GTP_WRS-Online : Academy/D-League Racing - Suspended Until GT7
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Thanks Frank for letting me join, just registered. Of course if I can help others I will do so, really looking forward to this 👍
See you on Saturday.
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- Wardez
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I'll be there this Saturday. I'm also down to record videos and submit replays for people to analyze. I'll just start it off with this week's combo by doing a few simple laps for kicking off "instruction."
Me personally, I take a while to get up to speed, so whatever time I end up doing can easily be bested by drivers in my same skill level by at least a second and a half - just saying.
Also, my specialty is race craft and consistency. That's what I'm all about. I've run in, stewarded, and organized multiple leagues every weekend since GT5's launch so I have a good eye for seeing bad habits in drivers on track and such and can give people quick, clear, advice on what they need to do in order to improve their racing, especially in packs.
So I'm off to do a few laps with this combo and I'll come back and post the replay and video. Before I finish that though, I'd appreciate if anyone has any ideas on what else I should post up along with it.
Oh and I had a quick idea, what if we started some sort of periodical? Blog, topic, post, whatever. We could have willing instructors (hello) post up articles detailing a certain topic or idea they have a passion for. It can be anything from a paragraph to multiple pages but it would be a great resource for people that want to pick the brains of experienced online racers.
I already have an idea for an article talking about the psychology behind following someone and ending up copying them unconsciously, especially when they take the wrong lines and make mistakes haha. It's interesting stuff.
Me personally, I take a while to get up to speed, so whatever time I end up doing can easily be bested by drivers in my same skill level by at least a second and a half - just saying.
Also, my specialty is race craft and consistency. That's what I'm all about. I've run in, stewarded, and organized multiple leagues every weekend since GT5's launch so I have a good eye for seeing bad habits in drivers on track and such and can give people quick, clear, advice on what they need to do in order to improve their racing, especially in packs.
So I'm off to do a few laps with this combo and I'll come back and post the replay and video. Before I finish that though, I'd appreciate if anyone has any ideas on what else I should post up along with it.
Oh and I had a quick idea, what if we started some sort of periodical? Blog, topic, post, whatever. We could have willing instructors (hello) post up articles detailing a certain topic or idea they have a passion for. It can be anything from a paragraph to multiple pages but it would be a great resource for people that want to pick the brains of experienced online racers.
I already have an idea for an article talking about the psychology behind following someone and ending up copying them unconsciously, especially when they take the wrong lines and make mistakes haha. It's interesting stuff.
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Wardez
Second this idea. Good choice on the topic too:tup:.
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Sounds really good. I'm watching this with interest; I still don't have enough confidence in my skills to be teaching others, but if time zones work out, I'll try to be around to help a bit, and writing and trading ideas is something I can definitely do.
I've long thought that one of the things we could do in the WRS was to compile a couple of things:
1) A do, don't do list, and maybe a list of when and how it might be a good idea to break those rules. Any amount of resources are available that tell you about line, apex, trail-braking, heel-toe, even racecraft. But there's so little depth! Maybe this should be more of a "toolkit to try" type thing?
2) Template corners. There's some corners that are either completely their own thing, or are particularly good examplars of their type. It would be possible to get someone skilled in analysis to compare replays (preferably premium model combos) from WRS weeks to show what techniques some good runs used on particular corners - it would even be possible to highlight strengths of different driving styles this way, or what is needed for different cars/drivetrains.
3) Beyond my couple, racecraft "moments", or even strategies/tactics paying off.
If there's examples for this out there already, even for different games, it'd be handy to be able to point at. Maybe previous WRS iterations?
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Well, I two-foot, and even before getting the G27 last Christmas (coming up to a year! eek! I should be better now!), I converted from using the right analog stick for accel/brake to L2/R2 with right stick gear shift precisely so that I could "two-finger". This would cover things like when throttle blip on downshift is a good plan, when to feed throttle in while braking (Suzuka turn 1, anybody?), or when it might be a good idea to not do so to let the downshift rotate you more....
One day I'll try to learn proper use of clutch and heel-toe, but that's not for a while
One thing that still completely baffles me about aliens, for example, is how the simultaneous brake-to-x-corner-speed and know how to also keep optimum revs thing works with such consistency.
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GTPorscheI've been able to use the clutch.. not in WRS, but on my own time. I'm great with the upshifting but I just cannot downshift properly.
Although, with GT5's clutch behavior, it's easier to miss the shift than it is to get it completed.
Yeah, downshifting with clutch gets tricky in complicated corners. Seemed to do a bit better when I put the gear shift back on my left. I do like occasionally fooling around with in old cars like a Daddo 280Z. It would be interesting to hear how the clutch could be used to positively affect handling, but that would be getting into difficult territory, since it's banned.
On another note, do we feel offline ghosts have more value now for online play with the nominal merging of the physics models?
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I've seen clips of the GT Academy finalists that seem to be blipping the brake/gas pedals in turns. Maybe someone could shed some light on that!
I've seen senna do it in the Suzuka nsx special, I think it's to keep the revs up in the power band so acceleration is optimum on exit, kind of like the daihatsu where if you dropped too much on the revs the car struggled to keep up. That's my best guess unless there's another reason I don't know about
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There's not much to it, it's more from a force of habit for me at least. I used to do that all the time while learning to drive really loose F1 cars in sims back in the day in order to keep the revs up but sustain grip, it would help during downshifts as a ghetto sort of rev matching. But it depends on the car, because it can be useful to quickly stab the throttle on and off (flutter blip) in a car that tends to understeer for a bit of rotation.
I find myself doing it in GT5 more so because I'll be too board to just coast through certain turns, so I'd rather blip away hah.
It's a style thing, not anything that can really give you an edge, more likely it'll throw you off.
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Really sorry guys, but I have to attend something today, which means I can't make the inaugural WRS Academy session today. I will be there next week with the Camaros, come hail or storm 
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Really sorry guys, but I have to attend something today, which means I can't make the inaugural WRS Academy session today. I will be there next week with the Camaros, come hail or storm
No problem, thanks for letting us know.
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3D3Racingroom will be opened in 10 min for practise.
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- Speedy6543
I'll be there (GTP_3D3Racing) in about 30min.
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Got booted a few times from 3d3racing when practicing for the Monza enduro, not sure if Ill be able to stay connected so I think ill miss todays session. hopefully someone can post a video afterwards, or speedy can stream the event
Clear your cache, and you could always give it a try. We will wait if you get booted...
3D3 Racing lounge is open for practise !!!!
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... or speedy can stream the event
I could do that actually.
A lot of typing in the lounge will be seen and voicechat won't be heard on the Livestream. That's a big downside I think but I could do it anyway.
