OK, OK. Perhaps I'm over-reacting a little. But I know that I'm going to be learning for a looooong time...
Hi everyone. I'm totally new here and have no idea what I'm doing. I've only been an LFS player for a few days (three or four), and I loved the demo enough to pay for an S2 licence, which I did about five minutes ago. (I bought a licence even though the demo content alone would have kept me going for a good few months yet. That's how much I think I have to learn here.)
In my first few days I've been tearing around Blackwood in the first Training Testdrive (I forgot the name of the car) in second gear, and trying not to crash into stuff. Unfortunately, I'm not doing too well at the "not crashing" part.
Today, I even had a shot at going faster than second gear. I'm even starting to get the point of braking and downshifting! Through one corner, I actually managed to accelerate and upshift on the way out, flinging myself to the outside of the road as I crossed the apex of the corner. I managed to follow the racing line all the way around the corner, and if you were with me, you would have seen my jaw hit the floor in a look of utter disbelief that I actually did that, considering that I'm finding controlling the car using mouse steering difficult enough right now.
In the demo, I've gotten as far as the Overtaking Training, but I haven't passed that yet. I keep colliding with other cars, and I also keep wanting to go back to the Testdrive, over and over until I actually learn how to drive.
I'm learning to drive in the real world too, and I'm drawing certain parallels with the way my instructor is teaching me to drive, and the way you're meant to drive in LFS. My instructor, for instance, taught me to go slow into and accelerate out of corners, and it actually works as much in LFS as it does in the real world, despite the fact that you're only limited to 30 mph where I am.
I'm only managing laps of between 1:50 and 2:00 in Blackwood though, so I'm going to be at this for a while, I think...
Due to being made redundant in the crappy economic situation, I don't have the money to get a steering wheel yet, but it's on my wish-list. (I had a hard enough time trying to convince myself to get LFS S2, but I managed to, so I'll have lots of content to practice crashing, er... driving with.)
It's nice to be here. I hope that once I get better at LFS, I'll get into competitive play, but right now, I don't feel at all ready. I'll get there, though.
Hi everyone. I'm totally new here and have no idea what I'm doing. I've only been an LFS player for a few days (three or four), and I loved the demo enough to pay for an S2 licence, which I did about five minutes ago. (I bought a licence even though the demo content alone would have kept me going for a good few months yet. That's how much I think I have to learn here.)
In my first few days I've been tearing around Blackwood in the first Training Testdrive (I forgot the name of the car) in second gear, and trying not to crash into stuff. Unfortunately, I'm not doing too well at the "not crashing" part.
Today, I even had a shot at going faster than second gear. I'm even starting to get the point of braking and downshifting! Through one corner, I actually managed to accelerate and upshift on the way out, flinging myself to the outside of the road as I crossed the apex of the corner. I managed to follow the racing line all the way around the corner, and if you were with me, you would have seen my jaw hit the floor in a look of utter disbelief that I actually did that, considering that I'm finding controlling the car using mouse steering difficult enough right now.
In the demo, I've gotten as far as the Overtaking Training, but I haven't passed that yet. I keep colliding with other cars, and I also keep wanting to go back to the Testdrive, over and over until I actually learn how to drive.
I'm learning to drive in the real world too, and I'm drawing certain parallels with the way my instructor is teaching me to drive, and the way you're meant to drive in LFS. My instructor, for instance, taught me to go slow into and accelerate out of corners, and it actually works as much in LFS as it does in the real world, despite the fact that you're only limited to 30 mph where I am.
I'm only managing laps of between 1:50 and 2:00 in Blackwood though, so I'm going to be at this for a while, I think...
Due to being made redundant in the crappy economic situation, I don't have the money to get a steering wheel yet, but it's on my wish-list. (I had a hard enough time trying to convince myself to get LFS S2, but I managed to, so I'll have lots of content to practice crashing, er... driving with.)
It's nice to be here. I hope that once I get better at LFS, I'll get into competitive play, but right now, I don't feel at all ready. I'll get there, though.