rFactor on Steam Greenlight

Type-X · December 10, 2014

Vote for rFactor on Steam Greenlight

Image Space Incorporated needs your help getting rFactor released on the Steam Platform. The title is now listed on Steam’s Greenlight service. Steam Greenlight is a system that enlists the community’s help in picking new products to be released on Steam. This is the first step towards publishing rFactor via Steam and introducing the rfactor 1 simulation to a wider audience.

Make sure you put in your vote by rating it up using the Yes button. Bringing rFactor to the Steam platform may result in a bigger rFactor racing community, with more online players and more content. Furthermore, it could result in a better and very needed auto update feature.

Vote for rFactor here

rFactor Listed Features

Physics

Updated 15 degrees of freedom physics engine
Advanced tire modeling
Support for 4-link rear suspension
Engine boost modeling
Complex aerodynamics
Head physics, cockpit vibrations, detailed bump modeling
All-new track-specific terrain data file system

Graphics/Sound

DX9 advanced graphics engine
Real-time day/night transitions
Projected headlights for nighttime driving
Adjust player and opponent volume ratio
See the apex with the Look Ahead slider
Adjust your seat and mirror while in the driver’s seat
Updating real-time scoring towers
Expanded and enhanced gauge and LCD features for vehicle cockpits
Improved loading times
Updated sound engine
Changing engine sounds based on upgraded vehicle performance

Gameplay

Career mode with upgrades that affect the vehicle’s appearance, performance, and sound
Define AI opponent types, strength and aggression
Races can be lap based, time based or both
Vehicle upgrade system
Vehicle economy including mileage
Ambient and track temperature changes throughout the race
More configurable keys than you can shake a stick at
Multiple Racing Series with vehicle and circuit filters
Grid editing

Camera/Replays

Full-screen monitor and ability to rewind
Freely move camera from any position including the ever famous exclusive ISI Swingman
Spectator mode
Greatly enhanced replay system including clip splicing
Move, duplicate or delete replay clips while assigning camera movements to each
Export replays to AVI files defining compression and size options

Multiplayer

Completely new multiplayer engine
Built in race statistics reporting to web based RaceCast system
Built in friends list
Server bookmarks
Dedicated server, including single click option
Native voting system
Add AI to multiplayer games
Built in IRC chat
Boot and ban player lists that can be passed around
Security checks to combat potential cheating

Open Architecture

Extensive support for modders
Easy to use customizable multi-language support
Define a league schedule
Rules to simulate different types of racing
Completely customize your controller
Drop in new vehicle liveries

Vehicles

2006 Formula IS – High Performance Open Wheel (Video)
2005 Hammer – Full Bodied GT
2005 Howston – Full Bodied GT
National Stock Car – Stock Car
Panoz – Full Bodied GT
2005 Rayzor – Rally Turbo
2006 rF3 – Quick and Nimble Open Wheel
2005 Rhez – Small FWD Sport Compact
2006 Rhez – Small FWD Sport Compact
2005 rTrainer – Low Speed Open Wheel
2005 Venom – Rally
2005 ZR – Affordable High-Performance Sedan

Circuits

Barcelona – Permanent Road Course
Brianza – Permanent Road Course
Essington Park – Permanent Road Course
Jacksonville Speedway – High Banked Superspeedway
Jiading – Permanent Road Course
Joesville Speedway – Paved Short Track
Lienz Festival – Country Roads (Video)
Mills Metropark – Permanent Road Course with two layouts
Montreal – Permanent Road Course
Northamptonshire – Permanent Road Course
Nuerburg – Permanent Road Course
Orchard Lake – Banked Tri-Oval with Infield Road Course
Sardian Heights – Street Circuit with two layouts
Toban Raceway Park – Permanent Road Course with four layouts

Runs Best With

3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon II x2 or better
4GB RAM or more
nVidia 250 GTS or ATI/AMD 4870 or better
512MB Video Memory or more
Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit, Windows 7 64bit
DirectX 9.0c (included with installer)
2008 C++ SP1 Runtimes (included with installer)
4GB Hard Drive Space or more
Internet Connection
Steering wheel and pedals

System Requirements

1.4 GHz processor
PC Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, XP 64-bit, Vista, 7 (will NOT run in Windows 95 or Windows
98 first edition)
512 MB RAM
Geforce4 4200 or Radeon 9200
128 MB video RAM
DirectX 9.0c
2.0 GB of hard drive space for installation
Internet connection required for system activation, enabled network adapter required for gameplay

Official Webpage – http://rfactor.net/

Type-X · March 2, 2015

rFactor - Now Available On Steam

Image Space Incorporated has added the first of their titles to Steam, making their rFactor simulation available on the popular platform.

ISI is the latest sim developer to join the Steam trend, being the last of the major sim players to join Valves’ extremely popular platform.

While the studios’ current rFactor 2 title isn’t available on Steam yet, rFactor is testing the waters as the long-running sim is now available for 19,54€, a 15% reduction of the regular 22,99€ price.

Originally released ten years ago, rFactor is a modding friendly simulation that is backed by a wide range of community-made mods & tracks with new ones still being developed today.

Included Cars