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If I remember right, I have never seen a forum post about this type of races and believe, it is much underappreciated.
Is it boring? Only if you are a fan of quick victories, but if you drive for the pleasure of driving, then not.
Most impressive is the change of lighting during the course of 24 hours (day to dusk, dusk to night, night to dawn, dawn to day).
Not only do you see pictures like this:
but you see also the gradual change toward it and from it away, like lengthening and shortening of shadows, and the changing colors and hues of the sky, which can all impact your mood.
For the past several years, I have made exclusively this kind of races, preferably Le Mans, and of course, with lots of different cars.
I have set AI to be the least annoying (both sliders for AI capabilities and aggressiveness to the far left), just to be able to concentrate on my driving and the environment.
Unfortunately, one cannot make mid-race saves in PCARS 2, so you have to put the box into sleep mode, and actually, I have unintentionally abandoned races a lot by switching the box off or pulling the (wrong) plug, but this is just a matter of wakefulness 😄.
Additionally, I use the UDP interface to grab some race data and store it in a database, from where I create reports, like this (excerpt):
(the first race is pending, the second one an accidental cancellation as described above)
and this:
Anyway, if you finish a 24h race in real-time, you get a very satisfying sense of accomplishment.
Is it boring? Only if you are a fan of quick victories, but if you drive for the pleasure of driving, then not.
Most impressive is the change of lighting during the course of 24 hours (day to dusk, dusk to night, night to dawn, dawn to day).
Not only do you see pictures like this:
but you see also the gradual change toward it and from it away, like lengthening and shortening of shadows, and the changing colors and hues of the sky, which can all impact your mood.
For the past several years, I have made exclusively this kind of races, preferably Le Mans, and of course, with lots of different cars.
I have set AI to be the least annoying (both sliders for AI capabilities and aggressiveness to the far left), just to be able to concentrate on my driving and the environment.
Unfortunately, one cannot make mid-race saves in PCARS 2, so you have to put the box into sleep mode, and actually, I have unintentionally abandoned races a lot by switching the box off or pulling the (wrong) plug, but this is just a matter of wakefulness 😄.
Additionally, I use the UDP interface to grab some race data and store it in a database, from where I create reports, like this (excerpt):
(the first race is pending, the second one an accidental cancellation as described above)
and this:
Anyway, if you finish a 24h race in real-time, you get a very satisfying sense of accomplishment.