Superstars V8 Next Challenge (PS3, Xbox360, PC)

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crucify you? nah we just send "Neil" round to see ya LOL What format did you play on? PC, PS3, 360? The game is far from FC twitch sim but I would argue its far from "arcadey" but each to there own. The cars and tracks are as TOCA was, just the cars and tracks that are in the Superstars V8 series are included. The game actualy has a cheap price tag to reflect this.

Each to there own opinion and your the second person who dosn't like this game, to post about it, I just wanted your opinions on why you found it "pathetic" so others who may have similar likes and dislikes have an opinion they can relate to. Unfortunatly We in the bretherin Love TOCA (Shut up you lot YOU LOOOOVE IT) so I just found saying it was like TOCA as being a bad point was slightly confusing LOL

Has Niel got his stakes sharpend yet? Good, release him in the general direction of Slovinia! And yes he can use the JaaaaG to get there as long as theres nothing unplesent left in the boot again! Took brother Stalker a week to get all the mushy bits out last time! LOL

As for the time put into the game by black bean, they took the original V8 and basicly spent a year tweaking it, unfortunatly small companies don't have the financial security of say PD to spend 5 years simply developint one game to the N'th degree, what they have got is a huge leap over the original game and one thats certainly got more than a few of us with daft grins on our faces, well on the PS3 at least.

Oh and please feel free to let everyone know how bad you found it........were trying to keep the game "underground" and all help in doing this is greatly apreciated by the bretherin :)

If you were expecting a troll like crucifiction I would have mentioned the "Let's say my pal rented it on the internet" as maybe you downloaded a pirated version ilealgy. Then I'd ask why you "played Toca a loooooooot" but you found that "it's too arcadey" bit of a contradiction there as for the cars and tracks.......it's no big secret, it's on the box......ahh but you didn't get a box.........but where not like that here, Sarcastic? Oh yes were very sarcastic, we had steven fry in for a 2 week intensive course for the bretherin.....but everyones entitled to there opinions all thats asked is the reasons behind them. SImply stating a game is pathetic could be seen as trollish behaviour, be careful how you word things as others may not be as sarcastic as us ;)

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opening up in 20 minutes :)

This game is not about collecting cars but it's about close racing within a official championship. It recreates this and that's all it does. F1 same tracks over and over again. Gran Turismo , lot's of cars, lot of the same tracks, forza idem. They all don't do something new, they al create driving/racing games. I think that Blackbean created something that is very enjoyable. It's also not full price and when budgets are compared between let's say codies/sony/polyphony/turn10 and blackbean, hell they did damn well 👍
 
Finally got it in the mail today!!!!!!Along with my Buttkicker Gamer2.... I will deff be down with some online racing with you guys once I get some practice under my belt. Feel free to add me to your invite list. use PSN: Wnabm3 Thanks

I can't wait for some close online battles!
 
@Hereward, what difference does it make on which platform I have played? And you guessed correctly that I played it on PC.

I played Toca like ... 5+ years ago and since I loveD NFS series Toca was good game despite its arcadeness.

It's Slovenia, not Slovinia. I didn't insult you or your grandma lead country.

I respect your opinion that you like or love it. I don't and I stand behind my statement.
 
BigJizzy is hosting an open quick match right now, as soon as 5 GTP members arive he'll open a private lobby, code should be L2,L2,L2,L2,R2.......just remember all L2 except the last one which is R2. I'll be on a little later.
 
sorry guys! Today I'm just one big turd. Really struggling and fighting with myself on the track :indiff:

Was nice to be with such gentlemens though 👍

Thanks for racing and until next time.
 
sorry guys! Today I'm just one big turd. Really struggling and fighting with myself on the track :indiff:

Was nice to be with such gentlemens though 👍

Thanks for racing and until next time.

I too was having a "bad one" Just couldn't hook the car up found myself reacting rather than racing, quick one on the "Monza incident" I know the coms are carpe....Dont cut the 2 chicanes at monza when in a private lobby, Only use them to avoid an accident if you miss your braking point, any places you make up from cutting then please give them back (F1 Rules) 2 wheels on the black stuff at all times unless you make a mistake or it's to avoid an accident. Everyone needs to follow the same rules or it becomes a 2 group race. Bad coms and me presumeing you'd read a very small post about it on here was to blame.....open lobbys tends to see everyone doing it so to avoid an accident you need to follow the pack.

