You are correct, I use a DS3/Auto, SRF and usually TC1. As I learn each car/track combo I switch back and forth between SRF on and off, but usually use TC1 or sometimes TC2 depending on the car. But the non use of this car still baffles me, as it's not any harder to drive with SRF off than the other cars IMO. It must be my driving style.
I have found that SRF has only a very minor effect on some cars while having a more significant effect on others. In fact I'm equal to, if not faster, without SRF on certain cars I've tested. SRF effects the 'swingability' of the car (sort of limiting the car's 'freedom' to a point - and if one can handle this freedom to good effect it pays off in a better (and quite often more fun) run.
IMO - there is no harm in using SRF (if one is having difficulties with the race) to learn the track and car. It can be a good tutor.
Get the Gold and the credits with whatever assists on if necessary, then go back and try reducing them one by one for more complex runs.
I have also found generally - though this is still in the process of being thoroughly tested - that the settings also affect the AI behaviour - in effect;
their behaviour complements one's settings.
One thing that really helped on this one was a change in how I approached the event after having an off, or missing an apex. Usually I would just keep restarting and restarting until I got a clean run, but that just led to lots and lots of frustration- and subsequently, slower and slower times. But, on this event, I decided to just stick with it almost every time something negative happened on the track; I completed the event most of the times I started it, instead of just restarting constantly. That changed everything for me....I ended up practicing ALL of the corners instead of just the first few, as happened in the past. I plan on taking the same approach to places like the Nordschliefe etc in the future.
Great post and well put. I'm sure this echoes the thoughts of many. Restarting every time one has a wipe-out leads to two things (among many other negatives):
1: You never learn how to get out of trouble fast. This is an important skill and must be developed if you are to be a good racer.
2: You never learn the track or the competition thoroughly.
Also every time you restart (not to be confused with retry) your car has retained damage and deterioration - so you're worse off.
For me getting gold has always been the easy part.
The hard part is trying to squeeze out four or five seconds so I don't embarrass the the community too much. Meanwhile the aliens are 8 or 9 seconds quicker than my best time.
I'm not sure everyone is bothered with what 'aliens' do - I'm not.
You can show us the lowest possible time that won the race and some of us would be really more interested in that than the fastest possible time.
My own intent is to enjoy to the fullest driving hundreds of cars on dozens of tracks - as to driving them the fastest in the whole world all the time is . . .*
yawn . . . pretty blurry world.
Eh, I think the Academy rounds were made for wheel users. Being a DS3 user best I could do was a silver for R1 and R3, gold in R2 and zilch in R4 because I got lazy. It's not for lack of trying -- wheel users literally had an advantage for turn-ins and could go flat-out in some sections where the DS3 guys couldn't.
And that just sucks.
I drive with a wheel - and speaking for myself I can tell you that my wheel times (yes, the pedals help, too
) are 100X faster than my DS3 times. ASM is a specific aid for DS3 users - do you not use it?
Hey everyone, new guy on the forum here! (not new to GT tho)
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Hope to come here for some tunes and suggestions if I run into problems again in the future
Welcome to GTPlanet, Mr Nemo - glad you found us!
Have a look here, too, for more on the community:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/board/introduce-yourself.223/
I'm slowly learning the track and also the C60 Hybride thing.
The 'Hybride Thing' is really getting to me, too - this event is becoming addictive.
Without quoting myself, let me repeat (from a post addressed to MTM79 in the AI Hub):
I really like the three A-Spec Seasonals we have going now; you're right - they're tougher, but they're tougher in a different way.
Remember we discussed the phenomenon of how they are handicapped, and from what I see now, the handicaps are being shuffled in a way that makes it harder for us to get to the front as fast as we used to.
Now you must also be familiar with the pattern of 'window of opportunity' that happens in the races - when we keep repeating the same race for instance we can see that we meet up with particular cars in a particular spot, so that if we keep repeating the race, then we know to expect that car there, and we can plan our overtake.
If we do the same race several times, then overtaking that particular car becomes easy, we do it faster, and we go on to tackle the next car; for instance in the Expert Challenge, we might overtake the Pesky C60 at the 3rd corner and the Deltawing at the 6th corner and then the 787B and Speed 8 together at the 9th corner and so on till we, say, reach #1,2#, and #3 just crossing the Finish line 5 seconds ahead of us.
So we go back and trim off 5 seconds, but then all the overtakes are now a little closer than the spot we overtook before when we were 5 seconds short.
If we trim 10 seconds off our time - now all the overtakes are in different spots - and may be spots difficult to overtake or where we come into contact with the AI and take a tumble.
In a sense 'timing' is crucial. Too fast and you get bogged down with traffic in spots that will slow you down. Too slow and the traffic gets too far ahead to catch up.
So when we time the clean overtakes perfectly (in some spots the AI actually move over to give you a clean and thrilling pass) as if pretending for a moment that it is a driving simulator running a racer-training program that we are using - then suddenly we tumble into that perfect race in which the whole thing is a graceful dance around the AI and the course; not too fast to be unrealistic, not too slow to be less than average, a race where every driver performed the optimum.
I have become so addicted to the Expert this time - just doing it over and over in a Pesky Hybride with a stock tranny and a most outstanding suspension tune which I acquired recently - coming 3rd, 4th, or sometimes 5th but enjoying every race.
And getting closer to timing those overtakes right so I can get those lead rabbits where I'm supposed to get them - racing me to the finish line after I take them at the last corner.
Gradually got better and got a couple of 2nd places, trying to perfect one corner at a time. Was doing 1:22,5-1:24 most of the time but just couldn't catch that Judd out in the front.
