Your worst driving habit(s):ouch:

[LolCats]

OH my god man. I've just spent 7 Hours on mission 34 and still not passed. I GIVE up

 

[Parnelli Bone]

So I'm at it again with Mission 34. I'm on my 3rd controller this week already. Don't know how many more impacts my TV can take before it's gone also! 🤬
Yep think I need to contact that anger management person and punch him straight in the mouth

tAke IT from me. You really need to get into almost a Zen-like state to finish this one. After doing 34 over and over, I finally started getting really calm. I figured "looks like it's not gonna happen today", and I would shut off the PS2 on days which I wasn't getting anywhere. Oh, and I also claimed the life of a dual-shock during Mission 34 before getting calmer.

I think it took me a week and a half before i finally finished 34. I also figured: hey, if several hundred others here at GTP can do it, so can I, eventually. 👍

One thing for sure....just after Mission 34, I noticed how solid my driving was at Nurburgring for races. 👍

 

[dpad1990]

Turning around with 1 lap to go in endurance races and trying to crash into the AI's

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Turning around with 1 lap to go in endurance races and trying to crash into the AI's

um...WHY would you do that?



I got another one. It's not a racing HABIT per se, but a habit nonetheless: NOT PRACTICING. I get too impatient to get races done, so I'll enter the race. Since you can't practice once you're in the racing screens (assuming there's no qualifying) I'll just do the race several times till I win. In other words, I don't want to spend the extra 30 to 45 seconds exiting the racing screen and going to do a free run in a different hall.

 

[VTiRoj]

Worse habit would be losing concentration and upshifting waaaaayyyy too early eg. GSXR/4 upshifting at 7000rpm.

I do the opposite. I rev far too high, bounce off the limiter and then realise I needed to upshift 900rpm ago.

 

[Watchman]

I got another one. It's not a racing HABIT per se, but a habit nonetheless: NOT PRACTICING. I get too impatient to get races done, so i'll enter the race. Since you can't practice once you're in the racing screens (assuming there's no qualifying) i'll just do the race several times till i win. In other words, i don't want to spend the extra 30 to 45 seconds exiting the racing screen and going to do a free run in a different hall.

haha, I'm not practicing, too.. I always think that it isn't worth it and that it's only waste of time..

Best wishes,

S-Line Audi Fan

 

[PF]

Thanks to Nicks for the Nurburg pic, though my girlfriend may be disappointed when she opens a doc called 'MyRing' in the Photos folder of my computer.

My most impressive failures are related to out-of-game happenings. I have to compete with a 10yo for PS2 time, and another hobby of mine is drinking rather heavily. As a result by the time I get to the game it tends to be after 10pm and I tend to be three sheets to the wind. A couple of weeks ago I had to switch to Auto tranny during a drivng session because I simply didn't have the motor-neurone skills for MT.

Also, due to the time problems and having my partner and her child asleep while I play, the sound has to be muted or very very low. A couple of months ago I was able to play with sound and got a full second out of a car at GVS just because I knew what the engine was doing.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Thanks to Nicks for the Nurburg pic, though my girlfriend may be disappointed when she opens a doc called 'MyRing' in the Photos folder of my computer.

My most impressive failures are related to out-of-game happenings. I have to compete with a 10yo for PS2 time, and another hobby of mine is drinking rather heavily. As a result by the time I get to the game it tends to be after 10pm and I tend to be three sheets to the wind. A couple of weeks ago I had to switch to Auto tranny during a drivng session because I simply didn't have the motor-neurone skills for MT.

Also, due to the time problems and having my partner and her child asleep while I play, the sound has to be muted or very very low. A couple of months ago I was able to play with sound and got a full second out of a car at GVS just because I knew what the engine was doing.

Dude, you're funny!

 

[LolCats]

Yay for the new smilies! is my life.

 

[Austin343]

It may not be exactly a driving habit, but one of my worst is definitely that I grip the controller too hard. In endurance races, that means that my right wrist gets very stiff and sore for a while after I remove it from the controller. In terms of actual driving habits, I tend to misjudge braking for sweepers quite a bit, either puttering through or sliding into the grass or sand trap. Also, I really should start trying to use actual markers to judge braking points, something I never got in the habit of doing. I get by fine without them, relying (I suppose) on some unconscious memory of what the screen looks like at the braking point or how long the gear indicator has been flashing, but I always notice improvements in consistency and speed when I pick out bits of scenery to mark where I'm supposed to slow down.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

It may not be exactly a driving habit, but one of my worst is definitely that I grip the controller too hard. In endurance races, that means that my right wrist gets very stiff and sore for a while after I remove it from the controller.

Oh god, that's me! The tendons in my wrists started feeling like oven-baked roadkill during Mission 34, as well as some endurances. I'll sit there PUSHING my controller's plastic housing sometimes, like it makes a difference. I'll sometimes push the analog mushrooms with enough torque to make them creak! Such a bad habit...

 

[Austin343]

Yep, that's exactly what I do. So you use the analog sticks too? I think this particular type of pain must be unique to stick users, as you're pushing the accelerator control up rather than in (down), as you do with buttons.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

When DS2ing I use the sticks now as well, but mostly because it's more comfortable. The X-button-mashing hurts my thumb rather badly as it never gets a break, and I finally got around that and THEN went to the analogs. (setup before the sticks was R1 throttle, R2 upshift, square brake)

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Yep, that's exactly what I do. So you use the analog sticks too? I think this particular type of pain must be unique to stick users, as you're pushing the accelerator control up rather than in (down), as you do with buttons.

