Bentornati sul Blog ufficiale di Milestone! Anche se si tratta solamente del secondo post ed il gioco è previsto in uscita per Maggio 2010, Black Bean Games è già pronta ed orgogliosa di proporre un bellissimo filmato 100% in-game, realizzato con il motore 3D all’avanguardia di Milestone. Mentre la stagione 2009 è terminata da poco, il video propone la vittoria del Campionato da parte di Ben Spies a Portimao.

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Si tratta di un gustoso aperitivo dedicato agli innumerevoli fanatici della SBK e agli appassionati del videogioco. In ogni caso, il video-footage è già in grado di mostrare la nuova impronta artistica e gli incredibili miglioramenti grafici che SBK X potrà offrire, a partire dagli ambienti a bordo pista: alberi, cieli in alta risoluzione, illuminazioni spettacolari e pubblico interattivo. Come detto questo è solo l’inizio, perciò godetevi il post ed il video celebrativo di Ben Spies, e continuate a seguirci sul Blog Ufficiale Milestone: blog.milestone.it. Commenti sul forum.

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La lungamente attesa patch 1.02 per Need For Speed Shift è finalmente disponibile anche in versione PC. Riassumiamo brevemente i contenuti, che ormai dovreste conoscere già a memoria: 5 nuove auto, una nuova modalità di gioco online e numerose correzioni ai problemi che affliggevano il titolo nella sua versione base. Il download può essere effettuato direttamente dal sito ufficiale EA.

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NEW CONTENT/FUNCTIONALITY
- Increased the maximum number of online players from 8 to 12

BUG FIXES - CROSS-PLATFORM
- General game stability and performance improvements
- Improved car handling
- Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations
- Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position
- Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results
- Fix for inverted balance slider operation
- Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races
- Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings
- Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens
- Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events
- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect
- Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays
- Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events
- Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified
- Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events
- Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens
- Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen
- Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracks
- Prevented car livery resetting to default after an online race
- Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload
- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming undrivable (e.g. Veryon and Carrera GT
- Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded
- Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events
- Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps
- Fix upgrade menu bug
- Fix for a force feedback strength settings save bug
- Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift mode
- Fix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing
- Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select
- Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key
- Fix for jumping body parts when car resets

PC SPECIFIC
- Improved ATi graphics card support
- Improved dynamic vertex buffer usage (performance optimization on all PCs)
- Fixed crashes on certain PC configurations when changing shadow settings
- Fixed intermittent crash during first lap of races on certain PC configurations
- Disabled forced dampening for custom wheel presets on PC
- Optimized multi-GPU PC operation
- Fix for intermittent missing surface sounds on certain PC configurations
- Fix for intermittent black skies
- Fix for LAN menu hang for client when host quickly returns to main menu

Potete leggere sul sito ufficiale del prossimo Real Time Racing dei Simbin una interessante intervista fatta a Fernando Rees, pilota reale brasiliano che corre nella Le Mans Series in classe LMP2 ed è uno dei beta tester del gioco oltre che grande appassionato di simracing.

Does Real-Time Racing help you to become a better driver? Or do you see it more as a training tool or just a game?
I believe that simulators, by simulating reality, always help. I used to say this back in the early 2000's, when my friends in low tier racing categories used to mock me about it, saying it didn't help at all. Nowadays they also play these, and I mock them because I knew it all along. Many races in my life I did a better job because I practice on simulators before. I'm sure that RTR will also serve this purpose for many real drivers.