How did you discover LFS? [Archive]

Tommy V. CZE

19th August 2006, 00:22

my friend told me about small project of 3 peoples;), they are making realistic sim, 2 years ago, then i try s2demo from magCD on LANparty(1year ago), and i fell in love... 4 months ago i start play it on internet, and then bought license...

ps: it's funny, we have start similar discussion on czech lfs forums week ago:D
here is link (http://forum.liveforspeed.cz/showthread.php?t=760), but it's in czech, so i think, you will not understand it:D :D

P5YcHoM4N

19th August 2006, 00:35

I was googleing for Need For Speed :ashamed: addons, and some how the LFS webby popped up.

fporto_br

19th August 2006, 00:37

I think I had played Racer first. Heard people talking about some LiveForSpeed game, and saw the forum section for it at RSC. One visit to the LFS site had me playing the demo, and then purchasing S1....

Exactly like me... a few years ago during the great days of High Gear Forums, I was looking for real simulation, but there was aboslutely nothing on PC that could simulate real-world cars (I mean, not supercars or racecars). That was restricted to games like Gran Turismo or Sega GT. Then I found Racer and got hooked.

At that time, my old PIII 866 with 256MB RAM and a 3Dfx Voodoo5 was enough... Until car creators started to up the ante and make Racer cars with very high polygon counts. My machine started to show its limitations...

But some "Live For Speed" appeared from nowhere. I thought: is this a NFS rip-off???

But then, the revelation: even on my pretty dated machine, that small game was able to run flawlessly, with pretty decent framerate and, even better: it was able to fullfill my need for simulation! And I've been playing it ever since.

XCNuse

19th August 2006, 00:37

BHMotosports with this picture here:
.. which.. they dont have anymore :(

it was a pretty much top down view of two xrs (not sure if they were turbo or not) an orange and purplish blue .. with smoke comming out, it grabbed my attention.. not sure why, i overlooked it about 5 times and just finally looked at it

sil3ntwar

19th August 2006, 00:40

S1 demo came on a demo disc with an australian pc magazine. I remember thinking it was like gran turismo for pc. One thing i really loved was throwing the car sideways down the back straight of the rallycross and sliding it into the corner. Cant do it quite the same in S2.

Hyperactive

19th August 2006, 00:51

I just can't remember how I found it. Though I did try the 0.3 versions which were the early versions (before S1, when there was only the 3 cars and blackwood) pretty soon after they were "released". Downloaded them from somewhere with my laggy modem. At the time I was playing GPL a lot and LFS felt quite slippery at the time. I mostly drove against the AI on all blackwood configs. I even tried hotlapping (the chart was on blackholemotorsports back then) but I was too slow :d. But now I have got used to it :p

So I think it may have been either a finnish gaming magazine's forum or blackholemotorsports. But I have pretty much tried every sim or car game that has been released in last 10 years on PC, so I may have just "found it". But it wasn't love at first sight. Took over 4 months to make myself like it. Now I can only play LFS and GPL. Maybe it's the three letters... And I got my first broadband just little over 1 and half years ago, so I'm quite fresh with online gaming. Played mostly Soldier of fortune 2 back then. Janezki helped me with the license, the rest is history :)

All in all, I'm quite pleased that I found it;)

Knight_Atack

19th August 2006, 01:04

A friend showed me a "car" he'd made. Really, it was a skin. I liked the idea. So I really started skinning before I ever tried the game. Downloaded, played a bit... Got addicted :shy: lol.

TagForce

19th August 2006, 01:18

http://www.racing-legends.com/news.htm
Those of you that are hardcore simmers will remember the good old days of lurking at the forums getting into fights with djellison and other good stuff, until one day... someone posted a link to a small and simple simulator being built, and my social life ended...

XCNuse

19th August 2006, 01:28

whatever happened to racing legends anyway? did the makers just .. disappear from it like i think they did, or .. is it still out there somewhere

SamH

19th August 2006, 01:33

I slipped off the toilet, while hanging a clock in my bathroom. I banged my head on the toilet seat. When I came to, there it was.. the LFS capacitor! I installed it immediately, and haven't looked back since. :thumb:

Of course, you need a special power supply..

J.B.

19th August 2006, 01:36

This is where it all began:
http://www.west-racing.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=958&hl=&

SamH

19th August 2006, 01:41

I think I read that from a link in the LFS wiki.. it's fabulous to read the birth of LFS from the perspective of the userbase. It reads like a transcript from history.. which of course, it is! Great read! :thumb:

Dumpy

19th August 2006, 02:00

I had just bought a PS2 and GT4, spent some time on some gtvault.net forum or something and had finally persuaded myself into buying a DFP (it wasn't that hard :thumb:). There was a post either on a GT4 forum or a DFP review that mentioned someone - some sort of game dev or actual driver or something; I can't remember - preferring LFS over GT4 for it's realism and fun factor. It said something along the lines of, "... no game is so physically and mentally taxing as LFS in respects to the immersion and involvement of my whole body ... blah blah ... sweaty, nervous, something something ..." I thought, "Wow, cool."

I don't think I even had the demo a week before I got licensed, haven't had a social life since :(

PS: Anyone want to buy a PS2 and a few games? Hardly used... :shrug:

EDIT: BTW LFS was at S2U at this point.

