The Crew Motorfest - General Discussion

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"Fonctionnal" rear view mirrors :lol:
It's just a French thing...

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Has anyone tried it in Grand Races to know what happens when you're with someone in the Porsche, which has 24kph higher solo top speed? Do they just drive away from you on a straight where the cars reach top speed, or does the slipstream let the Mustang keep up?
The Mach e is not a top peed monster, but what it is is shockingly good at the corners...and acceleration (the latter being expected, the former ain't)
 
The Mach e is not a top peed monster, but what it is is shockingly good at the corners...and acceleration (the latter being expected, the former ain't)
I gave it a try for some races in custom mode and did extremely good times, top 50 overall for several events, and I imagine a lot of the times above me were done by people slipstreaming in a convoy. One race I tried it for was Touge Spirit in the Made in Japan playlist, as I thought what you described would be great for that, and I was 6 seconds quicker than with the Audi or Porsche. I think Ryno had 4th on the leaderboard with it for that event. The Audi still has the top spot, and I can only think that is with 1) slipstream and 2) manual with clutch hack, as the gear shifts are so slow that I can't see any other way it can match the Mach e, as the Mach e saves so much time in between corners due to the lack of shifting.

I also tried it for Wangan Spirit, which it should be worse for due to how much of it is done at high speed, but even for that I was top 100 as it gets up to its limited top speed so fast after each bit that drops the speed down.

I just discovered this website via someone mentioning it in Discord, it shows the upcoming grand race schedule, which is incredibly useful if you like, for example, no collision races without any off-road sections. It also has a link to a map that shows the treasure locations.

07/02, 19:30New WaileaRacing > Street Tier 1 > HypercarNo Collisions

I might try the Mach e in that!

Edit: Okay, 19:30 came, and the Mach-E was basically pay to win for the fairly technical second leg, I built up a significant lead from having 2 other cars close to me at the end of the first leg. Bear in mind they would have had slipstream with each other all the way for 2/3rds of the race, vs me driving solo at the front, but they were still over 3 seconds behind me. So, if you have the car, enjoy it for the next few days before everyone has it. It's so good for repeated acceleration that it's going to make choosing the right car for the specific route extremely important in grand races from now on.

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The game still selling well on both sides of the pond on PS5


Got to get more people on board before the big beast of open world racing launches on PS.
I hope so the last summit was pretty easy i only had one go on each event and was still in the top 3k when i checked in today 🤔 (i was away trying Assetto Corsa EVO on the pc certainly different lol )
 
Love the game so far (sound, graphics), but it's very hard to play with Dualsense - do I have to do some tweaks?
I play on PC with dualsense, and it's amazing, IMO the absolute best driving game for controller, but you do need to get the right settings, it took me months to nail them all.

Difficulty:

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Many types of car are fine with TC off, or on sport, but some really need it on comfort for best performance, and you can't set it per car or per category, so I leave it on comfort. ESP you absolutely cannot set to comfort, it will slow you down enormously. Sport seems to cause very little slowdown compared to off. IMO you definitely want counter steering assist off.

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There is a lot of room for personal preference, but I get pretty high up on leaderboards and have won many grand races with those settings. The obscurely named "dynamic max lock" appears to be sensitivity when counter steering. If you find the car over-correcting when you countersteer and going into a slide in the opposite direction, lower it. If you find you can't correct oversteer and it won't straighten up from a slide, increase it.

If you want to be really hard core, direct mode ultimately gives you the best control, but IMO it makes countersteering really difficult. It's worth trying sensitivity 100, I might have a go at increasing it from 80 myself now that I've become very comfortable with 80.

People go on about how good Forza is with controller, but with the above settings, I find Motorfest massively better than Forza, Forza just feels painfully sluggish to me now.

Oh, also, I've turned the trigger feedback down to zero. What they've done with the dualsense haptic trigger feedback for braking is really impressive, but I've found it makes me under-brake for corners and I do better with it turned off.

Edit: Oh and some other things it's easy to forget new players won't know - how to set cars up:

You often want to move the brake balance more to the rear to make the car steer better under braking. 50% is a good starting point.

You always want to make the wheels as far apart as possible. This is generally done by changing the front and rear fender parts, but on some cars it can be another part such as bumper that moves the wheels. You just have to look at the options for each car and make the wheels as far apart as possible.

A good starting point for tuning is to move the ARBs all the way to the right, and the cambers all the way to the left. Most cars are fine with no changes but these, but you can try more detailed settings, e.g. Akor and Militia on YouTube both share settings.

Tyres also make a difference to how far apart the wheels are, but the default tyres aren't terrible, and you can't easily buy the best tyres. One of the joint best tyres is the Roffo Red Line, you might be able to spot a car with them in the custom show, and if you buy the car from the custom show you'll get the tyres, but they cost 10k crew credits. If the car has any other changes, it might cost more. If you want to get the tyres for 10k crew credits (which you can get for free from doing challenges in the game) we can arrange a time of day when I'll put a car in the custom show that you can buy them from.
 
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Gotta say this weeks summit is a stinker helicopters and boats eww, the last boat race in particular had me thinking we're being trolled massive understeer/low visibility/high winds... sigh.
I liked the first rally event that was cool and i needed a reason to play the boats more but when i saw i had to "get to tha choppa" my ❤️ sank hehe
 
Ivory doing what they know best. Map update for Season 6. 🤩


it's nice but I'd rather if they fix multiplayer... I mean game is called crew and its almost impossible to actually find crew to drive around and maybe do playlist races.. also they should make pvp better with lobbies or something... otherwise game is not bad, I'm not fan of physics but whatever, its not a sim... one thing also I'd like them to fix is that we can get random cars on every custom playlist and not just race same cars all the time.... and ye, they need to buff the bikes imo
 
MP was messed up in my last race i joined a col off race although when the race started it was on we were in F1 cars i passed through the gate to change cars and a f1 car came out the forest up the road past the gate and didn't change. Everyone seemed to ram him off but he past me near the end i was 8th he was still in 23rd ahead of me 🙃
 
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it's nice but I'd rather if they fix multiplayer... I mean game is called crew and its almost impossible to actually find crew to drive around and maybe do playlist races..
This doesn't make sense to me, sorry. It's not that difficult to find a crew. You just need to invite players you want in your crew. And of course they need to accept your invitation. But if no one wants to join your crew is not Ivory fault.

Maybe you meant de sinc (players (randoms) suddenly disappearing)?

one thing also I'd like them to fix is that we can get random cars on every custom playlist and not just race same cars all the time
Cars are sorted based on performance and mileage. That is why the same first car appear when you start a custom race. If you make it random you would still had to manually transfer all the parts. Which would make your fix useless. You can already change car and parts manually.
 
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