License S2 - impossible first corner???

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That race is quite forgiving. I overtook at the hill and still got gold.
 
Nicely done!
I got the gold after maybe 4 tries. I should have looked at this vid before I struggled with it.
 
i always watch the vids, but this did cost me more then 4 tries :/. Overtook the zonda in the last stupid bend...

but how to overtake the guy in the beginning?! i dont get it.
 
That race is quite forgiving. I overtook at the hill and still got gold.

Forgiving? Are you kidding me? I must have tried this 100 times and still can only get second by probably 50metres or so, I just cannot do it. It feels impossible (I know its not but I just cant see it happening for me:yuck:)

I take it as given that TC and all aids must be set to zero/off?

Any other pointers? Its my last super licence I haven't golded...
 
Hi all. Today i golded the S2 license. What i am STILL curious about is how is it possible to overtake the first car in the first corner like shown in the vid here?! I only managed to overtak him on the hill that comes next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2JKYsGnmI

thanks
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I'm curious how you golded this *without* overtaking the first car, right after the first turn. o_O That's how I did it.
 
Very easy license. VERY EASY. Just take an inside approach to 1st corner and then swing out naturally, you can overtake the next one on the left corner, and the next one in the tunnel.
 
Very easy license. VERY EASY. Just take an inside approach to 1st corner and then swing out naturally, you can overtake the next one on the left corner, and the next one in the tunnel.

It's hard to tell whether you're trying to be encouraging or patronising. Either way, its clearly not a VERY EASY licence, unless you think all 60 licence tests are VERY EASY in which case I take my hat off to you and salute your driving ability.

Is the golding the test entirely dependant on taking the first car on the right on the crest of the second turn or are there other ways to do it?
 
the lincence in rome is harder or the ferrari p430 was the hardest for me

(for me was s licence the easiest, the 1000m braking was harder) xD

most time i drive in the line bevore the AI car does, so the other car dont really touches me.. but get disq. at this points its easy to get angry :P

but now gold:60 :dunce:

just try, try, and try
 
It's hard to tell whether you're trying to be encouraging or patronising. Either way, its clearly not a VERY EASY licence, unless you think all 60 licence tests are VERY EASY in which case I take my hat off to you and salute your driving ability.

Is the golding the test entirely dependant on taking the first car on the right on the crest of the second turn or are there other ways to do it?

1) You're kidding right lol? With a DS3 and before the update for sensitivity, i still golded them all in 3 hours with auto transmission =/. Spose im a bit of a license fanatic, practised enough on gt4 lol.

2) Well, no. I didn't struggle with it at all really, ok yes me saying VERY easy may be harsh, but compared to things like vettel its a walk in the park. The only ones i struggled with were cone slalom ones, but it still only took a few mins to do. DS3 + low sensitivity = hell lol.
 
I got golds on all of these way back in December. In fact, I did it twice on a second account as well. They might be difficult but they are in no way impossible. S3 and S8 were more challenging for me than S2. There is no 'right way' to take any corner on any of these tests, but there are plenty of wrong ways.


To prove my point, I just re-ran this race on the harder difficulty and I didn't pass the R390 until just prior to the long sweeper before the tunnel.

The key is that you reach 2nd place (passing the Corvette) at the hard "180-like" left after the back straight.
 
I can gold all licenses involving other cars without a Problemo but some of the driving skill ones I still didnt gold... Oh, the shame! :ouch:
 
Err..

His question was not how to get the gold, because he has the gold.
His question was: how is it possible for people, like the guy int he video, to overtake a car in the 1st corner.

My answer: turn your driver aids (like ASM) off.
Improves laptimes (if you drive clean) by seconds.

Voila, mystery(sp) solved.
 
I think it's just a matter of timing to break into the corner --- too early or too late will result in outta track or braking.
 
Hi all. Today i golded the S2 license. What i am STILL curious about is how is it possible to overtake the first car in the first corner like shown in the vid here?! I only managed to overtak him on the hill that comes next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2JKYsGnmI

thanks

I cannot catch that first car until its just dipped over the brow of the hill, I then take both it and the lotus before the left hander. Completed this (Gold) with DS3 but found you have to be a little bit brutal on the paintwork round a couple of the corners. Not sure how the person in the video manages to gain so much time in that first hundred yards or so.

EDIT: probably as Merquise states, its down to driver aids (I did this straight out the box in regard to driver aids).
 
In one of the recent patches the AI of the Licenses got readjusted, maybe that video is before the patch.
True; didn't consider that. I haven't run the license tests since after the patch, so I'm not sure where the cars are now when you start.
 
I tried the S2 license and the overtaking point is as OP describes. It's physically impossible to overtake the first car in the very first corner.
 
I tried the S2 license and the overtaking point is as OP describes. It's physically impossible to overtake the first car in the very first corner.

Its not impossible, but its not necessary. That is why for the most part I don't use videos to determine how to drive a license test. You don't know the other person's set up and the way they get gold doesn't mean its the only way to get gold.
 
Its not impossible, but its not necessary. That is why for the most part I don't use videos to determine how to drive a license test. You don't know the other person's set up and the way they get gold doesn't mean its the only way to get gold.

Go ahead. Try yourself. It's not posible.

In the video the AI brakes in the uphill corner and you can see that during the whole lap, the AI just brakes when going behind another AI car causing a jam, that it's easy to overtake. Now the AI runs more fluently without braking and causing a "braking domino" effect.
 
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Go ahead. Try yourself. It's not posible.

I did try it and I couldn't do it. Only aid on was ABS @ 1. I probably should have made a point that it doesn't matter what the video does, it matters what you do. The guy could have spun out 3 times or made risky or unnecessary moves that won him the gold but its been proven that you don't need to do that to win the gold. Just like there are numerous ways to win races, there are numerous ways to win license tests.
 
The path the AI follows in the license tests is fixed. You get the very same patterns every time you reload the test. BUT, AI got readjusted in the 1.06 patch, making them less dumb.
 
The path the AI follows in the license tests is fixed. You get the very same patterns every time you reload the test. BUT, AI got readjusted in the 1.06 patch, making them less dumb.

Wouldn't a fixed path make the AI even more dumb?
 
Yev
It was very easy, whole S licence is a laugh (I did it before 1.07).

Didn´t know they readjusted something with 1.07. Think I did it pre 1.05 or something.

Oh yes the memories, back then when my brother and I needed months only to gold those effing licences in GT1...
 
Oh yes the memories, back then when my brother and I needed months only to gold those effing licences in GT1...

Very true, my friend, I remember having nightmares with the S license in GT3. Nowadays in latter releases of the franchise is cake, not only because we got better, but because GT is getting more and more mainstream and they do the licenses easy enough for ANYONE to gold. Skid recovery on licenses? Just WTF. I didn't spend more than 4h golding every license from A to S. Whereas I needed 4 hours to gold one ****ing test on the S class in GT3.
 
At least I will have the opportunity to say that I golded the S Licenses (twice) before the 1.06 patch.
 
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