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Jertje
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It looks to me as if Coulthard is braking early, and leaves Button absolutely nowhere to go except to the right and thus into Coulthard. I could be wrong though, as I don't know for sure where the actual braking point of that corner is.
Jertje
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I would not be surprised if Kovalainen ends up with more points at the end of the season than Hamilton.
Jertje
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Quote from jibber :I don't see how manual shifting (with manual clutch) would be faster. Is that really the case?

I use the H-Shifter with manual clutch. But sometimes when it's late in the evening and i want to do some career races to make money for buying cars, then i race with the joypad (apartment in a very old house, so people can hear everything you do). I found that shifting with buttons and without the clutch is still the fastest way. And i'm not really slow at manual shifting i'd say.



Won't bother me much, since i most likely won't go online with GT anyway...

Well, we sorta noticed with the Elise 111R on Suzuka... the guy in #1 has no shifting delay when he shifts up. The automatic clutch however cuts the throttle for nearly half a second on up-shifts in that car (noticable by looking at the red bar filling the throttle bar)
Jertje
S2 licensed
Quote from spyshagg :I played for 5 hours yesterday, time trial (I dont care for offline racing. I just want to evaluate the physics).

Mostly BMW M3 and F40 at susuka.

I had to use all the tricks and "know how" I had, and about 2 hours just to get 2nd spot on the world rankings for this combo. 35ms from world record.
I tell you. There are hardcore PC sim players playing this game.
This game isn't toy game. For sure Its very scalable, from the very arcade options to the very professional simulation aspect.

So driving wise, Its a sim. I have no doubt.
Racing wise, If all players drive as they should by ignoring the allowed bumper car, It can be acceptable, but shitty compared to lfs online racing aspect.
The hotlap online intergration is great! You finish a lap and a box popups telling you your place and stuff... And you can download right away the ghost image for all the top ten places on each combo. Its wonderfull

Lots of stuff missing though. fuel tyre temp etc.....
The option to choose the wheel degrees is also missing... I have trouble setting hotlap pace with 900º

May I ask if you are racing with the G25? My brother and I have noticed that shifts are a lot faster with a manual clutch from watching the top replays. I just wonder if you were able to get 2nd without the faster shifts
Jertje
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Quote from jibber :The quick tune is really good tho. Setup changes never made such a big difference to handling in other GT titles.

That's probably also because every base setup is horrible to drive. My brother is an excellent driver (even rocks at LFS after 2 laps) and was using the base-setup for the Lotus 111R /Tuned online and managed to win some races, but spun out due to random mistakes often.

So I drove around in that ass-first, face-second car on Suzuka for 1 lap, changed the suspension settings and camber a bit and presto: a car that doesn't drive like a shopping trolley on ice.

Now I'm not even good at doing set-ups (especially in LFS) and I manage to mess everything up that I can get my incompetent hands on. However the set I made for my brother in 2 minutes took almost 10 seconds off his best time I'd say something is messed up with the base-setup.
Jertje
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Quote from crimespree :just practice, it is very do-able, just like real life your front wheels need to be pointing in right direction when rear grips come back

That doesn't really answer my question...
Jertje
S2 licensed
By the way, is there any way to adjust the amount of wheel rotation used in the game? I find it rather impossible to catch slides reliably and get away with the ever-impending GT5 snapback of doom with the full 900 degrees on the DFP.
Jertje
S2 licensed
I'm all for coffee mugs! Even though I'd have to part with my kitty for a while
Jertje
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Yellow is definitely fastest. It's because of the way air flows around the yellow particles.
Jertje
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Quote from ajp71 :presumably you'll have to keep subscribing to keep your account/license status

That's a very unlikely assumption. I don't know of any MMORPG's, for example, that erase your account when you stop paying. It should just be frozen, and this will be the case unless their marketing managers are utter retards and don't deserve their title. There is absolutely no reason to incorporate that type of account, whatsoever, and anyone working on a project like iRacing will absolutely know that.
Jertje
S2 licensed
I just have to post it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uG9COkH6QYs&feature=related

Last boss of "Dodonpachi dai ou jou" at the end of the 2nd cycle of the game (basically twice as hard when compared to the first playthrough)

IIRC, there are only about 3-5 players capable of getting to the boss, and this video is I think the best attempt at the boss ever recorded (without use of macro-tools, there are plenty of videos of those)
Jertje
S2 licensed
I just had my first online race. I guess it's exactly what I expected... the netcode is smooth and everything feels more or less like it does off-line, except of course the 11 morons in a 12-man race who never brake and use everyone else as their personal bumperbrakes. Funnily enough, I finished 2nd in a 12-man field with the absolute slowest car of the pack.

