450pp Street Car Tuners Club -- Nightly 9:45-12:00 EDT
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chuyler1
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- chuyler1
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PD needs to step things up with the DLC. I will continue to boycott them until they are in-line with NFS:S2 pricing. The Shift 2 legends pack gives you 13 classic race cars and 6 classic race tracks to run them on for $10. Dirt 3 has similar packs with numerous cars and unique tracks for under $10.
For the same $10 in GT5 I only get 1 race track (a giant useless oval) and 6 cars, none of which can be raced against one another. The first car pack was probably the best deal...but I don't run race cars that often so I didn't bother with it.
When the game only costs $50, you've got to provide close to 1/5th the content in your DLC. Otherwise I'll just use my money to play a different game. NFS:S2 was at game stop used the other day. I almost bought it, but picked up NASCAR:2011 instead. I'll play through the game when I'm not racing 450 or Lemons. The handling physics aren't quite as good, but it still feels like racing when you use the wheel.
Nicktune
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- Nic-KL
There's no need for skid pad....you got every tools needed already!
What tires are you running?
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- Burlington, NC, USA
- a_garris/Vol_Jbolaz
Whatever tires I have. Usually comfort mediums or sport softs lately.
I'm not actually trying to drift for show or points, or I'd run comfort hards. I just have a hard time recovering in an FR when the back end steps out. Which means I drive the car slower than it can actually go, or I try to balance it to it has understeer (which again, I combat by entering the corner slower).
What tools do I have, though? There are some wide sections of the Top Gear test track, and I've tried using that. What I want though is just a great big expanse so I can figure out how to feather the throttle to hold the slide. Then I can figure out how to come out of the slide going in the direction I wanted to go.
Trying to figure that out on a course means I'm not only trying to hold a slide, but I'm trying to thread a needle with it. I don't want to bother with the second part until I can do the first part.
Usually what happens is the back end just keeps going and I do a 180, or I hold it for a moment and then all of a sudden the car snaps completely in the other direction. What was counter steer now becomes steer and the car spins completely in the opposite direction.
I did spend an evening driving a rally car around one of the dirt courses. I eventually was able to slide though a couple of the corners, but I wasn't consistent. On that course, I usually just slid through the corner and hit the far invisible wall, or the car would find traction somewhere and I'd shoot forward and hit the invisible wall on the inside of the corner.
Just need much more practice.
A question about the new test track. It will give Gs. Is that acceleration or lateral? I assume acceleration since I thought the corners were banked.
- 1,068
- Raleigh, NC
- booch16
I would love to see how they get things done
15 new premium cars in one year 👎
2 new tracks in one year 👎
I know Japan was hit by a natural disaster and all, but the game was not even what i would call finished on release, and that took how many years?! I wish i had a job that allowed me to take my sweet time getting anything done
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- dudeondacouch
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- booch16
Head of pulling heads out of asses 👍
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- SolidSnake7735
just read the first post.. this looks fun
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- dudeondacouch
Running a theme tonight?
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- Burlington, NC, USA
- a_garris/Vol_Jbolaz
I should be on shortly if anyone is up for this. We can meet in Huyler's lounge or I'll start a public room.
If you want a theme then you need to share a good tune for the theme. A good one, not a crazy, oversteery tune built for a twitchy DS3.
If you want a theme then you need to share a good tune for the theme. A good one, not a crazy, oversteery tune built for a twitchy DS3.
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- NC/NoVA
- dudeondacouch
No need to get all angsty, just remove a little front toe-out and up the LSD. 
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- Burlington, NC, USA
- a_garris/Vol_Jbolaz
1472-6118-3787-3248-6746
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- a_garris/Vol_Jbolaz
The public room wasn't too bad. I did have to kick a couple of people, but for the most part we had 14 in the room and we had 10 or so on track and things didn't go horribly bad.
I will say the pubbers would eff up the first corner of a few tracks. They'd drive clean the rest of the race, but they would just completely cause a pile up on the first corner. Qualifying was very important.
I will say the pubbers would eff up the first corner of a few tracks. They'd drive clean the rest of the race, but they would just completely cause a pile up on the first corner.
Qualifying was very important.
- 1,106
- NC/NoVA
- dudeondacouch
I refused to let Nick pass me in a Chrysler during that last race at Monaco.
There will be no shenanigans!
There will be no shenanigans!
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- darkpigraph
This is the kind of thing i'm be really into, i'm especially looking for people interested in racing 450pp Beetles in rain, snow and dirt. I'm in South Africa however, my connection is NAT2, so i'm not sure how that will cope in races, but please add me (PSN id darkpigraph) if this sounds like your thing! I will try join one of these races during the week.
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I didnt qualify for the Trial Mtn race and had a pretty good view of the 666 guy in the G35 cutting most of the track were he could so I spent most of the race trying to wreck him.
Overall most rooms were stable except for Deep Forest.The grid order was wrong and my screen showed Booch leading but AOK and Nic were way out in front.Things seemed better in the next race.
Penalties need to be on in public rooms.
Overall most rooms were stable except for Deep Forest.The grid order was wrong and my screen showed Booch leading but AOK and Nic were way out in front.Things seemed better in the next race.
Penalties need to be on in public rooms.
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- a_garris/Vol_Jbolaz
chuyler1
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- chuyler1
I had a problem with every lobby last night. It was either laggy drivers or getting left behind at the start.
The highlight for me was a shuffle race at Tsukuba earlier in the evening. It was a pub room so typical fashion, a bunch of drivers took ****** lines through the first few turns and pushed everyone else off track. I started last after winning the previous race and was stuck in a Toyota vitz. After things settled down I was passing about 1 car per corner until a guy in a z4 drove over the curbing of the 2nd hairpin and pushed me out. It worked, for the moment...and it was the second full contact pass he made on me that race. Unfortunately for him, he messed up the following right hand turn and I was able to get to his left for the following high speed turn. I may have forgot to turn for that one and inadvertently sent him on a grass mowing expedition. He quit before the end of the race lol. normally I stick to the "do onto others" part of the bible, but when pubbers piss me off I go straight to the "eye for an eye" section.
The highlight for me was a shuffle race at Tsukuba earlier in the evening. It was a pub room so typical fashion, a bunch of drivers took ****** lines through the first few turns and pushed everyone else off track. I started last after winning the previous race and was stuck in a Toyota vitz. After things settled down I was passing about 1 car per corner until a guy in a z4 drove over the curbing of the 2nd hairpin and pushed me out. It worked, for the moment...and it was the second full contact pass he made on me that race. Unfortunately for him, he messed up the following right hand turn and I was able to get to his left for the following high speed turn. I may have forgot to turn for that one and inadvertently sent him on a grass mowing expedition. He quit before the end of the race lol. normally I stick to the "do onto others" part of the bible, but when pubbers piss me off I go straight to the "eye for an eye" section.
