What License or mission are you struggling with that you feel ashamed about?
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Grimm6Jack
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The only things I struggled on this game that are worthy being ashamed are... Drifting missions and the Drag Race against the Viper GTS.
For the drifiting gold missions, it all came down to luck. I couldn't for the life of me pull one clean run after another, ironically, the one with the Gr.4 Viper was the hardest by far.
As for the Drag Race against the Viper GTS... Ok this was a good one:
Can anyone figure how much HP that AI Viper had?
EDIT: I dunno why but by using ">" before my lines, my post came with quotes lol.
For the drifiting gold missions, it all came down to luck. I couldn't for the life of me pull one clean run after another, ironically, the one with the Gr.4 Viper was the hardest by far.
As for the Drag Race against the Viper GTS... Ok this was a good one:
... Yeah this Viper GTS more than obviously has a special High RPM Turbo or some other special parts in it because it was ridiculous how it caught up with me. I bought the same Viper GTS, fully upgraded it to about 800+ hp and weight reduction, didn't add any aero kits just to make sure there was no drag and still got destroyed.
Can anyone figure how much HP that AI Viper had?
EDIT: I dunno why but by using ">" before my lines, my post came with quotes lol.
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Yeah, now that you mention it... why didn't I think of the Tomahawk? Would've also been useful for a trophy.
CodeRedR51
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The Slipstream mission with the FC RX-7 is impossible to gold. I've done it like 10 times, 249 km/h every time. Just cannot get that last 1 km/h. (BTW I've switched to using metric units so I can read the wind speeds. I know m/s values, no clue on ft/s 
) Does PD know that those pop up headlights slow you down? 🤣
Edit: Got it. 🤪
) Does PD know that those pop up headlights slow you down? 🤣Edit: Got it. 🤪
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The license with the yellow Honda Civic in Tokyo…screw that.
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I must have got lucky, I used the Lancer Gr.B I'd bought Nitrous for, for grinding Fishermans Ranch, and it beat the Viper GTS by over half a second. I haven't quite managed to win the 1000m one against the Nismo GT-R with it, though, my best is being 0.031 seconds too slow. I don't have enough credits to buy anything else to try. Edit: aha, done it with the Lancer, needed to set the ride height to min, and get rid of all toe and camber.
I hadn't done it, so I just gave it a try. The problem is you catch the lead car before the line, so the way to do it is to deliberately go slower. I shifted to 5th almost immediately, and didn't go right up behind the other cars. It took a few tries to get it right, but I got gold on about my 6th try, just crossing the line very close behind the lead car.
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Grimm6Jack
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I used the Audi, but maybe I didn't tune it propperly, but every time I got beaten by the Viper by about 0.050s... There was one time it was 0.034 and that was it. It was great off the line but the Viper would catch up like a fighter jet.
But yeah, I saw some videos with a Toyota Gr.B car beating it by the tiniest of margins.
I used the Tomahawk X as well for the Nismo since I had it anyways... So I dunno if that would be more difficult than the Viper.
Since that NISMO is likely tuned with special parts and it's AWD, I would wager it would be harder...
Try to gather 1 million for the Tomahawk S. It's more than good enough to destroy in any drag race and it's a good grinding car for Blue Moon Bay in the American Championship or in the Daytona 3-lap race. 52500 in about 3 minutes in Blue Moon Bay and 22500 in 1:30 minutes in Daytona. Remember to use the R3 button to deploy it's hybrid power, it can reach almost 500kph with it if propperly tuned.
Or just buy the X version, since you need it for the 600kph trophy anyway (no other car in the game comes even close).
EDIT: Just checked it... I had no NOS on my Audi Quattro S1 ... 😩 And checked the video where that Gr.B 86 beat the viper and it also used NOS.
Still, that Viper does 9.9 on that 400m drag race. That's insane. That's on the level of hypercars like the 918 Spyder and La Ferrari. That Viper easily has over 1.000 hp for sure...
But yeah, I saw some videos with a Toyota Gr.B car beating it by the tiniest of margins.
I used the Tomahawk X as well for the Nismo since I had it anyways... So I dunno if that would be more difficult than the Viper.
Since that NISMO is likely tuned with special parts and it's AWD, I would wager it would be harder...
Try to gather 1 million for the Tomahawk S. It's more than good enough to destroy in any drag race and it's a good grinding car for Blue Moon Bay in the American Championship or in the Daytona 3-lap race. 52500 in about 3 minutes in Blue Moon Bay and 22500 in 1:30 minutes in Daytona. Remember to use the R3 button to deploy it's hybrid power, it can reach almost 500kph with it if propperly tuned.
Or just buy the X version, since you need it for the 600kph trophy anyway (no other car in the game comes even close).
EDIT: Just checked it... I had no NOS on my Audi Quattro S1 ... 😩 And checked the video where that Gr.B 86 beat the viper and it also used NOS.
Still, that Viper does 9.9 on that 400m drag race. That's insane. That's on the level of hypercars like the 918 Spyder and La Ferrari. That Viper easily has over 1.000 hp for sure...
