Introducing a new sport- Bugball!

[jinxtigr]

I've thought of a sort of game.

Well... more like...

I had to get a truck to win the 'sport truck' race in GT4, which I thought was a pretty ridiculous thing. I noticed one of the trucks, the Dodge, was uncommonly huge, so I set it up with even higher suspension, loads of power, lightened it (ineffectually) and so on. Result, a fast huge truck like unto a semi.

Wouldn't that have been cooler as a prize for the sport truck race? A semi? but I digress.

I'd heard that racing it against normal cars got you lots of A-spec points because the formula looks at relative weights, so I raced against skill level zero (family cup) at Super Speedway. Won effortlessly, 10 points, reports were correct. So I looked at other settings. What was skill 1 like?

Wait wait. Negative skill?

So I'm setting the skill to -10 to see just what turned up in front of my giant truck. Behold, ant-like tiny cars! Lots of ridiculously tiny Peugeots and such- and one black original VW Beetle.

The movie 'Duel' ensued. Or maybe it was bits of 'Matrix Reloaded'... merrily driving the truck into the teeny cars, crushing them against the wall, all manner of hostilities. Better than arcade racers for blowing off steam with stupid carnage, thanks to the realistic vehicle handling. Then it occurred to me- it was a drag that the old Beetle didn't win.

...

💡

WE CAN FIX THAT!

I give you Bugball. The object of the game being, take any vehicle onto Super Speedway skill -10, get behind the Beetle, and PUSH until it wins. The Beetle must cross the finish line first. It may do so pointing in any direction, and in any condition. I got a total time of something like 2'05" just with the big truck. With the big truck the Bug remains capable of steering and driving, it's just doing it at about 120 mph...

My apologies for being an absolute loony and behaving improperly with vehicles, but by God it is rather fun. And extremely funny!

 

[Peterram430]

It is also funny to drive around the track backwards to see how far they bounce when you hit them!

 

[DarkED]

Me and my best friend used to play a similar game in 2P arcade mode in GT2, however the object was to keep the player who was 'IT' from crossing the finish line at all costs. You basically got on High Speed Ring with 3 laps and you were given a time limit of 10 minutes. If your friend crossed the finish on lap 3 in under 10 minutes, you lose. We used to get a bunch of friends together and hold tournaments. We'd even bet money on it occasionally.

We used to pull all sorts of crazy tricks trying to block each other. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN pull a successful P.I.T. maneuver in GT2

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Ugh...I think I'll pass Let me know when we get some real drivers on this page...

 

[BobK]

Ugh...i think i'll pass Let me know when we get some real drivers on this page...

So, again, some people aren't "real drivers" just because they don't play the game exactly the way you think it should be played? Why are you constantly dissing people who have their own ways of enjoying the game? Do they really deserve your insinuations that they're not "real drivers"?

 

[Gil]

You will note the smiley indicating that he is joking to some extent.
Or at least trying to lighten the moment.
If you want an interesting challenge: Make up something that is worth at least 50 A-spec points, then find ways to make it harder.
Or start trying to shave seconds off of your time in something like the Lotus Elan or The BMW 2002 at some track that looks easy but really isn't like Monaco or Amalfi.
In Arcade mode so you aren't tempted to "cheat".

 

[Parnelli Bone]

So, again, some people aren't "real drivers" just because they don't play the game exactly the way you think it should be played? Why are you constantly dissing people who have their own ways of enjoying the game? Do they really deserve your insinuations that they're not "real drivers"?

Geez relax, Bobk. I take my own comments on these matters a lot less seriously than you seem to think!

 

[Tulok]

this seems pretty funny, i think ill try it

 

[jinxtigr]

I'm not offended in the least. I'm a gear-head guy at heart, happier tuning, I'm a lousy driver, plus I'm driving with only a busted Dualshock. Calling me not a real driver in the sense of a competitive, talented driver is like calling the ocean wet.

I'm reasonably OK at the 300mph challenge, and I have to drive that myself- around the 100th ranking in total. Also I'm probably going to become a better driver in the future, because I'm VERY interested in how cars handle in all attitudes and even with the dualshock I'm quite capable of fussing over the tuning of a car that naturally wants to oversteer like crazy- I want it to more or less hang on to the attitude AND rate of turn it has, basically four-wheel-drift through turns without major steering input if it's already rotating the right speed. This is surely a worthy thing in its own right- I'm proudest of the RUF BTR '86 as in the hands of a lousy driver like me with a Dualshock at speed it will kill you with glee, and I got mine to act nice without ballast and become great fun to drive

But as far as being a not real driver, I'm supposed to be offended? I apologize for offending the seriousness of anybody, but my own seriousness is engaged when I'm trying to make a car behave a certain way (or struggling to win a race A-spec when I'm actually not any good) and I do like my GT4 ownership to include fun (even silly fun) and not just grueling, frustrating work to achieve scores.

Besides, I love old Beetles and I still think, in a race, the bug should get to win. You just have to help it a little

 

[Cruiserdude]

So, again, some people aren't "real drivers" just because they don't play the game exactly the way you think it should be played? Why are you constantly dissing people who have their own ways of enjoying the game? Do they really deserve your insinuations that they're not "real drivers"?

