After 2 days all I can say is WOW!!! This game is RIGHTEOUS!!! I cannot believe what I've been missing...so much to learn, so many ultra-cool cars to modify...and the sound is unbelievable!!! Imagine a '73 Pontiac Trans Am 455SD engine that has Freakin' BALLS!!! I'm blown away so far and I haven't scratched the surface yet...here's to many months of Total Motorhead Fun!!! Cheers!!! Luminis, thanks for the tuning guide, I'll check it out when I get home after work...Good Day to you All!
It was an early pic of the Olds 442 with wide tires getting out of shape that sold me on 4za.
ONE picture.
And then I saw a 70 Nissan GTR done in a modern day Calsonic livery.
I stopped saving and used the credit card...
Not being able to drive a great deal leaves GT an empty space.
Just being able to paint, decal, play around in the AH lets me stay involved when GT basically tells me "too bad cookie boy.."
I still run both, mostly just to maintain contacts and friends.
If 4za can do something about the few major pains like non removable trim and emblems, white wheels, tracks or track creation and consistent models with proper mirroring side to side they'd take 80% of player complaints away from the game.
GT is already hurting, a few kicks while it's down and it's going to take a whole lot of innovation for GT to regain their place.
Too bad T10 seems to suffer from the same blindness to painfully obvious complaints from gamers as PD does. If they didn't, the war would be over already and Horizons would be a gravy boat. They;d have all the time they needed for F5 to be really something special.
Love the SD455 too BTW... Cars like that make this game a very nice way to spend the time. So much more fun than collecting electronic matchboxes...
The tuning guide is a big help. There's some tendencies in 4za with the cars, and knowing what to change is actually more complicated than GT land. You have a little less physics affecting things, but you have many more options at your disposal to tune with. You can get into fine tuning little things far past what you can in GT land, depending on how many helpers you use and what settings you have. I run ABS and that's about it. Cars can get really squirrel-ly on you in a hurry with many of the default tunes.
And worst comes to worst, you can just go buy a tune and give it a whirl. Watch your telemetry and see what the car does when you get one that feels good. Then, go through the tuning guide and try to recreate the feel and what the telemetry showed you.
And run the snot out of rivals, especially "stock only" race ones where they give you the car. They pay very well win or lose just driving and getting a feel for the game, like getting paid to learn. It also will net you a good number of manufacturers affinity levels which will make worrying about purchasing parts a non factor. Not to mention the bonus money they give you for each level...
Oh, and stop grinning so much.
My neighbor is complaining about the glare of your teeth...
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