rF2: Another Nordschleife Preview - 4 Layouts Confirmed

[Paul Jeffrey]

Studio 397 have released another preview image from the upcoming Nordschleife track release - confirming 4 layouts at launch... with more to follow.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 12 months, you are probably aware that Studio 397 have been heavily developing a laserscanned version of the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife in Germany - and seeing as preview images keep surfacing these last couple of days, it's probably fair to assume we aren't that far away from release.. hopefully.

Interestingly, rather than the heavily criticised caption of 'counting the days' from the last image.. this time we get days replaced with hours... does that mean release date is even closer than we expected?

Also of note, rather than just dropping another image, Studio 397 have also confirmed the track will initially launch with four different configurations.. and plan on adding further layouts further down the line!

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[Gaëtan Legastelois]

Better late than never, at least their users can finally delete and remove the stolen ripped Kunos versions from their Hard drive and stop uploading it to the Steam Workshop in hidden track packs with various ripped Kunos tracks, that alone should be a good thing right?

Hmm yeah, I remember this one... A good laser scanned tracks, with two years of developpement.
Came with the DLC "Dream pack " with four cars, the Alfa Romeo GTA , the Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6, the Mercedes C9 and the McLaren P1...
All for 10€ in pre-order or 15€ after the release...

 

[RasmusP]

Hmm yeah, I remember this one... A good laser scanned tracks, with two years of developpement.
Came with the DLC "Dream pack " with four cars, the Alfa Romeo GTA , the Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6, the Mercedes C9 and the McLaren P1...
All for 10€ in pre-order or 15€ after the release...

But not with the possibility to shortcut the qualifying outlap
#whiners department

 

[eg01st]

But not with the possibility to shortcut the qualifying outlap
#whiners department

The most #WhinersDepartment thing about rF2 + Nordschleife is 7 minute outlap before first timed lap.

 

[John-Eric Saxén]

The current price for Le Mans is $12.07 (and I think that was the launch price - 11 euros). The Nordschleife is a 50% longer track. So I'll guess ~$16 USD. I purchased rFactor 2 on Steam (during a sale) for $15.99. So your estimate of it being priced as much as the game might not be too far off!!!

Actually Nordschleife at 26 km is almost 100% longer than Le Mans at 13. It doesn't make sense to pay per kilometer, Le Mans by that logic should have been double the price of Sebring. But yeah, something like $16 seems reasonable anyway.

 

[Eric Rowland]

Seems he has seen special information about the price....

your estimate of it being priced as much as the game might not be too far off!!!

So ? wait till it's on special

 

[davehenrie]

Xmas is not that far away. Steam and rF2 often have Holiday sales.

 

[MarcG]

Xmas is not that far away. Steam and rF2 often have Holiday sales.

Steam always has Halloween Sales, then there's Black Friday, all before Xmas as well.

 

[Alex Townsend]

With every top quality release it's always like having a new title to me. So I don't mind the prices. These guys have human needs like eating a having a roof over their heads. And some may even have families including babies which require all that and more. A couple of tracks and cars to add to a base game that we already own really shouldn't be that big a deal. I know for some it is an issue, and I can emphasize, but for many it's just whinging cause you're tight. Let's face it. You can buy F1 20xx every year for full whack and complain about this and that, or you can buy content for your favourite sims, that must be comparable in cost per year for a much healthier experience. Maybe not, maybe I'm completely wrong, but I find great value in all the content for the top sims I own.
Not trying to offend anyone here, just the opinions of an ageing sim racer that finds value in his hobby.

 

[Case_]

And it's out and costs 12 euro (well, at least where I am). I expected worse.

https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/365960/detail/36/

 

[AyrtonForever]

out now

https://www.studio-397.com/2019/09/welcome-to-the-ring/

 

[BrainsBush]

That's not a typical Dutch price tag. I expected to pay at least €15
Enjoy!!

 

[emarchena]

Wow 3.3GB, loading screen will take some time

 

[Case_]

Wow 3.3GB, loading screen will take some time

That might be why they improved the loading times recently

 

[eg01st]

BOIS, IT'S OUT! FINALLY!

 

[Emery]

And it's out and costs 12 euro (well, at least where I am). I expected worse.

$13.17 USA

 

[Slowdive]

I must say I'm pretty excited counting down the years to the release of the UI.

Just kidding. I can't play RF2 because of the physics lag bug that they haven't fixed in over a year. Horrah for the Nordschleife!

 

[Case_]

@emarchena BTW, if you're wondering about load times... Loading a 20 AI GTE (S397) race with the 24h layout took 4 minutes 30 the first time, and the subsequent load time of that same race was 2 minutes 5 seconds. Running off SSD, Ryzen 2600, 16GB of RAM.

Though it is (unsurprisingly) quite RAM hungry, takes about 7 more gigs of RAM on top of the game already running, sitting on the main menu screen.

 

[thepharcyde]

Where's the freeking Porka???

 

[thepharcyde]

£10.13 here, cannot grumble, but wish they sold the tracks individually. Only wanted GP

 

[A man with a Harmonica]

Looks good but I'll pass. The S397 prices policy in my country is just bizarre. Le Mans track would cost me more than the life-time rF2 license as well as Endurance Pack. Non sense.