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We are sorry to have to announce that the VW Scirocco will not be released this week as planned. Unfortunately we are unable to continue working into the following week, and it has turned out impossible to reach the required standard in the time available. This is for two reasons : 1) The compatible test patches had more bugs than expected. Although the recent graphical improvements had worked very well in private testing, when released to the public and tested by hundreds of people, it turned out that there were problems on some graphics cards. One of these has been solved completely and another has been partially fixed. There is also an issue where LFS sometimes causes a crash - this has not yet been resolved and there are some other minor bugs to sort out before we can release an official version. 2) Refining and finalising the Scirocco is taking longer than expected. Although we have made good improvements recently, up to the date of the previous announcement, there were still outstanding issues that proved harder to fix than expected. This is on the mechanical side and the electronic side. We are trying to make a good simulation of the traction control systems and the stability control systems, well known to be a very good feature of VW cars. Our aim is to make the Scirocco our first car with very limited setup options. The plan is to make it have only the setup options that are readily available on a real road going Scirocco, for example tyre pressures and toe settings. This will mean that the racing should be closer than usual and rely on driver skill, without the need to search for the best setups. Of course this means we need to get the setup as good as possible so it is comparable with the real car. We are confident that we can fix all the issues and make the car a really good one to drive in the near future, but as various things that need to be done will take an unknown amount of time, we had to make the decision to postpone the release until next year, rather than release something in a rush that is really not as good as it can be. We know this will disappoint many of you who have waited a long time for the Scirocco, and we are sorry about that. We plan to fix the bugs and continue developing the Scirocco suspension and electronic control systems, to give you a good patch early in 2009. added Thu, Dec 11th, 2008 19:10 >Announcing VW Scirocco Hello LFS Racers. We are pleased to announce that we plan to release the new VW Scirocco in Live for Speed during the week ending Friday 19th December. If you'd like to have a look at the car in 3D or start working on a skin, you can :- download the CMX Viewer (26 MB) For a preview of the car inside LFS you can watch a presentation video made by Victor van Vlaardingen. - Watch instantly on YouTube - Low resolution AVI (19 MB) - High resolution AVI (47 MB) - Best resolution MKV (51 MB - does not play in Windows Media Player) You will need an S1 or S2 license in order to drive the Scirocco when it is released. More information next week! - LFS Developers added Sun, Nov 23rd, 2008 18:00 >Dedicated host update, version Z3 This update fixes an autocross layout related Out Of Sync (OOS) bug. If your layout had a start position, clients could get kicked from your host. Click here to download LFS dedicated host Z3 added Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 15:00 >Dedicated host update, version Z2 A new LFS dedicated host is now available, fixing several security issues where it was possible for non-administrators to take control over a host. We therefore advise everyone who runs a dedicated host to upgrade to version Z2 as soon as possible. Click here to download LFS dedicated host Z2 added Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 23:45 >LFS @ GC with the new Volkswagen Scirocco Going to the Games Convention in Leipzig this year? Make sure you visit the Volkswagen booth where you can drive the new Volkswagen Scirocco in LFS and take part in a competition : The person with the fastest laptime around one of LFS's tracks gets to take home a real Scirocco! For more information about visiting the Games Convention, please see the GC website. The Scirocco will be released in Live for Speed at a later date which is not yet decided. added Wed, July 2nd, 2008 16:20 >Patch Z Hello LFS Racers. Announcing... Patch Z! The patch contains a lot of updates including : - New interiors in XF and XR cars (road and GTR) - Updated interiors in Formula XR and Formula V8 - General improvements to interface and graphics - Improved weight distribution of GTR racing cars - XR Turbo and RB4 suspension improvements - Replay controls (click any point on time line) - Demo racers must now register to go online - Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Bulgarian To read all about the new patch, go to the Patch Z information page We hope you enjoy the new version! - LFS Developers added Wed, June 4th, 2008 9:05 >NEW : Instant Hotlap Analyser at LFS World More Hotlapping news! This time about a new feature that should help improve your racing skills : The LFS World Hotlap Analyser. At LFS World there is a section dedicated to hotlaps. There you can upload your best laps driven in hotlap mode and compare yourself to other racers. To help you improve your driving skills, there are the so called Telemetry programs that can provide you with a lot of (technical) data about your lap. This however requires that you first download the analyser software, then start LFS and output a special file, made from the hotlap. Only then you can open this special file in your analyser. To make things easier, we have now added an instant Hotlap Analyser at LFS World that allows you to just select two hotlaps uploaded at LFS World and instantly analyse them without the need to convert anything. You do not even have to download the analyser, because it is made in Flash, so it will simply run in your browser. For more information about the analyser, please visit the Hotlap Analyser wiki page Click here to start the Hotlap Analyser Enjoy learning the finer arts of hotlapping :) added Wed, June 4th, 2008 9:00 >Hotlaps section cleaned Hello hotlappers, We have cleaned the LFS World hotlaps section a bit. We came to this due to : 1) an improved HLVC check that for example better detects wall hits. 2) a new background hotlap validator, that checks all hotlaps for HLVC and OOS errors. If any errors are detected, the hotlap will be removed. You will receive an email notification if that happens. With this update we aim to keep our hotlap charts cheat free and fair for all! Click here to view the news archive                        © 2002-2009 Live for Speed - Scawen Roberts, Eric Bailey, Victor van Vlaardingen - Layout design by Tweak