Share your best moment in Shift 2: Unleashed!

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TheWimpyRambo

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We have a raves and a rants thread, but no "favorite moments" thread, so I felt it would be cool if you guys posted some of your favorite experiences while playing this game.
I'll start:
I don't have a single favorite moment, my favorite part is the AI, hands down.
Now I know some people complain about the AI being stupid and whatnot, but they must have a different game then I do :dopey:
Some of my favorite moments where when we were racing, I would be in 5th place coming down a straight. Next turn the 2 AI in front of me battle for 3rd, and one clips the other and sends him spinning. I'm forced to slam on the brakes and swerve, narrowly missing both AI.
I had the biggest grin on my face knowing that the AI wasn't at all just on a Sunday drive.
Another moment: I was in Riviera. Last lap Modern A. I'm in 2nd and we're coming down that straight where it goes downhill. We didn't know it yet, but at the bottom of the hill were 2 DNF's, right in the middle of the track. The AI in front of me swerves and narrowly misses the two cars. Me, I'm not so lucky, I swerve and start rolling, totaling my car 👍
Normally I would be mad, but I once again was amazed at the AI and how this was arguably better than racing online.
I have many more moments which I have saved in replays :)
Once I figure out how to record them at a good FPS on my PC I'll upload them here :dunce:
Last story, one of the little moments that make S2U better than GT5 (Personally) I hated the AI in GT5, I never owned the game, but played it for hours at my friends'. Anyway, in Shift 2, I was leading a race, 5 laps at Spa. Last lap, last sector of the track. I thought I was leading by a few seconds, so I just slowed down and took my time. Next thing I know, out of nowhere some Lamborghini just passes me out of nowhere! I thought that I would be an @*& and just force my way past him. I nudge him, and we both start spinning into the wall, only for the next few competitors to pass us up! I was a little mad at first, but then I was just laughing and smiling! 👍
Ok time for your favorite moments :D
 
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That door to door lap at Donington. I didn't even win but it was, to the lack of a better word, intense. Both me and the AI were clearing respecting each other (if this makes sense)

At least we didn't crash but hey, we did lose time fighting so "someone" else took the podium. All I want was getting out of there without a crash. 👍

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PS: I'm trying to remember the cars but i can only remember the thrill... cool :D
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LFA Eliminator in Shanghai, was 3rd and last with somewhat like 3-5 seconds to go when I saw that the two AI cars in front of me touched and both hit the guardrail to a halt after the bridge before start/finish. Floored the throttle, flew past them with like 0,5 seconds remaining, spun out, hit the left rail hard, after the vision cleared up I realized the car had turned a perfect 360°, hit it... goodbye, Mr. AI - won! :D

Overtaking the SLS or whatever it was in front of me in the Modern B Corvette @ Catalunya invitational in the very last curve and hold him off on the long straight by blocking his line to become 3rd was a feelgood moment too!
 
Just finished two 5-lap endurance races on the 'Ring back to back. Although there were no spectacular moments or super-memorable ones there, I've been completely focused on the race for 1 hour and 15 mins or so. It was pretty tough, especially starting from P14, since you've got to get through a whole pack of racers going extremely fast on a very narrow course. Every little mistake could lead to a crash and dropping to last place or even out of the race (which is exactly what happened to me for like 15-20 times before I finally finished it!). I think now I finally can say I know the 'ring quite well, not perfectly but I think it's good enough.
 
I thought the Eliminator events where a cool idea, then I tried the Viper one :scared:
I hated that event, I spin out everytime right at the start :grumpy:
One more story from me.
Was doing Modern A on one of the London Raceways.
Last turn right before the finish line:
The Bugatti in first place was already done, way ahead of us.
It was a close battle for 2nd between me and some AI in a Gumpert Apollo.
I was in 3rd, and knowing this was the last turn, I backed off, happy with 3rd.
The AI in front of me literally spins out right on the last turn, right before the finish line.
I floor it and take 2nd.
I couldn't stop laughing for the next few minutes, knowing I've done this so many times before, except I was able to restart :sly:
 
Till now ( i've just started muscle discipline) almost every time trial (elite+hard) got me excited.. but i'm sure the best moment will be beating modern a invitational elite + hard.. and start the dlc with that amazing tracks.
 
paulpg87
Till now ( i've just started muscle discipline) almost every time trial (elite+hard) got me excited.. but i'm sure the best moment will be beating modern a invitational elite + hard.. and start the dlc with that amazing tracks.
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I skipped muscle altogether, I did two time trials, but it's just not my thing.
I wanna do that invitational too! Everyone keeps talking about how challenging it is, I'm excited :D
DLC isn't coming to pc :grumpy:👎
But SMS said they had something else for us, so we'll see.
 
