[Pasha Paterson]

Granted, I participated in only one of the five series, but figured I'd get a thread started to give feedback about the SRS-PC2 integration.

First off, YAAAAAAY PROJECT CARS 2. This game is gorgeous. I hadn't really played with it until this SRS season dragged me in, and I've really been enjoying it. Jean's "real time, real weather" series on Tuesday showed how much variety can be brought to SRS versus non-Sol AC. Even in the series that I wasn't able to join, there were other people recording or streaming the races, and they were fun to watch.

Even with all of AC's modding potential, PC2 has cars and tracks that we don't get in either AC or R3E. It fills gaps in SRS's lineup. Unfortunately those new challenges didn't seem to resonate with everyone in this season. Both the Stock Car and IndyCar series were sadly neglected. Maybe this was because the people who would have been interested weren't around at the times when the races were running...?

As a result of low attendance, several races didn't get counted in the overall standings. This might be, in part, because of the way that the SRS-PC2 integration works. When someone leaves a race in AC early, they still get counted, but in PC2, anyone who leaves before the "host" ends the session gets excluded from the results, regardless of where they finished. This is not only unintuitive, but could badly skew the results. I hope there is a way to improve the integration with SRS's systems so that the app can inspect the results of the race earlier in the process, and we don't lose people in the standings. There is already a reminder of this in the forum, but maybe a reminder inside the SRS PC2 app would help people remember the procedures and workarounds that are still necessary to get the most out of the experience.

I have seen several people on various Discords being turned off by the requirement that their Steam name match their SRS user name. I have been streaming races with my SRS name visible but I still dislike having my name on Steam, and changing it for every PC2 race is a bit of a burden. There are ways to get around this with multiple Steam accounts and sharing PC2 across them, but that, too, can cause issues if you're playing multiple sims on SRS. I hope we can find a better solution in the SRS app where we can link Steam IDs and names to SRS profiles.

Overall I would give this SRS-PC2 experiment a favorable and optimistic review, and hope it grows to include more people and more series, despite the issues of this inaugural season. Let's all remember how new and difficult this is, and try not to flame the game, the integration app, or each other.