Cheers for the races guys and thanks to BigJizzy for hosting 👍

Oh yeah and that M5 👎
 
Tonight it was impossible for me to join you guys...:guilty: ,but tomorrow I've commited myself to sit in front of the tv from 9.00 pm GMT on trought the night,maybe we could go for an online championship?👍
If I could ,make a suggestion I think we could keep the announced password from now on(all L2+R2) to allow any GTPeer to join at any time.💡
 
Morning All,

Apoligies for the Password mix up, it is and will always be for GTP All the L1's with an R1 at the end.

You can only enter either L1 or R1 so its pretty easy.

To clarify

L1 L1 L1 L1 L1 L1 R1

Thanks all for the racing last night, the game seems to really struggle with comms when pings are low. the only person i could hear clearly was Hereward who had 4 green bars on mine.

Some cracking races the odd debateable overtake LOL, but thats part of racing. For some reason i just could not dial it in in the wet for some reason...... ESPECIALLY when people in 4wd audis with all te Driving aids on spin you round. LOL i really didnt need any help....

I find that i tend to go off trying to AVOID hitting anyone. As you all know its impossilbe to see when your right behind someone and at the start its pure guess work were everyone around you is.

Apologies again to Redgate for Spearing him off at imola. I just didnt expect you to brake that early and when i did it was to little too late....... My bad..

Regarding Monzagate, and the Stewards enquiry. Its a very difficult one to both clarify and enforce in my opinion,

Whilst i completely agree chicane cutting is a no no. The high curbs at monzy make it very very trecherous to use them anyway.

I think we need to just 100% clarify the "Private Lobby" Rule.

2 Wheels must stay on the black stuff. (no one is going to call you a cheat if you get it wrong, unless FOR 5 LAPS the guy behind watches you cut the corner.

We ALL get it wrong, especially in the wet so sometimes you just cant help it. LOL

And no if your going over them backwards in a cloud of steam and smoke, thats not cheating LOL.....

J
 
I'm getting frustrated with this game. AGAIN! it has froze up while turning from the race main menu to the setups menu. No yellow light flashing, nothing.
 
Not hearing or experiencing any freezing issues, could point to a localized problem on your system? is there any sound or visual setup on you XMB with is not the norm? have you got any corupt saved game data on your system? have you installed a slow beamoth HDD into the PS3? do these issues relate to being on the PSN? Are you still running 20 lap races?

Has anyone else experienced similar issues guys? if so what is the common factor betwwen yours and bullie 77's PS3? (you can't awnser this till bullie gives us a breakdown of his settings)

Let us aproach this problem as we do the parabolica........and no I don't mean screaming whilst sliding sideways at 110mph producing a smokescrren the army would be proud of!
 
Nice races again, thanks. What was that weird "freeze" in the starting grid? Did it have something to do with DuncsST, because in both occasions the race started when he disconnected.

About the password, good if it's in the future all L1's and R1's. For some reason with the DFGT you can only type those. L2, R2, L3 and R3 wont work on the wheel? At least didn't work for me last night. So I had to take a DS3 and change it to controller 1 to write the password. Only to notice that it was wrong, lol.

We had a great battle in Misano with turnupdaheat. It seemed that both of us did kind of know the track, but didn't know exact braking points or corner angles. We drove with a difference of about 1sec for the whole 5 laps, both improving lap times lap by lap. For my luck turnupdaheat did a minor mistake on the last lap and I got pass him. Before that I couldn't even do a single attempt to overtake him.

In Imola jizzy's Merc seems untouchable.

I think I did find couple things that are good in my beloved Maserati! It seems quite stable on wet and I guess it's quite good on tires. Because I'm pushing as hard as I can all the time, but still in some races I'm able to catch you guys the further the race goes. It's not like I'm saving my tires, I can't afford that or I would be million miles away :)
 
The onyl things i have had, is a long wait now and again waiting for players after you have gone to race, adn im 88% certain that is down to whoever has a really really low ping....

J
 
Yeah Vompatti, for me the Misano race was a highlight of the night. I'm familiar with Misano from Supercar Challenge but the layout is slightly different in V8SSNC.

I found myself going wide off the track on the third of the fast right hand sweepers towards the end of the lap and I was feeling guilty about it. On each of the last three laps I was trying to take it a bit easier to keep on the track and but on the last one I actually took it too tight and the car slowed momentarily like it would for a penalty and it was all you needed to go through! Great race.

