Presenting rFactor, the racing simulation series from Image Space Incorporated and now Studio 397. After successfully creating over a dozen products in the previous ten years, including the Formula One and NASCAR franchise games for EA Sports, Image Space took the next logical step in creating a completely new technology base and development process. This new isiMotor 2.0 environment became the foundation on which many exciting products were built for years to come.
The newest creation, rFactor 2, creates a dynamic racing environment that for the first time put you the driver into a racing simulator, instead of just a physics simulator. Changing tires, track surfaces, grip, weather and lighting make rFactor 2 a true challenge to any sim racer.
If you're looking for up-to-date visuals, advanced physics, first-party Studio 397-produced content, and licensed vehicles from major manufacturers and racing series, then rFactor 2 is for you. Want access to a massive amount of third-party mods including dirt racing and drag racing, all working on the open rFactor modding platform? rFactor is what you should be looking at.
Both rFactor and rFactor 2 can be found on Steam (an online digital download games library).
The 2017 Formula E Visa Vegas eRace had a $1,000,000 prize pool, and used rFactor 2 as their simulator. The event and $200,000 1st-place prize was won by Bono Huis, a five time rFactor Formula Sim Racing Champion.
McLaren's World's Fastest Gamer contest promised a role with the Formula 1 team as one of its official simulator drivers, and they used rFactor 2 for their opening and final rounds. The event and role at McLaren was won by Rudy van Buren, a qualifier from the rFactor 2 opening round.
While sim racing eSports are still an emerging field, it's obvious from the results so far that the rFactor 2 simulation platform gives the flexibility in content and features required. This is the simulator you need to take part in events like those above, or upcoming events organized by Studio 397 in a competitive competition structure now in-development.
The episode ends with Juliette gazing up at the massive, dead digger at the bottom of Silo 17, realizing the scale of the lie—and that the truth may be worse than any confinement. Would you like a summary of key themes, character arcs, or a reaction/review format instead?
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The episode opens exactly where Season 1 left off. Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), having volunteered to go outside, walks across a barren, desolate landscape dotted with countless other silo mounds. Her suit’s visor displays alarming vitals, but she pushes forward, determined to find answers. The episode ends with Juliette gazing up at
She awakens in near-darkness, inside a decaying silo—Siló 17. Bodies litter the stairwell. Faint emergency lights flicker. She finds no signs of recent life, only echoes and ghostly remnants of a long-dead society. But then, movement in the shadows: a figure watches her, ragged and silent. It’s Solo (Steve Zahn), a mysterious survivor who warns her in a broken voice: “You shouldn’t have come here. The other silos… they all died. Except this one.” Bodies litter the stairwell
Juliette, struggling against failing suit seals, reaches the nearest neighboring silo. Its entrance is sealed and overgrown, seemingly abandoned for decades. Using her engineering skills, she pries open a side hatch and collapses inside just as her oxygen runs out.
Inside Silo 18, chaos erupts after her departure. Mayor Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) declares martial law, blaming Juliette for the rebellion and the failed cleaning. Mechanical, now leaderless, fragments into factions—some wanting to fight, others to surrender. Martha Walker (Harriet Walter) refuses to believe Juliette is dead and secretly monitors the external cameras, waiting for a sign.