To give a good view on my experience: think T1 on a demo server in LFS, and then that for every turn unil the finish, as the idiots are not taken out as harshly by natural selection (aka damage/flipping/crashing)

Still had fun offline though, and I'm sure in time there will be a way to only play with normal people.
Jertje
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Quote from crimespree :get a ps3
get gt5p PAL
get a drving force pro or G25
get the f430
turn off ABS
turn of all other assists
put game in professional mode
and put steering wheel in simulation mode

then... play gt5 for a bit
......
then come back and say that gt5 is crap. i challenge you.

im not saying it is better or worse than LFS but gt5p has come a long way, the physics are a lot changed from even the recent jap prologue, it has a real feel for oversteer now and FEELS GOOD which is the main thing. too many people just write this game off sight unseen and more importantly without playing it

Done with a DFP. It feels alright compared to GT4, but not particularly realistic at all. Brother got the game yesterday, and we played it in turns and had a blast. That's just because the GT series is good for arcadey entertainment. It's still not a simulator; never has been and never ever will. ever.
Jertje
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Quote from deggis :But for Kovalainen they wouldn't give anything?

Kovalainen doesn't exist as far as the news reporters are concerned. I'm actually pretty tired of seeing these polls that go: "Who will win the 2008 WDC? Räikkönen, Hamilton or Massa?". Bah.
Jertje
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Quote from Ian.H :Maybe so, but that's the impression I get from followers of that storybook.. as sad as it is.. believe me, I wish it wasn't.. a good friend came _very_ close to being a part of the London bombings.. I have nothing good to say about any of "them" or their stupid idiosyncrasies.



Regards,

Ian

Well, depending on how you look at it, Islamic fundamentalists are the only true believers left. Christians would be doing the same if they still followed the bible closely, as would almost any religion known to us.

This is what (true, unchanged) religion is folks; it's hate and war-mongering under a thin veil of moral and compassion. Religions these days have modernised and have taken some distance from their violent roots, but so far, Islam is best at keeping their religion true to its origins, even though most of its followers (the non-fundamentalists) have entered the age of reason.

Having said that though: modern followers of most religions are mostly good people. I have a few strictly religious friends whom I have incredibly good times with, but we don't discuss those differences much anymore - live and let live.

It's just my opinion that most modern believers are living a lie as their holy books tell different stories than the ones they tuck their children in with at night.
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Jertje
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I wrote a huge reply, but then decided not to post it and keep it simple instead:

- Religion is bad.
- I don't care if people want to dedicate their lives to it either way. Free world! so be my guest.

Good-night everyone!
Jertje
S2 licensed
I hope the little bastard goes to Force India next year, and then disappears the year after.
Jertje
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Quote from deggis :If I had time, I would watch every single race since 1950, make statistics about the amount of passes per race/season/era and prove you wrong. Now F1 is in a point where even a faster car can't pass easily a slower car infront... if there's always 100 m of poisonous air between the cars, the faster one never gets to a point where it could try to overtake. If it wouldn't be like this, eventually and naturally there would more passing. Which was the case 10/20... years ago.


I wasn't going to.

I honestly do not want to sound rude or anything, since everyone is entitled to their opinion and I can definitely see why F1 is not as interesting to some people (as it used to be?) but why do you still watch/care about F1 if all you do is complain about it?
Jertje
S2 licensed
Multipla by far. I still have no clue what the designer was smoking when he came up with that.

Oh, and anything from Korea shouldn't count as they're not really cars, but more plastic shells on wheels.
Jertje
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Quote from Paranoid Android :Many many reasons...One of them, concentrated show for the spectactors, and the other the costs. They're trying more and more to keep the costs down...

The... costs?
Jertje
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Reasonable race, although not as much action as I'd hoped in the 2nd half. Heidfeld's pass was awesome!

Edit: Also Massa's spin didn't actually look like a no-tc related problem, he just seemed to lose it in an odd moment?
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Jertje
S2 licensed
Amazing how close places 4-7 were in time.
Let's see how long the Ferrari's can go before they have to pit though
Jertje
S2 licensed
I don't really see why you have the need for an 8800gt or a Quadcore for a sound editing/LFS PC. You can save hundreds of dollars for the (exact) same experience. I mean, whether you have 60fps or 300fps won't matter, and LFS is not power-hungry at all.

I'd just pick up a DX9 card and a simple duo-core, although I can't be more specific than that atm.
Jertje
S2 licensed
Quote from LFSn00b :Min specs of the game anyone?

If you're asking, it's probably going to be close
Jertje
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Quote from ATC Quicksilver :http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/65889

Mclaren are changing the system, which makes complete sense. Why not just have a little flip up covering the button so that you can't push it by accident? Still Kovalainen has done his job, he has spotted a problem early in the season so that Hamilton doesn't make the same mistake in the final when he is fighting for the championship against Kimi and Rosberg.

You never know, he just might find a neatly positioned button which triggers the car's self-destruct.
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