Thanks for watching ! - Was fun streaming yesterday 👍 appreciate everyone uaing my affiliate links ☕☕☕ Swapped the video footage over from toban with F4 to lime rock as the gt3 looked better.

Been saying this for what feels like months now. RF2 has always been hamstrung by its lack of online support and UI. The UI is getting better, I mean, since 2018, it's night and day. And the online system, its just game-changing. It's fantastic to hear someone echoing my thoughts on all this. Cheers!

Really enjoyed the stream last night. We're making you an honorary member of the RFDL

I recently had an intense race on AC with Group C cars and I'm so impressed by how close the cars can get without any netcode issues. I'm talking hairline distance.

I regret getting this far in the video

I regret getting this far in the video because you didn't show that stunning 13 car overtake from last on the grid! Great stream last night

Fun is key. Just bought rFactor2 and i love it in 2D and VR . Love the daily races. The FFB is fantastic. What more could i want ?

Maybe it's time to start sim racing again, looks like a lot has happened over the last 8 years.

Excellent review. Thanks much. It's so great. I can confirm the report system works. I reported a driver last week and I received a mail from s397 saying they thank me for the report and they penalized the bad driver ❤ I agree about GT3 not every hour but maybe every 2 hours. A championship system would be also great.

Only 1 thing is wrong, you say tnx to Motorsport games, I say tnx to Studio 397

What a great game with an unbelievable road/tire feel. So glad online experience is out of beta and making progress. Will be playing this all weekend for sure! Great video GM.

What capturing device do you use? Thanks a lot!

I'm all for it The more games the better. The sparks from the cars up front look odd though.

a potential reason for the non fixed setups (for the gt's at least) is that there is quite a large pace disparity between cars on default. mainly the newer content being usually a couple of tenths to even a second with some cars. so for most races it would turn into a bmw m4 cup

Reporting - does work, people do get banned :D

Yep with this move S397 and MG have brought RF2 to its full potential, with still a few hiccups to solve or add, and a "Career Ladder" thingy to activate "soon"... but for now at least the daily races and special events have been real treats. I just hope the upcoming "crowds" will keep the same spirit :) But boy, as I was watching your vid, I was remembering all that has been accomplished since Grand Prix 2 (was about 18yo at the time, dreaming of what it could become in my-then's future), I couldn't even have imagined that it could be looking like it looks today, even in this YT vid (with all the comp/decomp process required to stream it and all...). Besides, I never understood those who prefer to get some kind of blurry things on the sides of their screen (giving them only an illusion of speed), rather than the marvelous crispiness of rf2's 3D. With an I7/GF3060Ti/32GB RAM on 1440p of vertical resolution, I got every graphic option maxed out and it's flawless in terms of fluidity on the tracks (I mean even in the online competition system), and to my eyes at least, it's pretty much beautiful and above all realistic, in particular in the way it reacts to the differences in sunlight, the occlusions, dawn and dusk, the "night tracks", rainy days, "dream away..." :) Next step February 20th for Le Mans Ultimate! ;) Geee...! Between those 2 and the latest WRC on the rally front, and the upcoming seasons of IRL main motorsports, 2024/2025 are going to be some kind of pinnacle years or golden age of something... :)

Sometimes a content creator on twitch rents a server for an hour on rfactor2 to play with their subscribers. It's a very entertaining option, I've played and enjoyed it a lot

100% agree on every point you mentioned! Also...what is up with that BMW M2?!? It drives no better than a shopping trolley!

You are the reason I reinstalled this game. I tried it for about 10 minutes a couple years ago and it was just a pain so I uninstalled. I'm am an iracing fan boi so I get triggered by some of your comments lol. But after driving rf2, then iracing, then acc, I came to realize you are correct on the ffb. Iracing feels like poop compared to the other 2. But I want to race online and no one but I racing can figure out how to do it which is really just sad. This is a huge improvement and I'm willing to give it a go as the feels you get through the wheel is really nice. Thanks for the great video. Maybe someday you'll get me to reinstall ac1. But with 14 add-ons to download just for it not to suck and no one racing online I feel it's a waste of time for the experience I'm looking for. Lfm coming in to fix kunos lack of online development does not give me hope for ac2. Just my 2 cents.

