Patching LFS.exe... Spoofing license handshake... Broadcasting virtual LAN beacon on 239.255.0.23... [SUCCESS] 4 seats licensed. [WARNING] The simulation will now include all assets. The physics are no longer limited by the demo.

"Where the hell did you get that?" asked Marcus, the fourth member of their squad, who had been busy losing a separate race on his own screen.

The command prompt from earlier flashed on every screen simultaneously, then vanished.

YOUR INPUT LAG WILL BE MEASURED.

A black command prompt window flashed. White text crawled across it like digital spiders: