First of all, so we all understand eachother, gsce or automobilista are NOT based on rf2, they are based on rf1. So now that that's out of the way....
- Clearly rf2 is the king in physics and ffb department, as well as the other elements that make it a "full experience" sim, as pitting, flag rules, real roads and the garage implementation, plus weather and time transitions, and many more small touches that just puts it on top of anything out there, to many to even remember.
- graphics might not be as "shiny" and eye candy like as assetto corsa wich is the best at that, and please let's not include pcars here, cause we are talking about proper sims.
- it is not a game you will easily find public servers to just pick up a race and go nuts, and I'm using the term "nuts" as a "softener" and what i mean is you noy gonna just get into a server with idiots and have a destruction derby frenzy like you can find in most sims. That brings me to the next point
- THIRD PARTY CONTENT. This is where you separate a good experience from a bad one. A sim is as good as the people it's used by.
What i mean by that? .... Rf2 is ment for racing, hardcore racing, not driving arround in a copy of your real life car, or just a car you feel like you have the right to drive in the game, that's what makes a sim BAD. it's not about the quantity obviously, it's about quality, and rf2 has more than enough very good quality cars and tracks, so much that most people don't have space on their drives to install them.
Another big aspect of mods, specially cars, you don't NEED more mods, you just WANT more, because you are bored of driving arround offline with a specific set of cars you already have, and that is happening because this is not a driving game like assetto corsa, it's a hardcore racing one, so for you to have real actual fun, you need to be online andnin leagues and clubs with proper drivers, and cars and proper racing. And my god when you get there its just absolutely fantastic.
Another aspect of mods, this being a personal point of view, is that you just need this, one street car, one gt1, gt2, gt3, gt4 car, one f1 type car, one fr3.5 type car, and others like that, if you what i mean. You dont NEED to have 100 cars to have amazing fun in rf2. You don't NEED to have a copy of your own car in the sim to have fun, well of course the exception being, that you might have a very race worthy or drift worthy car
, but that's highly unlikely.
Another personal "i dont care" aspect for me would be tracks quality, i mean come on guys, who the eff gives an eff about the effing trees, or an effing trackside ad panel or other crap like that. You gotta get into that racing mindset, specially in a real life racing situation, you are going to care about that crap, exception being some visual braking points, wich are there even in the lowest quality track.
****So my conclusion would be this:****
- stop bitching about quantity of crappy mods and get into that quality mods, and get the most out of them by racing organically.
- go in pcars or console games if you want to see your "dream car" in a game.
- get the most out of a track before you call it low quality. And after you did that you make a better version of it, and you stop complaining. Or get into a codies game
- YES everyone who is serious about sim racing and recently, drifting, should get on rf2 train, but if you just wanna drive a street car arround beautiful trees and lakes and stuff like that, i encourage you to stay away, get assetto, or go arcade route, plenty of those arround.
Just a small point here so you know my history on this subject... i raced arround 4 years on rf1, every damn night and day, on lots of small and big leagues, from clio cups to f1 champs, then I had enough racing, because to many rules, and got into drifting in assetto corsa, did 1300+ hours of that, I got extremely good at it, but naturally I wanted more, so i started making drift cars in rf2 a few weeks ago, and I'm loving it so much more than ac.
Also i use a highly calibrated and very well setup rig, wich is very important for a proper experience (lots of aspects there that are so important that they actually make a car drive differently) with triples screens and buttons and all that jazz.
If you have anything to comment about my take on this subject, just don't because I won't care at all and i only posted this because a fellow rf2 user. So i will unwatch this thread. Take whatever you want from this, take the time to read carefully, and that's pretty much it. Have a nice effing day, also i wrote this while i was taking a dumb on my toilet, so you might wanna think about that a bit hahahah
