Quote from anttt69 :

ive just noticed something about the LX4 engine specs.

Engine:
1.3 litre inline 4
Power:
105 kW (140bhp) @ 8212 rpm
Torque:
131 Nm (97 lbft) @ 6917 rpm

A 1.3 car engine with 140bhp?? Even a well tuned Suzuki swift engine would struggle to achieve 140bhp.

There's a Fiat 500 GT racer that has 360 HP out of it's 1.4. It's turboed, but I bet if you took the turbo off it'd still be over 200.

Quote from kamkorPL :

It's good that they are doing fixes.. But it's too bad that they probably don't see the ultra bright white road generated from hdr in incar view as a bug. For that reason I don't drive often on 3 tracks that i liked in forza 2. That is sebring, road atlanta and road america.

A good screen calibration DVD will fix that for you. My games were overly glare-y before I popped in the Halo 3 calibrator and now they look superb!

Yeah I don't know about the whole BBC thing, but I find it despicable that these "scientists" refused to let peer-review do it's job and instead hid the science behind their campaign.

This is a pretty picture from one scientist:





The Earth will continue to warm up and cool down just like it has for all of time. It may, possibly, get hot enough that one day the sea levels rise noticeably. Whoop dee frigging do. Go live on a hill if it scares you that much (it doesn't even have to be a big one, 5 feet will have you covered until the continent sinks into oblivion!). It won't get so hot that all life will be extinguished.

Regardless of how you believe the Earth came into being, either by happenstance or God's hand, there are safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing. Wondrous, effective and battle-tested safeguards. Like algae, being the number one CO2 scrubbing machine.

Last edited by MadCat360, Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:18.

Kartors are the bottom step, the most basic motorsport... we try to puff ourselves up and make us bigger as much as we can. Not a bad thing really. Builds character or something.

On the SKUSA subject, they've been running with us in the Jim Russell program for the past few years (the NorCal Prokart Challenge). Those guys are high caliber. Lots of famous dudes coming out to have a go.

Quote from Bose321 :

lx9000.

oh wut u mean this?







25,000 liters and five and a half MILLION foot pounds of torque.

Quote from Luke.S :

Pah.

LX8

Pah.

LX10

I always wanted to have a Lotus 7 replica... but I'm not sure if I'd try to build one. It would be a good way to learn about how every facet of a car works, though.

That's great! Thanks for the updates Scawen.

I'll give it a go! 60 laps huh... what's the run time on that?

Quote from danowat :

I am looking for suggestions for good, all round, custom classes.

Anyone got any?

ACR, ACR, and more ACR. Best all-around rifle by far that I've used (missing the F2000 and the AK though). Although the M16 is definitely the fastest killing, but if you don't have stopping power the 3-round burst is a bit of a hindrance.

Anyway I've been rolling with:

MP5k Red dot (ACOG proves really good for hardcore)
Spas-12 Red dot
Scavenger
Stopping Power
Ninja
Semtex

FAL Holo + heartbeat sensor
M93 Red dot + silencer
Bling
Stopping Power (double tap kills ftw), I'll put Cold Blooded on if it's a large map or it's hardcore.
Ninja
Frag

ACR Holo
Javelin
Scavenger
Cold Blooded (good for killing those pesky Pave Lows)
Ninja (I like being unheard)
Semtex

I also use the last stand death streak on all my classes.

For some reason I can't play that flash game again. How do I get to it?

Quote from Michael Denham :

And on a similar note, I remember an old quote (maybe Jackie Stewart?) saying that most racers focus on applying the brakes, but the really important thing is how and when you release the brake pedal on corner entry. If anyone knows the exact quote that would be cool :P But something like that.

Jackie Stewart said: the last thing a driver learns to do well is release the brake.

Trail braking is the hardest thing to learn about driving by far. Not only to you have to get within a half a pound of pedal pressure, but you also have to release it at exactly the right rate, while also contending with the subtle differences in line, timing and bumps that always happen on every corner.

Could I get an invite please? Sounds interesting.

Cool beans, thanks M.V.

This site is brilliant. I'm gonna save up for a PS3, hopefully I'll get one!

Last edited by MadCat360, Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:43.

This proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that

OH HAI.

