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       Re:  December 20th build 1108 released 
   DIR By: i_hortal
       Date: December 18, 2016, 8:36 am
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       --- Quote from: Marketcrash16 link ---
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       > The content news was really disheartening. ANOTHER Corvette?
       Are you f**king serious? I am glad they are ditching the
       subscription, but I also hope people who have the lifetime
       license get somehow compensated.
       >
       > You have to give them credit for doing what they said they
       were going to do, but it is going to take more than a facelift
       to win back former **** rf2 fans that have uninstalled from
       years of frustration.
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       > I'd actually be most stoked if they took 5 or 10 tracks and
       made them look and drive....not shitty. That would be huge.
       >
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       we need a good track selection, couple GPs, and well known
       tracks.
       they keep doing ovals, american tracks and stockcar stuff. thats
       my only concern
       #Post#: 929--------------------------------------------------
       Re:  December 20th build 1108 released 
   DIR By: Guiga
       Date: December 18, 2016, 9:18 am
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       --- Quote from: Chad Brown link ---
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       > Gui you may be jaded by ISI's **** poor development
       abilitites, but I am hoping rF2 is handled properly by S397.  I
       am willing to give them some time to flesh out this otherwise
       fantastic sim. DX11 is a HUGE improvement whether you think it
       is or not. While it wont instantly make everything look lifelike
       it will go a long way toward making rF2 less resource intensive
       and then allow the extra headroom to be used for making the game
       a little bit prettier.
       >
       > I agree ISI were not the best caretakers for this sim. I dont
       think they ever expected to have to actually produce content.
       They expected the development to be handled by the modding
       community. But the modding community was not ready to move away
       from rF1 and found rF2 to bee too bothersome to build for. ISI
       was stuck trying to create a "Game" they never intended. Gjon's
       flat refusal to borrow money to hire developers made things even
       worse.
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       > S397 is a breath of new life for this mishandled piece of
       software. I am willing to give them some slack and allow them
       some time to get their **** straight.
       >
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       Chad, I have chatted with Marcel quite a bit in the past months.
       I have faith in his new leadership vs Gjon. There was no hope
       with ISI and the way things were managed, knowing the belly of
       the beast only made it more grim. They lost two of their main
       developers and never bothered to replace them. One is making
       Rogue System by himself, the other was the senior programmer who
       left the company over 2 years ago. The work was redistributed
       and only recently they (ISI) looked to hire another programmer.
       I'm giving S397 the benefit of the doubt through summer of 2017.
       The licenses and everything else remains in place for the game
       and the current car was already underway before S397 tookover,
       so they're just finishing the pipeline of content from ISI.
       About DX11, a modder actually said the shaders could be updated
       within a week if they wanted to actually do it. Of course it
       takes more time to optimize it adequately.
       That said, I did have to reach out to a few people in the
       background to get communication going, more specifically
       adequate modding support. The definition of the word support had
       a different meaning to the artists and devs than the one you
       find in a dictionary :P. Anyway, by then it will be plenty of
       time for things to have changed, it would be nice if they got
       different people in the testing team but that's too much of a
       wishful thinking matter.
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