walker]

Released a couple of minutes ago. Porsche 934 Turbo RSR

 

[felippekiss]

I risked R3E from my list, the sim is good but i want evolution in his core, new functions, possibilities, options. Nothing against new new content (tracks, cars) but in my view this not support it at long time against other SIMS getting better and offering things dont present in R3E

 

[Georg Ortner]

I risked R3E from my list, the sim is good but i want evolution in his core, new functions, possibilities, options. Nothing against new new content (tracks, cars) but in my view this not support it at long time against other SIMS getting better and offering things dont present in R3E

We've just added one of the most requested features with the AI selector and Single Player Multiclass races.

 

[Case_]

But in the context of RaceDepartment the game is not free to play.

If you want to join the club races etc, you need to buy content.

"There are several kinds of free-to-play business models. The most common is based on the freemium software model; thus, free-to-play games are oftentimes not entirely free. For freemium games, users are granted access to a fully functional game but must pay microtransactions to access additional content."

The original point made by @Vranq I think, and I certainly agree, is that to call this a 'free to play' simulation may be technically correct but it's marketing speak and could be seen as misleading.

You may not personally like the term, but that doesn't mean it is wrong to use it. "Free to play" doesn't mean you won't ever need to spend any money to play *some* of its content like you seem to think (for some reason), quite the contrary. Everyone familiar with the term knows it, see above. Calling it "misleading" is like complaining that there wasn't actually complete darkness outside on Black Friday.

The FTP download of RR3 amounts to nothing more than a demo. There's a similar demo of PC2 available so maybe we should categorise that as FTP too?

Does that PC2 demo give you unrestricted and unlimited access to all game modes and all game features and can its content be expanded further by microtransactions? If yes, then you can certainly call it a free-to-play game, but I really don't think that's the case.

 

[protonv5]

We've just added one of the most requested features with the AI selector and Single Player Multiclass races.

And thank you for this! I will try it today. I'm hoping it's as awesome as it seems it will be. Anything else you can say about it's functionality? Further development?

 

[ears]

Calling it "misleading" is like complaining that there wasn't actually complete darkness outside on Black Friday.
.

Do you really believe this? It was quite a constructive discussion up until this point but if you really think that just because I disagree with the use of 'Free to play' for this game, I take every sentence I read literally, well, why not just leave the grown up discussions for the grown ups and go play somewhere else?