Point a to point b

[sicbeing]

I know this game is mainly a "race" game with laps on lookalike tracks, but what if there was a track, or multiple tracks, that dealt with point a to point b? It would mainly be for max speed and light turns if any.

Some of my favorite gams to race in are Gran Turismo and Enthusia (and of corse LFS) but I also really enjoy highway driving games like Wangan, Tokyo X Treme Racer, etc, just to kind of sit back and go fast.

Just a suggestion. :razz:

[AndroidXP]

Ah yes, this has been suggested many times already :nod:

My best guess for such tracks appearing is the upcoming (?) rallypack. I'm sure these would be fun, especially offline. But as LFS mainly concentrates on online circuit racing it will probably take some time before we'll have the chance to race such a kind of tracks.

[sicbeing]

Ive yet to play online, but im looking forward to it.

[Vendetta]

Point a to be rally stages would be insanely great! Hopefully this rumored "rally pack" will have this :)

[Tweaker]

I think it will come in S3, if anything, LFS will need loads of improvements to make a quality rally game (ie mud effects, and all the goodies). Wish we could have some updates (ie future plan, progress reports, etc) for what is to come, but everything is so silent now, it worries me, or rather... has me balancing the stool whether or not to be interested, or just wait another year until something new comes out :(

[Huru-aito]

I don't remember seeing anything official about a rally pack, still some people are talking about it like it's sure that there'll be one. LFS doesn't need a let down of any sort, especially one of this magnitude ("they said there'd be a rally addon but now there won't be such a thing boohoo"). Maybe I'm being overprotective, or have I simply missed something :confused:

[sinbad]

I don't remember seeing anything official about a rally pack, still some people are talking about it like it's sure that there'll be one. LFS doesn't need a let down of any sort, especially one of this magnitude ("they said there'd be a rally addon but now there won't be such a thing boohoo"). Maybe I'm being overprotective, or have I simply missed something :confused:

I did a quick search on rsc to remind myself of where I'd seen it mentioned.
Anyway, there was this interview by nic with the devs. Nothing concrete was said, I hope linking to it doesn't kick up a lot of fuss over it again :)

Look at Eric's section:
Hope nic don't mind a direct link :)
http://www.teamnic.com/interview/interview-edited.doc

www.teamnic.com <Good website ;)

[Huru-aito]

Thanks, I had already forgotten that interview :)

Doesn't say much though, let's hope that there will eventually be more of the loose surface stuff too!

[ajp71]

I suspect S3 will feature point to point tracks, but not rally stages or straight roads. Maybe hillclimbing, this has been suggested a lot and would not require major changes to the graphics engine.

[the_angry_angel]

I'm not sure I understand why the graphics engine would need to be updated at all tbh...the graphics engine should deal with the vertex's that the rest of the game engine spit at it, nothing more; regardless of its track type...

Depending on how the game engine has been written, the only real addition would be to add a new game type - typically games are event systems, so its just a case of making some new rules, and only enforcing them at particular times...

But back on topic, yes we'd all love additions to the LFS race types..

Edit: Interestingly, we do have Point to Point - the drag strip. Its just not customisable yet :p

[Bob Smith]

Good point TAA. Perhaps that could be a new options for autocross layouts? Seperate start/finish lines.

[axus]

Good point TAA. Perhaps that could be a new options for autocross layouts? Seperate start/finish lines.

We have that I'm sure...? S is for start point and F for finish line. You just cant put it on a hilly terrain like a hillclimb or on a huge piece of dirt... :shrug:

[Breizh]

Hillclimbs

[_Rob_]

Direct link is fine sinbad :)

[tailing]

I think there's more to the rally pack than just that interview but then my memory isn't always the best :)
The form that it might take is anybodies guess, might come with the next update to the physics. What's Eric been up to lately :scratchch:

[Allan_L]

it would be nice if it was possable to suck the 3d data out of google earth and create this bit of road.... good fun pulling .7g on the corners in a road car ;D

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Mansfield+VIC,+Australia&daddr=Wangaratta+Whitfield+Rd,+VIC,+Australia&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=-36.780998,146.273232&sspn=1.091108,1.768799&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.765292,146.936646&spn=2.18261,3.537598&t=h&z=8&om=0

it would be even more fun if it could be done dynamicly....

http://www.creative-3d.net/vistapro.cfm

Cheers,

Allan

[Fischfix]

Ah yes, this has been suggested many times already :nod:

My best guess for such tracks appearing is the upcoming (?) rallypack. I'm sure these would be fun, especially offline. But as LFS mainly concentrates on online circuit racing it will probably take some time before we'll have the chance to race such a kind of tracks.


rallypack? do you know more about this then i do???

