What I love about this version of Oulton Park is how filled in the spectator areas are. Just makes you feel like you are a real BTCC driver on race day.
New Road America is quite good indeed. Need to give oulton park some time. Haven’t really raced that since the old race07 days in the tin tops. Great video. Keep up the good work.
Good video as always, I'm with you about how it's easier to drive Spa in RF2 than ACC or AC. I still think the new UI is terrible so I've gone back to the old one but thankfully the SIM has enough quality in the driving model to compensate for the horrible menus, etc. Oulton Park is my 'go to' track for anything but open wheelers & the workshop version is pretty good so lots of good driving to be had at minimal cost with RF2 now. Keep up the good work!
Agree about the track limits on Spa. You can pretty much straight line Radillion with absolutely no penalty. Also I don't know if I'm just doing something stupid, but if you do a rolling start it forces two formation laps for some reason. Skipping the formation lap skips one of them, and you still end up with a massively spread field by the time you get to a green light.
Thanks for these Ermin, I've had a fantastic few days at Road America trying to improve. 95% AI in the FR 3.5, over 4 days finished 25th, 16th, 9th and finally a podium 2nd last night. In VR it's an incredible experience! One request, in your video's you're always in the Ferrari GTE, any chance of mixing it up with some open wheelers or something else in the next one? (One tip for the FR3.5 if you drive, increase the caster, it completely transforms the FFB)
I recently did a 24 hour endurance race using a different version. It had extra buildings and trees pushing over onto the racing surface. But worst is that it didn't include a lot of the exit curbing that's there IRL. Very odd. My team still ended up 3rd but leading up it, it was like learning a whole new track.
Wonderful coverage of some excellent mods. I ran RA at the weekend and it's a blast, even with faster classes nipping at your heels all race. Oulton park too, is an experience, both IRL and in RF2 (I advise having a loot at it in the wet. That'll satiate your rally instincts!) You make a comment about the modders going unrecognized. Maybe put a card at the start of the segment listing the people that you know were involved in the making of each track? Just a thought that might give some credibility to the modders involved, and maybe give them some traction in other areas (potential job offers and the like). Wouldn't it be nice to know you were involved in furthering someone's career just a bit of accreditation.
Driving oulton park in really life some years ago in my mates time attack it’s awesome and so is donnington park, I can’t wait to get set up for sim racing, all most there 👍 Great videos by the way
If you like Oulton Park you'll love VIR (Virginia International Raceway). AC has a great version with all 3 main layouts. Dunno if there's an rF2 rip..
Oulton Park for rF2 came out before it came out for AMS1 so it's not an AMS1 convert, my guess it's an rF1 convert and so it's not LIDAR scanned nor laser scanned. Nevertheless it's a very well made circuit.
There’s a certain amount of irony in praising a game for its handling, but other elements are so bad that without modders stealing other developers’ meshes it would never have the resources to scan these tracks themselves. Perhaps if you kept your feet on rF2’s neck as forcefully as you do say Reiza’s, they might get round to fixing the stuff that keeps their sales figures so low they can’t afford to scan their own meshes?
I didn't realise Lilski's RA was ported now. It's my favourite mod track in AC by far, really beautiful work. This is a great series of videos, thanks for the work ;)
I'm just getting into Sim Racing and thanks to your videos I'm going to go with rFactor 2 to get up to speed. I know Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Thruxton really well from real life and would like to use these to help learn. You mentioned you enjoy Brands and Oulton but have you tried Thruxton on rFactor 2?
Hey Ermin, have you tried Pukekohe Park found in the steam workshop? Its a superb track for cars like the Porsche Cup and Radicals, and a track ive never seen featured which is a shame. A hidden gem for rF2
Ermin if you love Corvette ? Try the corvette zr1 2012 mod. Set TC. To medium and abs on low . I promise you it's going to be your new favorite car. ;-)
Hello - did you ever finish this series?? :) Would be great if you could one day - if you have a secret source for laser scanned tracks, great if you can share. Don't forget about rF2 in your vids...
Great vid, I hope you're right about the "iconic European track" a high quality scan of Spa would be most welcome. I'm still happy with hot lapping the Nordschleife track but I've always liked Spa.
Just raced Road America with a field of 488's. I used Ermin's 488 setup tweaks from a few videos back. Why the entire field are so much faster than me on AI 95% is strange, even on straights with very little wing angle. AI grip modifier?
