OK, here we are... Friends, excuse the novel but I needed to vent a tad!
You put your thoughts (which I share completely) to text just a little while before I do, it’s quite a funny phenomenon actually. We seem to attempt the TT’s at similar times/days, struggle and get annoyed in the same way (and be on controller ;-)).
Yesterday’s 1’06.246 today went 1’06.125 → 1’06.096 (I think 96 IIRC) → 1’05.987 → 1’05.933.
Absurd story about that .096, when I set that time I was in a party with a couple of friends who was watching the lap at the time (share screen) and I got the notification mid lap that we couldn’t communicate due to network error. I end up hooking that lap up alright only to shortly thereafter discover that the percentage hadn’t changed from what it was sitting at before.
I wondered what on earth happened. The party was still fine and we could talk to eachother. Backed out of the session and went towards the homescreen only to discover that somehow I lost connection — the game was now in offline mode. The very same happened to one of my friends too. Everything else at home was fine, computer, telephone. Sat there waiting for a while hoping the game could reconnect (tried that specific reconnect button as well) but to no avail. Eventually restarted the game and checked the leaderboards only to find that that time never registered. I did save a replay of it (which is shared) but yeah, it never counted, bizarrely. A disconnect like that hasn’t happened in years to me and it happens here in this TT during the very lap I improved. You can barely write that **** but believe you me, it’s true.
Anyway, I do eventually reach 05 with a .987 which was very relieving. Still, I thought the lap kinda sucked. Especially the beginning which is the only part of the track where pad is a factor and I’ve been way faster there before. Kept going a while and got a more neat lap down, a .933. The start was pretty good with .504 at the first split, I was about to get sucked out into the sand by the hoover (or black hole) but somehow kept it going. Lotto’d myself through T6 onto Rahal and the corkscrew went better than expected too. Braking very early (learnt by screwing a few too many on late braking) and the landing was in my favour as well.
At the end of my session I did find slightly more consistency through the left-hander after the corkscrew, up to fourth pretty early to try and get some rotation and keep it planted, shortly then down to third and back up to fourth. For the penultimate corner, the right-hander and bane of my existence these past two days I kept it going still in fourth and just gave up trying to properly attack this corner (no more down to third there), just instead trying to essentially make it through. Avoid hitting a perfect apex because then it stops steering, leave a little room on the inside kerb.
I’ve shared those two 05 laps on my profile (tags #gtp #schlafhund #naxeht), hopefully a controller ghost could maybe be of assistance? I wish the very best of luck to you, really hope you can make it, man!
@Gomario JSP Sorry to drag you back into hell in case you already thought you permanently left it but I think you could do this,
if you have the time and energy. Maybe with ghost help?
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