GTRRL|SuperGT Challenge Series Sign Ups Open! Rd 5 Suzuka Aug. 25th

[XxShaggxX]

I decided to take the path Fernando Alonso and race for Ferrari

 

[XxShaggxX]

Next test is testing how tough the AI is on the hardest lvl

 

[VELOCI_2NR]

Extremely tough. At least in our early stages of learning the game.

Benny and I did a race simulating the first of the season, and I qualified 8th and finished last. I mean it was probably the worst race of my life, and I absolutely hate Melbourne, but still, they are quick and annoyingly stupid.

I would much prefer to race without AI, honestly, at least until I get a handle on the car and the physics.

Oh and the difficulty was on Professional, which is level 3 of 4.

 

[XxShaggxX]

Im intrigued by the challenge though haha. Never played a racing game where the AI was so quick. It would feel like we are actually racing with 24 really fast drivers. I plan on getting it friday and playing it through the weekend so we shall see. Maybe start off on level 2 of 4 and see how it is.

 

[VELOCI_2NR]

It may have been me sucking at Melbourne, but I was about 1 sec behind pole and then in the race, I just couldn't keep it out of the gravel traps.

They're quick, but once I get the hang of the intricacies of the game, they'll be beatable. I just need to learn to drive, lol

 

[XxShaggxX]

I'm kind of getting pumped. I respect games that decide to test the users by actually making AI difficult. So much goes into online play now a days that game developers don't worry to much about offline and thus they become push overs. I have a feeling I am going to play the hell out of this game...

 

[IMMORTALPILOT]

Here Guys thats the best F1 Simulation.
Its the best physics ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXmn1_GjSg&feature=plcp

 

[VELOCI_2NR]

Yes immortal, we know about iRacing, however some of us, like myself can't afford a computer that can run games at the moment, so we are left to deal with PS3 games. Otherwise, I would have moved to iRacing and simraceway long ago.

Shagg, they are quick, but they are also stupid. Once you get past them, then they won't really fight you for position again. It's just when you are off pace, or crash, that they pass.

 

[Bennen13]

Yeah, they still haven't fixed the AI aggression issue. The first couple of turns are just a cluster because instead of them trying to pass each other they just all slam on their brakes. It is nice to see that they're actually fast this time around though, and I wouldn't say they hurt the quality of the racing at all.

Being consistent is DAMN HARD in this one too. I'm still trying to find a steering wheel setting I'm comfortable with (you can adjust the dead-zone, sensitivity), and the force feedback settings are kinda weird to me. There's hardly any response from car movement, but go over a rumble strip and it's like you just ran over a cow or something, and the different vibration settings don't help much.

I will report a couple of bugs here though;while racing with Joey I experienced a little bit of frame-rate slowdown at Austin with no AI, but it was very brief and not very noticeable, and some easily noticeable frame-rate slowdown at Melbourne with AI, however it was only one instance when there was a very large wreck on the first lap and it was only for a second or two. My PS3 crashed when we entered a race once too, but that was probably just my PS3. I've experienced absolutely zero lag, which is a huge deal to me. I'd rather have brief, barely noticeable, frame-rate drops than cars jumping and twitching unrealistically like in GT5, they always maintain a smooth predictable pace.

As far as difficulty level, I'll have to check out 2 of 4, because once I did finally get my consistency down to good level I was still only averaging a speed somewhere from 8th-13th. I could've gotten a little faster, but it probably wouldn't have been something I could maintain over a whole 20-30 lap race, so that's about what I'm looking at there.

 

[XxShaggxX]

lol. IRacing is obviously the best but if that was an option for me, I wouldn't be on GTPlanet right now lol. So minus IRacing and other CPU sims, I feel that F1 2012 will give me the best overall F1 experience. Which is all I want.

 

[XxShaggxX]

Cute huh

 

[Bennen13]

Cute huh

👍👍👍👍👍 Looks great!

 

[ArtMannn]

i'll take the McLaren Lewis

 

[XxShaggxX]

All I need is which exact car you guys are going to drive. IE which real life driver

 

[Bennen13]

Yeah, I'll take this one before Joey can answer first, I'll be Heikki. Vitaly is a useless, talentless scourge to F1......... perfect for Joey!

 

[XxShaggxX]

Yeah, I'll take this one before Joey can answer first, I'll be Heikki. Vitaly is a useless, talentless scourge to F1......... perfect for Joey!

