Hardest License Test?

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Business trip cancelled so a little play last night and golded SS5 license. In usual typical golding fashion, did it in about 20 mins and went 0.4s under gold ! Just one of those 'getting it all together in one lap' scenarios. Double apexing the last bend gained a lot of time. Now on to S-16 to complete the task, and strangely I am in no rush to do this, 'cause then I am finished.

Gumpy: I didn't have many problems with Suzuka probably due to familiarity. Key to success was (1) getting the first turn and the esses right. It is surprising just how times vary every go but also how different lines can make a big difference. (2) the chicane at the end , as you know. Good luck.

Steven
 
FINALLY cracked the S Licence with a bonus Gold first time at Le Mans! w00t!

I don't think I'll be seeing Silver at Chamonix any time soon. Ice racing is defiantley not a favourite.
 
Practice makes perfect. Do the ghost runs one turn at a time. If a license test has 4 turns, make sure you get the first turn as good as you can and keep improving on it until you get it near perfect. If you get your first turn good enough, finish the lap clean. Then work on the second turn, 3rd turn, etc etc, that's how to make the ghost efficient and a good way I got my golds down. If you are struggling with a turn, make sure you compare your times and turns with the demo run
 
Just did the Viper at El Capitan. It took me a long time to get it but I would not say it was hardest - just I needed to drastically change the way I drive.
 
the hardest i found was easily the nurburing in the mercedes benz - my god 0 espiacially if u stuffed it when your almost down you had to go another 5 mins :D
 
Well, well, well. I was expecting to leave 4 IB tests for last as I thought the cone slaloms would stump me and there is no point doing the others if I am not going to get the slaloms.

Over the weekend I golded the Cita D'Aria S license test so did the IB test straight after it. This left me with Hong Kong and the slaloms in IB and the Nurb tests in IA and S.

I decided that since I thought I knew how to do it I would gold the Hong Kong test which I did without too much drama. I then went to S16 planning to fine tune my T3 and T4 times. I got a T3 better than the demo but struggled to concentrate after that. I could get a good T3 time but T4 was a struggle.

I thought this ain't going to happen tonight lets have a peak at the slalom. My previous best time was just under silver and I have struggled to get silver again. I just thought I would take it for a spin, try something different and see what happens. If I got a decent silver ghost out of it I would be happy. Now the gold time is 17.7. My very first run ie not fails and no restarts 17.8. I thought what is going on here ? I have not got anywhere near that time. So I decided to keep going.

Now contrary to all good advice I decided that most of it can be taken flat out. I kept going and on about my 10th retry I went flat out with 2 braking spots about 3/4 the way through, ended up crossing the line sideways for a 17.58.

I then thought I would have a crack at the no TCS/ASM. I tried Famines method but it did not work - he double pulses the brakes on each set of cones in the second half.

I then decided just use the same method a the first one. So I did and came up 17.6?

Someone said they find the second one easier. I now agree and so do my ghosts. My ghost for the first one looks very rough. The second one looks very smooth and I could have kept it together for another 4 sets of cones at least. It also included 2 braking points at about 3/4. The rest is flat out but I can not believe how smooth it looks ( I do not drive that way ).

This was with a DS2 using buttons. Some may ask what is the trick. Rhythm defintely. Someone said the trick is that the car needs to be turning before reaching the cones. I had tried this but never achieved it.

What I did this time was straightened up before reaching each cone and then turning as I passed it. I ran them all pretty close but the rhythm ensures you do not hit them.

The rhythm is like this on the steering buttons:

turn left, past the first cone, tap right, tap right, straight, turn right, tap left, tap left, straight, turn left etc
 
^congrats, and yeah, you're right, the second one is easier. The only thing that makes the second one tougher is hitting the gas right during the launch.

To whoever said they couldn't imagine getting golds with a DS2, its not as tough as you make it sound. A wheel is more precise, but it's easier/faster to press a button than steering a wheel left to right
 
sumbodycool
The only thing that makes the second one tougher is hitting the gas right during the launch.
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So you mean you are not meant to just floor it like I did LOL. My run would have been smoother than the first one but the wheelspin at the start would be what held my time back.

I don't have a wheel to compare it to but I was surprised to read in the handbook that precision/subtle steering is easier with a DS2 than a wheel. I could not understand it mainly due to the digital nature of the buttons vs the analogue nature of the wheel.

All I can say is I am glad the slaloms are done as I expected them to be harder or take more time than they did.

Now I only have 2 laps of the Nurb to do to complete my 80 golds. You know the easy license tests. Luckily I know the track well from M34 so I am part way there. But I hate those COM/COM tires in the pace car lap.
 
gumpy
So you mean you are not meant to just floor it like I did LOL.
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Now I only have 2 laps of the Nurb to do to complete my 80 golds. You know the easy license tests. Luckily I know the track well from M34 so I am part way there. But I hate those COM/COM tires in the pace car lap.
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Haha, no way I would floor it on that, but I think its awesome that you could pass gold flooring it. It looks cool, but I lost so much distance flooring it on the second slalom test that I needed a new method.

As for the Nurburgring tests, they are annoying, but I'm glad you're experienced from M34. I have total faith in you lol 👍.
 
If I had the hardware to make videos I would make one of the second slalom run and probably the BMW at Adenauer Forst. They are the only 2 where I reckon my videos are worthy of being shared. Most other licenses or missions are victories by 0.0? secs with some shocking looking runs.
 
