When I did my qualifying trial for Suzuka today, my G29 felt absolutely ponderous. Granted, my first time at Suzuka in GT Sport and it's a weak track for me but I swear I was driving a bus instead of a GT-R. Even after changing all settings to minimum, still felt the same and I was barely running 2:04s.
Hopefully mine is back to normal too when I get to play later
Oh God... Gr. 1 on one of the hardest tracks everNext up
Still Mercedes 45 AMG for the one make.
GR.1 on Brands hatch for me. Alsace hmm, maybe I'll give it a go again.
Suzuka was good fun tonight, although it felt a bit like playing the invitationals with the pros. Qualifying for 15th to 20th place, racing the wrecks and trying to cross the finish line before the timer ran out. At least every race I gained places while racing was very clean.
Although what kind of pass is this
Ok, confused, where did he go and eek ghost
Ah, there he is, the teleport bump pass with ghost misdirection.
Next up
Still Mercedes 45 AMG for the one make.
GR.1 on Brands hatch for me. Alsace hmm, maybe I'll give it a go again.
Suzuka was good fun tonight, although it felt a bit like playing the invitationals with the pros. Qualifying for 15th to 20th place, racing the wrecks and trying to cross the finish line before the timer ran out. At least every race I gained places while racing was very clean.
Although what kind of pass is this
Ok, confused, where did he go and eek ghost
Ah, there he is, the teleport bump pass with ghost misdirection.
Yeah, I checked and I posted the right video. But my crash is at 5mn45secs, not 6mn45, sorry.
To swiftly answer your questions: For fear of my DR I don't, but in my other account I do it only when I get the opportunity to do so- I do not actively create my own opportunities. Because I still want to win that raceSo I was wondering has anyone else fallen into the trap of vigilante racing?
I will explain what I mean... yesterday I was doing the daily race at Dragon Tail, I qualified 4th but had more pace to spare so was feeling good. Anyway, the race started, somehow two cars crashed on the straight and I was up to 2nd. Going into the first real corner at the chicane I had a sizable gap between me and the car behind but low and behold some muppet in an M6 missiles me from miles back. Fortunately, I got a bit lucky with the recovery and I'm only back to 6th... until some dude who got a poor exit runs me off deliberately.
I'm now back to12th, next corner I get launched again and I'm back to last with a sizable gap. I thought about quitting after begin taken out three times in four corners but decided that I am pretty fast here and a lot of people crash at this circuit, so I kept going. Right, this is where I lose the moral ground, I now spend the next 2 laps hunting the kid who ran me off to do the same to him. I flawlessly run him off without a penalty.
Next up is the last kid who launched me into last, but as he seems to be racing fair now and I can't be sure he wasn't pushed himself so I go for a clean overtake and move from there. I am somehow back to 6th and the M6 is in sight. After calming down over the rest of the race I cleanly overtake him and go on from there. But... two corners later he rams me at the bottom of the hill before the double hairpins, with 2 laps left. With some aggressive laps, I manage to catch him on the last lap.
And ram that ****** into the wall at the same corner, he is facing the wrong way. I have lost little to no time and only pick up a 2-second penalty.
Right, I have an issue of doing this quite often, I try to give people chances but can't help it if there racing is so obviously aggressive, keep in mind during this race I let someone pass as I drifted into them which blocked their great overtake so I handed them the place back.
What I am asking is, do any of you often do this? Am I a bad person? How do prevent yourself from going full vigilante? Am I fueling their rubbish racing? Why do I actually care?
To swiftly answer your questions: For fear of my DR I don't, but in my other account I do it only when I get the opportunity to do so- I do not actively create my own opportunities. Because I still want to win that race
By textbook standards, yes you are a bad person. And even though your actions are seemingly justifiable it's still no excuse to ruin another person's race (the report button exists for muppets like them). But I can understand where you're coming from and your frustrations.
I prevent myself from going full vigilante by just telling myself: "SS, SS, SS".
Depends on the person. If they're a legit troll your actions wouldn't really influence them much, but if you do that to a new player they might get mad and do it as well and/or they might learn that this is how Sport mode works and thus a new troll is born.
I don't know why you care. And I honestly don't know either why I cared answering your questions
That wasn't swift.
Haha thanks
That's a brilliant post, maybe the constant reminding myself of my driving rating will help. Perhaps I should use a second account for my seedy vigilante antics
it also shows how I care too much for ratings though wasn't all too different back in World of Tanks, I always treasured my "purple" status there (Basically the S rank of WoT) 
Haha thanks
Yeah it helps a lot for me
Don't overdo it though that's all I'll say
Really? Glad to see another Asia-Pacific player around here!Well, I am certainly giving that a go next time. I used to be more like that back when I was younger but not so much now.
You are right about overdoing though, I guess for me FIFA was the only game I cared about stats and that got a bit too serious but even that time has passed
Also, I am sure I have raced you a few times online, you always seem to be just slightly quicker and more consistent than me
Really? Glad to see another Asia-Pacific player around here!
I created the second account for a variety of reasons, and some of them are to destress myself as well as take shelter so I can race in Sport mode without fear for my ratings. I'm still not yet at the phase where I don't care much about ratings anymore (and honestly I don't want to phase out) but it is quite fun to just play without a care in the world
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Next up
Still Mercedes 45 AMG for the one make.
GR.1 on Brands hatch for me. Alsace hmm, maybe I'll give it a go again.
Suzuka was good fun tonight, although it felt a bit like playing the invitationals with the pros. Qualifying for 15th to 20th place, racing the wrecks and trying to cross the finish line before the timer ran out. At least every race I gained places while racing was very clean.
Although what kind of pass is this
Ok, confused, where did he go and eek ghost
Ah, there he is, the teleport bump pass with ghost misdirection.
Yeah the C7 at Suzuka during the race felt ridiculous. Nothing like the qualifying handling, felt like a different car.
Really? Glad to see another Asia-Pacific player around here!
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That's newHehe I'm not really, I had a weird issue for about 6 weeks were I kept ending up in Asian servers and sometimes the US. When the lag was ok I generally found the racing was cleaner in Asia.
I'm back in Europe again now (probably where I belong
that's where my other account is Nice to hear that! Hopefully I'll be seeing some of you guys in Sport modeThere are quite a few of us
YES! After 3 wins, 2 pole's and 1 fastest lap yesterday on Monza i finally reached DR:A after 101 days!!!
You need to be more aggressive in T1...start wider left then cut across the bend before going wide towards the sand
Take the hairpin high for better speed down the hill
T4/5 you don't need to brake. Get out wide on the rumbles on the right, then as soon as you get to the cone (I use blue apex markers... less debris on the track) let off the gas and steer hard left, you should get to the rumbles on the left and be able to get back on the gas.
At first I was dabbing over that section too, but after watching @Spurgy 777 's replay from the EMEA top 10, I stopped and managed to set a 53.662
The problem with the A45 is the massive understeer.... the quicker you can point forwards and get back on the throttle the better, even if it means taking corners slightly wider than you usually would
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Had this a couple of weeks back. Holding R2 when it gave me control, spun immediately. Thanks.
Pausing for too long can also cause DQ... it warns you after 1 or 1.5 minute I think that you will be DQ due to excessive pausing.
Congrats! Hope to see you on Sport Mode... we have nearly the same DR
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