As you said, and I can only coment from my perspective but I never see anyone on my friends list qualify a time in daily A whereas B & C always have a decent amount. Again, I know it's not solid evidence but just a noted observation.
Sometimes I think more people need to hear this! For me I don't use it all the time but TCS 1 is a lot quicker than spinning out when I plant the boot too quickly 😂TCS 1. You won't get your license pulled for using it.The replay of one of the QT leaders used TCS 1.
I just watched the replay. Awesome livery on the RX Vision. 👍
Agreed. It was a decent idea to try but they must recognize it's a failure now and revert back or try something else.
It's easy to not give pd any credit for the way they're running their 'live service', but I highly doubt they aren't aware of their numbers for dailies. It's not just daily a which has less players now compared to launch, but b and c as well, so that has to be accounted for. In fact one of the benefits of an always online game is they probably have detailed stats on offline races too, and they can track player 'journeys' and see what gets people playing a certain way, and the overall distribution of game time.
Yes, that might well be the case. Then, what about PD communicating with their playerbase (the online racers might be the ones who are interested and want to listen) and telling them why they are doing it that way and what the results are? I think that would be nice. It could even provide them some feedback from the online players to maybe help them improve the experience.
That's pretty typical, though. Not always of course. But, if you're up front there are less cars around to crash you and the people who start up front have something to lose by crashing out whereas the people mid-to-low-pack really don't. Qualifying is key.
You see I'm the opposite. It feels backwards when going around the normal way and correct when going in reverse. I much prefer it in reverse. Hopefully you can crack it.
It's where they belong.
You ain’t kidding about race pace in the top splits. I had a Race B yesterday with 1 A/S on the pole and the rest of us in B/S. I started P2. The A/S driver had a 31.9 to my 32.6, however his race pace was almost 2 seconds a lap faster than me. He finished P1 with a 10+ second gap to me and I finished P2 with a 10 second gap to P3.
It's specifically called "Dragon Trail - Gardens Reverse". So that means the word "reverse" is appropriate when referring to this track. And by implication, since races on the track normally go in the opposite direction, the word "normal" should be fine also.
Thanks! As I said in another post, I don't know how I did it, and can't replicate it.
If you accept a request from someone you wish you hadn't, can't you just unfriend them? I've had that happen before, and once I unfriended them, I haven't heard from them since. Or are there other dangers I don't know about?
Yeah one needs to be doing low 33's or even high 32's to race mid pack in an A+/A lobby, it's very tough because one mistake and you get mobbed.
I’ll give it a try this evening. I’ve barely used the Lancer, so it seems like a good excuse to give it a go!
I'm lucky to finish top half doing that in B lobbies!
My QT so far is 1:33.815 and I'm not sure how I did that! I'm struggling to find the extra second to break into the 32s let alone 2 seconds to get to the 31s. I can now pull 34s in race when I have a clean track otherwise it is more like 36s in the lobbies I'm in, with traffic. It seems that when QTing that it I get a great corner and I see my time is up by a second, that will slowly slip away again in later turns... Or I'm slower at the beginning but then make up later. It is as if, carrying more speed earlier on throws me off later and I haven't figured out how to maintain that pace through a whole lap.
Always, always, always sacrifice entry for exit in GT7, especially at this track. You also need to be flat to the floor from the exit of the right hander after the quad apex left all the way to braking for the hairpin. Flat, no excuses. This is a very technical track and will frustrate you, I find it very hard to be consistent, in race i'll do 33.4, 33.5, 32.9 then BOOM 35.5. It's tough.
Flat out the whole time!? Holy crap. I always lift on the left turn to get the car to rotate and set myself up for the right turn and straight to the hairpin. That’s one of the few sections I’ve found myself catching up to cars in front of me.
I can get the straddle right on the second sausage of the chicane which lets me open up the throttle faster for the right hander before the sweeping right to end the lap. I can't get the straddle right on the first one so I don't try. It probably is the fastest line for sure. The downside is hitting it wrong and spinning off into the barrier.