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Since I'm done with all the things mentioned here, I'll try to help as best I can.
If there are any questions, please let us know.
I also had some "enormous" problems with drifting, but I was able to solve it for myself:
Setting the brakes to +4 - +5 helps a lot.
For this I have countersteering on strong and try it with PAD and wheel. When I use the steering wheel I set the steering angle there to 270 degrees (this is a little less precise, but I can achieve larger corrections faster)
Eco tests:
Keep the route in mind, consider where it goes downhill and whether you can/should use the momentum here.
Set the fuel mixture to 6 and the gearshift to manual, but also shift up early, but don't use extremely low revs, because you give more gas than you can use and therefore more fuel is consumed than necessary.
For ALL exams / tests on the Nürburgring.
Let slide more than push to the last. All the cars react very badly, especially on this track, if you try to force them into the corners, which makes you too slow on the exit.
Less is clearly more here. "Slow In Fast Out"
In addition, you have vehicles with high performance and a lot of torque here, so be careful with the pedals when exiting corners.
As for drag, I struggled a bit here too at first. The first races worked very well with the R34 (all other 4X4 Skylines or similar should achieve good results here) Suspension front down+hard and rear up+softer. As few spoilers as possible, no negative camber and tracking to 0.0.
Keep the transmission rather long in the lower gears and short in the higher ones. The last test against the Nismo GT-R is extremely hard was not possible for me with the R34, then I found the Formula 1 T1500 in my garage (it was a prize before, so no extra costs)
Few spoilers, the transmission a bit longer and it kills the Nismo after about 1/3 to 50% of the way and pulls past it like nothing.
If there are any questions, please let us know.
I also had some "enormous" problems with drifting, but I was able to solve it for myself:
Setting the brakes to +4 - +5 helps a lot.
For this I have countersteering on strong and try it with PAD and wheel. When I use the steering wheel I set the steering angle there to 270 degrees (this is a little less precise, but I can achieve larger corrections faster)
Eco tests:
Keep the route in mind, consider where it goes downhill and whether you can/should use the momentum here.
Set the fuel mixture to 6 and the gearshift to manual, but also shift up early, but don't use extremely low revs, because you give more gas than you can use and therefore more fuel is consumed than necessary.
For ALL exams / tests on the Nürburgring.
Let slide more than push to the last. All the cars react very badly, especially on this track, if you try to force them into the corners, which makes you too slow on the exit.
Less is clearly more here. "Slow In Fast Out"
In addition, you have vehicles with high performance and a lot of torque here, so be careful with the pedals when exiting corners.
As for drag, I struggled a bit here too at first. The first races worked very well with the R34 (all other 4X4 Skylines or similar should achieve good results here) Suspension front down+hard and rear up+softer. As few spoilers as possible, no negative camber and tracking to 0.0.
Keep the transmission rather long in the lower gears and short in the higher ones. The last test against the Nismo GT-R is extremely hard was not possible for me with the R34, then I found the Formula 1 T1500 in my garage (it was a prize before, so no extra costs)
Few spoilers, the transmission a bit longer and it kills the Nismo after about 1/3 to 50% of the way and pulls past it like nothing.
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I'm struggling with IA-10 on the ring and I think it's IA-7 at Sarthe. Golding that sector in sport circuit experience took me ages, but this is much harder.
I've also still got 4 more golds to get in the Super Licence, but I haven't gotten back to them yet. The Gr2 one I'll probably take a while, but confident I'll get it. The Tokyo Expressway one I'm dreading. I hate those tracks with a passion. Laguna Seca and Spa I'll probably never get. I'm not good with the really quick cars, age is catching up with me. Getting gold in Sport on Sarthe was a painful experience and gave me no joy, just relief that it was over. lol.
The missions dont really grab me enough to chase all golds. I went to do the 20 laps on HSR today, 5000 credits for a win. lol, probably wont cover the engine wear on a Gr3.
I've also still got 4 more golds to get in the Super Licence, but I haven't gotten back to them yet. The Gr2 one I'll probably take a while, but confident I'll get it. The Tokyo Expressway one I'm dreading. I hate those tracks with a passion. Laguna Seca and Spa I'll probably never get. I'm not good with the really quick cars, age is catching up with me. Getting gold in Sport on Sarthe was a painful experience and gave me no joy, just relief that it was over. lol.
The missions dont really grab me enough to chase all golds. I went to do the 20 laps on HSR today, 5000 credits for a win. lol, probably wont cover the engine wear on a Gr3.
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Pay attention to the wind direction, you need an optimal alignment here to get gold.Die Slipstream-Mission mit dem FC RX-7 ist unmöglich zu Gold. Ich habe es ungefähr 10 Mal gemacht, jedes Mal 249 km/h. Die letzten 1 km/h sind einfach nicht drin. (Übrigens bin ich auf metrische Einheiten umgestiegen, damit ich die Windgeschwindigkeiten ablesen kann. Ich kenne m / s-Werte, keine Ahnung von ft / s
Bearbeiten: Verstanden. 🤪
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CodeRedR51
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Oh fuuu... sorry for you then..maybe now it´s realy impossible.