I never regret the coffee (sorry, don't drink tea) fodder that is a gamermuscle vid. 👍

I regret getting to the end of the video. I did not pass out, but I got a couple of red drops from my nose. Still, I do NOT regret getting rfactor 2 for a coffee's worth of money and I am looking forward to racing touring cars! There's actually a great pack with a bunch of cars and tracks for cheap, thanks for the heads up!

I regret getting this far in the video, but really I didn't ... regret it. I've been enjoying the beta for a little over a month based on your recommendation about RF2's online beta.

Anyone who currently rents IRacing and has a go of this will have to cut their nose off to spite their face, not too admit they have eventually found the correct driving sim.

I've been loving the CS system on RF2. I'm an original user of RF2 since 2012 and this has been the biggest jump since then. We now have great on line racing to complement the most authentic physics and best FFB of any sim.

After watchin that live stream on and off for 12 hours I want to give this game a serious go!

Agree with you re: RF2’s GT3 cars! The GTE LMP2 LMP3 & (especially) the BTCC are amazing too. Anyone else struggling to click with the Indycar or Vanwall? I simply struggle with those 2 atm sadly Je Regrette Rien

I regret getting this far in the video. Good video!

Regretfully I made it all the way to the end. I agree with you, James. The M2 is not particularly "real", but rF2 is certainly fun to drive.

If motorsport games wants to attract and rise rF2 players, they need to heavily discount all rF2 cars, tracks and packs much more often like 2 years ago, not just some really spare ones. At least, bring back the 50% discount on all carpacks and trackpacks (on actual steam sales only GT3 carpack is 50% discounted). This could help their bad finances too. So far only the ex BTCC complete pack got a nice full price (8 cars, 4 tracks, 3 seasons), but let's be honest, if discounted by -25% now could be more appelling to potential buyers. And brick back rF2 demo, taken off on november 2022. From one side, i'll glad if motorsport games will be gone since they're only good on waste money (the indycar exclusive license was imho the top notch of stupidity, expecially when 2022 fiscal year was a disaster): this short term view has proved why they're on high risk waters with the recent second NASDAQ Notice of Delisting. from the other, i'll be sad for Studio397 wich is doing is job and it's not their fault if motorsport owners are bad...

Hey man, just wondering what your Moza settings for rF2 are?

I've been away for a couple years as my cpu / gpu just couldn't keep up anymore. Finally upgraded and holy shit. AC ACC RF2 RR for starters. OMG the racing / environment / technology / graphics OMG. Even the AI pushes you around now. This is unbelievable. Like a kid in a candy store...

Going to have give rf2 another chance hopefully I can get it scale correctly with my triples

I've been racing RF2 online since it first dropped about a month ago. Been good so far

As a rotting corpse I’ll say I am also enjoying RF2 a lot it’s kinda why I’m not renewing my iRacing currently as it’s a good middle ground of close racing and quality matchmaking!

Not played I racing since this came out as you say even hot lapping is fun

I have this video a like as soon as I heard “9 out of 10 subscribers regret subscribing to this channel” hahaha almost spat my cereal all over the living room. Brilliant 😂

I Got 3 months of iracing membership to try it out before comitting for a two year period if i liked it. When Black friday appeared (14 days into my First signup to iracing) I asked if they would allow me to do two years on The new sign up deal. They refused. I honestly dont Think its resonable to expect people to sign up for a two year membership to a gane they never tried. Anyways im glad there are other options out there because as a result no cars or Tracks purchased on iracing and it made my decision to leave iracing for other options Easy.

hello can l please get a copy for your Moza pit house settings for AC and RF2 . i havent been able to get the ffb feeling spot on

So last time I played rf2 it was necessary to own the full pack of cars to race a gt3 race for example, are you telling now that with one you can enter? That's good news if true, it was something it pissed me off a lot due to I only race with one car so why to pay for another 10 I've never use.