Great additions! But honestly, how sad is for a sim to rely on another sim's laser scanned circuits? I don't see the greatness of rF2. Yes the physics are absolutely phenomenal, so is the FFB, but we literally have like 4 official tracks : Nordschleife, Le Mans, Sebring and Imola (which is made by Reiza) . Everything else is a rip-off from a sim you defined "a mix between simcade and sim". If you like rF2 above anything else is absolutely fine, but we have to be objective, it lacks terribly on content side, multiplayer and user interface.
Some tracks are mods......i dont see the problem of converting tracks,cars etc,since there is no profit,you guys against riped assets need to get a life......
@@RST-R-MODS I see you didn't get the point : I'm not complaining about ripping content, but praising a sim that needs ripped content to be somewhat half complete.
@@jamarcus_OG ,devs are working on new tracks,and probably some tracks never gona be made by oficial devs,so yes,moders rip them or make tham from scratch...i dont see a problem whit that.An rFactor2 is more a sim tool than a game actualy,no other sim comes close in advanced physics and FFB,that is what matter for me...
So why is iR's multiplayer "so good"? What does it offer that any other online sim doesn't? Pure interest as I've never played it and will never be able to afford to
@@GasCanZa But that's all hosted on first party servers, which S397 don't have, hence the reliance on third party clients. I wouldn't complain about a driver ranking system though. Implementing a restriction on who can join per server may be difficult, but knowing which drivers to avoid would be handy for sure.
@@EikeSky iRacing started in 2012 and the most close competition is Raceroom which started this year with scheduled races, ranks and all that stuff. Online-racing is like night-clubs. The club can be run down, but you don't visit a prettier one if it's almost empty all the time since you go there to meet people. The ranking-system in iRacing is very outdated and rewarding people who drive one car only. It can't even dectect if you run off-track to avoid a crash or just understeered like other do, but popular series are crowded and they have lots of content (even ridiculous overpriced), especially US-focused unlike any other title.
this game keeps on crashing i only got it in jan 2021 i only have 1 car and 1 track and cant seem 2 get anywhere need 2 have a video on how 2 get past some of the stuff thanks
I’m not a fan of this version of Spa tbh. There is little track detail, no kerb detail and the shaders seem slightly off, like it’s constantly overcast. Also, the ai is so slow round it even by rf2 mid track standards and they spin out for no reason. Fingers crossed the iconic European track S397 has announced is an official Spa. Just got a horrible feeling it’s going to be Monza ☹️
Only god is assetto corsa regarding to how it looks at least you can almost really feel like you in a real car with real conditions etc so dépending on what you want ok driving part can be better but graphics are a huge part when it s about immersion and realism !
@@Ermz yes that s why ojectively there s no god in sim actually god sim should gather graphics realism and driving realism ! rf2 will be god when graphism and offline and online features will be fixed for now for me it s just a concept with which you train and try things !
I need say i try search info when i start sim year ago. And i dont get what this game offer how it works. How lobby is and outher. Then i hear iracing and thats it 🤷 easy game to play and good exp. I dont care the money becous its hobby and rf2 take it also. But why this is so "hidden". I might play this if i had infi about this when i start pc racing. I mean i dont know how many player this have. How often i can race. And how lobby is make 🤷 can you give some info 😅
Did you know that Kunos was hunting those download-sources down once? I was penalised with a 2-weeks-ban in 2016 for posting in their forum to better try the Nordschleife (which was the first and only one at that time) and feel the obvious improvements rather than doing this shit (I didn't use this word). And at that time rF2 was rather dead compare to today. No offense here and Marcel could've say stop to videos like this, so just saying and by chance or not, the policy changed since. Before you had to look for the proper password in the forum to unzip the downloads.
That's understandable. They're safeguarding their IP, and these tracks made it pretty obvious how far ahead rF2's physics model was to AC, so it's hard to blame them. That said, AC is old property now, and most people who have rF2 would also have AC (since the Ultimate Edition is so cheap), so I don't think it's as much of an ethical imposition as some would suggest. It allows people to have more fun sim racing in the end, and ultimately that's what all of this is about.
