So, who's got all 60 Golds in their licence tests yet?

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CarBastard
Thanks a lot for the tips. I'm gonna try to finish the IB tonight. Any further suggestions for the DB9 and 370Z tests?
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The best advice I can give you is to use the third person view so you can watch the ghost replay to get an idea of how good your launch is. After that it's just a matter of hitting the brakes at the exact right speed. I found that it was in the 224 km/h area, +/- a couple of tenths (it's the +/- a couple of tenths part that makes this challenge so irritating).

The earlier tip of changing the brake bias to 10/10 is probably a really good one. To do that though, you'll have to go into the RA function menu and set it while in car. To get it to stick so it doesn't reset the next time you start hit the "restart" button and it should stay to 10/10 until you leave the challenge.

As for the 370Z test.... I can't think of any easy advice to give. Just keep banging away at it and don't overdrive the car into the first hairpin.
 
I never got around to Golding every single one. I easily Golded every single one up to A, and stood around there for a year, not feeling the need to bother with them. A friend told me a year later, my game progress was only 59%, and that I really should get to doing something about it. Easily ran through the license tests. The Nissan GTR Stopping Challenge was definitely not easy though, was surely the most troublesome one.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who's having trouble with the GT-R stopping challenge, it's annoying they've disabled the use of the ABS. I've got some tests on IA to Gold also, but I've completed B, A, IC, and Super so far.
 
Finally done with the stupid indy test. It can be summarized like this: "🤬 ad infinitum". I couldn't :censored:ing believe that I got +.002, and then +.002!!! :mad:. Big advice: Try brake balance at 10/10.

What was PD thinking? Nobody in their right mind would take a corner that way, and the example was way off the target time. Definitely a test of patience and sanity...

Ohh well...3 golds to go. Sadly, two of them are those stupid braking tests...
 
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After running out of things to do in the game, I finally went back and golded the ones I didn't get the first time, which was like 22 of them. I'm golden now tho, lol.
 
-raVer-
Here we go with IC-3

Drifting for Gold :P






raVer
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That's the exact way I took the first corner, maybe a bit wider. The rest I took them a bit more conservatively. Feels good to have it done in a similar way to a D2 driver 👍. However, it brings me back to the point: what real racing driver in his right mind would take a double chicane like that? :lol:.
 
You really gotta hug the inside through the tight S at Indy, and get a perfect exit from that corner, much more important then the first turn.
 
CarBastard
That's the exact way I took the first corner, maybe a bit wider. The rest I took them a bit more conservatively. Feels good to have it done in a similar way to a D2 driver 👍. However, it brings me back to the point: what real racing driver in his right mind would take a double chicane like that? :lol:.
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I guess a real racing driver doesn´t have SRF on. ;)

I think without SRF , this would be easier.



raVer
 
-raVer-
I guess a real racing driver doesn´t have SRF on. ;)

I think without SRF , this would be easier.



raVer
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I didn't know SRF was on all the license tests until after I did them all.
I started a third time through, but knowing SRF is on really changes the game, and if you drive accordingly, it's much easier. You just have to drive intentionally weird.
 
CSLACR
I didn't know SRF was on all the license tests until after I did them all.
I started a third time through, but knowing SRF is on really changes the game, and if you drive accordingly, it's much easier. You just have to drive intentionally weird.
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I drive weird without SRF , how much more should I drive with SRF on? :lol:

raVer
 
Well as a general rule, you don't want to slide too much(A very small amount is best) for fastest laps, but with SRF on, your grip increases when you slide, so you have to intentionally slide the car around to maximize the grip increase.
 
I remember I did IC-3 (the Indy 370Z one) with ABS off and I think I got about 0.100 under gold time so that worked, lol.
As Dom said above, you need the car to slide in order to maximise grip due to the bloody SRF beeing enabled.
 
Energizerrr
I remember I did IC-3 (the Indy 370Z one) with ABS off and I think I got about 0.100 under gold time so that worked, lol.
As Dom said above, you need the car to slide in order to maximise grip due to the bloody SRF beeing enabled.
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I guess, sliding is what I did in my run. ;)


raVer
 
ebud007
Are you using auto transmission? Use manual transmission for IB-3(well always really!), then upshift from 2nd to 4th gear quickly(no time spent on 3rd). That is the key to minimizing the swerves/drifts to your advantage.
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This is how I got it, also I recommend flooring the gas as the coutdown timer hits one, or a fraction later
 
Done with the IC-1 Aston test and the IB-X one at Tsukuba with the Supra. I must say the Aston one felt really easy now with the tips I read here. Mash the throttle with the countdown timer on one, dial in a Brake Balance of 10/10 and mash the brakes at 226Km/H or so, it's a matter of experimentation.

