Time Trial Discussion
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- Z4E_Midnight85
I don't really get the mileage thing. It's not like we're having to pay for maintenance (aside from some minor outlays every few hundred miles for oil changes...)
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- half_sourly
Over time (admittedly a lot of time), engine power becomes permanently degraded, despite refreshing it well before worn status. I saw that in the Tomahawk when I grinded that in the early days. I know the engine can be replaced. There is no right or wrong in this, just personal preference.
Also as a minor convenience thing, I find it easier to click the rent a car option when in the TT, so that I hold my current garage car, usually the one I'm using for that week's GTP_WRS time trial.
Speaking of which, if you want a change of pace, this week's GTP_WRS will be in the 2005 Mini Cooper at Brands Hatch Indy.
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Oh, now that DOES sound like a bit of me.
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- Finland
The other end of the deal is minimizing steering.
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- Highlanderlast
Very specific question, drivers that are on controllers, are you on TC0 or which setting?
Also would be nice to know, if someone is on controller and motion steering, what are your times?
I am chasing silver right now, need 0:200 for silver currently, challenging TT for me.
Also would be nice to know, if someone is on controller and motion steering, what are your times?
I am chasing silver right now, need 0:200 for silver currently, challenging TT for me.
TCS 0. However, I reckon it's possible to get gold on TCS 1.
If you can switch it on the move, then just enabling TCS 1 out of the slowest right hander gives you some margin for error when accelerating out of there. You still want to be pointing in a straight line before you open it right up though.
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- Philip-Giger
I did 1:01.3 with TC 1.
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- Cabelmania
I hate this car 
for me gold, this time, is impossible 
settle for silver (for the moment) with 1:01:490, I don't think I wlll improve 
for me gold, this time, is impossible settle for silver (for the moment) with 1:01:490, I don't think I wlll improve 
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- Highlanderlast
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- Z4E_Midnight85
TCS 0, unless there's rain. That's how I roll.
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- DolphDrago
I can say, absolutely, yes. I've posted a couple of times in this thread about switching to manual. I got so frustrated with the Corvette at Watkins Glen, that it prompted me to make the switch after 30 years of using auto.
Give it time. Once you get used to it, it's very helpful. Not only does it make it easier to get the car to turn in, but the biggest advantage I feel is lessening the wheelspin coming off the corners. At Road Atlanta, turn 7 and coming out of the chicane are areas in particular that help to be in higher gear.
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- GOTMAXPOWER
I've just had a look at the lap replay top of the leaderboards, good luck to anybody on controller getting a steering input like that:
Not only is it a much sharper input than you can get on a pad at the same speed (by around 20% on max sensitivity) it's also pretty much instant rather than being very gradually put in like we get on the pad. It gets worse too, that screenshot is on the entry to the first part of the final chicane but controller users have the same slow steering everywhere so it's especially bad when you go from full lock left to full lock right.
If you are struggling to get gold on a controller don't beat yourself up, it's a two-tier contest and you're playing to different rules.
Not only is it a much sharper input than you can get on a pad at the same speed (by around 20% on max sensitivity) it's also pretty much instant rather than being very gradually put in like we get on the pad. It gets worse too, that screenshot is on the entry to the first part of the final chicane but controller users have the same slow steering everywhere so it's especially bad when you go from full lock left to full lock right.
If you are struggling to get gold on a controller don't beat yourself up, it's a two-tier contest and you're playing to different rules.
This is why you can't throw it in, you can't get the same yaw rate because there's a translation process between stick input and steering input in game. You've got to wait for the steering. I'm actually quick enough through that last sector (15.6-15.7) to make the laptime work.
I don't know if the motion sensing mode is any better in this respect?
That said, based on the video further up, I there's definitely a way to get a better response that I haven't got right yet. It's infuriating.
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Good luck also with reproduction this using wheel if you are not strong a+ driver ;d
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The thing that makes this more frustrating than anything else is how horrendous the track limits are. Like, these people are virtually not even on the track and it's ok, then the very next turn it's like, oh you're a pixel off? .5 second penalty.
If this time trail was about staying on the track and actually racing road atlanta, people would be far less frustrated with it. I'm not talking about cutting a corner or rolling up on the curve, that's just road atlanta, I'm talking about full on nearly going off the track. Daily races on this track must be an absolute joke. They need to put up a giant penalty wall on the last corner of the Esses.
Managed a 1:01.39, still on auto trans, TCS 2. I'm fairly firm into silver. I was silver yesterday and got knocked out.
If this time trail was about staying on the track and actually racing road atlanta, people would be far less frustrated with it. I'm not talking about cutting a corner or rolling up on the curve, that's just road atlanta, I'm talking about full on nearly going off the track. Daily races on this track must be an absolute joke. They need to put up a giant penalty wall on the last corner of the Esses.
Managed a 1:01.39, still on auto trans, TCS 2. I'm fairly firm into silver. I was silver yesterday and got knocked out.
