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| Shift 2 Unleashed: New DLC "Speed Hunters" planned? |
Wednesday, 11.05.2011 |
 After the  Legends Pack it seems like there is another DLC for Shift 2 Unleashed in the works.
As the website Major Nelson reports, it seems like a new DLC called Shift 2: Speed Hunters will be available at the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 17, 2011, for 800 MS Points.
We will see...maybe it has something to do with Speedhunters?
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| Shift 2 Unleashed: FAQ on Speedhunters |
Tuesday, 08.03.2011 |
Speedhunters published an extensive FAQ, where several questions from the community about Shift 2 Unleashed were answered.
Among many new screenshots some interesting facts were revealed:
how realistic is tire wear? Do different pressures and compounds impact tire life.
Tire wear (along with heat) is modeled and is pretty realistic. Safe to say you'll know you've abused your tyres. For pressures, they affect the tyre spring rate, and the across the tread heating, so ultimately will affect life of the tire.
So how does the painting work? Pre-determined liveries or what?
Each car comes with a group of preset race liveries along with a set of preset colours. Additionally, one can paint the car or the individual body parts with a full range of custom colours and paint types including Gloss, Metallic, Candy, Pearlescent, Chrome, Matte and Flip (twin colour).
You can also make your own custom race livery too. And YES the logos and layouts can be mirrored from one side of the car to the other along with new controls for sizing and placement. You can also determine if the stickers/vinyls are matte or gloss finished for tone on tone effects.
Additionally they posted a list of supported wheels:
PS3 supported wheels:
Nascar Racing Wheel
Logitech Driving Force
Logitech Driving Force EX
Logitech Driving Force Pro
Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
Logitech G27 Racing Wheel – full support for all buttons
Logitech Driving Force GT
Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S (and similar models)
Thurstmaster F430 FFB
Thurstmaster RGT FFB Clutch
X360 supported wheels:
Microsoft Force Feedback Wheel und kompatible Lenkräder (zB Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S u.ä., Logitech DriveFX, etc).
PC supported wheels:
Logitech G27 Racing Wheel – full support for all buttons
Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
Logitech Driving Force GT
Logitech Formula Force EX
Logitech Driving Force
Logitech Driving Force EX
Logitech Driving Force RX
Logitech Driving Force Pro
Logitech MOMO Force
Logitech MOMO Racing
Thrustmaster RGT FFB Pro Clutch
Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience
Thrustmaster Ferrari 430
Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S (and similar models)
You can find the complete article here:
 Shift 2 Unleashed: Frequently Asked Questions @ Speedhunters
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| Shift 2 Unleashed Driver Blog - Vaughn Gittin Jr. |
Thursday, 24.02.2011 |
The racedriver and drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr. published a new article on Speedhunters, explaining his influence on the development of Shift 2 Unleashed - of course with a focus on drifting.
Excerpt:
There have been a lot of changes to Drifting in the game. We really focused on overall fun factor! With fun in mind, we swayed away from professional drifting competitions and tandem battles, instead concentrating on just going out and having the track to yourself to get crazy on. You can hotlap any track in the game as much as you want without the annoyance of being restarted just when you start getting in the groove. I expect everyone to be thrilled with the refined drift feel and how fun it is, even for the first time players. [...]
There's also an all new "drift park" called the Nevada Freight Depot. I really pushed hard for an area where players can get familiar with their cars and learn the dynamics of drifting with very little boundaries. This ended up being a perfect place to learn and once you get the hang of drifting, it is a great place to go and freestyle and just have some fun! Hopefully we will have a real-life drift park in the future here in the States!
You can find the complete article here:
Shift 2 Unleashed Driver Blog - Vaughn Gittin Jr.
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| Shift 2 Unleashed: Physics |
Wednesday, 02.02.2011 |
The physics model of Shift 2 Unleashed is being presented in a new article on Speedhunters.
The developers, the Slightly Mad Studios, take the CAD data directly from the manufacturers to get the most realistic basis for a physics model. Additionally they invited professional race drivers to give feedback to the physics simulation.
Excerpt:
The Slightly Mad Studios crew are pretty hardcore car nuts and collectively have a lot of experience of taking high powered cars to track day events. But to really take things to a deeper level and get absolute verification of the in-game race experience we hooked them up with a few of our driving crew.
When it comes to advanced technology, the Shift physics system itself is second to none. It takes the actual suspension geometry that we receive from manufacturer CAD data and replicates the suspension components in 3D space. It is not some game producers "idea" of how a car should handle. Not at all, if you are say driving a Porsche 911 in game, then you are driving an actual 3D physics representation of that car based on CAD data. Within this driving experience though, we can layer on driving aids and tweak items like holistic track grip, tire slip angles and car setups. So there's a bit of wiggle room to push the difficulty levels and physics modes in to a few different directions.
You can find the complete article here:
Shift 2 Unleashed: On the Subject of Physics @ Speedhunters
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