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If your inside tires touch the curb you’re gonna get .5s
If your inside tires touch the curb you’re gonna get .5s
i played a tiny bit of multiplayer near the end of my time with that game, but mostly I just played the campaign over and over. Different play throughs allying with different factions, using different ships, roleplaying as a mercenary, Pirate, trader, etc, finding all the hidden bases and lost ships, finding the best trading routes, etc.....what I wouldn’t do to see a game like that remastered and brought to consoleGood to meet you "lancer". Presuming you played online it would probably have been user mods like Discovery. The game code was made open to users and unbelievably we were given nearly full access to play with the code as we wished. I was an admin on "The Monkey Universe" Freelancer mod for years. It is a very small genre. Most "space games" are not combat sims but tactical games. No idea what's about in that genre now as I'm away from it over 10 years (yeiks). Unfortunately I can't drive a GT3 car as quick as I could fly a Dagger.
Ok, here ya go. Remember, I'm not suggesting that people do this. I'm only attempting to expose a track hack, so it might get fixed (like @Pigems did with the brake pedal thing at Maggiore).
Ok, here ya go. Remember, I'm not suggesting that people do this. I'm only attempting to expose a track hack, so it might get fixed (like @Pigems did with the brake pedal thing at Maggiore).
I didn't have to say anything, because I discovered it on my own, at the last Lemans race. I don't exactly remember how, but I do like screwing around with the cones.
In the clip, you'll see that the first attempt to cut the chicane does not work. A 3 second penalty is awarded.
In the next attempt, I knock the 2 cones away, and backtrack to a good starting spot. I hit the throttle and follow the same line that I did in the first attempt. No penalty, and a super fast start to the Q lap.
I have no idea why it works, it just does.
**When you come back around, to finish the lap, it doesn't work. You'll get a penalty if you try the same shortcut.
My best theory is that, you know how if you exceed track limits, but do it really slowly, you don't get a time penalty? In the demonstration, I exceed track limits when taking out the cones. I think the game knows that you committed a foul, but since you did it slowly, doesn't issue a time penalty, since you didn't gain an advantage in doing so. Then if you back up, and hit the same corner again, on the same lap, it doesn't think to give a penalty for violating the same rules on the same corner, on the same lap.
Or, something like that. Not really sure. Somebody else might have the answer.
I haven't tried it at other tracks.
I guarantee that somebody's gonna try this.
I'm hosting an Area 51 Raid race mini-series tonight. 20 minute endurance races across three tracks (SSX, Big Willow, N24) in any of the SRT Tomahawks. It's an open lobby, and the first race starts at 12 AM PST. Cheers! 
Hi everyone!
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Ok, here ya go. Remember, I'm not suggesting that people do this. I'm only attempting to expose a track hack, so it might get fixed (like @Pigems did with the brake pedal thing at Maggiore).
I didn't have to say anything, because I discovered it on my own, at the last Lemans race. I don't exactly remember how, but I do like screwing around with the cones.
In the clip, you'll see that the first attempt to cut the chicane does not work. A 3 second penalty is awarded.
In the next attempt, I knock the 2 cones away, and backtrack to a good starting spot. I hit the throttle and follow the same line that I did in the first attempt. No penalty, and a super fast start to the Q lap.
I have no idea why it works, it just does.
**When you come back around, to finish the lap, it doesn't work. You'll get a penalty if you try the same shortcut.
My best theory is that, you know how if you exceed track limits, but do it really slowly, you don't get a time penalty? In the demonstration, I exceed track limits when taking out the cones. I think the game knows that you committed a foul, but since you did it slowly, doesn't issue a time penalty, since you didn't gain an advantage in doing so. Then if you back up, and hit the same corner again, on the same lap, it doesn't think to give a penalty for violating the same rules on the same corner, on the same lap.
Or, something like that. Not really sure. Somebody else might have the answer.
I haven't tried it at other tracks.
I guarantee that somebody's gonna try this.
Ok, so I can't turn in quick, but I'm still getting penalties for running what I think would be a smooth clean line down the middle, not hitting the outside curb at all and keeping lefts pretty much inside the white line. I don't know. I'm getting solid results anyway so probably shouldn't bitch, but just trying to limit those things so when I get in front of someone I get a bit of a break before I take the porsche curves slightly slow to be safer.
It’s definitely worth the effort. I just sat there and stared at it for like 10 minutes after that final race.
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Edit: This just happened in my back yard.
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Edit: This just happened in my back yard.
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We got rid of out cherry tree years ago. We never got any cherries from it as the birds ate it clean before they were ripe and left a huge mess everywhere... Nature I'm coming for you with my axe!
I escaped the carnage in 4th, got a lead of over 13 sec on the battling backfield by the straight and lost about 8 seconds from the 4 sec penalty, thus kept my place. I almost had 3rd since he managed to get another 5 sec penalty before the finish line.
This one is unlikely, but I think it would be cool to see A race be between one model of different generations. Two models that have different generations in the N300 class are the Skylines and the Supras.
I'll try all my Gr.4 cars at BH. Should be a good'n.
