Kart 125 shifter

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hepcatmatty
Anyone else having the issue of every single damn kart being much faster in a straight line than yours? Considering they're karts, and we cant change a single thing about them, they should all be the same speed. So why are they rocketing away from me on the straight? Even when i get right behind them and draft them down the straights, they still pull away. What the hell is going on with these karts?
 
Mattycakes
Anyone else having the issue of every single damn kart being much faster in a straight line than yours? Considering they're karts, and we cant change a single thing about them, they should all be the same speed. So why are they rocketing away from me on the straight? Even when i get right behind them and draft them down the straights, they still pull away. What the hell is going on with these karts?
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The AI gets harder and faster when you advance in the game, it also happened to me ^^. It's a good factor i think
 
Its good most of the time, but when you're in a race entirely about driving skill with the exact same vehicles, its BS for them to have a higher top speed at all, much less how much faster they are going now.
 
Are you considering that the distance between you and the car/kart in front should increase down a straight if you are both accelerating at the same speed? If you are one second behind the car in front in a slow corner that is right behind them distance-wise but when you are both doing 100mph then it is considerably further.
 
TeriyakiS
Are you considering that the distance between you and the car/kart in front should increase down a straight if you are both accelerating at the same speed? If you are one second behind the car in front in a slow corner that is right behind them distance-wise but when you are both doing 100mph then it is considerably further.
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Im talking about literally being on their tail, feet away, along a straight and still having them pull away.
 
Mattycakes
Im talking about literally being on their tail, feet away, along a straight and still having them pull away.
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Strangely, the AI is faster than you in any straight, with any car. They are damn slow in corners, but in straights they are faster.
 
Mattycakes
Im talking about literally being on their tail, feet away, along a straight and still having them pull away.
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Exactly, they came out of the corner before you, they started accelerating before you hence they are going faster than you. How is this difficult to comprehend?

You have to make the time up in the braking zones as they brake way too early.
 
TeriyakiS
Exactly, they came out of the corner before you, they started accelerating before you hence they are going faster than you. How is this difficult to comprehend?

You have to make the time up in the braking zones as they brake way too early.
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You are not understanding.
Even the karts behind you, even from way back will catch you, try it!
 
TeriyakiS
Exactly, they came out of the corner before you, they started accelerating before you hence they are going faster than you. How is this difficult to comprehend?

You have to make the time up in the braking zones as they brake way too early.
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You dont get what im saying. I'll drive the same way i did in order to win the other kart races, and they still gain time. For example, i'll brake late into a corner, getting right up on their tail, hitting the gas as soon as i can. I come out of the corner faster and about to pass him, than the AI kart rockets away soon as we're on the straight.
 
I have tried all available gear ratios here too - even at the start, Karts that clearly started way behind you all reach the first bend before you, even though you have had your foot flat. You can out-brake and out-corner them, but for me I am always caught and overtaken on straights.
 
Fastbowler55
I have tried all available gear ratios here too - even at the start, Karts that clearly started way behind you all reach the first bend before you, even though you have had your foot flat. You can out-brake and out-corner them, but for me I am always caught and overtaken on straights.
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AI becomes harder when you progress in the game, so maybe AI karts have 5hp more example...
 
phil_75
You are not understanding.
Even the karts behind you, even from way back will catch you, try it!
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I don't need to try it, I already have gold in all of the kart races. I was never once caught on the straight and if you change the gear ratios and draft on the longer tracks you can get a good 10mph faster than the AI on the straights. The default is too low you need it on about 124mph
 
This is the event wich gave me more trouble so far... The competition is faster and i can´t seem to get the hang of that 125 Shifter...
 
Kart races are very different than the other races, and while I did struggle with the same problem as you, just managing the coners better and exiting the corner faster, they weren't able to catch me on the straights anymore.
 