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Update: finally got S License.. ashamed i had to do it using maximum TCS, Countersteer assist, STM, and on-track braking zones 🙄
Got silver when i finally completed a lap, but at what cost? As someone who hasn't used assists since she was 14, i hesitated to even use TCS+1 on some of the higher powered RWD cars, reeeaaally had to bite the bullet to go full assist on license S-10 😔
Shame and guilt admitted.
Got silver when i finally completed a lap, but at what cost? As someone who hasn't used assists since she was 14, i hesitated to even use TCS+1 on some of the higher powered RWD cars, reeeaaally had to bite the bullet to go full assist on license S-10 😔
Shame and guilt admitted.
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Mission 1 of Rolling Stone, in the McLaren SLR.
Zero grip on Sports Hard and too much body roll. Even after update 1.08, can't touch the gas until the car is completely stabilized pointing ahead, which takes ages in this mission. Painfull.
The IA-10 is hard, the first one I didn't gold but have the feeling with some practice can be done with some margin, simply didn't put much effort, as I got the IA licence between 1.06 and 1.08 and was doing the dirt IA-3 on slick tires, no way I would gold that. Since golded easily IA-3, will put some effort on IA-10. The SLR thing in Rolling Stone feels impossible to me.
Zero grip on Sports Hard and too much body roll. Even after update 1.08, can't touch the gas until the car is completely stabilized pointing ahead, which takes ages in this mission. Painfull.
The IA-10 is hard, the first one I didn't gold but have the feeling with some practice can be done with some margin, simply didn't put much effort, as I got the IA licence between 1.06 and 1.08 and was doing the dirt IA-3 on slick tires, no way I would gold that. Since golded easily IA-3, will put some effort on IA-10. The SLR thing in Rolling Stone feels impossible to me.
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No, it's fine, you just have to judge how slowly to go early on so that you are just a tiny bit behind the lead car as you finish.
Another tip in general for missions - try changing the AI difficulty, exiting, and going back in. Many of them are bugged and are nigh on impossible until you get it in the right state. On one of the slipstream missions, I was puzzled by how half my friends had one speed and half had a different speed that seemed impossible to me. I changed the AI from easy to hard, exited and went back in, and the speed of the cars was slightly different and I hit the higher speed like half my friends list. There was one on Spa where changing the AI difficulty, exiting and going back in, seemed to even change the track wetness and I went from last to 2nd on my friends list, taking 10 seconds off my time.
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I JUST remembered a nightmare of a mission I had blocked out in my head... the one in the NA Roadster sitting in the middle of eight cones that had to be knocked over in 12 seconds... stupidly impossible with a G29 that doesn't allow steering ratio adjustments on the fly, and even on the controller it took me a good half hour to figure out a route to BARELY Gold it. You can't even SEE the cones unless you're using chase cam!
That challenge, coupled with the awful RWD physics of the game, makes me think no one at PD tested this game on a wheel. We elite wheel users who invest millions into our craft get no sympathy from the developers smh.
That challenge, coupled with the awful RWD physics of the game, makes me think no one at PD tested this game on a wheel. We elite wheel users who invest millions into our craft get no sympathy from the developers smh.
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If you need help/advice on assignments, missions or the like, please write me briefly about what the task is about, i.e. the route/task and the car. Then I find it much better in my memory 😉.
Rolling Stone : Drive the SLR as if you had Nitro Glycerin on board, steer extremely carefully and gently, and be very cautious with the brakes and gas. The SLR is an oil tanker in a small creek. He moves best when he slides rather than being driven, then he stays nice and calm and is therefore fast enough.
The same applies to the license with the green SLS in the rear section of the ring. Especially here, a smooth and smooth ride is key. What helps four is the transmission to MT and only stay in 4th gear.
Rolling Stone : Drive the SLR as if you had Nitro Glycerin on board, steer extremely carefully and gently, and be very cautious with the brakes and gas. The SLR is an oil tanker in a small creek. He moves best when he slides rather than being driven, then he stays nice and calm and is therefore fast enough.
The same applies to the license with the green SLS in the rear section of the ring. Especially here, a smooth and smooth ride is key. What helps four is the transmission to MT and only stay in 4th gear.
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On the rx-7 mission, I think I got the speed right on. It actually was .1 under on the screen where it said I got gold. I might have actually pulled out of the slipstream before I crossed the line.
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The stupid cone mission is killing me - I can get 20 cones in Silver time, or 19 cones in Gold time.
I'll agree the drift challenges are, well, challenging. The drifting feels a little better than in GTS, but nowhere near as good as GT5/6. But what do I know, my drift car of choice back then was an RS200.
I'll agree the drift challenges are, well, challenging. The drifting feels a little better than in GTS, but nowhere near as good as GT5/6. But what do I know, my drift car of choice back then was an RS200.
ROAD_DOGG33J
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How many cone challenges are there?
The first one was rough, but when I beat it, it was almost by one second if I recall correctly. I'm not looking forward to the next one.
The first one was rough, but when I beat it, it was almost by one second if I recall correctly. I'm not looking forward to the next one.
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