rF2: Le Mans and Marcel Offermans Interview - LIVE 14.06 @ 19:30 UTC!

[Paul Jeffrey]

Marcel Offermans and Paul Jeffrey take out the beautiful rFactor 2 Le Mans 24 Hour circuit in our live 'Talk n Drive' interview - Friday 14th June @ 19:30 UTC

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Watch the action live from 19:30 UTC (20:30 BST / 21:30 CEST) on the RaceDepartment Twitch channel as we take to the yet to be released Le Mans 24 Hour circuit in rFactor 2, trying out the venue for the first time and speaking with the man behind the magic - Marcel Offermans of Studio 397.

Watch the rFactor 2 Le Mans debut and Marcel Offermans interview LIVE from 19:30 UTC HERE.​

With the big race happening this coming weekend, what better time to build up the hype and check out the latest virtual creation for rFactor 2!

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[Paul Jeffrey]

just be a couple mins late and also now via Twitch

 

[thepharcyde]

hurry up

 

[falster]

just be a couple mins late and also now via Twitch

RIGHT!!


THATS IT!!!


you've done it now...no buy im afraid

AND ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!


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[falster]

hurry up

that's...… that's a joke right?

 

[thepharcyde]

just be a couple mins late and also now via Twitch

Where's them sausages?

 

[Joseph Wright]

@Marcel Offermans

Issues regarding the safety car...

• The AI driver behaviour under safety car can be debated as questionable. Speeding up / slowing down randomly around the lap. Sometimes on a straight.
• The leader can sometimes gain a lot of time over the rest of the field under safety car. An issue I had in a stream at Silverstone just the other day.
• And also, the AI sometimes completely ignore you and drive into you (mainly on the formation lap [rolling start] more than any other time)
• When a driver you are following crashes under the safety car, you either have to wait and lost 20 positions for the guy to get going again, or you pass him, keep your position but get penalised about 50 percent of the time.
• It can be frustrating and I have to disable safety car most races, which can be a shame in longer races. Of course, I understand in the config files you can adjust some safety settings, including the leniency of the safety car which covers the previous point, however, this can be difficult to get correct in regards to drivers crashing.

Also you asked whether we were asking about graphics. And it made me think: YES YES please let us have a new safety car because the old corvette with a bland livery, and no top lights is in desperate need of an update.

 

[M D Gourley]

Great Talk n Drive interview....LeMans track looks fantastic, when can I purchase it?

 

[thepharcyde]

Great stream thank you @Paul Jeffrey @Marcel Offermans and @Paul Glover

 

[thepharcyde]

Great Talk n Drive interview....LeMans track looks fantastic, when can I purchase it?

tomorrow if approved, someone is at LeMans to get the green light

 

[wajdi]

Didn’t have time to watch the streaming. Is there any news?

 

[BrainsBush]

Pierre Fillon hurry up please

 

[falster]

Didn’t have time to watch the streaming. Is there any news?

"possibly" released tomorrow (2018 scan)

Nordschleife "possibly" month to 6 weeks later

maybe more WEC type content later on

a lot of other good stuff, too much to list. was a good stream

 

[Kenny Paton]

Nice stream Paul and good answers from Marcel.
Track looks tasty.

 

[jacksorensen]

Thank you guys for this amazing interview!

 

[Paul Glover]

Glad people enjoyed, sorry for the technical hitches.

 

[Kenny Paton]

Glad people enjoyed, sorry for the technical hitches.

All part of the joys of computing Paul didn't spoil anything.

 

[mr Sw1tchblade]

All part of the joys of computing Paul didn't spoil anything.

I thought he spilled something on his pc, but it was sound issue

 

[jeremiah17]

tomorrow if approved, someone is at LeMans to get the green light

fingers crossed tonight

 

[falster]

fingers crossed tonight

hmmmm, I mean I guess, but Marcel himself said tomorrow, based on a meeting they are having with the ACO, so probably not tonight.

 

[Paul Jeffrey]

Hey everyone - thanks for watching!

Thank you to @Marcel Offermans and @Paul Glover for the stream, great stuff considering we only decided to do it last night!

Just wanted to clarify some stuff for those that might be interested. The initial idea of the stream was to focus just on the upcoming Le Mans track and not a general rF2 interview. The reason for this is Marcel currently has over 100 community generated questions I've sent him, and very soon we will be releasing that interview in written form here at RD (same style as the AMS2 one we did). I was conscious of avoiding overlap, but in the end the video kinda drifted off into that territory anyway so we just went with the flow!

Also apologies for small technical issues, including late switch to Twitch rather than YouTube. Basically it was so very, very last minute we just dealt with stuff as it happened. Must admit we enjoyed this format, so expect more of this kinda stuff (but much smoother put together and prepared)!

My apologies for cutting the session short. Unfortunately the call from the wife was to tell me our young lad has projected vomit and bum goodies all over the front room.. Unsurprisingly she was keen for me to come and provide some assistance!

Also for those that missed it live, the video will be available on demand on Twitch, and I will export it to YouTube soon as I can. Expect it on YT probably over the weekend.

One last thing, it would really help us out if you could please like / follow / subscribe to our RDTV YouTube and Twitch channels if you haven't already. Please do give us a follow on both channels, and please spread the word!

Thanks again everyone, always a pleasure doing this sort of stuff!

BW

Paul