Time Trial Discussion

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Chris30
Well I'll do my very best, that's all I can do. Watching videos and ghosts is a step I can take for improving my times and understanding the full track and it's limits. Yeah you're right guys, I doubt that i'll ever be able to get in the top 1000, even 5000. I need to maybe get at least silver for a few times and get gold when I can and just go from there.

Well it's Tidgney to the rescue, gotta pay attention to his Dino walkthrough, he explains everything with detail. That's what I like, depth, cutting to the core.
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Chris, I personally think you should work on individual skills before you worry about top whatever place in the world. You might get really lucky and set a banger lap and find yourself high in placement but until you consistently lap near a time you are looking to get, the basics are what you should concentrate on. Learn trail braking, before you learn MT. Learn how to smoothly induce steering. Find your line using AS MUCH OF THE TRACK AS POSSIBLE. It's hard. It's frustrating. It's worth it. Work on your input control. Go slow smoothly and slowly increase the pace while remaining smooth until there is no more to find.

I'm no alien but I'm pretty quick in many cases. Sometimes just grinding on a time trial puts me farther away. Some of my best times come from really short sessions where I put everything i have into it for a small amount of time while I'm fresh. Try that. Shorter stints. It's much much less frustrating especially when having difficulties.

Being consistent is key. All these cars drive so differently but the basic idea for all of them is very much the same. Smoothness buys you time.
 
crome
Had an enjoyable Saturday morning session in the Dino, and improved my old PB by exactly one tenth.

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May not be enough yet to secure a top 1000 placement, but it is enough to leave @D-Mind in the rearview mirror for now, so: your move, mate ;)

To my surprise, optimal also dropped significantly to 1:04.712. Which means ...

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There it is, my motivation 🔥 great time man!
I did a gold in the "Try-oval" but not even going to try to beat you there, what a useless TT.. Follow the yellow line 🫥
 
Dolph Drago
Anyone got tips using a controller? I turned the sensitivity down to -2 since the slightest movement causes the car to instantly veer one way or the other. It didn't help.
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Have you tried to see if the 'force feedback sensitivity' setting works with the stick? If you lower that setting to 1 and it does work with the stick then it should make it easier to keep it in a straight line and turn in smoothly.

Barareklam
@P-Courty I had first session on Tri TT... Not so happy with my current time but here are my settings for now. Maybe I experiment more and adjust them, we shall see, not so amuzed with Tri TT, current Time 35.68*
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I'm back on home turf now so about to 'try' this TT, my settings are currently at 10, 10, 8 so will see how bad that goes first 😂. I also forget the TTs are 14 days so I can give a go at the slidey Dino 😁

Whilst I was on holiday I had a lovely massage and one of the 'relaxing' soundtracks was one of the menu songs on GT7 🤣 I told the wife straight after 😂 hopefully that has subconsciously gave me some more skill (I doubt it 😂)
 
Chris30
I hope mine's not gone because I'm at 0'35.810, and I have to go to bed sometime tonight, I can't stay up 20 more hours doing 500 laps there.
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25 laps an hour? That's 13 minutes out of the hour. It's like you are not even trying. :D :D Just kidding. Take a break. Give your mind and body a little time off. Even the aliens are alluding to needing some rest on this one. Good Luck.
 
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@Barareklam My settings were bad as expected I got an invalidated 1:35.794 on my first full lap 😂 then changed them all this time to...

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And into gold on my first full lap valid lap at 1:35.775

Time to start trying to break it down more now, but my word is this thing hard to keep straight with motion steering. I'm finding the hardest part to be straightening out at the end of the corners.
 
skydragon49
Bon Jour Monsieur @Pesselles. I almost had it.... A 35:721 lap was red flagged just because I blinked while driving over the yellow line. 😂

So there's still time to be found.
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Also, here it goes 2 screenshots with our identical lap time. What are the odds.... 😂😂😂
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Lol,..Can you add me @kowalski__1 ,so i can aleast be #1 on somebodys leaderboard?....i'm never,ever #1 on my board...😂

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zjn
I need your help with Dino
My lap is far from perfect everywhere, but I have the feeling that the last turn is killing my gold quest.

All other turns are ok, or at least I understood what to do and here and there I do it,
last one, no, no really idea what I should do different. I know the answer is before my eyes, but cannot see it.

Would you be so kind to take a look at my lap?
Thanks

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I guess @Pesselles totally nailed it here and he delivered also the solution.
The may be room for improvement everywhere but you are not after a 1.04 you only want a gold time.
You throw the gold away in the last two corners with an incorrect entry angle it happens for me many times as well.
For me one part of the solution was staying in third gear for better control.
Anyway you will make it just a few laps more.💪🙏🏻😎
 
zjn
I need your help with Dino
My lap is far from perfect everywhere, but I have the feeling that the last turn is killing my gold quest.

All other turns are ok, or at least I understood what to do and here and there I do it,
last one, no, no really idea what I should do different. I know the answer is before my eyes, but cannot see it.

Would you be so kind to take a look at my lap?
Thanks

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I think others have covered it pretty well already, the only thing I'd add is that you're quite conservative on entry to the final sequence of turns. I don't typically lift or brake before the initial right kink, but in a straight line after this kink, just enough to safely dip your left wheel in the sand on the left before the final turn. Reposting my lap in case that doesn't make sense.

EDIT: and just to add, I think it's a nice lap, we're talking about small adjustments that will make a big difference. :)

 
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Thanks everyone for the reply!!!

I rebooted my tt yesterday. In the very early days I struggled to keep the car stable, and the only way I found has been to use csa and asm. Yesterday I decided the remove asm only to find out that it was helping on one side bet platooing me on the other.
That's the reason way I lift a bit here and there, I still don't trust my consistency, otherwise, give the short track I become faulty, crash, and this also implies that I cannot test myself in the few turns of the lap.
Still in most case it is the car, not me, to choose my positioning on the track.

Back to it hopefully this evening or tomorrow keeping all your advice pinpointed
 
I had a 0.90% gold on the first day, and by the late evening it was 0.97% then silver the next day.

I used the tips in this thread (I'm playing on pad) and got back into the gold again, with three consecutive improved laps. I then went and watched the leaders lap, and I'm relatively confident there isn't much time left out there (famous last words).
 
skydragon49
Bon Jour Monsieur @Pesselles. I almost had it.... A 35:721 lap was red flagged just because I blinked while driving over the yellow line. 😂

So there's still time to be found.
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Also, here it goes 2 screenshots with our identical lap times. What are the odds.... 😂😂😂
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Well done mate (even if it's in red) 35.721 is a very serious lap, absolutly no doubt and I'll probably have no chance to score so low on controller.
 
BWX
We're literally fighting for thousands of a second on this TT.
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It's funny, really. In one day, I was ranked 390 and have now dropped to 517. But if I improved one tenth, I'd be #10 today, tied with #9.

Not that that's likely to happen, just amusing. I'll certainly try to move up, but I'm not sure I have the skill to get that perfect line.
 
For you wheel users (particularly the DD Pro) I turned both sensitivity and feedback down for Daytona. It's much much much easier to hang on. I set my fastest time with it at 8 out of ten but found consistency at 4-5 that I didn't have at 8. These are in game settings, not wheel base settings. I know it's been mentioned above but just reiterating. It helps.
 

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