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- willejones
I am writing this as a combination of reading so many b spec threads and having done b spec to now lvl 32 as I write this so now I want to clear up things that seem to have a lot of confusion and give some advice.
First off is creating the driver, you get slightly different stats when you go though them but the main thing that changes is personality, or what people refer to as the hot/cold bar. Selecting a driver with a cool personality makes him essentially useless for the reason that he will be quite happy just to saunter along with the other cars mid pack. What you want to do scroll through until you get one with the meter fully aggressive. No matter what the starting personality is in every race when they are out front they go to the fully calm and slow down so it seems like this may not matter but when you have a driver that is full aggressive he will pick up his pace when cars start to come up behind him or if there is a chance to pass or lap a car he automatically takes it where as a cool personality driver will not. Just remember you are creating an A.I. driver and think how some of them you race against just doddle along and others will run you off the track, that is the kind you want racing for you.
As you progress you will be given the option to create more b spec drivers and as the races get long you get the option of enter multiple drivers so it might seem like a good plan to have 2 lvl 15 drivers rather than one lvl 20 because of the strength and mental strength wears down in the race. The strength and mental strength actually don’t matter that much, I have used one driver to complete the 1000km Suzuka race in basically the same time as using four different ones that stayed fresh. I didn’t watch it but there could not have been that many errors due to tiredness basically all that happens is they slow down and miss braking point’s maybe rear end a lapped car and so on, it is absolutely nothing to worry about. That being said you want to just stick with one driver until you hit the endurance races and then you can create new ones and lvl them incredibly fast by just giving them a fast car setting them off in an endurance race on their own.
The skill of the driver is always moaned about well what I just said about sticking with one driver will help you have a better driver. If you are ok at the game you will think he is totally useless until around level 25 then he shows some promise and by lvl 30 he might even make what you consider to be a nice pass or two. Basically until the driver is in the 30’s you are going to complain about his performance. The other thing to note is around the early 20s the driver’s lvl will exceed the b spec lvl and this is normal. Finally the up/down/sideways arrows by the driver name indicates if they are improving, staying the same or deteriorating, it is not if they are happy like some people think. As the driver does more and more races the skill level apparently drops off and you retire them and start again, likely nothing you have to worry about until you reach them to lvl 40.
Controlling them in the race is a pain and not easy like GT4 and you can’t speed it up, we all get it. If you want to leave it run you basically need the driver with fully aggressive personality so he protects his lead and laps people. The easiest way have him win is as the countdown is going tell him to overtake and then keep telling him pace up until he is the lead, telling him to overtake constantly doesn’t make him speed up to pass like telling him pace up does. Once he is in the lead he will almost always stay there as when a car comes up behind his aggressive personality kicks in and he picks up the pace himself to distance himself from the pack. Also some people believe that you have to keep the red/blue bar to your driver’s personality in the race to get the most out of them and this is completely wrong.
B spec is also not a realistic way to make money as the races are generally twice as long as A spec races and the prizes are less as you go along. For instance my favorite cash makers in A spec are German Touring Car one lap of the ring for 83,000cr and American Championship five laps of Indy for 98,000cr but in B spec they are two laps of the ring for 45,000cr and 20 laps of Indy for 54,000cr. It takes you almost four times as long to make money in B spec as A spec so I always scratch my head at people who say it is a cash cow because it just isn’t.
For me however it was kinda valuable to get to lvl 30 so I could play the X1 challenge and also a few b spec prize cars that I wanted but all in all my overall opinion is that I should have just grinded a spec to 30 instead of getting involved with b spec and since my PS3 game with move I was wishing on more than one occasion that I could used the move thing to drag the b spec guy, seriously named Z. Gay and I pretend he is French haha, out of the car and beat him for some of the moves he pulls while racing. In otherwords my advice is stick to A Spec.