Certainly, for a Time Attack the Maser is not the weapon of choice but in your hands it is very consistantly quick throughout a race. Good stuff!
 
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Cheers Vomp, Imola is my track of choice in fairness, Its like Mugello, i cant get near Heats lap times and believe me im pushing LOL...........
 
Not hearing or experiencing any freezing issues, could point to a localized problem on your system? is there any sound or visual setup on you XMB with is not the norm? have you got any corupt saved game data on your system? have you installed a slow beamoth HDD into the PS3? do these issues relate to being on the PSN? Are you still running 20 lap races?

Has anyone else experienced similar issues guys? if so what is the common factor betwwen yours and bullie 77's PS3? (you can't awnser this till bullie gives us a breakdown of his settings)

Let us aproach this problem as we do the parabolica........and no I don't mean screaming whilst sliding sideways at 110mph producing a smokescrren the army would be proud of!

Hi!

My PS3 is as 'out-of-the-box'. Nothing was changed software or hardware level and I'm experiencing this only on this game.

Yesterday I decided to start a 'Legend' level 10-lap races championship. No costumization of tracks, aids all off and realism settings all on. First round, Imola, went on to the practise session on default setups in Gambelini's 550i to get a feel of the car. Drived 4 or 5 laps and exited to alter the setups. When selected the 'Setup Settings' tab, the menu fades away to bring up the proper menu. Was in this transition between menus that the game froze.

On previous occasions this had occured was 1) while driving the practice session in Magione - 3rd round. The car was Bolini's 550i. 2) On the same gamesave (loaded again), during the transition between the same menus (see above), prior to entering the Magione practice session. 3) On the same menus transition in a different game save, while driving Martini's 300C - previous two rounds were runned alright.

The common factor you would find is the Magione 3rd round of the championship, so I'm likely to believe that this is some sort of corrupted file in that track while in championship mode. Although, I've drived there in the license test event and online without any problems.

I'm going to start a new championship tonight for testing purposes, costumized, with the following settings:

10 laps
Legend level
All aids off
Realism all on

Tracks: 1) Mugello; 2) Vallelunga; 3) Misano; 4) Monza; 5) Portimão; 6) Imola; 7) Varano; 8) Adria; 9) Kyalami.

I'll let you guys know about the outcome of it.
 
Right guys im hoping this clears up the whole monza curb issue, Here we have some Gt cars racing 2 years ago at monza, Similar speeds, etc it therefore is the closest match i can see.

Pay special attention toe the LINES the ALL take through the first and second chicanes.

Yes i appreciate there are polystyrene barriers there, but there is NO DOUBT what is classed as the racing line.

Try to go round the chicane guys, i know 99% of you already do, :) :)

J

 
If it fails again I'll recreate the smae thing on my PS3 That way we'll know if it's a localised PS2 problem or the actual game which has a bug.
 
Right guys im hoping this clears up the whole monza curb issue, Here we have some Gt cars racing 2 years ago at monza, Similar speeds, etc it therefore is the closest match i can see.

Pay special attention toe the LINES the ALL take through the first and second chicanes.

Yes i appreciate there are polystyrene barriers there, but there is NO DOUBT what is classed as the racing line.

Try to go round the chicane guys, i know 99% of you already do, :) :)

J

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Fixed it for you! :) 👍
 
In fairness, if you park up at any of the Monza chicanes during the game you will see the ai cars ride the kerbs perfectly with two wheels on the track at all times.
 


Looks like the real series has open lobby races as well! LOL

A lesson in this is never race Italians! 5 abreast down the straight and into the first chicane wa never going to work!
 
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" Apologies again to Redgate for Spearing him off at imola. I just didnt expect you to brake that early and when i did it was to little too late....... My bad.. "

No problem it was caused by me seeing someone spin in the corner ahead and i braked early, just a normal race incident.

@bullie i had it freeze about 3 times in championship settings were legend, 10 laps, all realism no assists. Not sure which tracks or track it happened on but it was early on and it might have been Magione.
 


Looks like the real series has open lobby races as well! LOL

A lesson in this is never race Italians! 5 abreast down the straight and into the first chicane wa never going to work!



LOL

Thanks HUN for fixing my link im a spanner at internets
 
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