The Crew Motorfest - General Discussion

[GTvsForza]

Maybe they know a lot of people would be playing GT7 that day

 

[MSZ]

I haven't been in the mood to play anyway, may be until they decided to fix the import problems some day.

 

[breeminator]

Yep had about 10% left on the tyres with nitro chemist/iron grip set.

So, just tried it on my main account where I have a nitro chemist set with maxed iron grip, and mostly extra pump, but 5% pure. I found it a LOT faster to stop after 3 laps. My first attempt was a no-stop, and I did 7:20, with it feeling like I was losing a lot of time from lap 4 onwards. I finished with around 40% left on the grip bar at the end of the race, but even from around 60% it feels to me like it's costing a lot of time. 2nd attempt I stopped after lap 3 and did 7:06 (327th on the leaderboard right now). I think it's better to have extra pump rather than pure alongside the iron grip, so you're not putting the extreme high power through the tyres.

 

[RPR6143 RPG]

There's an issue where we can't import our cars from The Crew 2 to Motorfest.

 

[evldave333]

So, just tried it on my main account where I have a nitro chemist set with maxed iron grip, and mostly extra pump, but 5% pure. I found it a LOT faster to stop after 3 laps. My first attempt was a no-stop, and I did 7:20, with it feeling like I was losing a lot of time from lap 4 onwards. I finished with around 40% left on the grip bar at the end of the race, but even from around 60% it feels to me like it's costing a lot of time. 2nd attempt I stopped after lap 3 and did 7:06 (327th on the leaderboard right now). I think it's better to have extra pump rather than pure alongside the iron grip, so you're not putting the extreme high power through the tyres.

Might revisit thanks for the insight ( I love you're detail ), Ive only one shotted that one and the gear shifter as im about 6000th. Quite like the variety and car selection in this summit, the year 3 physics changes have really made the cars more fun to drive. The level of nuance / skill required to get a perfect score is exceptionally high, mastering this game is so addictive to me. There's times of pure concentration usually first thing in a morning after a coffee that I get in the zone and post alien times I cant repeat later.

 

[breeminator]

Don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but this summit is IMO a bit of an error by IVT in that one summit event needs specifically the Liberty Walk McLaren 720S Spider, and this car is included in the bundle, but the escape requires a McLaren hypercar, and the LBWK car isn't eligible because it's LBWK not McLaren. So if someone doesn't currently have a McLaren hypercar, buying the bundle doesn't get them a car for every summit event, they need a McLaren hypercar on top, making it a VERY expensive summit for any new player. I'm going to try doing it in a crew with myself to see just how many summit points I lose using loan vehicles.

... Okay, tried doing the escape, slalom, 720S and M5 CS events in a crew, and I feel like it's probably close to impossible to get platinum that way. I'm around 17000th vs top 1000 with all the cars. When you get a loan vehicle for those events from being in a crew, it isn't fair PvP spec, it's base spec, so you lose a massive amount of time. The escape was the biggest loss of points, 90k fewer summit points from that one event because the car only does around 350kph rather than 470kph. And the really crazy thing is the car it loans you for the escape is the LBWK 720S Spider, a car it won't let you use if you own it!!!!!

A couple of days later... I'm hanging in there on an account where I don't want to buy the bundle. I bought the McLaren F1 to do the escape, as that was the biggest single event loss of points. If we label the summit events:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

I've done 4, 5, 8 in a crew with loan (base spec) vehicles. Managed to get 1278k total now, with the cutoff for platinum currently at 1251k. Not sure it will be enough. The slalom is interesting in that when you're using a car without any parts, the time you do REALLY matters. I must have added around 10k summit points to my score just by going right to the edge of the circle to start the slalom at the fastest possible speed, whereas it barely makes any difference how fast you do it when you have a scorebreaker set.

If it looks like it's not enough, close to the end of the summit, I can probably get away with just buying the M5 CS. I hate having to buy these worse than useless cars that just clutter your garage up and make it painful to find the right car for grand races.

 

[strela]

December program.
It looks ok. Have no idea why the Veyron Barchetta velvet as a gold prize for a summit. Will we get prestige tickets if we own it already? Probably not.

Pagani Imola is coming next Wednesday as carpass car.
And we will get an Elite bundel (guess week 3) which is still a mystery. Maybe a Centenario + Temerario combo? Who knows.

 

[sirjim73]

December program.
It looks ok. Have no idea why the Veyron Barchetta velvet as a gold prize for a summit. Will we get prestige tickets if we own it already? Probably not.

Pagani Imola is coming next Wednesday as carpass car.
And we will get an Elite bundel (guess week 3) which is still a mystery. Maybe a Centenario + Temerario combo? Who knows.

Season 07 Month 02

 

[breeminator]

I don't know how @strela manages to judge his summit points so exactly! He's on 1289k, I'm now on 1282k on the account where I don't have the M5 CS or LBWK 720S.

Cutoff at midday was 1266k, now at 5pm it's 1272k. 1289k may well be safe, but how does he know?!! I'm not sure 1282k will be safe, I might just give in and buy the bundle, as it took some absolutely heroic performances to even get 1282k without it.

Edit: So... 10pm, I'm only inside platinum by 300 or so places. I'm dropping down the leaderboard by like 10 places a minute, so I'd say there's no chance 1282k will be enough. It's fascinating to see things unfold from close to the cutoff, though, there's clearly a decent number of people all trying to improve their scores in the last few hours. I could just buy the bundle, add 100k to my score and be done with it, but I feel like all the excitement would be gone!