RoCkBiGdAvE

19th August 2006, 02:24

I heard of it on Digimods forum. Someone made a tread entitled "wana play LFS" or something and i had a look through. Then i noticed someone made their own skin and i was like wow, must try it. Tried it, tried skinning and it got hard and boring, having to save, load lfs, look, close, use ps, load lfs, look, exit etc.

Left it since then but then another thread appeared (this was literaly just before the tyre physics update, like a week or so) and havent stoped playing since! :D

Racer Y

19th August 2006, 02:39

I didn't.... LFS discovered ME.

Actually, I never had much to do with video games much (except doing beta testing and QC on a periphial for FPS games). Anyways, I was reading an article on Salon magazine(?) about indy games and people fed up with for working people like EA and Sierra and (PLACE NAME HERE). They showed little screenshots of various games being made by all these people and gave very brief descriptions about some of them. Most sucked and stopped development.
LFS was one of the games they mentioned. LOL Apparently, I don't think the devs were even aware of this article. Well to me, the screen shot looked alot like the original Gran Tourismo and I liked that game so I kept hitting little links til I came across the demo. I don't know if the "full" version was released just yet, but I know it was sorta within days or weeks of it one way or the other.
And the way it played using the mouse and the LX cars got me hooked...
that and the Community was really cool then (it's still good now, but there sure alot of A** holes popping up!)

Actually, the more I think about it, it was the community that got me hooked - cause I really hate racing games for the most part. Most are about as fun as watching paint dry to me. I like RTS games and GTA and Golf as far as video games go. Console or computer. ( I really shouldn't post after drinking... I should be playing!)

Speaking of RTS games, I was really interested in this Black & White game that Scawen worked on.....

oh well, enough of this. time to pop a top and get in a car
(kids, don't try this at home I'm an old guy past his prime, I can do this now :) ....oh wait......)

pastorius

19th August 2006, 02:58

" I just can't remember how I found it. Though I did try the 0.3 versions which were the early versions (before S1, when there was only the 3 cars and blackwood) pretty soon after they were "released". Downloaded them from somewhere with my laggy modem......"

Exactly like Hyperactive lol :D

Matt_Driver

19th August 2006, 03:59

i was in a forum about gaming (cannot remember the name of it) and someone mentioned live for speed, i started laughing coz i thought they meant to say need for speed, boy i felt stupid when i checked the link he gave :P

i remember downloading the old 0.3 version and then deleting it because it was way too hard to control( i was using keyboard), then a year or two later my mate came over and told me to try live for speed with a steering wheel.
i was like, but its impossible to drive! so i went and installed s1 demo on my brothers pc because he had the steering wheel(logitech formula force GP).
After that we both had competitions on who could go sideways for longest, and master car control in the XRT on the skid pad and carpark :). it was so much fun i just kept playing it from then on, and i decided to wait until s2 came out before i bought it, so i did, and the rest is history.

so yeah thats how i got hooked. :thumb:

prodeg

19th August 2006, 04:01

An old buddy from a car forum and I were bs'ing on AIM. He said that he was playing LFS. I enquired as to what it was. I downloaded the demo (Early S1) and immediately purchased s1 and s2. In turn, I purchased a Momo wheel, ACT labs shifter and pedals. Sadly, I used the shifter twice and the pedals less often than my Momo's. Then when the DFP came out, I bought that too... now they all sit and I use my kb and mouse.

I never really "raced". I, more often than not, would just drive around, seeing what I could and couldn't do. S2 came out and I got into drifting (EEK!). I've been pretty heavy into that since S2 came out and for some reason I joined FM's oval server two nights ago and I'm hooked on the BF1. So, out with the drifting...

Shinrar

19th August 2006, 04:45

Heh. I was playing RPGs with a bunch of friends online, and one of my really good friends from Finland and I started talking about diffrent other games that she enjoyed. With real life, I find little money available to throw around for games, so I usually either don't, or get good advice on what titles are 'worth it'.

She mentioned LFS, and I inquired what it ment :D. I was interested, so I went into my closet, dug out my Momo, set it all up, and installed it.

:thumb:

Since then, when I'm not racing, I'm thinking about racing. Its even rekindled my interest to bring my own car to the track, although thats always been hindered by the fact that its an hour and fifteen minutes away from where I live :( :(. Hrm... OT: Would anyone consider LFS realistic enough in it's Alpha stages to be worthy of 'training' myself to take lines? :D That, I hear, is often the hardest part about adapting a car you know real well to the track (having driven it for five years gives me a sense of braking points and understeer/oversteer, but you can't really practice lines on the streets)... But then again, what I hear and whats true are often not the same thing :shrug:.

~Shinrar, The Demo (Soon to be S2 within the week!) user

Blackout

19th August 2006, 05:05

It was January 2004 and I was reading a finnish gaming magazine and it had an article/review about LFS, it looked interesting, downloaded the demo and it felt so much fun I just had to get the full version quick as possible. That's about it.

beefyman666

19th August 2006, 05:05

I randomly saw the LFS logo (:lfs:) in someone's sig on bikechatforums.com a while back and clicked on it out of simple curiosity.

Downloaded the demo, played that for a while and finally got S2 licensed last November. Nothing can beat this as far as racing sims go and a good community to go with it too!