Was playing online with some randoms, most of which were slow except for one guy who kept giving me a good run. Raced several tracks and won maybe 3 out of 5 races with mostly B-class and low A-class cars. Then the host picked Nordschleife set for 3 Laps and the guy that was challenging me picked a Works Lambo Murci. So I picked my McClaren F1 works car which I had never driven before but I thought maybe it would be a good drive.

So, off the start my rival and I immediately jump out in front of the pack and left them behind (the ones who were in comparable cars wadded them up on the first turn). Since I'm driving a new car, I purposely take it easy on the gas at first just to warm up to the powerband and it's a good thing I did, the F1 is a monster! Every time we hit a sharp corner, he pulls away a bit due to the immense amount of on-throttle oversteer of the F1, but on every straight I catch him like I have GT5 levels of drafting or something. We battle the first half of the lap until the hard right-hander before the Karrusel where he brakes too late and hits the wall.

After that it was all me as I am now warmed up to car. I begin to push it as hard as it will let me and by the end of the first lap I have a good 10 sec. lead. I'm amazed at the F1's brute power as I reach 225 mph on the front straight. I believe my first lap time was in the low 6:30's, due mostly to slowing down for the sake of clean racing with the other guy. But now it's a time trial with open track ahead of me and I'm in the zone. Second lap feels smooth but not blisteringly fast, so I'm blown away by the time I cross the line and see a 6:07 pop up! That's 2 sec. faster than I ever went in Shift 1 with the Zonda. I was so excited that I lost my concentration and put it in the grass after the first big uphill straight (don't know the name, but it crests into a 140 mph right sweeper).

By this time I was 30 sec. ahead of second place and he quit the race during that third lap. When he did, I saw that I was more than 3 min. ahead of 3rd place. Final lap time was about 6:15 which is good considering my grass-cutting expedition early on. When I was done I went to check Autolog to see where I stacked up against the regional and world records and to my utter disbelief, there my name was under regional record! Now, I don't know exactly what that means (I'm from Texas, so maybe locally here in the state) but it was really cool because I've never broken a record like that in a video game before.
 
^^
Congrats!
Not sure what regional means either, but who cares, you hold the record :D
I'm always like 10 seconds away from regional when I'm using the NFS Scion tC, but I'll get it someday :)
 
For me, it was the moment, when I realized, that S2U is NOT the arcade racer with wonky steering controls and garish, overdone NFS graphics, it looked to be after my first hour of trying the game.

I was very disappointed, but when I saw the hint, of who made the software and which physics engine was underneath, I knew, I had to dig and find, what is there.

I suffered through driving a Seat Leon, while experimenting with different steering settings, until I had the money, to buy an E46 M3 and went just hot lapping and tuning the setup.

There is everything in this game for a console racer (PS3 version with DS3), that I remember from Simbin's GTR series - everything, that made me love racing these titles.

The subtile setup changes and their results on the track, the beautifully made sound (racing a fully specced E46 M3 actually reminded me on the first laps in the GTR demo with a Lister Storm in Spa with all the gritty, loud sounds, tire squeels and brake squeal).

Racing S2U in a well specced touring car (M3, MB 190E, Toyota AE86, …) or in a mildly specced GT racer (Porsche 911, Cayman, etc) is extremely rewarding.
You have to setup every car quite differently from how SMS have put them on track.

Driving one of those extremely fast Supercars with SMS setup in a tight race feels not only like skating on ice, but makes it a very frustrating, arcady experience.

You can juice out the raw simulation with medium horse power racers, while some cars, only slightly modified are surprisingly great drives as well (namely the Porsche Cayman, or MB 190, which left me endless hot laps with a wide grin).

THE best moment for me was, when I realized that this game in fact has an underlying core very, very different from the usual critics on it's many shortcomings (freezes, control issues, horrendous initial car setups, especially with no chance of altering them in certain racing events, …).