The domestic levels definitely hit me. I mean, shooting your way through slums in Brazil is one thing - I've never been to a slum, and I have no idea what it feels, smells, looks and sounds like, but to see a house that could be on any corner of any street in Suburbia America get lit up by a BTR is unnerving.

On Veteran it took me about 8-9 hours to get through I'd guess. Definitely a very short game, but the larger variety of levels makes it feel longer, and its easier than COD4 was (on Veteran).

Quote from spankmeyer :

IW can go climb a wall of dicks.

Are you blind? The MW2 map looks nothing like it! What, just because it's got some headstones, a small lake, and a real-life (non-original) reactor in the background it's a copy? It's a remake of a COD2 map for crying out loud...

Money is not a flaw, it's a darn good solution to a problem.

Stuff like this is the future because as graphics get more and more advanced, it gets harder and harder to model well by hand. We already have large games using real pictures as textures to save time, like Oblivion (which looks great), and movies are now using laser scans of clay models to build 3d meshes. One photographic "megatexture" (ie, Id's Tech 5 Engine and Rage) isn't so out there.

Racing against real drivers is silly though. We're not at that point yet. The physics aren't that good. The virtual car would most certainly differ from the real one in many ways.

Crack.

They apply the throttle exactly where they should - when the steering starts to unwind. Regardless of what line you are taking, this is always the ideal time. It doesn't matter if it's before, at, or after the apex as long as it's when the steering unwinds. They do this very consistently, very smoothly and very well.

I think the reason why they unwind the steering after the apex is because they generally use earlier apexes. This probably has to do with the differential or the way they use the airflow (airflow needs to come from the front of the car and a later apex means more initial rotation, possibly disrupting the airflow). Honestly I don't know.

Schumacher's Godlike entry speed would come from his brake release. It's the hardest most delicate part about driving a car fast.

I've played too many to count, but the big time suckers were roughly:

1997-2000: everything N64 (mostly Zelda)
2000-2003: Tribes 2, MechWarrior 4 (first serious PC, wooo. Go GeForce 2 MX! Flex those 32 megs!)
2003-2005: PlanetSide, Battlefield 1942, lots and lots of Halo lan parties
2005-2007: Battlefield 2, Final Fantasy XI
2007-current: Call of Duty 4, Lord of the Rings Online

Quote from racer hero :

Hey guys,

I'm interested in buying FM3, but just wondering what wheels will work with my Xbox 360?

Thanks.

The Fanatec 911 Turbo S is the highest quality one right now. Don't worry about the limited run of "just" 10,000 - they haven't even sold half of them yet and they've been taking orders for over a year now.

If you've already got a G25, you can buy the "pure" edition which is just the wheel for 250 USD and comes with an adapter for the G25 pedals. Then you can buy the shifter set (6-speed H pattern and sequential stick) for 50 USD.

It's expensive, I know, but it works on both the consoles and the PC, and it's been getting great reviews. Ask me again on Monday and I'll tell you myself.

Are there any vids for the IndyCar? I found this one for the Corvette at Mosport:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFDTTXwDXR0

Quote from beefyman666 :

It doesn't look much different from Forza 2's, but as always it's still a blast to drive round. GT4's was very nice (as far as PS2 graphics go), just a shame about the physics. I imagine GT5's will look rather nice indeed.

If you want to chuckle at a crappy version of the ring, have a look at PGR4's. Everything is plain wrong on it, the general layout is there but everything just feels and looks wrong. Having the ability to change the weather on it is nice though. Snow/ice on the 'ring, hell yeah!

I played PGR 4 and I wasn't paying attention to the loading screen and when I started a race on the Nurburgring I said "what track is this again"? I had to do half a lap before I recognized it.

Last edited by MadCat360, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:04.

Quote from beefyman666 :

The Ronal Turbo's look so wrong on that car.

You're insane! They fit perfect.

Quote from arrowkart4 :

lol, i didnt get that wr because of abs. i will upload a quicker time without abs, to prove that his lap wasnt anything special

edit : done

The assists debate is probably never going to be solved simply because humans drive cars, and humans aren't perfect. Until we can get a robot to drive a track to the absolute limits of potential and run exactly the same times lap after lap, the fastness of assists is theoretical only except on a case by case basis.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if ABS slowed some people down, while speeding other people up. This is guaranteed.

I enjoy sportscars the most. FIA GT would be my favorite but I can't watch that in the US. So my most watched is ALMS.