Keep up the good work devs! :thumb:

Phoon

19th August 2006, 05:15

I used to post on GTPlanet a lot, when I played GT3 (before GT4) and saw a Live for Speed sub-forum. Then I downloaded the demo, and got hooked. :D

Goop

19th August 2006, 05:27

On Codemasters' forum, waiting for Race Driver, or Toca World Driving Cars Driver, or World Touring Driving Drivers featuring Ryan Mckane, or Barbies Big Funhouse of Love Driving Game, or TOCA Touring Cars Two - For Dummies... or whatever the hell they called it in your region ;)

Loved the demo, dunno what version it was. It really was 'love at first play', it was what I wanted that silly codemasters game to be.

Hankstar

19th August 2006, 05:29

Joined RSC to find GPL addons and saw many people mention LFS there. I tried S1 and never looked back :up: Although GPL is still my number 1 :)

BuddhaBing

19th August 2006, 05:30

This is where it all began:
http://www.west-racing.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=958&hl=&

Just a coincidence I'm sure but RMachucaA's first post, which was more or less LFS's first exposure to the gaming world at large, was made on August 18, 2002, exactly 4 years ago.

Goop

19th August 2006, 05:31

Hank and his beloved GPL :pillepall You're living in the past, man, quit living in the past.

:D

skstibi

19th August 2006, 05:39

:bhm: :bhm: :bhm: http://www.bhmotorsports.com/sim
Just looking around for somthing realistic and new to play and ran across LFS :nod: Downloaded about 10 demos before LFS got on my computer. :)

J.B.

19th August 2006, 05:58

Just a coincidence I'm sure but RMachucaA's first post, which was more or less LFS's first exposure to the gaming world at large, was made on August 18, 2002, exactly 4 years ago.

:x :scratchch:chairfall

DownShift

19th August 2006, 06:50

ahhh... it was a fellow drifter ^.^ we were playing NFSU2 (=.=; dont flame me) and i was b1tching about how bullsh1t the game was and that drift mode took NO SKILL AT ALL and he gave me a link to LFS and i fell in love with the game xD

TallChap

19th August 2006, 07:01

A few weeks ago from an article in the Sunday Times listing the top 10 independent games.

Albieg

19th August 2006, 07:02

:bhm: :bhm: :bhm: http://www.bhmotorsports.com/sim
Just looking around for somthing realistic and new to play and ran across LFS :nod: Downloaded about 10 demos before LFS got on my computer. :)
+1

alliennas

19th August 2006, 07:11

+1

same here :tilt:

ebola

19th August 2006, 07:20

I installed Suse 9.0 which had Racer and TORCS (the open racing car simulator) on it. I liked them but wanted something more. Searched on google, found live for speed and the rest is history :)

Gabkicks

19th August 2006, 07:36

i was playing gt3 alot and i went online to check out drift videos and i saw a LFS drift video... I thought gt3 was the best that it got... boy was i wrong. and i think i started drifting and racing in the demo... mostly drifting the xrt:tilt: once i started playing lfs i pretty much stopped playing gt3.

axus

19th August 2006, 07:49

I found it on a CD in a PC Format magazine. That was the end of my gaming days and the start of my simming days. :tilt:

andy_bonjon

19th August 2006, 07:50

someone on another car forum mentioned it was an awesome online game even though he only had the demo

had loads of free time at uni so downloaded the demo and within ten minutes was s2 licenced.... i thought gt4 was a 'sim' but i just never realised... this was just as patch q came out

anyway damn uni firewall ment i coudnt unlock it so i spent 2 months playing with the xrt at blackwood with a mouse! got home at christmas, unlocked and bought a dfp and played a little bit online but i was quite wary as i had never played online and wasnt too sure what i was doing

went back to uni and had to play offline again for ages although at least it was s2 with a wheel this time.... easter came and that saw my first proper online races and i've never had so much fun in a game... got through my last uni term and have been playing regurlary online since end of may but have done thousands of miles offline!

kamo2000

19th August 2006, 07:52

M8 showed it to me..after 3 months i was s1 licensed..after 4 i was s2 :) and after 9 i payed for s3 :}

no social life of course..:schwitz:

Kalev EST

19th August 2006, 08:12

I was reading an estonian rally forum and came across a thread where a guy asked if playing racing games improves driving in real life. He wanted to practice for rallycross or smth and RudiTurbo(he´s a frickin alien btw :D ) told him to try the demo of LFS. And ofcourse I also tried it.:)
Now... I have dark secret which I´m gonna reveal now... When I first tried it I didnt like it.:bananadea Probably because at first I only tried single player and LFS is hard compared to other games/sims/whatever.:razz: Anyway because LFS folder was small I left it on my harddrive. I didnt play it for two months. Then there was a rainy day(in the winter?!? damn global warming :mad:) and I had nothing to do. I digged out LFS from the dark and damp corner of my harddrive and for the first time tried the multyplayer. I changed my whole opinion. Have been playing it ever since. Was stuck in demo for a while but now I´m s2 licensed and it´s great.:thumb:

rAcEr2418

19th August 2006, 08:29

heard it on RSC, everyone comparing that certain sim to LFS...and I was like...hmmmmm, whats this "LFS" they speak of. Demo drove S1, loved it, then S2 came out, was EVEN BETTER!! And in like 2 months was licensed (had to work that summer for both the license AND Logitech MOMO)Been hooked ever since!!