RFactor2 Log Analyser is really good. It's how I track personal statistics. There is nothing built in as far as I know. Try it out even though it looks a little complicated because it's incredibly powerful and kind of unbeaten in the sim world.... So basically it's like everything with RFactor2, incredible but not necessarily user friendly.
After discussions on rF2 discord: Please delete that video cause you are promoting illegal convertions. At least Spa is an illegal conversion. Thank you.
What I love about this version of Oulton Park is how filled in the spectator areas are. Just makes you feel like you are a real BTCC driver on race day.
New Road America is quite good indeed. Need to give oulton park some time. Haven’t really raced that since the old race07 days in the tin tops. Great video. Keep up the good work.
Good video as always, I'm with you about how it's easier to drive Spa in RF2 than ACC or AC. I still think the new UI is terrible so I've gone back to the old one but thankfully the SIM has enough quality in the driving model to compensate for the horrible menus, etc. Oulton Park is my 'go to' track for anything but open wheelers & the workshop version is pretty good so lots of good driving to be had at minimal cost with RF2 now. Keep up the good work!
I can't even load the new RF2 UI, no matter how much I try.
Agree about the track limits on Spa. You can pretty much straight line Radillion with absolutely no penalty. Also I don't know if I'm just doing something stupid, but if you do a rolling start it forces two formation laps for some reason. Skipping the formation lap skips one of them, and you still end up with a massively spread field by the time you get to a green light.
Yeah the AIW on it is far from great. It's basically just what we put up with in the early days when rF2 had no decent official content.
Thanks for these Ermin, I've had a fantastic few days at Road America trying to improve. 95% AI in the FR 3.5, over 4 days finished 25th, 16th, 9th and finally a podium 2nd last night. In VR it's an incredible experience! One request, in your video's you're always in the Ferrari GTE, any chance of mixing it up with some open wheelers or something else in the next one? (One tip for the FR3.5 if you drive, increase the caster, it completely transforms the FFB)
I recently did a 24 hour endurance race using a different version. It had extra buildings and trees pushing over onto the racing surface. But worst is that it didn't include a lot of the exit curbing that's there IRL. Very odd. My team still ended up 3rd but leading up it, it was like learning a whole new track.
Thanks for all your work! Welcome back we missed ya. From the USA.
I went somewhere!?
When are we going to see the next parts, Ermin?
Wonderful coverage of some excellent mods. I ran RA at the weekend and it's a blast, even with faster classes nipping at your heels all race. Oulton park too, is an experience, both IRL and in RF2 (I advise having a loot at it in the wet. That'll satiate your rally instincts!)
You make a comment about the modders going unrecognized. Maybe put a card at the start of the segment listing the people that you know were involved in the making of each track? Just a thought that might give some credibility to the modders involved, and maybe give them some traction in other areas (potential job offers and the like). Wouldn't it be nice to know you were involved in furthering someone's career just a bit of accreditation.
Love your video man! Just brilliant! I drop everything I’m doing to watch them!! Just got my first Fanatec v1 f1 wheel (in blue)
Driving oulton park in really life some years ago in my mates time attack it’s awesome and so is donnington park, I can’t wait to get set up for sim racing, all most there 👍
Great videos by the way
Unlike Part 1 of the series I've already got all but New Jersey but still looking forward to the next vid in the series. Thanks.
LilSkis road america has quickly become the best non S397 track we have in rf2 imo. Awesome track, awesome rendition by LilSki.
Started off with my 2 of my 3 favorite circuits to drive😤
If you like Oulton Park you'll love VIR (Virginia International Raceway). AC has a great version with all 3 main layouts. Dunno if there's an rF2 rip..
A million thanks for this Ermin:)
Holy thread resurrection :) but the new ui deserves some of these tracks tom be installed thanks Ermin.
Ermin, for the next tracks mods videos, and just in case you don't know them, another great tracks: Watkins Glen
and Mid-Ohio.
Oulton Park for rF2 came out before it came out for AMS1 so it's not an AMS1 convert, my guess it's an rF1 convert and so it's not LIDAR scanned nor laser scanned. Nevertheless it's a very well made circuit.
Interesting you liked Oulton and Brands. Ken to hear what you think of Donington Park? It's one off my faves and i do talk days there a lot.
