I think one of the last things I wanna do is review that series, but here goes. *clicks* 
Good video, just don't get a real feel for what happened throughout the season. (Not that I'm annoyed about that too much with my first 3 races.)
Good video, just don't get a real feel for what happened throughout the season. (Not that I'm annoyed about that too much with my first 3 races.)
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You'd probably shave off a couple seconds by just making sure that you consistently hit your apexes. Brake earlier, whatever you have to, just make sure you're using all the track under most situations. And think ahead when you're planning your line, like in the chicane you're immediately aiming for the 2nd apex, instead of aiming a little right and then turning into it. In every corner you have to find the best compromise line between cornering speed and exit speed for the situation, and especially in multi-corner sections.
While I don't really hate anything in the new patch, the bl1 changes are the only changes I really like. (Mostly just indifferent.) The changes mean that bl gp now has a few more corners compared to normal considering in the old layout a lot of the corners just duplicated eachother.
Screw up? NEVER!
/me starts pruning his replay collection
Gotta drive defensively on public servers. When the league season's going I rarely drive on public servers, and when I go back I'm appalled by what I see even on the cleaner servers. Watch your back and leave if the servers too bad, try to find the nice places to race or join leagues.
Some general rants that probably won't ever do any good:
Think about it, why should you have any rights in a 10-15 minute race when you're a lap down? Get out of the way (not just let them pass) of active races that you have no part in. I have no problems outpacing most people, but I stay well out of the way of an active race when it comes down to it. (Which happens quite often considering pretty much everyone starts out on a server mid-race joined a few seconds or more off the pace.)
DO NOT come out of the pits mid-race around other people, DO NOT come out of the pits around other people in a qualifying session. Alternatively, don't assume that just because someone's coming out of the pits they're mid-race joined, there's a small chance that might be for position.
Pay attention while returning to the track, I see people ignoring this on the CTRA servers even. (Those remind you to use caution when you're off.) Don't just drive back on as soon as you regain your car, and make sure you leave time to get going in the right direction in your estimates of the next person getting there. If you're spun on the track, stay put, especially around a blind corner. Don't attempt to move to another spot on the track unless no one's coming so you don't hit someone who's already committed to going one direction around you. (Feel free to move the rest of the way off the track if you're on the edge, of course.) Also, don't come back on around other people unless you're stuck in a situation where you can't kill your momentum without the aid of a wall. You lost your right to the track when you went off, so just swallow your pride and let those few cars go by.
I'm kinda surprised that I even have to write the above rant/guidebook?, but it seems a lot of people lack some common sense.
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Yeah, but in the end it's all a game and we're all allowed to screw around and have fun. The comments are just stupid for the most part.
Oh gnoes, I installed lfstweak this past weekend and spent a while screwing around seeing what my car would be like with a 350 hp 7m-gte and then just generally screwing around like bigtime. There's no hope for me.
We all league race, a lot (for the most part), and you get burnt out on normal LFS stuff when you spend half your time in LFS practicing mostly in quali/practice sessions without racing for a future event. Helps to just screw around and release some tension with some fun.
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If any drifter seriously thinks like this, download a replay of a decent lfs rallycross race. You'll see 2-4 guys doing synchronized drifts within a foot or so of eachother corner after corner while attempting to pass eachother and maintain maximum speed on the course. It's not that we can't drift, controlling a car right at the limit is a lot harder to do than bludgeoning the limit. I started as a drifter and also had the opinion that drifting gave me some form of slight magical skillz that none of these 'racers' had, boy was I wrong when I started racing in LFS. It definitely meant I was good at catching a slide, but that was about it.
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Joystick. You just can't steer smoothly with a joystick because you don't have practice with it. And using a mouse you don't have proportional brakes/throttle, which is a huge part of the equation.
I'm running in the GTC and because of the performance based ballast through trial and error I've worked out a semi-accurate formula for it. (.1 seconds/10 kg)/1 minute Works pretty well for the fzr for me, not so sure about how well it works with the xrr/fxr because I don't drive those cars in the league. (Although it has given me pretty accurate results trying to figure out relative car paces.)
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We generally organize it over ventrillo just like everything else. But it would be nice to be able to at least store or maybe share team pitstop settings, distracting for the driver to be going through that list toggling the pit options in the middle of an endurance race.
And some horrible home-made translation when I watched it. I SHALL NOW UNLEASH THE POWER OF GLORIOUS AUTUMN!
I'd have to say, learn how to make minor tweaks. You can do a lot to the overall setup just playing with your anti roll bars. (Decrease the front to create oversteer, decrease the rear to create understeer, and vice versa) But don't go too far off the beaten path if you don't know what you're doing, other parts of a setup have to be tuned around its overall balance. So the more modifications you make from the original set the worse off related items in the setup's tune will end up. AKA you'll have a car that finally has the mid-corner balance you want, but it's suddenly completely whacked out in entry and exit.