WOOHOOO!!! THanks LFS!!! HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE SINCE!!! :thumb:

szyszek

19th August 2006, 08:32

:bhm: :bhm: :bhm: http://www.bhmotorsports.com/sim
Just looking around for somthing realistic and new to play and ran across LFS :nod: Downloaded about 10 demos before LFS got on my computer. :)

+3

steve

19th August 2006, 08:37

I cant remember how I found it, im sure it was just looking for a new racing game to play, anyways I found it, got hooked up with LamerJane and the redruM69, oh those were the good ol powermod days ;) and 18 sec blackwood laps :D anyone got a screen of that? :D

DRIFTKING

HRT SHAUN

19th August 2006, 09:01

cousin showed me back in the demo days, i got it tried it, didnt really like it was on kb, i was loving F1 2002 so i bought a wheel, i think cousin said try lfs again, since then i loved it, bought s1 a bit after it came out, and yeh i think its the best sim i play atm :D

bbman

19th August 2006, 09:09

I heard of LfS back when it still was S1, but wasn't interested (for reasons I don't know)... When S2 demo came out, I was thinking "I try it at least once." I knew nothing about cars or racing and the only racing games I had been playing so far were NfS and Colin McRae... So, I didn't liked LfS because I simply couldn't handle the cars... And then, Vykos came along... He and some other Ocrana-guys showed LfS at GIGA eSports... I tried LfS one more time (P2 just came out) and got hooked, and still am... :)

TagForce

19th August 2006, 09:11

This is where it all began:
http://www.west-racing.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=958&hl=&

:static: ZOMG... The birth of LFS in the hardcore simracing world... It still exists!

MataGyula

19th August 2006, 09:26

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ...
I firs tried out the S1 demo, which was on a CD of a PC magazine (either Score or Level /Czeh pc magazines) , but back than i had an AMD K6-2 500 MHz with an old Riva TNT , so LFS didn't look good on it :( I didn't like the way it was controlled, it was way too real for me , as until than I only saw NFS like games . Deleted the game, went back to play small oldie games, which ran quite good on my ol' rusty PC :D ( X-COM FTW !! :D )
In August 2004 I finally got my new PC ( but it was the last day of august, just imagine how hard it was for me to go next day to school :( ) . In september i moved to college so I played only at weekends when I was home.
In November I moved back home, as I didn't like the college, so i decided to travel every day 2 hours to school by bus (1there,1home :P ). It was a lot better for me, because at least I could play 1-2 hours every day.
One day I found a german PC mag in the newspaper store and because it was very cheap and had a DVD enclosed, i bought it (i cannot speak German :D ). When I tried the DVD at home, and looked through the demo section, i found LFS. "Hmm, how could it look on my new hardware ? " I thought, and installed it. It looked a much better, and I found out that it could be controlled by mouse :O (never saw such a thing ) . But after a short while my enthusiasm fell :P as I was too noobish for the game. But than something happend, i found that little button named MULTIPLAYER . "... with my Dial up connection :S ... hell, lets try it " So i went online, downloaded patch H and connected to a server. "WOW, it works!!!" It was my first online experience, and oh God, it was so great ! I even met hungarian player, and they helped me , and since than we are friends ( some of them are even my team mates ^^ ) .
So thats how I discovered lfs :)

Screeny

19th August 2006, 09:35

some years ago a friend sent me a link to a "live for speed"-thread at the planetquake.de board. i read a few posts, downloaded the demo (0.2 iirc, was in late autumn or winter 2002) and got addicted.:)

shaGuar

19th August 2006, 09:38

Got it from one off my karting friends :)

LRB_Aly

19th August 2006, 09:44

Wow I don´t remember how I found out. I think it was something like this: I´ve searched the net for freeware (racing simulations) and/or Indy programs and soon discovered LFS. If I remember correctly it was around the same time I´ve discovered Racer (or how it´s called).

Greboth

19th August 2006, 09:58

My computer had just broken and i went back to my OLD one (600 Mhz iirc :shy: ) then a mate told me about LFS and didnt think was much chance of playing. Finally got a new computar last november time and downloaded demo got licence in january :) never looked back. Tell a lie i did once but that was wen someone was talking about social lives :shrug:

joen

19th August 2006, 10:01

I sort of discovered LFS twice.
Years ago I stumbled upon a thread in the games section of a tech-forum I visit. Being a racing enthousiast, a link with speed in it will often catch my attention. So I started reading through it. People were excited about it so I decided to download the demo.
I really can't remember which version it was, but it was pre-S1. I really liked it and thought it was really promising, especially because there were just three people working on it. So I played it for quite a while.
Then for various reasons I sort of lost interest in playing any games for a long time, no matter how fun they were. And I kind of forgot about LFS too (yeah I know, I'm bad)
A couple of years later, on the same forum I mentioned, I came across a thread about rFactor (oh, the irony :D) which led me to RSC. Looked around, and there was no demo available.
So I looked around a bit more and ended up in the LFS section. I thought "oh, I remember that one!". So I downloaded it again, played the demo, was amazed by how much it had improved, got completely hooked, bought a license.
And now I'm here :) So essentially, rFactor led me to LFS :D

Lible

19th August 2006, 10:04

My dad discovered hell knows where :).