I am now collecting material for a cockpit build.
I enjoy S2U at the moment more than GT5, because:

- I can buy very interesting stock cars like the E46 M3, MB 190E, Porsches, a Golf GTI MkI, Toyota AE86, modify and tune them for really intense racing on the tracks, I love and miss in GT5 (Spa, Donington, Brands Hatch especially).
- the sound is A LOT better in S2U - raw, loud, but yet refined with engine revs (some quirks are there, like inconsistent tire sounds)
- the intense feel of speed (it looks not perfect, especially on a PS3, but gets the illusion better)
- I feel reminded on GTR2, which I raced on uncounted weekends in online races and loved it - the whole car handling, the balance is all there!
- the modification of cars, visual and performance wise is a lot nicer than in GT5 (it has it's patches here and there from the NFS series unfortunately, but in a whole is really enjoyable)
 
I did forget to mention I hold some regional records to. At the time PSN went down I know that at least the Manufacturer Showdown were all mine :D

Never I hold a record before so it feels really nice.
 
paulpg87
Till now ( i've just started muscle discipline) almost every time trial (elite+hard) got me excited.. but i'm sure the best moment will be beating modern a invitational elite + hard.. and start the dlc with that amazing tracks.
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I just did the invitational.
I was disappointed :(
It wasn't that hard, I took first place about a minute into the race and just went through the race without being challenged too much :)
I also race hard+elite, but I do the Nurburgring a couple of times everytime I play, so that probably helped :)
It DOES however require you to run a perfect lap, not necessarily an insanely fast one, just one without screwups.
 
My best moment so far was probably beating the first part of the 'Redline Festival' at Sozuka East. I turned up to the event in my works converted 918 Spyder, which is a bit on the fast side of the chart, so it really put myself to the test, as I generelly prefer cars that are on the lower end of the performance spectrum.

The first part of the even is a five lap race, each lap taking less than 50 seconds to complete, so that's a rough four minutes, me starting somewhere in 5th place or whatever. The first attempts were pretty bad. While I do know both the course and the car, I had some trouble to keep up with the guy in the 918 up front. I'm playing on elite, with the AI on hard, so they're not exactly slow.
So, I had to go through the pack in front of me as fast as possible to even be able to keep up with the first driver, due to how little time I have to actually catch him.

So, I basically had to push the car throughout the whole race, which was pretty demanding - and, not being used to such a fast car, I threw it off the track more than once, or wasn't fast enough to claim the first place.

Stubborn as I am, I refused to turn down the difficulty of the AI or change the car, so I kept trying, and trying and trying. A magnificient challenge, to me.
Then, after a rough twenty attempts, I put the game aside for the night and just started again the next day.
A few warm-up attempts and I finally entered 'the zone'.

Blasted through the pack and was in third before the first, sweeping right hander, hugging the apex and passing the 2nd AI car, which ran wide. I out-accelerate it on the short straight before the esses, and start to chase down the leader.
Needless to say, it was pretty intense! I followed him until lap four. Right after the before turn one, he brakes early. I knew I could brake pretty late for that turn, and do so.
I'm diving in on his right, slamming the brakes. According to the replay, it was pretty darn close, but I was in front of him before both of us were turning into the corner. On my way out, I went a bit to my left, blocking his line so he couldn't out-accelerate me in a slow-in-fast-out fashion and actually kept the first place.

The last two laps were testing my focus a good bit, but I actually managed to pull through and win!
Hell, best moment in the game so far. Pretty darn epic.
 
Mine was using the waterglass view and adjusting settings , high contrast ect. This game is actually
quite beautiful , the sense of speed, wow ! Just lovin it !!!
Dont understand all the hate?
 
Concreterain
Mine was using the waterglass view and adjusting settings , high contrast ect. This game is actually
quite beautiful , the sense of speed, wow ! Just lovin it !!!
Dont understand all the hate?
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People don't like the fact AI puts up a challenge :D
It's mostly Gt5 fanboys, although some people are having legitimate problems which I'm sure will be addressed in the next patch.