Yup, I'm a dual-shock guy. lol. I bought a wheel a couple years ago, and couldn't get the hang of it. It was a cheapie Mad Katz wheel, tho. Not anything brilliant. I can't fathom the thought of constructing a proper place to set a wheel anyways, and then sit there in front of my TV hunched over while my girlfriend laughs at me

But I've also gotten into the habit of switching momentarily to the X button for gas, which (during long, grueling events) provides a bit of relief to my thumb for a few moments. I'll also use the d-pad for steering here and there, mostly because you get a slower reaction with d-pad steering, but also a more precise reaction for quick jabs of steering input.

 

[TheBook]

I used a DualShock all the way from GT1 to GT3, but I splurged for a DFP when I got GT4. I've tried using a controller before, but it just doesn't feel right; probably because I'm so used to the wheel.

On topic: 130R. I've played GT4 for almost a year and STILL can't get that corner right. I'm not sure why, but because of how often it happens, I think it counts as a habit.

 

[Lucas]

Another driving habit I have is misjudge the speed of a new car I drive. Today, I was driving my Audi Le Mans in Sarthe, and at the end of the long straight, I was braking at the same point one would normally brake on the IA 16 Licence Not only that, but I was in S2 tires

 

[macBad]

even though i stopped this bad habit a year ago, it was having the tendancy to drift around corners

 

[Rykon Zero]

Oh god, that's me! The tendons in my wrists started feeling like oven-baked roadkill during Mission 34, as well as some endurances. I'll sit there PUSHING my controller's plastic housing sometimes, like it makes a difference. I'll sometimes push the analog mushrooms with enough torque to make them creak! Such a bad habit...

I have a tendency to do the opposite. The DS2's buttons are touch sensitive, and you can modulate the throttle with degrees of pressing. I was playing Enthusia, and I was wondering why a Morris Mini passed me while I was in a Mitsu evo.

 

[GT Racer08]

I always try to out brake the AL cars into the corner, running seriously wide, loosing 3 or 4 positions

 

[blazing escudo]

My bad habit:
-dazed out on race
-"flying" through the Corkscrew @ laguna seca
-accelerate when i should brake(simple but fatal)

 

[Popeye]

Hmm. Following my own ghost off the track. Put it down to concentrating too hard. Then swearing at it when I lose a gold by .016 as I did today. Man I gotta get a life

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Hmm. Following my own ghost off the track. Put it down to concentrating too hard. Then swearing at it when I lose a gold by .016 as I did today. Man I gotta get a life

I think everyone here (all the regulars, anyway) needs to 'get a life'.

 

[SVX]

I smash a car in a corner or I whack them in a corner so they go out of control

 

[Popeye]

I had a life. Only because my ps3 broke Its back now, and I gotta be away from home for a month. Jeez. Bad timing


Edit: Found another one. I belong to the Ayrton Senna school. Dive into every corner as fast as you can and sort it out when you get there.

 

[Burnout55]

Probably making too hard targets for my self and wasting LOADS of money on it.I lost about 8 million at one time and never got round to doing it

 

[Andy GT]

Crashing into the wall everytime I am near to the finish.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Edit: Found another one. I belong to the Ayrton Senna school. Dive into every corner as fast as you can and sort it out when you get there.

Yup. I've been guilty of corner-diving too. Most of the time it works, but then....there's those moments when I either get snubbed by the car ahead of me, or I'll smack them. If I hit them, I'm always a gentleman, tho...I'll let them get situated rather than pushing them fully out the way. 👎

 

[Popeye]

Not the best way to drive, but hey, 2 things. 1) Its only a game 2) Didn't do him too badly did it. But it is frustrating. You know you can do it smoother, or better, but you can't stop yourself.

 

[oldmodelt]

Yup, i'm a dual-shock guy. lol. I bought a wheel a couple years ago, and couldn't get the hang of it. It was a cheapie Mad Katz wheel, tho. Not anything brilliant. I can't fathom the thought of constructing a proper place to set a wheel anyways, and then sit there in front of my TV hunched over while my girlfriend laughs at me

But i've also gotten into the habit of switching momentarily to the X button for gas, which (during long, grueling events) provides a bit of relief to my thumb for a few moments. I'll also use the d-pad for steering here and there, mostly because you get a slower reaction with d-pad steering, but also a more precise reaction for quick jabs of steering input.

I wanted to get the wheel etc too. Wasn't worried about my wife laughing at me. It just wouldn't of fit into the studio apt. I would be living in after she kicked me out of the house. LOL.

Thanks for the tips on button relief. Will try that when my hands cramp up.

 

[superspeed]

Yep, that's exactly what I do. So you use the analog sticks too? I think this particular type of pain must be unique to stick users, as you're pushing the accelerator control up rather than in (down), as you do with buttons.

No, that happens with the buttons.


My habits:
-Punting the AI on turns so I can pass them.
-Misjuding corners.
-Using the AI to know when to brake.

I have more, just not sure what they are...