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3D sound engine?! About time! I won't do beta installation so I'll just have to wait to hear how it sounds. Finally my rear speakers should do something other than reflective sound effects.
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I had a play with the RC yesterday and think it’s great.
The spacial audio (in VR at least) is fantastic and makes you wonder why it’s taken so long.
VR now has car labels - and they work pretty well (I never really got to try them on triples but I understood they could be rather an impediment to seeing the track!)
Sparks are a nice addition too - haven’t tried the wet weather stuff though.
The gear graphs are good - three ways of showing the spread of ratios including the RPM you’ll get on a full chat upshift.
Sadly, the screen stutter in VR in the setup menus hasn’t been addressed!
All in all, very promising.
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Update: I'm still not comfortable updating the servers just yet due to personal experiences of the RC client offline and certain reports on the S397 site.
Personally, I've had issues with button-mapping failures and things like the pull-both-gear-paddles-to-get-neutral going awry. I'll discuss with the other admins - we're certainly not updating before tonights Fun Races...
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OK - after a bit of discussion, we've gone live with RC 1128. F1 Legends server is up right now - the next Wednesday Fun Race will shortly follow and Server 2 will be updated later with a slight update to the Spielberg NC track (running F1 Legends Britus 49s! - main changes to the track are implementation of track level detail settings - you should be able to turn a lot of the superfluous track detail (crowds, cows, motorhomes etc.) down.
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ROLLBACK LIKELY
More and more issues are emerging from the v1128 RC. [USER=10]@DJCruicky[/USER] has found that the weather on the server can deviate from the desired state (I.e. it can start raining when it is supposed to be dry) on a weekend restart and also that the Car Selector option (remember the days when you could change the car without exiting from the server? It’s back but…) is broken.
Alternative-neutral (where you pull both gear paddles to get neutral - it’s a controller JSON option) is broken on some vehicles as is P2P (push to pass).
Aside from individuals such as Ed experiencing issues even launching the game, I don’t feel we can run our F1 Legends or even Wednesday fun races if there’s a random chance the race will suddenly be wet.
A decision will be made later today but a rollback to v1126 looks likely.
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Unfortunately, there are just too many problems reported with the RC v1128 and I have rolled the servers back to v1126 for now to protect the F1 Legends championship and Wednesday Night Races.
If any issues arise from this rollback, please respond here rather than the ShoutyBox
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Release Candidate Update
Steam ID:8652502
Dedicated ID:8652505
-Fixed an issue with shift events
-Fixed invisible cars playing sound (private practice)
-Fixed a bug when reloading sound definitions
-Fixed billboarding of driver labels for non-VR users
-Fixed Push to Pass MinStartSpeedKPH
-Changed Push to Pass ThrottleRequired to Push2PassActivateThrottleThreshold and Push2PassDeactivateThrottleThreshold
-Fixed Push to Pass MaxUses
-Fixed water and oil temps (but maybe this was in previous already?)
-Fixed Sparks showing at low speeds
-Fixed Using both paddles to go to neutral
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I get the same problem with the latest release candidate I got before where the game refuses to start.
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Have you reported your problem over at S397 forums? Think there is a thread somewhere there.
