GT7 Daily Race Discussion

[newmedia_dev]

That suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks...sorry man.☹️

Every once-in-a-while I'll throw "...and don't forget to pit!" out there in the pre-race chat...but only for Daily B. Don't think it's worked yet, tho. I'll assume some scoundrel sent you in for tires?

nah it's self inflicted, close racing on the whole which you'd expect when the times start to get tight. every lap is comparable to my QT time so that is full beans in sector 1 etc.

the in race pace of the mid pack was 1.50:1s so my pushing is me pushing. i think @skandiman was in my race for the one i pitted on (i was so far back and they were all so close, it was pointless to try)

 

[skandiamannen]

nah it's self inflicted, close racing on the whole which you'd expect when the times start to get tight. every lap is comparable to my QT time so that is full beans in sector 1 etc.

the in race pace of the mid pack was 1.50:1s so my pushing is me pushing. i think @skandiman was in my race for the one i pitted on (i was so far back and they were all so close, it was pointless to try)

Yea, that was me, and I started probably around P5-7 or so (1.50.1), but spun out in the T1 on lap 2. As I were recovering from the crash and doing a three point turn and finally got myself straight on top of the hill between T1 an T2, a car flew straight through me. I was ghosted of course, and standing just at the apex, so I was invisible. Thought I was the only one back there. All of the sudden I gave birth to a screaming 911 flying straight through me

Then after the tunnel you where parked, I thought you were waiting for me to at least have a bit of a battle for P15, but I could never catch you. Then I see you go in to the pits, and I went on. I for a split second I thought you actually went for new tires or something, but then I realized that you rather pitted than race me . In the end I almost caught up with the pack, but of course finished last.

I did three races today, finished last in two, and second last in this one.

And by the way I figured out last two corners: BB +3 sector 1+2, and BB -5 for sector 3. I'm 5 tenths faster compared to +-0 full lap. Qt is OK, problem in the race is that you easily screw it up. Move from radar to BB, turn from +2 to -5 (that's easy, going from -5 to +2 is hard), move back to radar - while racing. Or rather, as in my case, crashing.

 

[PhlebMike]

I've been trying race B this week. I love Trial Mountain, and the quick races can be/ are fun. This evening, however, it was more wreckfest than race craft. Granted, a DR B lobby, so we are none of us great. However, getting repeatedly backdoored and side swiped in a SR S lobby feels.....grievous. Is tonight just messy, did something change, or is it just a poorly disguised demolition derby? I work so hard be be clean and respectful, it's just demoralizing.

 

[Chris30]

Hey, guys. Just thought I'd stick my head in and say "hi". I've done 3 race B's this week so far, and although I know the track like the back of my hand, it's hard to shake the dust off.

Anyway, I may be around more. We'll see.

Welcome back to the club mate, I'm glad you're enjoying Trial Mountain again. I had to sell my ps4 and now I'm gonna have to save up for another one. It sucks but I'm hanging in there. Hope you're beating this Covid-19. It's a nasty thing to get. My grandparents got it 2 years ago. Take care,

 

[Stilva]

I just had the worst 4 race stretch I think I've ever had. The starts were fine, but I had multiple self inflicted spins in the Huracan. So, that car is in time out until further notice. I switched the Porsche and it's bumper cars out there. I had a 3 second penalty for ignoring a yellow flag after the warning left the screen so I was baffled by that during one race. All of my finishes were in the back of the field and my DR went into a free fall. Which would explain the bumper cars as my progress bar was around 25% or so. Looks like I have a long climb to get back where I was.

 

[Gurzu]

I've been trying race B this week. I love Trial Mountain, and the quick races can be/ are fun. This evening, however, it was more wreckfest than race craft. Granted, a DR B lobby, so we are none of us great. However, getting repeatedly backdoored and side swiped in a SR S lobby feels.....grievous. Is tonight just messy, did something change, or is it just a poorly disguised demolition derby? I work so hard be be clean and respectful, it's just demoralizing.

I did 6 races there so far, all in DR B - SR S. Kicked out in 4 of them, 3 times intentionally (I mean some people just liked to tap my butt continuosly) and one by accident ( the guy apologised and waited for me to recover in front of him, like I do when i'm the "perpetrator" by mistake). In one, I lost the braking point of the last corners to hit the guy which I was fighting with for 3rd (my bad). Eventually I had only one clean and fair race where, from 1st to me (5th) there was no dirty game and we finished battling in 2sec gap between us. I assume it is a matter of luck. Last week I had plenty of victories from pole or second row thinking that all was mostly clean an fair, then I gave a deep look at replays and changed my mind. In SR S there's a "loud" minority of nasty drivers anyway.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I did 6 races there so far, all in DR B - SR S. Kicked out in 4 of them, 3 times intentionally (I mean some people just liked to tap my butt continuosly) and one by accident ( the guy apologised and waited for me to recover in front of him, like I do when i'm the "perpetrator" by mistake). In one, I lost the braking point of the last corners to hit the guy which I was fighting with for 3rd (my bad). Eventually I had only one clean a fair race where, from 1st to me (5th) there was no dirty game and we finished battling in 2sec gap between us. I assume it is a matter of luck. Last week I had plenty of victories from pole or second row thinking that all was mostly clean a fair, then I gave a deep look at replays and changed my mind. In SR S there's a "loud" minority of nasty drivers anyway.

the server quality connection wise has been pretty poor this week, watching the streamers and also playing it's been very rare to get a lobby with green bars.

i'd suspect that with the demo/update/ps5 pro rollout that they are doing some infrastructure updates at Sony and PD and also moving a lot of internal network bandwidth (not literally) moving large files and server patches around.

i had 2 races where i know some of the people who tapped me and they definitely didn't mean it and it was just latency in their cases.

it just feels like its lag that's making it feel dirtier than it really is. Of course there are sweaty players in all network conditions but i don't think there is more than normal.

TM is really tricky as the braking points are very different between players (those that are quicker tend to brake earlier or more gentle)

 

[Charmantha]

Is anyone else experiencing some proper lag this week? I've been trying B but the rest of the grid are just jerking all over the place.

Very very very badly. yesterday i tried to races at Trial Mountain. not one or two, no all cars were all over the place. The Huracan in front of me did a Wheelie 3 Seconds after the start , that looked awesome though. The bad thing is , I breaked because an AMG seemed to have lost control, suddenly he was 50 meters in front of me, next second i rammed it off track and got a penalty. I said a bad word to the station.

 

[brockie]

So just an update from me guys, haven’t raced much daily this week as I’m not getting on with T300 much, fanatec wont repair my WB until they open their repair shop next year to non warranty repairs, which is a pain.

Will get on at the weekend but I’m definitely casual racing mid pack at the moment, don’t have the feel I had with gtddpro 🤨

If it wasn’t for Xmas coming up I’d have just brought another until I could fix and eBay my current one.

@newmedia_dev serious QT time on race b mate, 😳

@GrumpyOldMan nice to see you around again

Enjoy your racing guys and I’ll pop in from time to time when I can

All the best, Tony

 

[Tazzy-91]

Jesus's I'm badly out of practice 🤣🤣🙈 Tried a couple of QT laps of the ring last night...didn't go well. 7.27 in the F40 but it feels slow to me. Switched to the RX vision and my first lap was clean but still slow at 7.15 I tried again and got within 1 second of that. No idea how I got so bad so quickly 🤣🤣 Anyway, tried 2 races and it was a disaster, more akin to skittles than a race 🙈. I gave up and went back to iRacing instead. Will try again later and hopefully see some improvements