Dajmin

19th August 2006, 10:06

I used to play Motor City Online, and after that folded I started the long search for a good replacement. I stumbled upon LFS then and have never looked back!

Captain Slow

19th August 2006, 10:06

i got lfs because my freind (whizzkidone) couldnt have an msn convo with me without going:

get s2
get s2
get s2
get s2

and then once i got that it was

get a wheel
get a wheel
get a wheel

then i did

now he just calls me a gayboy :(

SlamDunk

19th August 2006, 10:15

I have always had a strong urge to try out every new racing game demo there is. So, one day in August 2002, I stumbled upon LFS Demo Test 0.04L, completely fell in love with it and here we are, still happily married and going strong :)

Jakg

19th August 2006, 10:21

im sure this is a repost, but i discovered it and hated the demo in PC Gamer, but when it said it went S2 i decided to try it again and loved it!

_rod_

19th August 2006, 13:31

well 1st i didnt found out LFS, i ofund netkar namie, wich i couldnt play, because i dididnt have a wheel (to my fellow team mates : dont say a word!!), so someone back on RSC told me about lfs, been playing it almost everyday since it!!!

viper-gt

19th August 2006, 13:52

My old friend Zigma told me about it one day, and I remember first trying it, on blackwood, being amazed at my GTi with stupidly high suspension bouncing around and such.

I've been addicted ever since.

Mc21

19th August 2006, 13:55

I think it was PC gamer. Back in the S1 days lol..

Madman_CZ

19th August 2006, 13:58

I believe it was a person on f1rst2 chat that mentioned it, its so long ago i cant even remember.

I also go the s1 demo

glad i found it though

:)

K.David

19th August 2006, 14:14

My cousin who was a rally racer back then told me about LFS demo, about how close to reality it is and that it's free and works online so we raced a few evenings together. He had business to attend to and gradually gave up, but I stayed...

felplacerad

19th August 2006, 14:16

A post on another forum i was frequently visiting.

Oh, here's the post and my reply, i obviously tried LFS for the first time 1057 days ago (unfortunately the author of the original post was anonymous, but, i thank him!)

http://www.tbg.nu/news_show/12772/10

col

19th August 2006, 14:16

I was browsing rec.autos.simulators back in 2002 for GPL news and came upon a discussion obout a new sim demo that had just been 'discovered'.... that was the last time I went looking for GPL news ;)

AeoIus

21st August 2006, 08:58

I think I read about GTR and followed a link to blackhole motorsports.

There was a top 10 racing games where LFS was most promising (2004?). Downloaded the demo and loved it. Have been playing ever since, took me a month or 2 to get licensed.

Haven't touched other games at all since then :scratchch

This is after playing tribes for 6 years exclusivly, so I'm a one game man I guess :D

_Rob_

21st August 2006, 09:12

Think I found it in an email newsletter (this is back September/October 2002, can't remember too clearly :p). Been playing ever since :)

Fordman

21st August 2006, 09:22

Found the link on the Codemasters Forum. Finally, Codemasters gave me something good to play :D

this is back September/October 2002, can't remember too clearly

What you mean you don't remember the day, like mine was the 21st Septemeber 2002, shame on you, or is that me just being totally sad LOL

CSU1

21st August 2006, 09:25

One day whilst walking to the supermarket for my ill grandmothers medication
I had a very strange experience.As I walked down the high street passing an internet cafe a large bang errupted from the sky.Looking upward to see where it had come from an arrangement of clouds began to gather in a weird way.At first I couldn't quite make it out but it gradually became clearer it read "LFS" , WOW I shouted in astonishment, "Wtf was that" I said to a passer by, who looked at me like I was nuts.Without hesatation I burst through the doors of the internet cafe garbbing a copy of S2 with the money.
When I got home my grandmother was brown bread...
Some people would sell their grandparents for a copy of S2:)

cmckowen

21st August 2006, 09:37

LOL @ CSU1

A friend downloaded S1 demo back in the day and I gave it a spin, but with the KB it didnt really suit me too well.

Played it on and off until part way through last year where one of my friends owed me a little cash, and would you believe it, it was just a little more than what S2 was worth. Having heard it was a huge improvement I told him to buy me a voucher number for it.

Bought a DFP 2 months later when I had the cash.

Been addicted ever since. :)

Edit: Edited grammar for Axus' sanity

Gentlefoot

21st August 2006, 09:59

A mate had a copy of it and a MOMO FFB wheel. I played it round his for a few months before I bought it.

Jertje

21st August 2006, 10:02

I think I googled for a racing sim on the PC ;)

tristancliffe

21st August 2006, 10:16

I was playing GP4 a lot, and having the occasional foray into GPL. But I'd also just realised how awful MS Flight Sim was, and had migrated to X-Plane. I then wished that someone had done a similar thing with driving (an indi-project). At the time my brother had Broadband, but I didn't, so I asked him to have a browse for something similar the next day.

A few days later he returned with a CD, on which he had burnt Racer, netKar and Live for Speed.