There’s a certain amount of irony in praising a game for its handling, but other elements are so bad that without modders stealing other developers’ meshes it would never have the resources to scan these tracks themselves. Perhaps if you kept your feet on rF2’s neck as forcefully as you do say Reiza’s, they might get round to fixing the stuff that keeps their sales figures so low they can’t afford to scan their own meshes?
There are a bunch of official laser scanned tracks in Rf2...
@@bensoniusprime That have been around for years.
@@1RolandG70 they just released Portland international and loch Drummond in the past few months...Nurburgring was released in the past year...
@@1RolandG70 No they havnt lol. rF2 laser scan just started last year.
I didn't realise Lilski's RA was ported now. It's my favourite mod track in AC by far, really beautiful work. This is a great series of videos, thanks for the work ;)
Cant wait for the new official rf2 track :)
I'm just getting into Sim Racing and thanks to your videos I'm going to go with rFactor 2 to get up to speed. I know Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Thruxton really well from real life and would like to use these to help learn. You mentioned you enjoy Brands and Oulton but have you tried Thruxton on rFactor 2?
Waiting for Part 3 and 4. Thanks
Hey Ermin, have you tried Pukekohe Park found in the steam workshop? Its a superb track for cars like the Porsche Cup and Radicals, and a track ive never seen featured which is a shame. A hidden gem for rF2
Great content! Where are the other videos? or more links to tracks :)
Ermin if you love Corvette ? Try the corvette zr1 2012 mod. Set TC. To medium and abs on low . I promise you it's going to be your new favorite car. ;-)
Wish I could get it looking like this! Awesome 👌
The rendering on the cars in rfactor is insane.
You deserve so many more subs this is the kinda content and quality I expect from a channel with over a mil subs keep it up man
Will you be doing part 3 and 4 for the renaming list of the 18 free tracks? So far loving the first 2 vids. PLEASEEEE 😊
Hello - did you ever finish this series?? :) Would be great if you could one day - if you have a secret source for laser scanned tracks, great if you can share. Don't forget about rF2 in your vids...
Great vid, I hope you're right about the "iconic European track" a high quality scan of Spa would be most welcome. I'm still happy with hot lapping the Nordschleife track but I've always liked Spa.
They seem to be going for the big endurance racing tracks, so it's a reasonably safe bet.
yo sound like you are trying to mimic Modest Pelican lol
Did you finish this series? I can’t find videos apart from parts 1 and 2.
Thanks for the video Ermin. One thing, you linked the wrong Road America in the description.
Just raced Road America with a field of 488's. I used Ermin's 488 setup tweaks from a few videos back. Why the entire field are so much faster than me on AI 95% is strange, even on straights with very little wing angle. AI grip modifier?
Great additions! But honestly, how sad is for a sim to rely on another sim's laser scanned circuits? I don't see the greatness of rF2. Yes the physics are absolutely phenomenal, so is the FFB, but we literally have like 4 official tracks : Nordschleife, Le Mans, Sebring and Imola (which is made by Reiza) . Everything else is a rip-off from a sim you defined "a mix between simcade and sim". If you like rF2 above anything else is absolutely fine, but we have to be objective, it lacks terribly on content side, multiplayer and user interface.
Some tracks are mods......i dont see the problem of converting tracks,cars etc,since there is no profit,you guys against riped assets need to get a life......
@@RST-R-MODS roflmao
@@RST-R-MODS I see you didn't get the point : I'm not complaining about ripping content, but praising a sim that needs ripped content to be somewhat half complete.
@@jamarcus_OG ,devs are working on new tracks,and probably some tracks never gona be made by oficial devs,so yes,moders rip them or make tham from scratch...i dont see a problem whit that.An rFactor2 is more a sim tool than a game actualy,no other sim comes close in advanced physics and FFB,that is what matter for me...
@@Dukey39 ,is there a problem?
Is it only me or there is missing the third part? Since the title talks about 18 tracks...
Racing against AI, it's so sad. If only they could give us iracings multi-player
That's what they promised, starting in December....maybe...
So why is iR's multiplayer "so good"? What does it offer that any other online sim doesn't? Pure interest as I've never played it and will never be able to afford to
@@EikeSky you get races hour of the day in multiple different classes and the irating penenlty system promotes cleaner driving
@@GasCanZa But that's all hosted on first party servers, which S397 don't have, hence the reliance on third party clients. I wouldn't complain about a driver ranking system though. Implementing a restriction on who can join per server may be difficult, but knowing which drivers to avoid would be handy for sure.
