"Daily" Race Discussion [Archive]

[sturk0167]

I hear ya, I typically love slow cars but this one really sucks. I’ve been dabbling with Assetto Corsa lately when I get bored of GTS, it’s a nice game.

I just ordered Ace combat 7. Fighter planes! 👍

 

[Redneckchef]

Don't know what car really works at RBR, my times are all over the place trying different things. 1:31.1 in 911?? Got 31.4 in AMG and roughly same in the GT-R. 31.5 in the Lexus. I'm all over the show. Need to sort it if I plan on racing again this week as several times I've run a couple of 31.2 laps during the race using my cautious line so know I've got more pace there somewhere.

That said my week might be over, finishing 8 straight at work, night to morning shifts, got kids functions this weekend, don't know if I can be bothere doing any proper stuff over the weekend. Might save it for what I'm guessing is the FF Gr4 Autopolis special next week.

Got to say that even though I've had some shocker races at RBR I've had 2 CRBs there. Even when I've had some love taps on the opening turn, almost as if they know it's a disaster and discount it a bit.

 

[JEverettL]

I tried the GTR I didn’t find it that bad, the Porsche doesn’t seem to do to well. The Aston Martin just seems more stable through the corners and easier to get the power down on the exit.

The GTR has been my go to car for this weeks Daily Race B. As far as the 911 goes, my races have been extremely 911 heavy. I've had the same observation when it comes to how well they've been doing. T1, and T2 catches them out in a bad way. It seems like just about all of the major pile ups this week at RBR have have at least one 911 in the mix.

 

[NoStopN]

I hear ya, I typically love slow cars but this one really sucks. I’ve been dabbling with Assetto Corsa lately when I get bored of GTS, it’s a nice game.

Between Wreckfest & Project Cars 2, I have plenty of non-GTS fun to have. Now, if I can just figure out how to set the cars in PC2 to work with my driving style on the DS4. Very tail happy.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

Still working on that mythical clean race bonus at Tokyo. I managed a 4th place last race, 14 positions gained, yet got bumped from behind 3 times, lost 2 SR. It's a game of tag rather than racing. I'll keep trying, but as long as the penalty system is like this it might be impossible on this track while racing through traffic.

However, back to A/S from the back while staying in SR.S all week, just one race to the 'naughty' or rather cleaner SR.S room.
32,557 A 97 S
26,569 B 92 S
24,836 B 99 S
22,889 B 99 S
16,091 B 99 S

Nr.1 problem is, car in front bumps the wall, I lift / slow down to avoid, get tapped from behind by the car behind me. Totally my fault

 

[Pigems]

Between Wreckfest & Project Cars 2, I have plenty of non-GTS fun to have. Now, if I can just figure out how to set the cars in PC2 to work with my driving style on the DS4. Very tail happy.

I can’t get PC2 to work with my driving either, I can barely make it around a lap in that game. It seems to require every car to be extremely fine tuned to your driving.

I just ordered Ace combat 7. Fighter planes! 👍

I want a flying game, but I know that means I’d also want the joystick and pedals/controls to go with it. My wife would kill me.

 

[NoStopN]

I can’t get PC2 to work with my driving either, I can barely make it around a lap in that game. It seems to require every car to be extremely fine tuned to your driving.

What I can't figure out is, I tried the cars that I wanted to try & it felt like the cars drove better right out of the gate. After a little tuning, these cars can't stay pointed in a straight line. I reset everything back to defaults, but still feels twitchy.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

I can’t get PC2 to work with my driving either, I can barely make it around a lap in that game. It seems to require every car to be extremely fine tuned to your driving.



I want a flying game, but I know that means I’d also want the joystick and pedals/controls to go with it. My wife would kill me.

Here's some inspiration, you can do it!

Project cars seems to need different settings for each car, at least on controller. And still steering never feels right. I don't even got to tuning the car, too busy tuning the controller settings

 

[KMGMC]

The GTR has been my go to car for this weeks Daily Race B. As far as the 911 goes, my races have been extremely 911 heavy. I've had the same observation when it comes to how well they've been doing. T1, and T2 catches them out in a bad way. It seems like just about all of the major pile ups this week at RBR have have at least one 911 in the mix.