Where is the black fridag track price? :)

My Only thing with the online is being Beginner Intermediate and Advanced series, would rather have your bronze series that all run every hour, Silver Series the same and a Gold Series, and maybe have fixed and Open in Silver and Gold. And a Schedule for the next 2/3 Weeks at least

I started simracing when there was no simracing😅 with rfactor, God bless these people

I regret getting this far in the video 😂 well I did make it to the end with the aid of a cup of tea. Had four races so far in the beta and I will admit I like it. Just wish it was a little less of a mess with so much stuff setup on a keyboard as not everyone has access to one while racing. Trying to figure out what was what amd what was really needed mapping controls to the wheel was a pain. Having said that I can see me spending more time racing RFactor2 now getting online races is far more simple.

Miss this game so much.

Thanks for this helpful video, as I might finally have a reason to return to rFactor 2, also being an AC Fanboy... P.S. No, I don't regret being a GamerMuscle subscriber - but I AM Australian - nuff said. ;P

Thank you for the prophecy!❤

I regret getting this far in the video. I'm so glad there's ranked online racing now. I just wish there were more touring car style content in the rookie classes.

netcode and fps better than iracing? I stopped playing sims since 2018, but if you told me that in 2018, I would have LOLed very hard. Time to resume?

the track you're racing on in the video is a real world track, it's Lime Rock

There is already a button mapping for flashing lights on rf2!

I love Rf2 now I started playing because of your beta Video a month back have its all I play Now. I know First hand The reporting system works Now look I a few races from platinum or whatever safety rating But I had a few racing where some guy kept pitting me in the Corners I Lost it after 3 races and Found him and torpedoed him into space. Im not proud Of losing it but taking him out felt good after he ruined 3 races in a row . The next day I had a 7 day ban. Other then that The racing has been amazing with More tracks then monza or spa

Hi GM, rfactor 2 online is great! But where can we find the black friday deals? Nothing discounted at steam store as far as I can see.

I know it's a lot to ask for a sim racing game to provide a whole, polished, complete and coherant package for both single and multiplayer but it would be nice if they can fix the AI too.

I got rFactor 2 last year and the full 2022 DLC pack. I'm now looking at the IMSA and WEC tracks, the Oreca LMP2 and maybe the Corvette GTE. Possibly the McLaren GT3 too. Considering I could get all that for around the same as a year's iRacing subscription I think it's the way to go. It looks like you're racing at Lime Rock here but I don't see that as one of the available tracks on rFActor 2?

Why does most older base content have such low volume? Some of the cars sound fine but some are so quiet. Cheers

iRacing getting some competition that doesn't cost infinite money? you love to see it

I just hope that AC2 comes as an improvement of AC with a proper online racing form factor. That would kill all the competition.

The biggest difference for me with rF2 and iRacing is that in rF2 I can really feel what the car is doing and react to it. In iRacing, I have to know what the car will do before I do it - it's almost like driving from memory - and - as I have the memory of a goldfish that never ends well.

I don't know if my brain just deleted all memories before the last iRacing patch, and I don't race that often (maybe once a week), but I feel like they've _almost_ fixed the overdriving/grass/spinning out issues. Feels like night and day to me anyway.

Where would you put AMS2 in your line up?

I’d give it a go if I could actually get my steam version to start from launch!!

What’s the name of this track? Looks amazing

What's the UI like? Also, why ACC doesn't have this is beyond me :S

I regret everything...

Problem is the tracks or lack thereof. Rf2 has some super mod tracks (eg Road Atlanta) but they cant be used on this system. "licensing" is the bane of simracing....

Great content Gamermuscle, enjoy your channel immensely. Question for you. Or perhaps an upcoming vid by you, as you don’t hold back, making your channel very REAL… But why, if VR players say it’s the cats meow, do we not see sim racing channels like yourself and countless others sim racing content creators using VR when playing the games…? It’s almost like it’s a paid advertisement from vr companies to content creators to push their new products, as it comes and goes like the weather… just curious on someone’s honest take on this…is it truly hype and gimmick, or truly a game changer…again I see you sim racers use them for a week tops when products come out, and then never hear or see them again…. Thanks buddy. Can’t wait to hear your take on this.

rF2 has great physics. Unfortunately, it is very heavy on the PC, thus I gave up it. I have a Lenovo Legend 5 and run it with the lowest graphic settings, it stutters with AI. I hope won't do that in MP, if I give another try. Thanks for the video.