One more contribution: Racing in GT3.
It's a challenge and I'm happy to take a podium, first place is almost out of the question for me on hard+elite.👍
 
My greatest moment was the very second that I slid into third place( by 2 seconds) in the final race of the drift series. It signified the end of my drifting career in Shift2! I managed to place first in every event leading up to the final event, yet it took me over 500 attempts to finally manage a third in the final race.I know some of you are laughing, as you probably breezed through drifting, but that last race just had me. Actually, when i think about it, it makes me laugh too.
I wish that I could hide that series from the menu altogether, it frustrated me so much. Don't get me wrong, as frustrating as it was(for me), it kept me coming back, determined to just finish that series. I'd never say it was not fun( it was in its own way), but I will say that I'm gladly moving on. I waited until I had completed the rest of the game before I started the drifting, and I'm not so sure that was a such a great idea now. I'm finding that after so much time spent on the drifting events, I'm having to re-learn how I was controlling the other cars. I notice I'm almost 5-10 seconds slower than before drifting.
Anyhow, I know it's not exactly a "racing" moment, but it sure felt good to put that behind me. I'm just glad i managed to do it without throwing my controller through the TV(I was close at times).
 
Animal_Mother
Was playing online with some randoms, most of which were slow except for one guy who kept giving me a good run. Raced several tracks and won maybe 3 out of 5 races with mostly B-class and low A-class cars. Then the host picked Nordschleife set for 3 Laps and the guy that was challenging me picked a Works Lambo Murci. So I picked my McClaren F1 works car which I had never driven before but I thought maybe it would be a good drive.

So, off the start my rival and I immediately jump out in front of the pack and left them behind (the ones who were in comparable cars wadded them up on the first turn). Since I'm driving a new car, I purposely take it easy on the gas at first just to warm up to the powerband and it's a good thing I did, the F1 is a monster! Every time we hit a sharp corner, he pulls away a bit due to the immense amount of on-throttle oversteer of the F1, but on every straight I catch him like I have GT5 levels of drafting or something. We battle the first half of the lap until the hard right-hander before the Karrusel where he brakes too late and hits the wall.

After that it was all me as I am now warmed up to car. I begin to push it as hard as it will let me and by the end of the first lap I have a good 10 sec. lead. I'm amazed at the F1's brute power as I reach 225 mph on the front straight. I believe my first lap time was in the low 6:30's, due mostly to slowing down for the sake of clean racing with the other guy. But now it's a time trial with open track ahead of me and I'm in the zone. Second lap feels smooth but not blisteringly fast, so I'm blown away by the time I cross the line and see a 6:07 pop up! That's 2 sec. faster than I ever went in Shift 1 with the Zonda. I was so excited that I lost my concentration and put it in the grass after the first big uphill straight (don't know the name, but it crests into a 140 mph right sweeper).

By this time I was 30 sec. ahead of second place and he quit the race during that third lap. When he did, I saw that I was more than 3 min. ahead of 3rd place. Final lap time was about 6:15 which is good considering my grass-cutting expedition early on. When I was done I went to check Autolog to see where I stacked up against the regional and world records and to my utter disbelief, there my name was under regional record! Now, I don't know exactly what that means (I'm from Texas, so maybe locally here in the state) but it was really cool because I've never broken a record like that in a video game before.
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Congrats.
 
My best moment was the race with the Maserati in it (it is near the beginning of the game, also I forget what track it was).

anyway, The best I could get was 2nd because that damn Maserati was so fast (I was in my S2000, HARD+ELITE). I tried and tired many times and still only getting 2nd or crashing and the wheels flying off lol. I started to get a better idea of the lines and my time was getting better but I found out if you didn't get the Maserati on the first corner it was almost impossible to catch up. So I start the race and I manage to beat him on the first corner (rubbing is racing lol), the rest of the race he was on my bumper and I did my best to stay calm. The last turn comes up before the straight to the finish and I mess up a little and cut the corner and jump it a little and losing speed. So now he is a bumper ahead of me and luckily I saved some nitrous because I knew I was going to need it.

I'm on the nitrous button (cursing as much as I could in that short amount of time to the finish) and now I have a hair on him and I really don't know what happened next but we touched and spun out and slammed into the wall and 1,0000,000th of a second before the field passes us I slide sideways across the finish and took 1st.