Me too the 911 is the main car I use for Gr.3 races but like you said out of those 2 corners when you have to get on the power it gets super twitchy with oversteer and kills any momentum you had going down the two straightaways right after those turns

That’s when I switched to the GTR, maybe that’s why I found the GTR not as bad because it is quite a bit better then the 911 on the RBR. I finally ended up on the Aston Martin which seems to be even better then the GTR.

 

[sturk0167]

I can’t get PC2 to work with my driving either, I can barely make it around a lap in that game. It seems to require every car to be extremely fine tuned to your driving.



I want a flying game, but I know that means I’d also want the joystick and pedals/controls to go with it. My wife would kill me.

I actually have a pilot's license, and I'm an airplane geek, but with Ace combat 5 on PS3, I felt like the control with the DS4 was really good. Maybe @Sven Jurgens could shed some light on it. He uses DS4 and already owns Ace Combat 7.

 

[pennanton]

My thoughts exactly! I much prefer the Mustang or the AMG - I can't break the 29's, but I am getting very low 30's

I'm in the same boat with the Aston atm. Got a 30.2 with the NSX but I'm finding the Aston much more consistent during the race. NSX is a bit nervous in S2.

I think I’m going to try the AMG, been using the Aston Martin and not doing to bad but the AMG seems to always be at the top.

Yeah I'm finding the AMG to be the easy mode car of the current BoP. I try to avoid using it as a result, I'd like to think I'm showing a bit of skill beating people that do use it with other cars.

 

[Sven Jurgens]

I actually have a pilot's license, and I'm an airplane geek, but with Ace combat 5 on PS3, I felt like the control with the DS4 was really good. Maybe @Sven Jurgens could shed some light on it. He uses DS4 and already owns Ace Combat 7.

It flies perfectly fine with the DS4. It's no sim though, faster and brake button, very hard to stall. It's an arcade game with infinite missiles (or so it seems). I've only played the VR missions though. It's always a race against the clock, the war has to be over in 10 minutes or all is lost!

You definitely don't need a rig for Ace Combat, but on PC you probably want a Hotas. I played Elite dangerous with a DS4 though, works great. I still have flight sticks from my Flight sim days but don't really need it. The only big advantage is that you can easily set the thrust, no such sliders on a ds4. However the flight model in Ace Combat and Elite Dangerous are pretty much identical, yet one is in space .

Well there it is

Except I have had much better races with faster laps, better results and much less contact. In this one I got punted in the hairpin, tapped from behind and the side several times, lightly touched the wall a couple times trying not to run into the car in front and even tapped a bumper from an early braker (nothing happened). So cheers PD for making it feel pretty worthless after trying for so long It is simply a roll of the dice where the SR Down goes. But it did feel good to pass the dive bomber in the final lap which I had to avoid all race. He dove into the wall on the final lap, karma.

 

[Pigems]

Here's some inspiration, you can do it!

Project cars seems to need different settings for each car, at least on controller. And still steering never feels right. I don't even got to tuning the car, too busy tuning the controller settings

Whoah, that’s crazy!

I actually have a pilot's license, and I'm an airplane geek, but with Ace combat 5 on PS3, I felt like the control with the DS4 was really good. Maybe @Sven Jurgens could shed some light on it. He uses DS4 and already owns Ace Combat 7.

That’s freakin awesome man!! Imagine that, I know a pilot.

I guess I’m gonna have to look into this game then, it sounds like it could be fun.

 

[MortosDer]

Well, had some good races, people being fairly clean. But the dumb penalty system is not helping, ruining races because you touched a wall. Still, up 5k Dr and 10 sr from yesterday. Fun race, too bad the penalty system sucks.

 

[Invisigoth]

Still working on that mythical clean race bonus at Tokyo.

I have two .