First off is creating the driver, you get slightly different stats when you go though them but the main thing that changes is personality, or what people refer to as the hot/cold bar. Selecting a driver with a cool personality makes him essentially useless for the reason that he will be quite happy just to saunter along with the other cars mid pack. What you want to do scroll through until you get one with the meter fully aggressive. No matter what the starting personality is in every race when they are out front they go to the fully calm and slow down so it seems like this may not matter but when you have a driver that is full aggressive he will pick up his pace when cars start to come up behind him or if there is a chance to pass or lap a car he automatically takes it where as a cool personality driver will not. Just remember you are creating an A.I. driver and think how some of them you race against just doddle along and others will run you off the track, that is the kind you want racing for you.
As you progress you will be given the option to create more b spec drivers and as the races get long you get the option of enter multiple drivers so it might seem like a good plan to have 2 lvl 15 drivers rather than one lvl 20 because of the strength and mental strength wears down in the race. The strength and mental strength actually don’t matter that much, I have used one driver to complete the 1000km Suzuka race in basically the same time as using four different ones that stayed fresh. I didn’t watch it but there could not have been that many errors due to tiredness basically all that happens is they slow down and miss braking point’s maybe rear end a lapped car and so on, it is absolutely nothing to worry about. That being said you want to just stick with one driver until you hit the endurance races and then you can create new ones and lvl them incredibly fast by just giving them a fast car setting them off in an endurance race on their own.
The skill of the driver is always moaned about well what I just said about sticking with one driver will help you have a better driver. If you are ok at the game you will think he is totally useless until around level 25 then he shows some promise and by lvl 30 he might even make what you consider to be a nice pass or two. Basically until the driver is in the 30’s you are going to complain about his performance. The other thing to note is around the early 20s the driver’s lvl will exceed the b spec lvl and this is normal. Finally the up/down/sideways arrows by the driver name indicates if they are improving, staying the same or deteriorating, it is not if they are happy like some people think. As the driver does more and more races the skill level apparently drops off and you retire them and start again, likely nothing you have to worry about until you reach them to lvl 40.
Controlling them in the race is a pain and not easy like GT4 and you can’t speed it up, we all get it. If you want to leave it run you basically need the driver with fully aggressive personality so he protects his lead and laps people. The easiest way have him win is as the countdown is going tell him to overtake and then keep telling him pace up until he is the lead, telling him to overtake constantly doesn’t make him speed up to pass like telling him pace up does. Once he is in the lead he will almost always stay there as when a car comes up behind his aggressive personality kicks in and he picks up the pace himself to distance himself from the pack. Also some people believe that you have to keep the red/blue bar to your driver’s personality in the race to get the most out of them and this is completely wrong.
B spec is also not a realistic way to make money as the races are generally twice as long as A spec races and the prizes are less as you go along. For instance my favorite cash makers in A spec are German Touring Car one lap of the ring for 83,000cr and American Championship five laps of Indy for 98,000cr but in B spec they are two laps of the ring for 45,000cr and 20 laps of Indy for 54,000cr. It takes you almost four times as long to make money in B spec as A spec so I always scratch my head at people who say it is a cash cow because it just isn’t.
For me however it was kinda valuable to get to lvl 30 so I could play the X1 challenge and also a few b spec prize cars that I wanted but all in all my overall opinion is that I should have just grinded a spec to 30 instead of getting involved with b spec and since my PS3 game with move I was wishing on more than one occasion that I could used the move thing to drag the b spec guy, seriously named Z. Gay and I pretend he is French haha, out of the car and beat him for some of the moves he pulls while racing. In otherwords my advice is stick to A Spec.
(only speed, mental and physical abilities are a little bit increasing)
I haven't noticed any deterioration or increased mistakes as strength drops, though. As I've told others, I've gotten my fastest laps long, LONG past running my strength bars dry. My current theory is that they just haven't implemented (or forgot to implement) those Strength bars, in the same way that hard and soft tires don't wear at different rates, like they obviously should.