This might sound lame, but after erasing and re-starting my game (made some really bad money decisions and bought heaps of dud cars), I have since decided that Licence Test B-5, the 1 Lap Guide of Tsukuba is one of the hardest. I missed the Silver by 0.96 today and spent the nexy two hours and forty-five minutes trying to beat it. I won't be going for Gold any time soon.
 
Getting all 80 golds was the first thing I did when I got the game. The license test that took the most time and effort for me to gold was B-5. I jest not - the guided full lap trial in the mini. It just took for ever, and I never knew when to shift gears.

As for the other 79, probably S-14 was the hardest.

IA-16 isn't hard if you have good throttle control. You have to be really gentle and progressive on the throttle. If you get no wheelspin the test is easy to beat.

Edit: Haha, I didn't even read the above post. You have my sympathy dude!
 
Well I must remove the first cone slalom off the hard list after the events of the weekend.

First of all with 100% complete, 78 golds, 9,993 B-spec points, at least 1 of every car and some in all their colours my saved game got corrupted. Don't know how as I am confident noone pressed any buttons during load or save. It is possible that I turned off when I paused a race as the kids were going nuts but I did not think this would do it. I will be more careful from hear and now have another mem card with backups. (The kids also made a very good attempt at wrecking the PS2 and their mem card by dropping it on the floor but that is another story.


Anyway I got over the shock and loaded my old backup - very old backup. Many bronze licenses, not many used cars, luckily 98.4% but with many missions from 11-20 and 34 still to repeat.

Did mission 11 on third attempt (I had to get used to the car again) and the Amuse at suzuka in one go. Then did a couple of B licenses and decided to concentrate on the harder ones so went to IB and the cones.

Struggled to start with but managed a 17.800 (gold time is 17.700) and then a 17.738. I remembered that I had concluded the best drivers in the world would be able to do this with no braking and no throttle control. I did not manage that - I blipped the brakes twice but managed a 17.254. Very extensive steering and quick steering corrections were required. I am not bragging as all other licenses are likely to be 0.001 under gold time but was quite happy when this time came up. (DS2 buttons and auto)

Chapter 2 was not as impressive - the second cone slalom was a time of 17.658 and I do not intend to redo it until all others are done for obvious reasons.
 
The Second Cone Slalom and TV Tamora at the final turn of Motegi (IA-14) are both very very difficult to get Silver on.

But I got Gold on IA-12, the Toyota Celica at Chamonix. My least-favourite test and I smashed the Godl mark by 1.7 seconds!
 
I recently got 80 golds in my second game after a corrupt first game.

The hardest second time round was..................B-16. LOL.

I kid you not. It took more retries than any other and that includes IA15 and S16 which I did not gold in my first game.
 
I think the two hardest for me were the slalom ones. Primarily because they are not something I normally do in the game. The others were more like driving in the game. I did finally gold them though. :)
 
Cosmic
I think it was the Graduation test in the RX-7 at Nurburgring, managed to get silver tought :)
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The A license graduation was easy. The Suzuka run in the Integra was much harder. The Integra Type R has an unbelievable understeer problem.

So far, I haven't found any test that is really difficult. Yet.
 
Uncle Harry
I have 77 gold all with the hand controller.
Still to gold S12, S15 and S16.
My progress has stopped due to the PS2 dying.
It has been sent back to Sony under warranty and is expected back in 2-3 weeks.
To keep my hand in I fired up GT2 in the PS1 and currently have 45 golds in the license tests in a week.
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That was June 18 th.
I will update.
Got the PS2 back after 3 weeks around the 10 th of July.
I had a rest from license tests for a couple of weeks.
Concentrated on 200 point races.
Then got back to getting S12. Took me about 2 weeks of trying too get gold there.
I then got S15 and S16 in very quick time with not to much effort required.

For me S12 (S12 - Suzuka Circuit; Nissan Motul Pitwork Z (JGTC) `04) is the Hardest of all.
 
gotta be those damn slaloms
I was going through and just trying to silver everything - those two took me ages. only 13 bronzes in S licence to go
then to try and gold everything........only got around 20 so far.......
 
the slaloms. took me ages to get silver in them. i have only the super licence left to silver (well, i have a few silvers in it). forget gold though. the only fun gold i had was the RUF at Trial Mountain or deep forest (cant remember). silvered it easily because i drifted a few corners, then went for gold and got it first time
 
Moloch_horridus
Hardest for me so far (only have 24) was B16 (BMW 120 at Tsukuba) - took me at least 50 attempts last night.

I am just tring to get one gold each time I have a racing session. I don't know how I am going to cope with the cone slaloms - they remind me of the GT3 tests with the RUF at Complex String - just can't work those damned things out.
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Amen!!!!!!!!!! I got all gold about a week ago and for me the slalom's were tough!!! My GT3/RUF nightmares came flooding back. And that BMW test I initially found quite tough too but after driving in the WRS here for a few weeks I breezed through all the remaining tests, each of the S licenses took about 15 mins. But those slaloms....crikey they were tough!!!
 
Do you race?
TVR Tamora at the final turn of Motegi (IA-14) are both very very difficult to get Silver on.
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I agree. That one took me forever to get silver on, and I don't know why, because it's right up my alley! For some reason I just couldn't figure out the right line/braking/throttle points even after watching the demo. Go figure.
 
I am using a DS2 controllor. The hardest one for me is IA-16 with R92P racecar where no traction control equipped, means I have to learn throttle with my thumb. Took me long enough to gold this one. One time i even thought about using my toe.
 

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