Quote from Boris Lozac :

Maybe remove it for road cars but for XFR, GTR's etc is it real not to have that auto cut option?

Don't actually understand why the small GTR cars don't have sequentials but H-gate. I guess they are considered as lightly modified club racing cars. But FXR and XRR do have ignition cut, which works exactly like auto cut used to. FZR has H-gate, which wouldn't been that unrealistic in a racing Porsche few years ago. It's to balance things out a bit and make it a bit more interesting. And they are on the same level, roughly as GT2 cars, so they are not the most high tech and most advanced cars there are. And the single seaters, FBM aside, all have ignition cut.

Can't how they are that much off to be honest.

Thought this would have been about the gear whine, and isn't that an old topic or has someone been sniffing old Volvo seats too much. :P

Yeah, But I can agree JTbo. On the other hand it's fun to watch people burn up their clutch and then just fly by them. Only if there was smoke or something to indicate that someone is in trouble. It shouldn't be added if it wasn't realistic of course.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Oh great, now I have a monitor covered in Coke

What do you mean outside EU is financial suicide? Weak dollar should more than compensate the tax you might have to pay, if they don't post is as a gift or something. Of course, the stuff is always expensive as hell, so it will hurt your wallet anyway.

You are a bunch of sissy pants! Especially you Kev!




Hasn't been cold here yet, only -4 now. Keeps the snow melting, but I want more! Around -10 is a nice temperature I think.

And some more snow please kthnxbye

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Quote from Franke :

You don't need a replay.

Come to a complete standstill in the XFG, put it in 2nd gear an apply 100% throttle, then clutch is RED before you should change into 3rd...

YES i do know that is not the way to start any car, but still, starting from 2nd gear never hurt any normal car clutch, as far as i know.

Second gear and full throttle? Err...somehow I can't image any car would be that pleased of such treatment. Clutch heat might be a bit sensitive in the road cars at the moment though, but it's still a test patch.

Arrr! Count me in. pirate:

I'm greatly enjoying blasting around in the FZ5 on SO Chicane route with manual H-gate. It's weird, because firstly, I hate that car and secondly I though I was rubbish with three pedals, but it's not that bad after all dancing around the whole set.

Could be much more challenging to bring your car home though. Can't wait some proper engine/gearbox damage!

Quote from danowat :

What I wanna know is what on earth res are people running that makes the speedo unreadable?, it's prefectly readable all the way down to 640x480..............

Well, I guess lowering resolution could work for me because I'm running 1600x1200 and the numbers get a bit tiny, especially in the FBM. Got to avoid pit stops then.

That's more like it!

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Back onto the Alonso topic, I am annoyed that they got rid of Heikki Kovalainen simply because he is too fast for Alonso. I can't think of any other reason to get rid of him, they just went for a rookie who will accept absolute #2 status, rather than a guy who is able to win the championship given the machinery.

Well, Kovalainen said during the season, when the speculations were on that he won't sign a contract where he is the second driver. He said that he doesn't want or need to be the only 1st driver in a team he is driving, but only given equal car, treatment and service. I would say that McLaren would be a good choice for him, really don't know why he should be scared of Hamilton. If you can't beat him with the same car, the chances are you can't beat him at all. Kovalainen is a good driver.

Can anyone tell if there is actually any difference between the clutches in the race and road cars?

Quote from Linsen :

btw: How do I know if I'm obeying the pit speed limit in the FBM? No proper tach, no speedo, no limiter...

It has a speedo, but it's so tiny I have to pull myself closer to the screen to read it. And the gray backround in the display doesn't really help the visibility either.

Didn't Kev do that already?

Not easy enough to stall I think. You can drop the revs below 500 in any car and still pull away without clutch, doesn't seem right to me.

And now while Scawen is making road cars more realistic and removing digital speedometer, it would also make sense to remove the shift light.

If you shut off the engine in BF1 it doesn't jump start while rolling like in all other cars. Is there a reason for this?

And I think it would it make sense to disable the ignition button in the BF1 so you can't switch the engine off by accident.

AI can't start their engine if they stall it. (dark green XRR in the replay)


Also in the replay, some serious cornering issues with the chicane. Or is that because they don't know the track and haven't learned it yet? Because first time I ran them trough that chicane, several UF1 AI drivers rolled over, was rather funny pile up of cars on their roof.

FBM replaces XRT in demo.

Too bad for the demo driftorz muaahhahahahaahahhaha

Wrong, wrong, wrong. This is how you do it.

Quote from spankmeyer :

EDIT: Kill me if I end up posting pics of my cat.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Got a replacement body last Friday and here's a pic of my cat lit by a desktop light

So, how we deal with this then?

Quote from ajp71 :

It seems that some people are taking patch fever a wee bit too seriously, banning someone for saying a patch is out seems a little excessive don't you think?

Was someone banned?

Quote from [UKR] Race King :

but why another formula?and not something else

Probably because they were given the chance and to have publicity and air time on TV for free. Would be stupid to turn down such a great opportunity to promote LFS. Not to mention all the information which can be put in use in development.

Got 1:21.23 in first 5 laps, ran out of fuel and can't be bothered now. The set doesn't somehow feel optimal or good for the track. A bit twitchy.

Quote from blackcarmafia :

can someone send me PM with text about what the new stuff is going to be or post link? Dev wrote not verry much and i wanna know more than just new AI, graphicks South city and New car ..

Here is a transcript of what was said in the video. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=618697#post618697
But there isn't much more what you already said, or what we know.

So who, had dreams about the patch last night? Terrible what LFS does for you.

Back to random speculations. I guess the latest day it could come out would be 21st, being Friday and all. And could be that the devs are delaying the release to get some time off, because once it's released they are following the forums and finding and fixing issues people might find. That is stressful, not to mention how much fuzz and traffic a big patch usually creates. All hell will brake loose over here, and they might to need to recharge their batteries.

Well, it was a bit bit too long, some editing would have been nice there and there. But I loved the brutal driver changes!