We need to get online sometime and find a server.

However, I disagree with needing a wheel to play it. I have known a few people that were very successful using the mouse to play. As a matter of fact, most people that are really fast use a mouse to control the car. I have asked a few and talked some trash telling them thay are cheating and to try it with a wheel. 

The online experience is great. Most of the people who play use good sportsmanship and seem fairly mature. There is no built in VOIP and the chat is usually not abused. The best part is the vote system. You can even vote to kick someone if it is enabled. I have used it many times to get rid of 'crashers' and people who don't follow rules.

I have said it before and will say it again. This is a great racing sim, it's free to try, you can race online with the trial, inexpencive to purchase and easy to learn to race with. I would encourage any one with any competitive juice in their veins to try it.

And thanks for a better review than I could ever have written Al.

Today we release an new update of Live for Speed with 3D support and announce another version that is coming soon with a much improved Westhill track.

Version 0.6F:

Available today and well tested by forum visitors, this new update supports 3D devices including TVs, projectors, headsets and the Oculus Rift. While developing it, we also moved onto DirectX 9 which allows for better graphical effects in future while still allowing LFS to run on older versions of Windows and on Linux (using the Wine compatibility software). This version remains fully compatible with 0.6E with many improvements and fixes.

Read more about the patch and how to get it on the 0.6F information page.

Westhill Update:

Available soon... as the development for S3 has been taking some time, we thought it would be good to update something for our existing license holders. The best thing to update was the Westhill track which was always sparse and underdeveloped. The International configuration has been improved in many places, particularly in the twisty sequence of bends in the far corner which is now more challenging. There is a new National configuration, bearing off from the International track after the first right and left bends, involving some interesting gradient changes and technical bends. The scenery has been developed to a higher level of detail and you can drive around the access roads in the open configurations.

You can see more images of the new track on our screenshots page.

The configurations are complete and good to drive. At this point Eric is still finishing some buildings and filling some holes in the scenery. Scawen is making some improvements and optimisations to deal with the higher level of detail. We expect to release this version for testing in a few weeks, but remember that sometimes interesting things can come up that make things take a little longer than planned.

Further Progress:

After the Westhill update, Eric will continue with the S3 tracks he has been working on. Scawen will continue with the new tyre model. The new tyres currently feel good to drive but some work needs to be done on heat, pressure, friction, tyre load sensitivity and wear which are all closely linked.

- LFS Developers

Copied and pasted right out of my email in to the Tiny MCE editor. Didn't even have to change the links.