A nice tiny little detail that I noticed today was the "Register a car for custom show" challenge not working..... again... 🙄
No need to starve the summits of players with prices I agree. Thankfully the grind is reduced though, they've mitigated by offering more main stage awards (just done 3 feats and the first summit event got 90Kcr in bonuses). I think for summits they could offer rentals with which you could swap parts onto... the desire to own them would be the same as you would still need them for the main game. Would be nice to try cars before you buy them, there's a couple of hypercar turkeys and they're eye watering prices.
I'm kind of surprised about all the lets revive a game that was on life support for years before Ivory decided to pull the plug.
That includes me but I can understand why. To do anything else (especially any download of the game files) would be likely to end up with a DMCA as it would be piracy.
I don't have a PC but I've seen pictures of the game still included in people's library on Steam.
Iam loving it with a nitro chemist set and about 12% iron grip. The Carrera is a delight, it dances amazing through the puddles. I find it needs micro lifts on the throttle pulsed nitrous or it breaks grip with enthusiasm, its peppered with puddles too this summit to make it more interesting. The challenge is steeper without the parts for sure, needed some first cup of coffee in the morning hyper focus for those... Ive enjoyed this summit.
Hmm, I was under the impression that iron grip only is active when you are doing races with pit stops and then it reduces grip loss from tire wear? In this summit there are no races with pit stops and the iron grip modifier would not help with the Carrera handling?
Its a seperate modifier in both parts and legend points, useful in the bottom 3 races of the summit. Also useful in custom race mode / on the race track tyre wear races so i know where you're coming from. Iron grip is quite useful with hypercars you can swap the parts modifiers about easily to get it (some of the Bug's and Keg's are far too buckeroo without it).
Cool, thank you for the explanation, I had almost ruled iron grip out as useless but now I have to give it a try.
I just did maybe 5 or 6 runs of the leftmost event on the 2nd row of the summit, switching back and forth between two nitro chemist sets:
I noticed a big difference with the carerra top 3 races that had fairplay (does that cancel legend point perks too?) no parts compared to the second row with tidy parts. Its interesting the times are close with 30% less pure (perhaps a sweet spot in the middle). The strategy this week is iron grip for the twisty courses with a smidge of brake harvesting I only use 12% Iron grip though and then an alternate set with all pure extra pump / smidge of frenetic for the straighter highway tracks. Thanks to the merge gimmick Ive got tons of nitrous sets built up with different aspects to them. I think the only time iron grip really shows up in an obvious way is with rally / rally raid as you can get better traction.
Right, that makes a difference because the loan vehicles don't have your pro settings or tyres. For cars with wide body parts, the difference is even bigger.
Some of the vanity tires also help with handling.
I should mess with the pro settings a bit more... im usually tinkering more in the photo menu though lol. Are you enjoying the hypercars theme?
I thought iron grip only matters for races with tyre wear enabled 🤔
Easy one take off the legend points off iron grip and go for a drive around the island before and after with the same car, im sure its global for free roam, in custom mode, and in the parts races in summits. It is a prime benefit for the tyre wear races, and for me makes cornering on loose surfaces tidier.