I didn't start making my own complete sets until about a year ago when I started out with leagues, and in a way I'm a better driver for it. When you're closely scrutinizing how the car's reacting through each corner, you're also scrutinizing your own driving. (Plus it's nice to have yourself so finely tuned that you can notice the difference of just a couple clicks of arb through a corner)
I didn't start making my own complete sets until about a year ago when I started out with leagues, and in a way I'm a better driver for it. When you're closely scrutinizing how the car's reacting through each corner, you're also scrutinizing your own driving. (Plus it's nice to have yourself so finely tuned that you can notice the difference of just a couple clicks of arb through a corner)
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IMO neither's really all that much of a style. In the past year of league racing I have become a much smoother driver because of the need to take care of my car/be more consistent over long distances. But, I'm not really any faster/slower and the root of my driving style is still the same, I've just taken a different approach to it. Style should be something that's inherent in the way you drive and would take a very long time to unlearn/relearn. But smooth vs. rough, smooth wins in non-pickup race situations. I would kill my tires and actually compromised a few races before I started smoothing out my driving. Now I'd say I've gone from only getting ~85% of other people's tire lives to usually making my tires last a little longer.
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I usually race in the upper areas of leagues and I use a joystick, so I'd say a joystick's a pretty good replacement. :-' Top half of the throttle = throttle, back on the stick = brakes. Wrist strain in a long race is kind of a problem, uncomfortable to use a joystick with that much wrist action for long periods of time. (But long = 1 hour plus races)
I didn't have a problem with the leaders iirc. I'd open up a gap, they'd see it and drive through. Had problems with other parts of the gt1 group though, either dive bombing at ridiculous moments where we're both going to get slowed down more than if they had just waited a corner, or just cutting me off getting around me. (Had it happen a few times in a row where a gt1 would catch me in the entrance to the last corner section, straighten out after the first apex, slam on the gas, and therefor cut me off in the next part of the corner.) Divebombed countless times into the oval chicane which goes in the first category, gt2's really not any slower than the gt1 there, but some people just had to get by right away. Also got hit twice in one overzealous move in the uphill S but luckily didn't get taken off the track, and straightlined at the 1st corner of the final section another time by an overzealous move. GT1 drivers really need to consider it like this, there are 2 times as many gt1 cars as gt2 cars, so each gt2 car has to deal with being lapped twice as often as a gt1 car needs to deal with lapping someone. So please play nice. :'(
It was a new experience for me too getting lapped constantly, and I tried to apply a rule of 'least total possible slow-down.' AKA I'd choose the line that would affect both cars races the least overall. If this meant that I had to lose a little more time, then so be it, if this meant that the gt1 had to a lose a little more time, then hopefully they'll comply and not run into me. AKA in flatout corners where the gt1 was going to be near the limits of their grip I'd give the gt1 the longer outside line, in corners were momentum was extremely important to me, I'd take the longer outside line. If the gt1 had proper overlap going into a corner that would slow you down a lot going side by side, I'd back off and give it to them. But on the same token, I'd expect a gt1 to give me a corner where they didn't have proper overlap/had no overlap and it was a bad choice to go side by side. But 75% of the time they divebombed me.
These aren't normal blue flag rules where the person you're racing is just really damn slow, these are two independent races being run on the same track at the same time. And both groups needed to show a little more respect to eachother. It seemed a lot of the gt1 guys didn't realize that through a max-load corner I could be as fast and even faster sometimes than them.
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LFS is what finally gave FPS's as my main way to get my kicks the boot thanks to good online capabilities. But before that I played a lot of MCO, f1 challenge/02, and my first serious attempt at playing racing games was need for speed 3. Also played a lot of other racing games off and on, but those are the big ones, besides NFS:PU. (Remember playing the old papyrus indy car game though when I was a youngin'.)
*goes out and hugs his mk2*
But, licensed cars in general = gnoes.
Salivating over the day when we potentially have a car creator though, would be fun to try to reproduce my mk2 in LFS.
But, licensed cars in general = gnoes.
Salivating over the day when we potentially have a car creator though, would be fun to try to reproduce my mk2 in LFS.
Graph pretty much explains it all. Fe green reversed fo8's, had already backed off to a cruise, but managed to hook my wheel inside the 1st chicane curbing a few laps from the end. Spun me 180 into the wall of the bridge in a split second and I'm semi-lucky that I even finished with the speed I hit the wall at. (140 mph corner)
Yay, been missing this when it comes to coordinating teams in endurance races.
Yeah, but comparing gt4's 'simulation' to real life is complete apples and oranges. Not saying fear isn't involved, but they really could've used a better game.
Usually the base cars aren't crap, they're just NOT SPORTS CARS. If they really wanted to invest in something that went as fast as it looked, they could with the type of money they spend on a slightly older econobox. BUT, they don't. The only reason I can see behind this is pure idiocy. Maybe other factors, but dunno.
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