I tried LFS first, but found it a bit unrealistic, so that didn't last long. Then I loaded Racer, and spent a couple of days on that, mainly trying to drive the Stratos I had downloaded for it round some sort of country road style track. After I got bored of Racer I tried nK, and that was lots of fun, because I could drive powerful real wheel drive cars and do silly things with them at the GPL version of the Nurburgring. The F3000 and the Ferrari kept me busy for another 2 days. But the bugs, and the flaws in the physics in both games started to grate, so I had another go at LFS (I'd only given it half an hour, so I felt I should try a bit more to like it). Within a week I was licenced. By the second hour I was loving every aspect of it. Okay, so you had to be smooth because the traction loss was a bit severe, but the way the cars moved and reacted hasn't been beaten yet. nK was used only then by my friend at Uni as it was a lot easier (and had faster cars), and Racer hasn't been touched since (by me or the programmer I suspect).

I bought it days/weeks before I went to uni, so spent most of my time using it offline (unlocking it with a mobile phone acting as a dial up modem). And it was a few months before I discovered RSC (and the LFS section). The rest is history. And/or spam.

Long Live Live For Speed.

sinbad

21st August 2006, 10:19

I think I googled for a racing sim on the PC ;)

Me too, couldn't be much simpler than that could it?

Butler205

21st August 2006, 11:43

Few on here were playing it. http://forum.205gtidrivers.com

The Dide

21st August 2006, 12:17

saw it on giga-tv, as a game-presentation. after that downloaded the demo...
still playing it...
still being slow....

(S1, that is...)

Crazy Harry

21st August 2006, 12:18

PC Games. A small preview and a early demo version of S1 was on the CD. LFS was the reason to leave SCGT.

banshee56

21st August 2006, 12:32

I used to drive the Papy NASCAR games with keyboard (sucked at it too). I was on BHMotorsports lookin' for setups and cars when I saw the demo. I downloaded it, tried it out, thought it was only ok (remember, keyboard), and out it away. In the meantime, I had purchased two AVB FFB wheels (one for me, one for Dad) so we could race Dirt Track Racing via LAN. Back in the 60's and 70's, he ran stock cars at one of the tracks in that game, so that was great fun. Once I got the wheel, I thought about firing up LFS again, and after driving it with a wheel, I was hooked. I drove on dial-up for a long time, until I got sick of timing out. This game made me get my Momo Force and ADSL. Damn this "game" for taking my personal life away!!! :pillepall :shrug: :D :thumb:

NotAnIllusion

21st August 2006, 12:49

I think it was PC gamer. Back in the S1 days lol..
I was trying to remember if it was PC Gamer or Format, must of been teh Gamer then :D

n2oaddict

21st August 2006, 13:00

Back in late 2002, when I used IRC a lot, a friend told me about it, told me that it was the best sim he had ever played, I wasn't so sure about that so I gave it a try and I fell in love with it, and now here I am.

LorenzoN1

21st August 2006, 13:45

On a forum a guy posted a video drifting and racing, so i thought it was cool so i tried the demo for 3 days, after that i bought my license and a logitech momo wheel, im still a newbie

hrtburnout

21st August 2006, 15:19

I found it on BlackHole motorsports, when I was looking for stuff for CMR2 :). Been a demo player for years, and eventually found a way to buy S2 :)

Chris_Kerry

21st August 2006, 15:21

I discovered LFS through a friend, markredden. As it turns out we are now in the same team, although we have been fairly inactive over the last couple of months.

Sage

21st August 2006, 15:38

Some guys on a forum that I'm a member of we're talking about it, so I decided to try it out. Finnanly decided that demo was too boring and that s2 would be amazing, so I bought s2, and I love it. That's how I got into it.

FlyingSam

21st August 2006, 15:57

i remember when i played lfs the first time... it was the s1 demo, with xfg, and i was like drunk for a time lol when finally i knew control it well. i was playing the demo about 1 year when i bought it. i saw the demo in a forum of cars i think... maybe blackhole motorsports, i dont remember it well. when the s2 was released, i played the demo many time too... when finally i bought the s2 license, like the s1 :D. when i discovered this game, i never played more racing games, because all of them looks to me arcade and not realistic, except lfs... the best realistic racing simulator that i never saw :bowdown::nod:.

greetings.

Scoop

21st August 2006, 17:13

I discovered LFS demo at a friend in the summer of 2003 played it for 2 min and then as soon as I got home i dlded it and the rest is history :)

Gavin UK

21st August 2006, 17:16

i found lfs on tucows way back when the 1st public versions were around :)

thanks tucows!! :D

sgt.flippy

21st August 2006, 17:25

I think I had played Racer first. Heard people talking about some LiveForSpeed game, and saw the forum section for it at RSC. One visit to the LFS site had me playing the demo, and then purchasing S1....
The same except for the S1 license, I bought S2, so I got in later. I kinda went back to racer a bit at the moment, it was time for a change, and in some way racer attracted me again.

Slartibartfast

21st August 2006, 20:14

I was reading some forum, don't remember which, thoroughly fed up with GPL. I hated the lack of immersion in GPL. The aural/visual/controller interface and I simply did not get along. Racing Legends was my only hope.

The conversation went something like this in the forum:

"RL is going to be the greatest ever."

"Sure it looks good, but is it a driving sim? Who's played it?"

"OK. But it looks like it will be the best ever..."

"Anyone can draw pretty pictures. Who's actually *tried* it? Can I try it? I think not."