Haha, I think he was kidding, dude. Its fun to do that, there's a video on youtube called "Hemi Rage" with that same thing. The bugball idea sounds like a cool twist, but any of the little stuff like that, trying to find places to "break through", etc gets old fast. Fun for passing the time for a bit, though. 👍

 

[GT40 MKII]

sounds crazy would my drag spec lightning work

 

[Tornado]

I'd heard that racing it against normal cars got you lots of A-spec points because the formula looks at relative weights

Just a small point, but the Dodge Ram "suffers" from this because the Ram itself is glitched, not because A-Spec points are determined by relative weights (PWR is more correct, I believe).

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I'm not offended in the least. I'm a gear-head guy at heart, happier tuning, I'm a lousy driver, plus I'm driving with only a busted Dualshock. Calling me not a real driver in the sense of a competitive, talented driver is like calling the ocean wet.

I'm reasonably OK at the 300mph challenge, and I have to drive that myself- around the 100th ranking in total. Also I'm probably going to become a better driver in the future, because I'm VERY interested in how cars handle in all attitudes and even with the dualshock I'm quite capable of fussing over the tuning of a car that naturally wants to oversteer like crazy- I want it to more or less hang on to the attitude AND rate of turn it has, basically four-wheel-drift through turns without major steering input if it's already rotating the right speed. This is surely a worthy thing in its own right- I'm proudest of the RUF BTR '86 as in the hands of a lousy driver like me with a Dualshock at speed it will kill you with glee, and I got mine to act nice without ballast and become great fun to drive

But as far as being a not real driver, I'm supposed to be offended? I apologize for offending the seriousness of anybody, but my own seriousness is engaged when I'm trying to make a car behave a certain way (or struggling to win a race A-spec when I'm actually not any good) and I do like my GT4 ownership to include fun (even silly fun) and not just grueling, frustrating work to achieve scores.

Besides, I love old Beetles and I still think, in a race, the bug should get to win. You just have to help it a little

See, I'm glad you get what I'm saying. I'm just messing around when I say stuff like that. I don't get the whole car-bashing thing (true), but you're apparently having fun, so have at it. 👍

 

[jinxtigr]

Well, the neat thing about Bugball is that you don't actually want the Bug to go out of control, or crash. That would be too easy. You want it to remain in control while being pushed from behind by another car, and you're not driving it so you depend on the capacities of the Bug driver.

That said, it is still a stupid idea, yes

 

[Rotary Junkie]

I can make TVRs go 199, bone stock. By pushing them with my Lightning!! (Just WOULDN'T bust 200!) The Lightning itself tops out at 175ish.

Hmm, I wish Test Drive: EOD had Bugs in it. CHAIN RACE!!! Get a school bus and tow the bug to victory!

 

[Vander]

I can make TVRs go 199, bone stock. By pushing them with my Lightning!! (Just WOULDN'T bust 200!) The Lightning itself tops out at 175ish.

Hmm, I wish Test Drive: EOD had Bugs in it. CHAIN RACE!!! Get a school bus and tow the bug to victory!

Just tow the mail truck with the school bus, it's pretty similiar.

 

[Turbo Lag]

It is also funny to drive around the track backwards to see how far they bounce when you hit them!

Yep. I love doing this on the Sarthe

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Or doing 180 in a Cougar and rear-ending a Fiat 500. Makes Mr. Fiat do 150.

Ahh, whatever.

Vander: I don't wanna tow the mail truck, I wanna tow a VW Bug, dammit! Or the Corvair that somehow got the engine put up front.

 

[Stevisiov]

You could have a LAN bugball I suppose, 3 teams of two, one in beetle one in dodge ram, Aim, to get your team mates beetle over the line before the other teams, it is your Ram drivers job to protect your beetle from other dodge rams trying to knock your beetle off the track....

Sounds a little crazy,mind its an unusual thread, I just hope it isn't an event at the ocho

 

[Turbo Lag]

You could have a LAN bugball I suppose, 3 teams of two, one in beetle one in dodge ram, Aim, to get your team mates beetle over the line before the other teams, it is your Ram drivers job to protect your beetle from other dodge rams trying to knock your beetle off the track....

Sounds a little crazy,mind its an unusual thread, I just hope it isn't an event at the ocho

Or on Super Speedway. One person gets the Ram and all the others get Fiat 500's. The Ram goes round backwards and tries to ram the Fiats.

 

[Philly]

I always liked to push the slow cars if I was racing them in a much faster car.

The last time I tried somethin lke this was on test course with a speed 12. It didn't work to well. The car I rammed was usualy passing me by the time my car stopped spinning and got tuned around. It was pretty funn at first though.

 

[AOS-]

There's already been an existence of driving the Hemi with K-Cup and Lightweight, unfortunately, but nevertheless it's fun.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

*snores loudly*

 

[Stevisiov]

*snores loudly*

Haha, yes real racing is far more interesting.

can't beat 200A-spec action.

 

[AOS-]

Haha, yes real racing is far more interesting.

can't beat 200A-spec action.

Though I can't take a loss in GT very well I agree with him, i'm beter off with sometihng like 80pts at max..

lets not get offtopic

 

[eg6_dude]

That all sounds very fun! I have never really driven any truck for longer then absolutly neccesary so I never discovered something like that. Perhaps I will have to give it a whirl sometime....when I have the time!

 

[El Jarretto]

I prefer to bump the Subaru 360 that tops out at a blazing 48mph and always loses. Besides, the Beetle always beats the other cars whether I push it or not.