Hey all,
Just a quick question to work out what sims we’re all using here.
Yes, I know they’re not all technically sims, and that some of them are simcade, and some are arguably arcade. You know that’s not what this is about haha!
Yes, it’s also very PC centric. Mainly because I only have a PC, but it seems that most sim racers are on PC too.
iRacing and only iRacing. Cause i suck at every other Sim… but i still suck at iRacing
iRacing is my main and then AC for tracks I can’t try out on iRacing. I have RF2 and AMS2 but I don’t ever really play them with no DLC.
I’d love to try iRacing, but the cost puts me off for the time I can dedicate to racing.
I totally get that; but, for me, the cost is worth it because when I get that 90 minute chunk of free time, I can sit down and within 15 minutes be in a competitive multiplayer race with high quality cars 24x7.
Never thought of it like that. I have been racing on ACC in the LFM leagues, but I would like something other than GT3 cars to race in.
So, your first sub gets a heavy discount and there is plenty of awesome free content. The rookie MX5, Formula Vee, and Formula Ford are incredibly fun and you get those cars included in the sub. At least one of those a week is typically on a free track. Then at Class D you get the GR86 included in your sub and it’s such a good race series.
There are often very cheap deals for new subs for a few months, and if you love it you can resub on black Friday for a discount also.
I’ve definitely spent a lot more on it now, but I also took a loooong time to spend anything more than the sub price. And now there’s even more base content than when I was new. I was happy racing the mx5 for ages before being tempted into any purchases. Now you got those, GR86, Vees, FF1600 and more, all great cars. Plus oval stuff
I’ve historically leaned pretty heavily into rally sims but I’m trying to gain some road racing experience too with mostly ACC, AC, and AMS2.
I think I’m going to get the base RF2 game next and try it with my rig. Seems popular here but according to protondb it requires some fiddling to get inputs and FFB working.
Assetto Corsa/ACC
rF2 - But prefer not to use
AMS/AMS2
Dirt Rally/Dirt Rally 2
PC1/2/3
A good 60%+ of the iRacing content library, But I believe iRacing should be excluded from the hotlap challenge
Edit: I now see this was a poll LUL - Well y’all have got my answers in there too
ACC + Dirt Rally 2
Mostly using ACC and finding races on LFM. Would love to play more Automobilista 2 but don’t know anything like LFM for it and multiplayer seems a bit dead.
Over lockdown, I played a lot of rFactor 2. I’m not sure how accurate the physics and tyre models are in reality, since there are a lot of hacky tricks you can pull with the driving style and car setup that wouldn’t work in reality, but the force feedback was always very communicative and fun to drive.
99% of the time it’s iRacing for me, I get way more from well structured racing against real people than anything else so nothing else is really going to compete
Also Dirt Rally 2, and I need to try a fully modded Richard Burns Rally again, been too long
My main sims these days usually are AMS2 or ACC but here lately I’ve been getting a feel for AC.
I do have rFactor 2 but I need to go through the hassle of setting it up again…
I have pretty much all of them except iRacing and rFactor. I tried rF2 one time on steep sale and the game not only didn’t properly recognize and configure my wheel, it also installed with literally zero content for me to try it with.
And before someone comes in with the “but once you set it up it’s da best and…” No. I won’t. I’m happy with my 300GB of Assetto mods.Own most of the sims listed in the form. But the usual three are iRacing, ACC, AMS2, in that order.
I own quite a few, AC ACC AMS1 AMS2 RF2 BeamNG Raceroom Dirt2.0
But I basically just play Raceroom, with a tiny bit of AMS2 & Dirt2.0 thrown in, but I am a league racer almost exclusively so the low multiplayer numbers are irrelevant for me.
