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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Entertainment => Topic started by: Ilwrath on July 26, 2004, 09:47:26 PM
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Well, there seems to be a lot of people who are into cars, racing, and driving, so I thought some of you may be interested in this.
Almost by accident, I stumbled across a little Italian game that lives in obscurity, but is one of the best driving simulations I've ever tried. netKar 0.9.9 Beta (http://www.nkzone.com/Default.asp) (The website is a little slow, and the download links are a bit hard to spot, but it's all there, and all free downloads) Unfortunatly, it's Windows only. :-( Also, you need a fairly powerful system and an analog control device.
And, be warned -- It isn't a free version of Need For Speed. This thing has seriously accurate on-road physics. It's fair, but brutally realistic. (Actually, if anything, I'd say a few of the cars have LESS grip than their real-world counterparts -- but like I said -- it's fair. When you screw up, the cars will push or drift very similar to real life. [at least up until you go off onto the grass, from which point it's a straight-shot into the wall])
I used to consider myself a pretty good driver, but this game is always a humbling experience. Just like real life, as soon as you get {bleep}y, the cars will bite you. The first time I played it, I piled my car into the first turn wall on my first warm up lap. :lol: My first thought was WTF?? My second time out, I hammered the gas and had similar results. Since it was a free game I'd never heard of, I almost deleted it right then, but decided that I wanted to complete one good lap just to spite the game. So I took it slower this time, and started realizing that it wasn't that the game had bad physics, but that I was expecting to be able to get away with the same bad habits I used in other driving games....
When approached as a simulator, it's a lot of fun, and surprisingly rewarding when you get it right and watch the replay of yourself tearing a perfect lap around the track.
Anyhow, it's free -- check it out. :-) I'm probably going to set up a dedicated game server for it sometime soon, so maybe I'll see ya out at the track.
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Great game! Takes way more restraint and patience than I'm used to, kind of like Gran
Turismo, but even more realistic. At first I could hardly get the car from the pit and onto
the track. :lol: I've found the F2000 the easiest for me to drive so far, while the F3000 is
near impossible. Let us know about the game server, with a little more practice I think I'll
be ready to smoke y'all pretty good. ;-)
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Takes way more restraint and patience than I'm used to
:lol: Yeah, it sure does! Like I said, I piled hard into the first turn wall. (most racing games I beat the expected laptime on my warmup lap)
I've found the F2000 the easiest for me to drive so far, while the F3000 is near impossible.
I like the F2000 a lot, too. And once you really master that car, moving up to the F3000 isn't so hard. (The only real difference is you have to be smoother on the throttle [a LOT more torque] and you have to watch your gear and speed a bit more, as it's easy to get moving too fast for the track.)
The Ferrari 360 Modena seems to be a favorite on-line. I've grown pretty handy with that one, too. :-)
My worst two cars are easily the MG ZS and the Supra. This is the first game I've ever played that I've had a problem adapting to right-hand drive. I find myself entering corners wrong because I'm missing my marks. And the root cause of that is because I'm positioning the car more for center-drive rather than right-drive. That half a car width makes a lot of difference! It really is THAT detailed a simulation! :-)
And it's a shame I'm not better with the Supra. It's a really fun car. Fast as heck!
As for the server, well, I'm going to be out of town a good part of August. Most likely I'll give it a go in early September.
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:bump:
Well, the server SHOULD be up, unless it's done something crazy like crash already. Right now, it's just Ferrari 360's at Croft, until I'm sure things are working right.
Give it a shot:
68.41.151.176
:-)