 

[evldave333]

I don't know how @strela manages to judge his summit points so exactly! He's on 1289k, I'm now on 1282k on the account where I don't have the M5 CS or LBWK 720S.

Cutoff at midday was 1266k, now at 5pm it's 1272k. 1289k may well be safe, but how does he know?!! I'm not sure 1282k will be safe, I might just give in and buy the bundle, as it took some absolutely heroic performances to even get 1282k without it.

Edit: So... 10pm, I'm only inside platinum by 300 or so places. I'm dropping down the leaderboard by like 10 places a minute, so I'd say there's no chance 1282k will be enough. It's fascinating to see things unfold from close to the cutoff, though, there's clearly a decent number of people all trying to improve their scores in the last few hours. I could just buy the bundle, add 100k to my score and be done with it, but I feel like all the excitement would be gone!

Its been a bit more competitive the last few weeks, which is what you want for a bit of tuesday night squeaky bum time lol.

 

[breeminator]

Its been a bit more competitive the last few weeks, which is what you want for a bit of tuesday night squeaky bum time lol.

I bought the bundle, just did the tyre wear event, added 36k to my summit total, and it moved me up from 15000th to 5000th, so the scores are very compressed.

 

[strela]

I don't know how @strela manages to judge his summit points so exactly!

I don't... Like I did the summit on the first day and somehow forgot about it. I mean I was top 7k Sunday, top 10k Monday. Yesterday was too close for me to sleep comfortably (summits end at 4 am here) and I knew already 1.3 mil was doable.
So I corrected a little bit. Enough for plat at least.

 

[evldave333]

Another decent summit, they've repeated one race from last week and just changed vehicle / time of day though. Been nibbling tenths for a good while now, gonna be at it all week (even with the big GT7 update) I just know it.

 

[strela]

Another decent summit,

Decent summit with high score this time. If 1.3 mil was more than enough for platinum last week, this time will require at least 1.35 mil. Even close to 1.4 wouldn't surprise me.

Speaking of summits...Those tail lights on the M4 csl are something else. 🤩

 

[MUSC4EVER]

My Summit scores are usually around the 1.2 mark, so I haven't got platinum on Motorfest yet, I don't really know why, it could be parts as I don't have the gold parts for all my vehicles, or it could be talent....yeah its probably talent.

 

[evldave333]

Decent summit with high score this time. If 1.3 mil was more than enough for platinum last week, this time will require at least 1.35 mil. Even close to 1.4 wouldn't surprise me.

Speaking of summits...Those tail lights on the M4 csl are something else. 🤩

agreed what a relef thought I was the only M4 CSL lights pervert but the front lights are absolute filth too... froth!

 

[evldave333]

My Summit scores are usually around the 1.2 mark, so I haven't got platinum on Motorfest yet, I don't really know why, it could be parts as I don't have the gold parts for all my vehicles, or it could be talent....yeah its probably talent.

The motorfest charm is slowly mastering it, i'm so suprised an arcade game would have this fidelity, its just so moreish. Those gold parts soon appear with merge and the (circular symbol) loot part sets.

 

[breeminator]

I don't... Like I did the summit on the first day and somehow forgot about it. I mean I was top 7k Sunday, top 10k Monday. Yesterday was too close for me to sleep comfortably (summits end at 4 am here) and I knew already 1.3 mil was doable.
So I corrected a little bit. Enough for plat at least.

I knew you could do better if you wanted, so knew it must be a choice to leave it at that score from an early attempt.

My Summit scores are usually around the 1.2 mark, so I haven't got platinum on Motorfest yet, I don't really know why, it could be parts as I don't have the gold parts for all my vehicles, or it could be talent....yeah its probably talent.

You can do very well with pink parts that have the right affixes. For example, on one account last week I did the tyre wear event with pink parts, recalibrated to iron grip and a mix of pure and extra pump (whichever of the two I got first on each part), and I was only a second or two slower with that set than my time on an account where I have a nitro chemist set with iron grip and extra pump/pure. It's also important to put legend points on the right things if you don't have many, e.g. have the full iron grip legend points for that tyre wear event, or skilled for slaloms.

There is definitely an element of talent, I sometimes suggest to a friend that he should have a go at a Crew 2 summit if there's something particularly good on offer, and the other week, he couldn't get platinum, his times were often 20-30 seconds slower than mine. I was able to drive around without using any nitrous at all and still be 20+ seconds quicker than him. I tried driving around behind him to give him some slipstream help, and his driving is just so incredibly erratic, he can't control the car anything like as accurately as me. The Crew games actually really reward accurate partial stick movements. I just move the stick left or right with partial movements, but if you wanted to try another approach, the game works really well if you start with the stick pointing upwards and roll it around the circle to steer, like the maestro Simgii does here:



It's possible he's using direct mode.

The motorfest charm is slowly mastering it, i'm so suprised an arcade game would have this fidelity, its just so moreish.

While the game has many arcade elements, the fundamental driving physics really aren't that arcade. And if you use direct mode, I'm not aware of any of the so-called sims that offer that for controller input, so it surpasses sims in that regard.



I tested the summit reward M4 CSL on Kyusha Spirit, and it's absolute garbage, so much worse than the M3 CS.