@@EikeSky iRacing started in 2012 and the most close competition is Raceroom which started this year with scheduled races, ranks and all that stuff. Online-racing is like night-clubs. The club can be run down, but you don't visit a prettier one if it's almost empty all the time since you go there to meet people. The ranking-system in iRacing is very outdated and rewarding people who drive one car only. It can't even dectect if you run off-track to avoid a crash or just understeered like other do, but popular series are crowded and they have lots of content (even ridiculous overpriced), especially US-focused unlike any other title.
Can you share all of your ffb settings?
Does R factor 2 have rain?
Yes
There's actually two tracks at NJMP - Lightning and Thunder. This is Lightning.
this game keeps on crashing i only got it in jan 2021 i only have 1 car and 1 track and cant seem 2 get anywhere need 2 have a video on how 2 get past some of the stuff thanks
So what servers to people use for rf2
Im very used to spa on ac so i will try this
Where do you get SPA? :D
The colours look realistic, more so than ACC
I’m not a fan of this version of Spa tbh. There is little track detail, no kerb detail and the shaders seem slightly off, like it’s constantly overcast. Also, the ai is so slow round it even by rf2 mid track standards and they spin out for no reason.
Fingers crossed the iconic European track S397 has announced is an official Spa. Just got a horrible feeling it’s going to be Monza ☹️
What car is he using in the video? Where can I download it?
Only god is assetto corsa regarding to how it looks at least you can almost really feel like you in a real car with real conditions etc so dépending on what you want ok driving part can be better but graphics are a huge part when it s about immersion and realism !
AC has a great deal going for it. The driving experience itself is not one of those things, unfortunately.
@@Ermz yes that s why ojectively there s no god in sim actually god sim should gather graphics realism and driving realism ! rf2 will be god when graphism and offline and online features will be fixed for now for me it s just a concept with which you train and try things !
Why are the mirrors all the time black?
which car is this one?
18!? n-no way 🤦🏾♂️
How is this part 2? where is part 1 at?
I need say i try search info when i start sim year ago. And i dont get what this game offer how it works. How lobby is and outher. Then i hear iracing and thats it 🤷 easy game to play and good exp. I dont care the money becous its hobby and rf2 take it also. But why this is so "hidden". I might play this if i had infi about this when i start pc racing. I mean i dont know how many player this have. How often i can race. And how lobby is make 🤷 can you give some info 😅
Did you know that Kunos was hunting those download-sources down once? I was penalised with a 2-weeks-ban in 2016 for posting in their forum to better try the Nordschleife (which was the first and only one at that time) and feel the obvious improvements rather than doing this shit (I didn't use this word). And at that time rF2 was rather dead compare to today. No offense here and Marcel could've say stop to videos like this, so just saying and by chance or not, the policy changed since. Before you had to look for the proper password in the forum to unzip the downloads.
That's understandable. They're safeguarding their IP, and these tracks made it pretty obvious how far ahead rF2's physics model was to AC, so it's hard to blame them. That said, AC is old property now, and most people who have rF2 would also have AC (since the Ultimate Edition is so cheap), so I don't think it's as much of an ethical imposition as some would suggest. It allows people to have more fun sim racing in the end, and ultimately that's what all of this is about.
Hey guys, how can i save my best Times in RF2?
RFactor2 Log Analyser is really good. It's how I track personal statistics. There is nothing built in as far as I know. Try it out even though it looks a little complicated because it's incredibly powerful and kind of unbeaten in the sim world.... So basically it's like everything with RFactor2, incredible but not necessarily user friendly.
@@danielfmeyer Danke Dir, Thank you
How much does Studio 397 pay you bro? I downloaded rfactor 2 based entirely on your content, and honestly, it looks like crap.
Where do I get the new tracks?
Haha just noticed your links ...ty
alright.. alright.. i ended up buying.. load up a server and lets play...
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this game just doesnt work most of the time
Peddling stolen assets.. truly sad
Agree.....this channel has gone way down in my list now .
After discussions on rF2 discord: Please delete that video cause you are promoting illegal convertions. At least Spa is an illegal conversion. Thank you.
R Factor Is completely and utterly irrelevant without online multiplayer.