I actually have a pilot's license, and I'm an airplane geek,

So sturk's secret identity is either Bruce Dickinson or Michael Dorn 👍.

 

[breeminator]

*Watching from his car now, currently on L4, he's got about six people penalties and it's brake checking/blocking then driving into the wall

I had someone try to do that to me at Fuji last week, it was hilarious. I try really hard to avoid contact when I'm behind someone, so I'd already lifted off the throttle and touched the brakes a bit when he brake checked me, so I didn't actually hit him. He didn't realise there had been no contact, so drove off the track anyway, and I sailed past. He quit shortly after.

 

[sturk0167]

I have two .



So sturk's secret identity is either Bruce Dickinson or Michael Dorn 👍.

Okay, so this is way off topic, and pretty obscure for most, but you just made me think about the movie Airplane 2, and the courtroom testimony for how well the emergency pilot, Ted Stryker landed the plane (testimony was spoken in jive).

 

[KMGMC]

I'm in the same boat with the Aston atm. Got a 30.2 with the NSX but I'm finding the Aston much more consistent during the race. NSX is a bit nervous in S2.



Yeah I'm finding the AMG to be the easy mode car of the current BoP. I try to avoid using it as a result, I'd like to think I'm showing a bit of skill beating people that do use it with other cars.

Ya I set my qualifying lap with the GTR, I think I also got a 3rd place finish with it, but the Aston seems to be easier to keep consistent good laps. I generally just use whatever car I like not what’s at the top.

Anyone else ever find some guys with really good qualifying times seem to be very slow in race?
I had a guy off the start in front of me using a mustang (3rd) he qualified almost a second faster then me but during the first lap I got by him within the first 4 turns and by the end of the race he was almost 6 seconds behind. Found it odd he could run sub 1:30 in qualifying but struggled to consistently do 1:33-1:34 in race at RBR.

 

[pennanton]

Ya I set my qualifying lap with the GTR, I think I also got a 3rd place finish with it, but the Aston seems to be easier to keep consistent good laps. I generally just use whatever car I like not what’s at the top.

Anyone else ever find some guys with really good qualifying times seem to be very slow in race?
I had a guy off the start in front of me using a mustang (3rd) he qualified almost a second faster then me but during the first lap I got by him within the first 4 turns and by the end of the race he was almost 6 seconds behind. Found it odd he could run sub 1:30 in qualifying but struggled to consistently do 1:33-1:34 in race at RBR.

A lot of it is just race craft that players haven't been bothered to learn. It's not hard to chase a ghost, but its a different frame of mind you need be in to compete in the actual sporting side racing. Like I race better than I qualify just because the race is a different mode to be in, hit markers and apexes and positioning your car in the race. I see 'fast' players just blatantly outbreak themselves, take dive-bombs that cost time all the time. Also consistency. You've got to be near your quali time every lap, not one or two.

 

[KMGMC]

A lot of it is just race craft that players haven't been bothered to learn. It's not hard to chase a ghost, but its a different frame of mind you need be in to compete in the actual sporting side racing. Like I race better than I qualify just because the race is a different mode to be in, hit markers and apexes and positioning your car in the race. I see 'fast' players just blatantly outbreak themselves, take dive-bombs that cost time all the time. Also consistency. You've got to be near your quali time every lap, not one or two.

See I’m the same way, my qualifying time and my race laps are almost the same when I can get a clean lap with no battles.

That is true, I can generally just be consistent and it’s almost a guarantee someone ahead is either going to take a penalty or make a mistake.

 

[NoStopN]

Out of the 3 races I ran tonight, this was my favorite.

 

[Winter_reborn]

Third race at RBR and someone decides to use me as brakes on the first lap once again. I wasn't punished and he copped a small penalty, but I wish they'd consider a DQ or a heftier penalty for that level of carelessness. His time penalty wasn't enough for me to regain the position after being shoved into the gravel trap either.

Mildly infuriating.

On a less sour note, I switched from using the AMG to the GTR, and it is an entirely different beast (TCS 0).

First day of practice with it saw me losing control at every single corner. I quit after 15 minutes without having a single clean lap.