[The Very End]

Mentioned many times :(
Then...all talk about it vanished...and never more did we hear about it from the dev`s. Probally just delete it all =(
DAMN GIEF....MEEE...TEH!!:....RALLYPACK!!!!!!!!!1111111 11
:(

Chill pill..
I want it so bad :(

[lucifer_greece]

+1 for rallies

[callmebob]

no one else see the date of this thread?

[The Very End]

Yes, I do see the date, and problem is?
Is it illegal to post in outdated topics? :x :schwitz:

I want that rallypack, tho it never are going to be released. It could boost LFS very much, and it would get more people to go lisence. LFS actually has much racing stuff now, what it needs are some rallycross stuff.

IMO.

[Eldanor]

Yes, I do see the date, and problem is?
Is it illegal to post in outdated topics? :x :schwitz:

I want that rallypack, tho it never are going to be released. It could boost LFS very much, and it would get more people to go lisence. LFS actually has much racing stuff now, what it needs are some rallycross stuff.

IMO.

+1, this guy used the search button :) we should give him a present or something!

I also die for some rally stages, just imagine RBR tracks in LFS.

[lucifer_greece]

I also die for some rally stages, just imagine RBR tracks in LFS.

I'd love to see something like the Aston Racetrack, only for Rallying. One area with multiple narrow dirt/gravel routes. Short straights, many turns, a few hairpins, and a couple of bumps and jumps. *And of course an appropriate car.*

I noticed the 1st post date too, but i don't think it's bad when someone brings up an old (but ignored) topic. :thumb:

[Bob Smith]

Searching > Necroposting

Anyway, the reason no-one talks about the rallypack anymore, is that, since the devs last mentioned it a few years back, (somewhat by definition) they haven't mentioned it since, so there's little fuel for the fire. We can only assume the plan was either scrapped (bah) or is being kept a surprise (yay).

[AndroidXP]

I guess it's kinda scrapped. The amount of work that would need to go into it to make it good is just too high for something that you wouldn't really be able to use online. Or if you made it online compatible (kinda like the autocross competition mode), then you have even more work to accomplish that.

I just can't see it ever being done with the current workpace/manpower. Sure Eric would be able to scramble a single stage together in a reasonable timeframe, but that is just one stage. Even on RBR where you have comparatively many stages, the times driven there are just beyond anything realistic as all the stages are memorized into the last detail, making pace notes completely unnecessary.

Even if you somehow get the content together, then there's also the point of the physics needing massive updates to warrant putting all the work into the content. The loose surface simulation right now just way too simple to do the job.

All in all, if you want rally action, play RBR. Yes, the devs have said that they plan to simulate anything on wheels, but that statement comes from a time where the release of S1-S3 was planned to be within a single year ;)

[The Very End]

I guess it's kinda scrapped. The amount of work that would need to go into it to make it good is just too high for something that you wouldn't really be able to use online. Or if you made it online compatible (kinda like the autocross competition mode), then you have even more work to accomplish that.

I just can't see it ever being done with the current workpace/manpower. Sure Eric would be able to scramble a single stage together in a reasonable timeframe, but that is just one stage. Even on RBR where you have comparatively many stages, the times driven there are just beyond anything realistic as all the stages are memorized into the last detail, making pace notes completely unnecessary.

Even if you somehow get the content together, then there's also the point of the physics needing massive updates to warrant putting all the work into the content. The loose surface simulation right now just way too simple to do the job.

All in all, if you want rally action, play RBR. Yes, the devs have said that they plan to simulate anything on wheels, but that statement comes from a time where the release of S1-S3 was planned to be within a single year ;)

I think you missunderstod it :) It says rallypack yes, but it mostly, or from what we belive, would be rallycross contest. The word rally was most kikely used because they were working on tracks that had gravvel on it, aka rallycross tracks :)

[AndroidXP]

No offence, but "from what we believe" :really:

From what I can remember, the rally pack was supposed to at least have one different rally-like (WRC) car and if possible some point-to-point stages. It was definitely NOT just a rallycross competition thingy, because we can already do that right now with the app Victor wrote some time ago.

[The Very End]

No offence, but "from what we believe" :really:

From what I can remember, the rally pack was supposed to at least have one different rally-like (WRC) car and if possible some point-to-point stages. It was definitely NOT just a rallycross competition thingy, because we can already do that right now with the app Victor wrote some time ago.


No offence taken ;)
But that`s at least how I understood it as, that it was more like beeing for rallycross useages. But again, the details were never clear, and never will, so it`s a dead end eighter way :)

[Bob Smith]

We still have an Impreza like car for one of the default backgrounds in LFS. There was clearly some work done on it that we haven't seen. I know Eric has worked on some other things that have never been publically mentioned, but only the devs know to what extent.

[The Very End]

We still have an Impreza like car for one of the default backgrounds in LFS. There was clearly some work done on it that we haven't seen. I know Eric has worked on some other things that have never been publically mentioned, but only the devs know to what extent.

Damn, you just love to start the rumor mill eh? :tilt: