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Historic GT & Touring Car 1.9 – Manual Released

Team HistorX has released the manual for their upcoming Historic GT & Touring Car 1.9 mod for rFactor.

Team HistorX has released the manual for their upcoming Historic GT & Touring Car 1.9 mod for rFactor.

Even though the mod had the assumed title of 2.0 during the development phase, the team clarifies that they see the mod as version 1.9 as it still uses the same base engine (rFactor).

Despite the somewhat unspectacular name, the mod is packed with improvements compared to the first version that was released back in 2008, including:

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  • Approximately 750 liveries.
  • New physics for all cars. The 65s cars have been completely redone. 76s and LM72 have been improved but are similar to what you found in v1.
  • Improved Force Feedback (powered by RealFeel plugin).
  • Realistic shifting behavior (powered by Grinding Tranny mod).
  • New sounds for many of the cars.
  • A lot of new cars: including a lot of models not included in GTL and hundreds
  • of new liveries.
  • New and more flexible classes system.
  • Race standings support racing categories (classes) now.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Now ALT+TAB can be used to switch between the game and Windows
  • Desktop.
  • And more!
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The extensive 48-page manual covers various topics including installation, controller setup and the mod’s class system. Team HistorX has given no release date for the mod, the release of the manual indicates that the team is getting very close to the release of the finished mod.

Back in 2008, the manual for the first version was released two days before the mod was available for download…

[boxdownload]Download Historic GT & Touring Car 1.9 Manual Here[/boxdownload]

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