"Yeah, but just imagine how beautiful the world would be if RL actually existed."

Then someone posted something like this:

"The West's got it all wrong. They're making all this hype but nothing to show. GPL did it right. They posted a video of a sim that was running, then shortly thereafter a demo that you could *actually* drive. Like these guys --->"

And there was a link to LFS. I was off GPL at the very first demo. None of my GPL friends would follow because the thing had virtually no features. But I was hooked.

I am soooo happy the thing has made it this far. It is, in my mind, the only option we have for racing from our office chairs.

ste_

21st August 2006, 21:09

I was moaning on some forum or other that there was no game that was like Gran Turismo, but online. Someone linked me to the S1 demo which I tried out, but it didn't really click for me; I think there were other games out which demanded more of my time, so I didn't give S1 too much attention.

Then later I somehow stumbled across the S2 demo (via another forum post) and gave it a proper try. Initially I only really liked it because of the online racing aspect, but then I got to know some of the regular racers and found that the community was big enough for many demo servers, but small and dedicated enough to give a good vibe out and so you could bump into the same people. Then I got to know what the game stood for and its grand plan, I became a proper LFS fanboy and signed away my £24 as soon as S2 was out.

Best. Decision. Ever.

RevengeR

21st August 2006, 21:18

one day i was at dads company, replacing the fired graphic artist (:D). actually, i had nothing to work on, so i jumped on bhmotorsports, and dled some demos. if im rite, there was only S1 that time. i liked it a lot, and told myself that i gotta dl this game as i get home. but i forgot it :D half a year later i found it again, and next nite i bought my s2 licence. then somehow i forgot it again :D and finally, in january i started playin it again, but demo only. my aim was to get under 1:32.00 w xfg on bl1:smileypul as time went by, i got under 1:32, and of course, wanted more. so i played only the demo, while ive had my s2 licence for like 7 months. i managed to get 1:31.76 in hl, then the new physics came, and shocked me. next day i moved to S2, and im still there:thumb:

Haikoe

21st August 2006, 21:30

I used to play Motor City Online, and after that folded I started the long search for a good replacement. I stumbled upon LFS then and have never looked back!

I read BigBens review of the LFS demo on the MCO forums, and... well... what Djamin said, I never looked back.

PS: apart from a GPL affair :D

letdown427

21st August 2006, 21:44

I'd beenGT1, GT2, GT3, drifting away (except GT2, handling REALLY sucked on that). Had bought a DFP in preparation for GT4. Had been on gtplanet.net for a while, someone there mentioned LFS (in fact, someone on there was called LiveForSpeed, but anyway) I downloaded the demo, and goddamn it was awesome.

Showed it to a friend. We played on the demo for ages. Then came some school holidays or something, i was at his, we'd been playing it, then just thought, we need to get S2. So we did. First thing we got in was the LX6 on South City. We were like, SO excited, it was hilarious. The sheer power of that thing, after being in an XRT for months.

Of course we just had to try to F08 then. Wow. Hehe.

Haven't been on so much recently, having the wheel in front of the monitor all the time bugs me, but every now and then I hop back in. Great game. Won't ever uninstall it :)

filur

21st August 2006, 22:22

LFS is the first sim i've played, actually i didn't really know racing sims existed before finding LFS. Been strangely attracted to racing games all my life without having any real interest in motorsport, starting with Monza, Road Fighter and Rally on the Spectravideo, Outrun, Mario kart .. :), Sega Rally, more recently V-Rally 3, TIR, Burnout and Forza on the XBox. Never looked for racing games on the pc, pc was just for playing Quake.

One day i was browsing Buzz (http://buzz.bazooka.se), the original swedish 'linkdump' site. Clicked a link named Cool Car-simulator (http://buzz.bazooka.se/Redir.aspx?ID=19139), saw the Force Dynamics videos and forgot about it. For some reason a few days later i dug up the link to the 301 videos again to find out more about "that game", googled, downloaded the demo and got hooked in about 10 minutes driving with the mouse.

I got completely addicted to XRT/BL1 so first investments were a DFP and parts for an FFShifter, with the new gear i also had to try every single sim/semi-sim i could find. Finally bought the S2 license ~4-5 months after finding the demo. :)

Also a bit funny how i'd probably not been able to play on my main pc at that time. Since i basically never played anything but Quake (1), my main PC still had an early Geforce 2, but i had just bought another one to build a MAME cabinet / home arcade. for the cabinet pc i had bought the cheapest over-the-counter card i could find (radeon 9550se) which as it turns out runs LFS just fine. Combine this with the fact that my main pc wasn't actually in my home at the time, and i was temporarily using the cabinet-to-be pc. Needless to say i got distracted from the cabinet building plans. :)

Michael Denham

21st August 2006, 22:32

Having played GPL since 1998, I stumbled upon a thread about LFS in the RSC forums in August 2002, and I've been playing it since the first demo... :)

spsamsp

25th August 2006, 18:47

It was BH Motorsports site i think...?

Any issues regarding me then it's their fault :D

Funnybear

25th August 2006, 19:04

Pc Zone and/or PC Forum or something like that. They'd done a bit about LFS in the online section. Looked it up, had a go on the demo and viola! A rabbit from a hat and I wish I was a baller.