I saved the replay of that one lol
 
OLDSKOOLACURA
My best moment was the race with the Maserati in it (it is near the beginning of the game, also I forget what track it was).

anyway, The best I could get was 2nd because that damn Maserati was so fast (I was in my S2000, HARD+ELITE). I tried and tired many times and still only getting 2nd or crashing and the wheels flying off lol. I started to get a better idea of the lines and my time was getting better but I found out if you didn't get the Maserati on the first corner it was almost impossible to catch up. So I start the race and I manage to beat him on the first corner (rubbing is racing lol), the rest of the race he was on my bumper and I did my best to stay calm. The last turn comes up before the straight to the finish and I mess up a little and cut the corner and jump it a little and losing speed. So now he is a bumper ahead of me and luckily I saved some nitrous because I knew I was going to need it.

I'm on the nitrous button (cursing as much as I could in that short amount of time to the finish) and now I have a hair on him and I really don't know what happened next but we touched and spun out and slammed into the wall and 1,0000,000th of a second before the field passes us I slide sideways across the finish and took 1st.

I saved the replay of that one lol
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Can you post that here?!? Or at least the last 10 seconds?
 
This is pretty lame compared to some of you guys, but I felt extremely satisfied after connecting drifts through London Drift Track without even touching the wall for the first time.
 
Just open an outube account, When viewing the replay go to the end of the movie (10 seconds before - since we want those last 10s), stop. share to youtube (it'll ask for you account), wait for the the encoding and wait for the upload.

At least that's how I think it works
 
RomKnight
Drifting for me should be in the worst moment in shift 2 :D

i would open a thread but the rants thread already exist :D
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:lol:

At least shift 2 does actually have drift events and you don't have to spend money on drift cars, you could use the 240SX you get given for all of them.
 
Driving a 20 lap event at Suzuka Yesterday has been my best moment so far.
I used a mildly tuned Skyline R32, which is just a fantastic car.

In lap one, I pushed the car through the midfield, but had slight contact in the last left hander after the esses with a Caterham, left me spinning the car.

I then proceeded, to catch up the field over the coming 8 or 9 laps in anger with lot's of intense laps.

I then lapped half the field in the rest half of the race.
When driving a lot of laps, you stop at some point, to worry about the twitchy controls of S2U and just race.
It would make a great endurance racer with all the sense of speed and tight racing.

S2U is a rare racing game in a long time, that gives me sweaty hands.
GT5 never managed that - it seems all too easy and polished in GT5 - no raw racing!
 
I did the some GT3 single exhibitions trying to get some podiums and unlock the championship. I'm using the Porsche Cup R and lapping Doninghton, Laguna Seca and Willow Springs makes me sweat every 3 laps :D

I still can't do more than 2nd place on hard AI but i'm having so much fun some might think I'm on something :D
 
Speaking of getting sweaty hands, how about that second race to get Tommy Milner's BMW? Damn that was a stressful 5 laps on the Ring. He was on my tail pretty much the entire race.

I thought I knew that track well, but at night it's a completely different story.

That was actually one of the most intense races I've ever played in a game. Liked that McLaren Invitational on the Ring and thought that wasn't quite intense enough? Try these two endurance championship races. Hope you choose the right car to keep the AI from being crazy/hell-bent insane! :nervous::crazy:
 
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My greatest moment was the very second that I slid into third place( by 2 seconds) in the final race of the drift series. It signified the end of my drifting career in Shift2! I managed to place first in every event leading up to the final event, yet it took me over 500 attempts to finally manage a third in the final race.I know some of you are laughing, as you probably breezed through drifting, but that last race just had me. Actually, when i think about it, it makes me laugh too.
I wish that I could hide that series from the menu altogether, it frustrated me so much. Don't get me wrong, as frustrating as it was(for me), it kept me coming back, determined to just finish that series. I'd never say it was not fun( it was in its own way), but I will say that I'm gladly moving on. I waited until I had completed the rest of the game before I started the drifting, and I'm not so sure that was a such a great idea now. I'm finding that after so much time spent on the drifting events, I'm having to re-learn how I was controlling the other cars. I notice I'm almost 5-10 seconds slower than before drifting.
Anyhow, I know it's not exactly a "racing" moment, but it sure felt good to put that behind me. I'm just glad i managed to do it without throwing my controller through the TV(I was close at times).
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OH.GOD.YES! I finally managed to pass that goddamn Miami event myself yesterday... not my 500th try but surely way over a 100 too. Biggest problem were those goddamn exploding tires - on the Drift Alliance 240ZX after 3 laps, you can not be serious, SMS! :crazy:

I wasnt even amped up to finally pass this POS event, just glad it was over.
 

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