I can't believe I got this far in the video! :)

i tried the game messing with settings just to get my fanatec wheel to work eventually gave up uninstalled it... should just work... especially on common setups like fanatec...

Isnt Motorsport games getting the licence of alot of manufacture's revoked or something? Surely this isnt worth investing in now ? Can someone clear this up for me please? Thankyou

i regret getting this far into the video and still not seeing this F4 car you keep talking about..,.

Had this happened 1 or 2 or 3 years ago I'd be all over this, but now I'm fully committed to iRacing and it's kinda hard to come back. Simply the smaller userbase will always be an hindrance in too many different ways, and I just had too many bad experiences with the little quirks of this game over time, even if it drives great. I also still think the HUD looks so ugly it actually stops me from wanting to race, as dumb as that sounds

4:32 this is a real track but unlicensed, irl this is lime rock park

You have to remember there are a lot of us who enjoy hot lapping and creating set ups. There are lots of car series in the real world that have open set ups. At some point you need to step up and learn how to set up a car in a sim. I thoroughly enjoy racing against myself hotlapping and tuning and then competing against other peoples set up and racing skills and so do lots of other people. I’d argue against you and say I’d personally prefer that one of the rookie races should be open set up. Ultimately I agree and respect why rf2 rookies is fixed, then if you want to step up from rookies you need to stretch yourself and learn set ups!

at this point with rf2 making a huge comeback as a console player making a move to pc should i pick this up or acc?

I regret getting this far in the video, but I'm thankful for an alternative to iSpinning. I'm actually so fed up with iRacing that I've let my membership lapse for the first time in 10 years. Thanks for the vid GM, a nice break after 4 hour sleep and 2 hours tossing and turning. OMG I'm tired. 🙂

Once AMS 2 does the same, online sim racing will be complete........I think iRacing may start offering some very good packages soon.

I'm British. Is it possible to map a button to saying sorry in chat? Edit: i regret getting this far in the video.

James West is Daniel Morad of rFactor 😆

Can someone help I’ve tried verifying my account but all I’m getting is verification failed error I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but if someone could help or send me a link to show me I’d really appreciate it thx 👍

I regret getting this far in the video and am going for a cup of tea and a few laps in AC.

Did you say this is a fictional track? This is Lime Rock Park, in my home state of Connecticut, U.S.

I regret getting this far in the video.

Make a video top DLC to get this BF RF2 sale!

regret getting this far in the video but Happy Christmas 🎄

i regret getting this fa in the video 💀r

Enjoyed watching your review! But considering the possibility to report people very easily and immediatedly - hence getting rid of acute anger -, together with the unknown process and consequencies, if there are any, to be a positive implementation of that feature is "fan boyish" ridiculous in my eyes..

When did it come out of beta?

I really do regret getting this far… mainly because I watched the original stream 😊

I really regret getting that far in the video…

I got to the end of the video! 🧟

I like rF2's online system but I really wish there was less waiting time between races. 1 hour is quite a lot to wait for another race, imagining you just finished a race at :30 of the hour, you'd have to wait a full hour on top of that plus quali and 5 mins of practice for some reason before the race itself. I wish they created new sessions every 15 minutes and if not enough players were signed up you'd wait another 15. The problem I could see happening is that usually there are under 100 sign ups even with the 1 hour wait, so it's possible that quicker races could stagger the girds a bit too much and you'd end up racing the same people constantly, some car/track combos would possibly also have to constantly extend the wait. However, it's also possible that more people would start playing because sessions spawn more often. And I regret getting this far into the video, especially when Raceroom could learn a thing or two from these guys when it comes to ranked online structuring...

I'm so happy RF2 can be a game again. Edit: I regret getting this far in the video and I regret subscribing.

I got to the end of the video and now have leprosy

4:38 you mean Lime Rock Park?

Cooldown period on iracing is for people like me who report just because I’m mad lol

I regret nothing!

Why didn't you compare this to Gran Turismo 7? I think that's pretty realistic. ;-)

I like rF2 but the biggest problem with this system for me is that there is not that many official tracks, especially the ones I like for eg Road America or Watkins Glen aren't here there are great mods of tracks like these mentioned on workshop but I think they won't use mods from workshop because they can't or they can but they don't want to idk

Latest F4's are a bit er, different.