International B, GT Kart Championship 125.
I had some trouble with the first two bunches of Kart races. The second one in particular was very difficult for me: I simply had not level of skill demanded, the powers of concentration, the abilities, the quick responses. Only after maybe 150 restarts I finally nailed the last race after some desperate moments which almost made me trash the entire game.

Now, this wouldn't matter too much if we didn't have to win every single race in order to progress to the next level, and I am a career animal pure and simple.

On the National B level I therefore went straight to the Kart 125 races, to see whether it served any purpose to continue, and I found what I had feared: the Silverstone race was easily won, but the two others are way beyond my abilities. And fiddling with the transmission helps somewhat, but I still spin off the track with boring regularity.
I have had little trouble with other races, nothing more than makes them interesting and fun, nothing too different compared to GT 5, but for me the sudden jump in the skill level demanded by the Kart races is so vast that I cannot bridge it.

It's called "Boss Fights". There's a sudden jump in in-game level of difficulty which have ruined many an otherwise excellent game for me. I shall never be able to finish Doom 3 or Dead Space 1 and 2 on more than mediocre levels. It's a nasty and unexpected surprise that I seem to be unable to finish GT 6 at all.
 
The shifter kart series are so 🤬 annoying.
they're the last races in IA that I gotta do and I absolutely hate the Gran Turismo Arena
 
Had to use automatic transmission for International A Shifter Kart Race 3 at GT Arena. Other than that....

First race I won so many times in the Championship (since I never finished it, I always finished the first race though). The Kart can be run hard and the only corners of note are the first and the last, where the kart is most prone to spinning out. On the straight the kart, if less than a half second back of others, will catch and pass multiple karts with the draft.

Willow Springs: Issue here is not spinning out but narrow, crowded track. There is only one line for most of the track so the options of passing are in the braking zones (turn 2, turn 3 and the last corner), and on the straights. If you run over the curbing, you are in trouble, same if you run off course.

GT Arena: Slow and steady. Only hit a few of the curbs (NEVER the turn 3 one and the two before the long right back to the front straight). AI will appear faster than you but then will fall back and you can draft off of them.
 
The ai have adjustable on-board pp sliders to use against us :sick: it took many tries but managed a silver at the arena.
 
S60
Kart races are very different than the other races, and while I did struggle with the same problem as you, just managing the coners better and exiting the corner faster, they weren't able to catch me on the straights anymore.
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Thanks for the advice, i will try that when i get on GT6... That is one thing i seriously have to train, the cornering,for me the cornering in the 125 Shifter´s is very difficult, i allways end up taking a wider turn, a slow-in-slower-out or i just end spinning or in the dirt...
 
swynder
Thanks for the advice, i will try that when i get on GT6... That is one thing i seriously have to train, the cornering,for me the cornering in the 125 Shifter´s is very difficult, i allways end up taking a wider turn, a slow-in-slower-out or i just end spinning or in the dirt...
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20kg ballast on the rear makes it next to impossible to spin on acceleration. Doesn't really make you any slower and causes a slight bit of understeer but if you put the sensitivity up to 7 that fixes that.
 
TeriyakiS
20kg ballast on the rear makes it next to impossible to spin on acceleration. Doesn't really make you any slower and causes a slight bit of understeer but if you put the sensitivity up to 7 that fixes that.
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Thank you, that seems to do it, i will try it later! :cheers:
 
the first two in the IA are no problem

the third though on the other hand... I use a wheel and I tried it three different times. first time I got 7th. second time I got 10th. third time I just ragequit

absolutely hate GT Arena. what a horrible track -_-

I'll give it a try later tonight with the ballast and all that... what a pain in the ***
 
Ferrari458Italia
the first two in the IA are no problem

the third though on the other hand... I use a wheel and I tried it three different times. first time I got 7th. second time I got 10th. third time I just ragequit

absolutely hate GT Arena. what a horrible track -_-

I'll give it a try later tonight with the ballast and all that... what a pain in the ***
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