👍

Hopefully a lot of us have the game by this weekend (I should) and the released date for Europe is the 21st (Friday). Then we all can do some races and figure stuffs out

Sidenote... Eventually we are going to have a new post/place or whatever to host the series. Not sure if we can actually open a F1 2012 league on this site. It was a lot easier when we had our own website lol

 

[VELOCI_2NR]

Yea, definitely need a few practice races together before we start the championship. Just to get driving near other cars down.

hey....wait a minute benny, should I be insulted?? Well we're driving caterhams anyways, lol

 

[Bennen13]

Sidenote... Eventually we are going to have a new post/place or whatever to host the series. Not sure if we can actually open a F1 2012 league on this site. It was a lot easier when we had our own website lol

Would this work?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=262

Unless you don't want randoms to be able to see it.

 

[XxShaggxX]

Would this work?
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=262

Unless you don't want randoms being able to see it.

That would do. I don't mind if randoms see it but they won't be able to join freely lol. It will still be tryout based.

Also had another weird idea. I was thinking about if we do allow AI, that in maybe 1-3 races out of the 20, if someone doesn't show, the place of their AI car would count towards their results. No more then 3 races tho if you miss 4 then that 4th is just a 0 pointer.

So for example, lets say I'm driving Alonso's car. If I miss a race where ever he finishes in the race im missing would be my points. Obviously want to limit this or someone could win a championship and never race if the AI is super beast lol

 

[Bennen13]

That would do. I don't mind if randoms see it but they won't be able to join freely lol. It will still be tryout based.

Also had another weird idea. I was thinking about if we do allow AI, that in maybe 1-3 races out of the 20, if someone doesn't show, the place of their AI car would count towards their results. No more then 3 races tho if you miss 4 then that 4th is just a 0 pointer.

So for example, lets say I'm driving Alonso's car. If I miss a race where ever he finishes in the race im missing would be my points. Obviously want to limit this or someone could win a championship and never race if the AI is super beast lol

Not a bad idea, the only problem is that when you add AI, they still race to their typical standards (i.e. Alonso, Button, Vettel at the top, HRT's etc. at the bottom), So it might be unfair if someone, say like, me or Joey miss a race and get 2 Caterhams to fill in. It's going to be 0 points anyway. But I'm sure there's something we could figure out.

 

[ArtMannn]

In that case, i'll let Lewis do the qualifying and i race

In F1 2011 you could only select the Team you wanted to drive for, and the CPU would select the driver. Can you select the driver too in the new one, i have to wait for Friday before i get mine

 

[XxShaggxX]

In that case, i'll let Lewis do the qualifying and i race

In F1 2011 you could only select the Team you wanted to drive for, and the CPU would select the driver. Can you select the driver too in the new one, i have to wait for Friday before i get mine

If you can't select which driver we can just assign drivers still. So even if they place me in Massa's car, when ever im not there I am still represented by Alonso

 

[XxShaggxX]

i have to wait for Friday before i get mine

I'm right with you mate and I'm in the US lol

 

[Bennen13]

If you can't select which driver we can just assign drivers still. So even if they place me in Massa's car, when ever im not there I am still represented by Alonso

You can't pick specific drivers, but I still completely support this idea.

I just don't want to be Petrov

 

[SkengD]

So are we gonna talk about the gt500 race this weekend ?

 

[kk20]

So are we gonna talk about the gt500 race this weekend ?

Bring on fuji! Yet to drive a corner round here...

 

[XxShaggxX]

Oh boo we were having fun too haha. Fuji is a good track. Has a little bit of everything in it. Long straight, elevation changes. High speed corners and then the tight chicane

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[ZachAK47]

So are we gonna talk about the gt500 race this weekend ?

Posted a track guide afew pages back mate.

So I'm assuming if you're starting a F1 league there won't be another season of this?

 

[XxShaggxX]

Posted a track guide afew pages back mate.

So I'm assuming if you're starting a F1 league there won't be another season of this?

Not necessarily. Just need a bit of break from this that's all.

You should join us on F12012. Need some Red Bull drivers

 

[ZachAK47]

Not necessarily. Just need a bit of break from this that's all.

You should join us on F12012. Need some Red Bull drivers

After reading the stuff that's left out of it (such as FP1 and FP2) and tyre scaling (so 100% races the only option even online, I do 100% career not online lol) I'm actually not buying it at all this year. It's the first F1 game since F1 2002 not to include all sessions.

Plus I'm starting uni on Monday so I need to cut back on gaming, spending 6+h a day on F1 wouldn't go down well lmao. And trust me, the previous F1 games I do about 8h a day for first month lol