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Where to discuss the official sequel. Developers blog, kickstarter, your experience with pre-alpha demo, ideas etc.
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Thank you James for breaking any thoughts that GR2.0 is dead :hug:
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@ James: :up: both for 1st part of the blog and the later half with info about progress.

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Glad that you finally broke the silence, and good to see that progress has been made, albeit slowly. Hopefully we will hear more about physics and cars soon.
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That's great, James. Thanks a lot! :cool2:
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Well, I still have scruples about GR2 project, but showing a life signal is nonetheless a great thing. ^^
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Big news indeed! You came with a good surprise, and I'm glad that you're still continuing the project, James! :)
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Great news James, thanks for making a post.

Did you ever thought about getting help from others? There has to be well prepared people here in the community willing to help and that, would be a boost to the whole project.

Cheers!
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Thanks for progress guys :).
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Guys, you are doing and amazing work and makes many people happy around the world.

No matter what bad things they say out there, keep the good work as always, many thanks :bg:
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Almost a year from last post, and not a single word... :(
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Well, as James said in his previous post "we're still going, just very, very slowly".
I also would like to see an update, but let's not start a discussion like previously.
I’ll leave Markku to update you on the physics and AI in, probably, another blog post...
And I do think that next update will be on physics.
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maybe GR 1.2d could be rolling out in that blog post too
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RobertRacer wrote:maybe GR 1.2d could be rolling out in that blog post too
Possible :scratch:
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How slow is the progress then? I mean, doing a post with a little update for those who followed and supported the project, every 6 months would be too much asking? Define "slow" please.
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Still nothing? Really do wish the original source code was open for use at this point. :(
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I wish that was the case too honestly.
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It's just sad looking here because I remember after the last major update, this place was thriving but we've hit the no updates thing again and it's tiresome.

I do miss GR, I've played it a bit lately and my love for it has returned but I long for a new version. I wish I knew the original code since starting to program a "conversion" for modern systems to get a driving system right.
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let me quote myself from just 2 pages ago (or 2 years depending the point ov view)...
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I know I would be too :)
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I'd take it with unlimited cars at this point...
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I told myself not to add anything to the discussion about GR2 because there are already enough accusations and allegations going around.
But the whole thing has reached a point where I just have to present my opinion.

First of all:
I don´t want to blame James and Markku or the Rabinas.
I know it´s a lot of work to create a sequel, especially if you don´t get payed for it.
I certainly wouldn´t have the time for it!

Maybe, if anybody who has a part in the development reads this, you could see this post as an advice from someone who has been a part and followed the GR-community for more than 10 years now.

Please tell us something a bout your progress! Something like "Oh sorry we didn´t have any time so nothing happened..."
That´s still better than saying nothing at all. It drives people away.
The community was very excited about your last post. But again it´s been one and a half years without any news.
The first demo you have released was amazing and we all thought that we were months away from a release. But that´s already what? 4 years ago?

I know silence is golden and so on. But can you maybe make it 3 or 4 months between updates rather than 18 months?

In the time being I will visit this forum regularly and wait patiently for an update ;)
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Scholl wrote:Please tell us something a bout your progress! Something like "Oh sorry we didn´t have any time so nothing happened..."
That´s still better than saying nothing at all. It drives people away.
The community was very excited about your last post. But again it´s been one and a half years without any news.
The first demo you have released was amazing and we all thought that we were months away from a release. But that´s already what? 4 years ago?

I know silence is golden and so on. But can you maybe make it 3 or 4 months between updates rather than 18 months?

In the time being I will visit this forum regularly and wait patiently for an update ;)
Go check the FAQ page on the GR site, they updated it recently to talk about why they've not been taking much lately. Also would like to point out they updated GR1 a couple of weeks ago to fix a few bugs and compatibility issues, which they talked about on the dev blog.
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The main issue is this. I want to have faith in GR 2.0.

I backed the kickstarter with more money than an AAA title costs to buy, because on per hour of gaming, I've probably spent more time playing GR than any other game so I thought on a money side, it's worth it. The main thing I want is another version because I do think the game is worth preserving, maybe as a result of nostalgia or otherwise.

Yeah, I'm critical of how it's been handled so far. I'll go on record and say that the criticism of the development so far has been fair and just especially when looked at the space of updates, what we've been given, what we've seen and how it has been handled.

I've stopped feeling like the project has been one of passion and rather more of one than control and nothing made it more clear than the FAQ section. There stopped being a heart behind it and it seems like more and more of the community (what's left of it) is getting disappointed by it. It's clear when they dropped the community link on the new site that it doesn't want to be handled (first with this community being "unofficial" then dropped altogether) and the FAQ section at the end sounds more like an attack at those that want something, anything.

I should remind people that way before GR 2.0 went into different hands, I managed to get a hold of one of the Rabina productions about discussing putting the code in public back on the RSC forums. I feel sad that fell through but at least it opened the options up and there was at least a worthwhile update of GR 1.

There's coming moments where I just want to put my hands in the air and just say, I'll do it. I really, really want to but I need to build more skills before doing it and also keep tight lipped until there's something that's virtually done to avoid the mistakes being made here.

I'm not sorry for expressing my disappointment. I can't be. It's been too long.
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Even I keep coming back hoping that I'll see something positive changing here. But every time I do come here, I see nothing new of note. Even this update is a series of bugfixes that should've been released 5 years ago. The community section is back, but now GRIF is pushed down to being level with PGR; which is a minor forum and has always been a minor forum (just look at when most of the subforums were touched last). It's the same politics James has been playing since day 1 of GRIF, which I can still remember from all those years ago; it always has had to have his name on it, or nobody's name. Frankly I don't even know if I can trust the claim about the source code being kept private because of the Rabina's request.

Crowella, you put that better than I can. Even if 2.0 were to suddenly appear in a couple of month's time and be fully done, the community I see here is a fraction of the size of the one I remember. And there's only one person to blame for that.
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