The next day, I managed to match my qualifying time with it, but finding myself unable to string back to back laps without being a beyblade.

The third day, today, I was able to string 4-5 laps together without incident, and bested my previous qualifying time by 1.2 seconds.

It's really cool to see that kind of personal progress, especially after feeling so hopeless after what happened on day 1. Motivation to play dropped completely off, but after seeing the pay off it's right back up there.

 

[05XR8]

I've enjoyed the Tokyo race this week. Now, experimenting with a couple cars I haven't seen at all: Atenza and Genesis.

 

[breeminator]

Anyone else ever find some guys with really good qualifying times seem to be very slow in race?

Several reasons I can think of:
1. It's a different person using the account (there was a post on this forum where someone talked about friends coming round and playing on his account).
2. They qualified in a different car and are trying out different cars in the race, possibly without even practising in the different car first.
3. They qualified quite some time ago, forgot all the fine details they learned of exactly how to drive the track, and just jumped straight into a race a couple of days later without practising first to get back into the groove.

 

[05XR8]

Dropped one spot in the Atenza. Moved up one in the Genesis. Both cars get murdered down the straights. Can keep pace everywhere else with both of their stability, handling and good brakes.

 

[RacingGrandpa]

A good morning on RBR. I heard so much good about the Vantage so I decided to try it out.
First race, everyone ran clean accept this one guy who tried to divebomb me in turn 5/6, I saw him coming and took a wider path so he missed and ran all the way into the gravel. P11 to p5.

Second race, a really good battle with a clean Frenchman in another Vantage, tight clean racing all the way through the field. P7 to p4.

Third was weird, there was one A+ and three A, and a few B. The rest of us C and D. Messy racing. P11 to p6. Passed two A. CRB.

 

[Ashthebash]

Didn't think RBR was the best place to try and repair SR but I had a go anyway!

First race went well in a mixed lobby, won from the front. Second was dodgy and we'll leave it there - neutral SR. Third I got a 5s penalty for getting dive bombed into T3, it couldn't even tell me what I got the penalty for! Fourth started 2nd and finished 3rd, CRB!! How the guy I overtook on the last lap didn't get a penalty for visiting somewhere in Hungary on T1 though I'll never know. Fifth race, start 2nd, finish 2nd, another CRB but really should have won. Got gifted 1st place as the Vantage went off after T1 then promptly launched myself at the inside kerb of T2 and gave him the place back. No more races now, making too many mistakes (probably due to a couple of Friday morning pints after work!).

Can't grumble too much though, RBR is a track I've hardly touched, the Lambo is a car I usually try for about three corners before I crash and decide it's way too lairy. Taken a hit on DR of 1600 but SR is back up to 95 and got my qualy down to a respectable 1:29.7 with a bit left in the tank

Time for bed

 

[05XR8]

Top 10 is always my goal.

 

[watto79]

I've been trying to get qualifying times under 2:08.0 for Race C and below 1:30.0 for Race B that has proven quite frustrating.

FINALLY managed a 1:29.9 at RBR using the Aston (never driven it before, kinda like it now). I would have had a 1:28.8 if it wasn't for 'ignoring track limits' just before the final corner.

Just need to hook up a decent lap for Race C now. Often get the optimal down there but getting everything hooked up in a single lap has eluded me so far. I've been racing in the Cayman which has kept the fun factor up and I enjoy being the sole Porsche in a field of Huracans!

 

[RacingGrandpa]

I've been trying to get qualifying times under 2:08.0 for Race C and below 1:30.0 for Race B that has proven quite frustrating.

FINALLY managed a 1:29.9 at RBR using the Aston (never driven it before, kinda like it now). I would have had a 1:28.8 if it wasn't for 'ignoring track limits' just before the final corner.

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Just need to hook up a decent lap for Race C now. Often get the optimal down there but getting everything hooked up in a single lap has eluded me so far. I've been racing in the Cayman which has kept the fun factor up and I enjoy being the sole Porsche in a field of Huracans!

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