My set up is more towards understeer if you'd like to give it a go. Gotta watch the throttle though, once it kicks its hard to regain control.
Who ended up winning?
Was that you on my tail at the end of the race? Someone was getting real close to relegating me to last place at the end. I never tune my cars since I have no idea what I'm doing, but I decided to use SlipZtrEm's tune that he graciously shared, and it was very good. I felt completely in control. I wasn't fast, but I wasn't overdoing it either. I made enough money in leveling up, race winnings and a prize spin to buy a '62 Ferrari GTO, so it was well worth the time investment. Sorry for the people who got booted out. Hopefully it will be smoother sailing for the next race.
The key with this thing is maintenance throttle through the corners, of you try to coast to the apex it will oversteer.
I get it, it happens. It's just particularly infuriating because this was the only track I reckon I had much of a shot at. Plus, that is literally only the second DC I've had in 40+ hours of online racing. Timed impeccably, as expected.
Sorry about that, I didn't notice you were gone until a few laps in. From now on, we'll force restarts if anybody drops out the first lap or two. I felt bad that we were already so late due to the earlier issues.
I'll post up my tune later as well. I don't seem to have any of these issues with mine, which is weird because I didn't spend much time throwing it together...
Sounds like it was decent enough then. The few minutes I spectated after rejoining were pretty dull, so good thing it picked up.
I only had one bonehead moment. Well, only one that affected anyone else. In the first corner of the first lap, I hit my braking point where I wanted to, but it was still too late to avoid hitting the car in front of me. It seemed like a fairly light hit, but the car in front of me went flying off the track all out of proportion to how hard I hit him. So my apologies to that driver.
May I suggest some kind of drop round at least? I'm sure many of us know how bad the Forza servers are... I know it doesn't make up for the wasted time but may help ease the annoyance. I was just gearing up for a good race with @HighSeasHoMastr as well when their car just disappeared.
May I suggest some kind of drop round at least? I'm sure many of us know how bad the Forza servers are... I know it doesn't make up for the wasted time but may help ease the annoyance. I was just gearing up for a good race with @HighSeasHoMastr as well when their car just disappeared.
It's the worst. The party system was being super buggy today for me though. As I mentioned, it wouldn't let me stay in the party without the actual party window opened over the top of Forza. There was no way for me to get it to work where I could play the game and be in the party at the same time
so I don't know how excellent of a solution that will be either...
Well, of course I'm in favor, but I won't ask for special treatment either.
One other thing I should note; two weekends from now, I won't be able to run the race. I've got Valentines plans with the lady to see a romantic comedy by the name of Deadpool.
Scheduling for me is all over the place. The Super Bowl won't affect me in any way, so I'm still free next Sunday. FOr Valentine's Day I will also be unavailable, as will several of us I suspect, so that seems like a no-brainer drop week.
Generally yes, but see my reply above.
Nice! Hopefully someone saved the replay and can share that, for photography purposes?Indeed, there was a moment we went two wide through the Corkscrew, which I've never seen in the hoppers.
👍 That will help you a lot. The key is just practice. Also, do you have vibration enabled? The rumble in the trigger alerts you to wheelspin, so once you get a feel for the nuance of that it helps a lot with controlling power oversteer.
I was. I think it was coming from @Populuxe Cowboy so I just muted him (sorry!) and it seemed to fix it.
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Yeah, this is the first time I've ever had something like that happen. I don''t know if it was a sign of my impending dropped connection or what, but...yeah.
From what I've seen running with other friends who are similar speeds, it gives about 1/2 to 3/4 of a car-length per upshift. Over a lap, when I've used it, it translates to maybe .10-.20 seconds, depending on the length of the track/number of upshifts. At Laguna it's probably closer to .1 but it's still a non-zero advantage.
But I'm terrible at passing so if you stuck to the track chances are I wouldn't get past
Well then I might have been able to hang onto it. I did ~20 laps in practice last night and was within .8 seconds on all but one of them, so consistency wouldn't have been my problem Oh well, hopefully it's as close for the next one!I remember those days [stares fondly into sunset]...........I'm a student so lets just say my hours are quite flexible
I thought that was you. I just saw someone plummeting down the order in my mirrors
May I suggest some kind of drop round at least? I'm sure many of us know how bad the Forza servers are... I know it doesn't make up for the wasted time but may help ease the annoyance. I was just gearing up for a good race with @HighSeasHoMastr as well when their car just disappeared.
Also I think game chat is terrible, I could see others names coming up as talking but couldn't hear them, only people I heard all race were Rolnd and Slip.
I will say good driving by all, lots of respect to leaving others space. 👍
@GTracer38 I thought you were catching me on the early laps, kept looking at the distance meter at the same point and it was slowly getting lower until one lap where it jumped up.
I got to 2nd, held the gap for (maybe) a lap, tops and then you just drove away. But I usually use your rival times to improve mine (I can't get a quicker lap...or with in a second usually) so it was exactly as expected for me.
Psshhh. As if I was closing in
For a couple of laps I was checking using the start/finish line and it was at 470ft, 450ft, 440ft and then jumped up to 600ish, I don't know if you had some good laps or I had bad ones but I started overdriving a little trying to compensate as a result.
You were!
I came in too hot on the left hander leading up to the corkskrew, and counter steering sent me zigzagging down the straight until I eventually spun out. I pushed it a little to hard trying to catch up from a previous mistake
me and @SlipZtrEm stood within 100ft from each other for the last leg of the race.
I have no idea what that could have been. I didn't have anything going on around me like another TV or a radio or stereo. The only thing on was the TV and Xbox. I did have my iPad next to me, but that was the only electronic device near me that was active.