No, thats not right. Viola, here I am two years later spamming the LFS forums for all I'm worth.

But never fear . . new job, new money, new gaming rig. I'll soon be back terrorising Aston National with my purple (Not Pink!!) FZR . . .

alland44

25th August 2006, 19:12

Hard to remember, it`s such a long time back, now.

I know i tried an early demo - I was hunting cargame demos, to test. I found Lfs and tried it out - I had only keyboard then. Then some time after this, my brother bougth himselg a tiny pc, and he really was into car sims. I did my best to keep his computer running, and I saw the most of the sims out there. Tried a lot of them, but was never caugth by the action. It didn`t feel real, driving those "car games".

I then remembered the Lfs simulator demo, and searched for it, and installed it again. The devs must have improved it, because now it was a total different thing, to drive the cars around. I was a little impressed with the way the car handled. So I started up, driving a lot with keyboard, and then my brother bougth himself a new wheel. I borrowed the old, and really got out on the demo tracks.

I drove on and off for a few months, and then i decided to buy S1. I remembered that I was a little angry with the "gather points" to release next car, but I had to live with it, and I did so. I kept telling my brother about this Lfs and brougth him the demo. He didn`t like it, in the start. "This is to hard" he said, but he was used to the "cargames" - Now he is a believer and he drives the shit out of me. I can`t keep up with him, yet !

Then S2 came out and the rest is not so interesting.

I don`t know how old the early demoes are, but I feel like I saw the first for about 4 years ago ? Could that be ?

Cropsy

25th August 2006, 19:28

Roughly this time two years ago someone from digimods.co.uk suggested LFS. After joining several of their drifting sessions I moved to the racing scene, haven't looked back since. :D
A few days before I tried LFS, the same person suggested Racer, I expected LFS to be equal, or worse than that... boy was I wrong.

Michael Denham

25th August 2006, 19:43

I don`t know how old the early demoes are, but I feel like I saw the first for about 4 years ago ? Could that be ?
The first demo became public in August 2002 (as mentioned 3 posts above yours ;)), so yes....

Hyperactive

25th August 2006, 19:47

The first demo became public in August 2002 (as mentioned 3 posts above yours ;)), so yes....

Too bad I have lost all my early LFS replays and files due to hard disk failures. Would have been nice if I could have checked the earliest LFS version I had on my computer. Hmm, wonder if I did upload any hotlaps to bhmotorsports.com... better check :)

EDIT: D'oh, the "Live for Speed Demo 0.2 C/D" hotlaps are not available (http://www.bhmotorsports.com/competitions/lfsc.php?GTO=325a169eee89301e13bafd4be99a0ac7):

Michael Denham

25th August 2006, 20:03

Yeah, I deleted all of mine as soon as I updated LFS and they were not compatible. I should have kept them really but oh well! I wonder if I still have any of my 1998 GPL replays kicking around....

bbuck

25th August 2006, 20:11

I found Lfs while looking for GP3 bits on RSC early 2003.Just checked my HD and found MPRs dating back to may 2003 and SPRs dating from sept 2003.

Paul_McCluskey

26th August 2006, 00:59

Think I came across lfs on a disc that came with pc magazine when it 1st appeared, then finally got round to buying it last month:)

frokki

26th August 2006, 09:08

I just can't remember how I found it.....

.....So I think it may have been either a finnish gaming magazine's forum.... Same here. No idea where I first heard of it, but that forum seems obvious.

Rtsbasic

26th August 2006, 09:23

I remeber suprisingly clearly. An internet friend of mine sent me a link to it via MSN, this was back in hmm Oct 2002 I'm fairly certain. Played it on and off, eventually brought a cheap wheel and S1 in 2004. Not looked back since.

sshhaabb

26th August 2006, 11:52

Hello all

I found LFS through searcing the web for a racing game and there it was LFS the racing simulator.

Tried the demo and soon bought S2 the best thing that has ever happened to me.

It is just brilliant and will buy LFS S2 for my children and am already telling everyone about it.

Well done to the DEVS.

noise_is_life

26th August 2006, 11:57

A guy in my autocross club told me about it. :)

It's much cheaper than autocross.

wheeler

26th August 2006, 12:00

via BlackholeMotorsports (http://www.bhmotorsports.com/)

SoloNijN

27th August 2006, 14:30

http://gathering.tweakers.net :)

Cam71

27th August 2006, 17:15

A friend showed it to me about three years ago. I vowed that some day I would have a machine (I only had a Mac at that time) and a wheel that I could play it on. A few years later, it happened. The wait was worth it. :nod:

Primoz

27th August 2006, 17:57

A friend told me about it. He got me hooked almost 3 years ago now. He told me about LFS when i was still running P166. Then got a P4, quickly DLed S1 demo and never quit since :)

Theafro

27th August 2006, 18:24

I was mooching about searching for fun things to do for free, when i stubled upon LFS S1G demo, I only had a mouse at the time but I was soon hooked, I played the demo for little while and unded up buying an S2 licence just as S1H came out. I spent 6 or so months playing with a trackball, and then bought a crappy MS sidewinder wheel (no FF!) even though i was licenced i stuck with the GTi until S2 came out, and finally got a MOMO! I've since moved on to DFP control and XFR/UFRs are my main steeds at the mo'. I'm still not bored yet :)