The Supra one became much easier to me after I did the 370Z @ Indy test. Understanding how SRF (utterly pointless aid IMO) actually makes drifting an option helped me get this gold in less than 5 attempts! :D

Now, GT-R wet stopping challenge @ Top Gear and I'll be all Gold! :D
 
MusicalArtist
I've done it. It took a while, but, it wasn't as much of a challenge as I would've hoped it would've been.
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Yeah, I felt the same. There were a couple - the FT86 Slalom test and the one at Indy... :mad: - that took quite a few attempts, but once I started attempting to gold all of them, it was fairly easy to do. The ghost car always helps though, sometimes it feels like cheating...
 
MusicalArtist
I've done it. It took a while, but, it wasn't as much of a challenge as I would've hoped it would've been.
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Ugh...haven't been able to get past it yet. What an appalling and nonsensical test, this is the most epic fail by PD. No ABS but with SRF??? I mean, that's the peak of anti-realism. Why driving without ABS a car that has it as a mandatory option? Why driving without ABS when we can't get a proper feel for the brake pedal (my pedals, as nice as they are are basically a TOY)? Why forcing ASM?

Oh well...Here's hoping for more pedagogic tests in GT6...

Still gotta do that damned test...grrr...
 
CarBastard
Done with the IC-1 Aston test and the IB-X one at Tsukuba with the Supra. I must say the Aston one felt really easy now with the tips I read here. Mash the throttle with the countdown timer on one, dial in a Brake Balance of 10/10 and mash the brakes at 226Km/H or so, it's a matter of experimentation.

The Supra one became much easier to me after I did the 370Z @ Indy test. Understanding how SRF (utterly pointless aid IMO) actually makes drifting an option helped me get this gold in less than 5 attempts! :D

Now, GT-R wet stopping challenge @ Top Gear and I'll be all Gold! :D
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Way to go. If you were waiting to 226 km/h then the 10/10 on the brakes definitely made a difference. If I waited to see it flash 225 I'd overshoot and if I started at 223 I'd come up way short.
 
Does anybody have further advice on the IB1 Test? That stupid nonsensical piece of 🤬 is almost impossible and is the mother of the idiotic tests. I'm getting tired of it. Example, as always, is no good at all. This is the paramaunt example that shows PD have really messed up the license tests, specially with their stupid mandatory SRF 👎.

Any suggestions on brake balance? amount of braking input? how to launch? a braking point???

Thanks to anyone who can help :D
 
IIRC, I wound up using BB 1/1 on the GT-R wet braking test to make choosing the brake pressure easier (just about all of it).

I did that one a night or two ago - I'm redoing them all on the new wheel (all gold previously on DS3).

I didn't yet find a better/more subtle way to launch than burying it in 1st until 50-60kph; I did save a replay, but have no reasonable way to produce a video - and there's much better than me out there with videos already, I assure you.

I've reached the FR slalom - it'll be the last real difficulty, I think, and it's currently giving me conniptions.

I wound up using a little bit of flick on the Indy Double hairpin - felt great to beat my DS3 time (I wound up doing it twice - once with AS on, and then faster without JUST BECAUSE I HAD TO).
 
CarBastard
Does anybody have further advice on the IB1 Test? That stupid nonsensical piece of 🤬 is almost impossible and is the mother of the idiotic tests. I'm getting tired of it. Example, as always, is no good at all. This is the paramaunt example that shows PD have really messed up the license tests, specially with their stupid mandatory SRF 👎.

Any suggestions on brake balance? amount of braking input? how to launch? a braking point???

Thanks to anyone who can help :D
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Which one is it? (I don't know them by numbers and letters)
 
CarBastard
The GT-R stopping challenge at the Top Gear Test Track 400m runaway. ABS, saddly, is now off :guilty:.
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No idea. I would imagine brake balance won't change a lot, maybe something like 3/2 but they main key is going to be launch, shifting at the right spots (max in GTR for this test) and not quite locking the brakes.
If you have a wheel it shouldn't be drastically hard, but a DS3 I would imgaine could suck for it.:crazy:
 

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