Well I got myself a time now. But I didnāt get a screenshot of it. Ran twice with the Ford and twice with the Opel today best result with the Opel at 07:26.something, which beats the delta at least but I forgot to get a screenshot of it.
I liked the Fordās heft, it felt more stable on the road but it also made it feel necessary to keep it stable as once it started skidding you had no control anymore. So it felt best for slow and precise cornering, which is fun to pull off but ruins everything when you donāt.
The Opel feels so much lighter and more familiar after the Renault, while I still donāt feel like I can throw it around and slide around corners it does feel like it breaks harder and I like the 3 little lights that tells you where your max power RPM space is.
At the very least the cars do not feel impossible to use anymore, so thatās progress!
I canāt decide if I really enjoy the track or hate it though. Thereās so many tricky things that comes out of nowhere and will just ruin your run, but those are also fun to master. The first hairpin, no matter that itās at the end of a long straight, just seems invisible. I have a really hard time finding the right breakpoints for it, but when I get it perfect it feels really good. Then thereās a simple right 5, that should be easy, but itās downhill and right below a crest so I have to treat it like a 2 or I inevitably get thrown into the rocks outside it. Oh and navigator can go fuck himself with his āright 4 be braveā the hell do you mean?
Itās at the bottom of a valley turns into a climb that crests into another sharp turn with rocks ALL over both of them. Going through the first corner ābravelyā means killing yourself on the 2nd one. But I guess thatās bravery for you.
congrats to @Vandem and @Doomy for setting such insane times; I donāt know how they do it. @DontBeSilly has an impressive time as well.
In the mean time, Iām struggling with a huge controller issue, though regardless of that Iām 100% sure I wouldnāt be able to compete with these insane times. When I pull left trigger 75% back I get 75% braking power, but when i pull it 100% back my braking power is reduced to 25%-35% only. I tested my controller cuz my car was hardly braking (in rocket league i had this issue too this week but it was solved by simply unmapping and remapping the key and works fine). I know the exact percentages cuz I decided to now download an app to test it. Recalibrating controller did nothing; it just shows the issue while calibrating, so i had to decrease brake saturation from 100% ingame to 35% just to be able to get full braking power, but ofc that now means that when i pull trigger 0-50% i get 0% braking and then past 50% it starts braking but it almost immediately goes to full braking, which just doesnt allow for accurate inputsā¦
Iām really sick of buying controllers. They are insanely expensive here (xbox one controller [I have 4 of them and they all have a different problem now] $67 [I know! I know! I know! itās with everything i buy here, mice, keyboard, headset, I pay 200% of the price, at least]) because theyāre imported and thereās insane taxes on imported shit here + currency conversion + they just rip us of, but besides that Iām convinced that a lot of them are fakes and that the rest is basically controllers that failed QA and that they just dump on non-Western markets cuz why not; itās not like we can return them. We can return them within 2 weeks if something is clearly wrong with them, yes, but then the store will just sell it to another sucker, and usually these issues, like this one, it worked fine for a month or so, show up after more than 2 weeks.
and ofc the first thing uāll think is ādonāt these things come with a warranty?ā and why, yes, of course, they do, but the way warranties āworkā here is that the seller will tell you, yes, your product is under warranty, but that warranty is with the company (in this case Microsoft) itself, not with me, rofl, so u need to go to the company
Probably because of your controller setup. Thereās a lot of advantage to be gained with giving RWD cars 30-40-50-60% throttle, steering input is also very important because 100% lock in either direction will almost certainly spin it out. When we get to AWD cars it will work a lot better for you.
Speaking of controllers, this league has me looking for a cheap second hand wheel again, unfortunately everyone here thinks they deserve sticker price for their used goods. Currently Iām playing on a controller that I made DIY paddles for. Pretty happy with it as far as a controller setup goes. No issues either with the xbox controller, I think itās decent quality actually, only the charging port shouldnāt have been micro USB or whatever itās called.
If you want I can repair the damage on them if it is repairable. I have decent soldering equipment/hot air station etc
I have switched to driving with the joystick, which is at the suggestion of @DontBeSilly and everyone else, apparently.
I need to figure out the amount of throttle, etc.
I use a DS4 controller, works flawlessly.
As for the controller settings, I am using @NICK9X9ās settings except for the sensitivity turned down to 80% instead of 90%.
I am looking at the throttle and braking mapping from controller to the game with the in-game button-checking, and itās a smooth 0-100%, so I just need to figure out where to keep it for it to be good for driving RWD cars.
This is the first real driving/racing sim I have spent any more than a couple of hours on, because I am so terrible at them, so I am glad we have this league, thanks to @Fraggles.
@M00 lives a bit farther away from the rest of the world, unfortunately, so unless someone wants to pay for international parcel shipping both ways, it might not work out, though it might still be cheaper than him having to replace his gamepadsā¦
As far as I am aware, he probably lives about 3000+km whence he hailsā¦ (approximately where you are, I am probably completely wrong, I havenāt kept up every happening here on chrono actually. Pardon my presumptionsā¦)
Exactly my own situation and the whole reason I wanted to do this. I donāt know what advice to give you regarding steering that has not already been mentioned. When I first scouted the cars out and went to take screenshots for the week I spun out immediately and couldnāt control the cars either. Before the first week I thought I had written off the Renault Alpine as too much a beast for me to manageā¦ yet some how after trying for a while I surprise myself with overcoming it and almost wondering what the problem was in the first place.
So I guess it comes down to just figuring it out?
I think the thing thatās had the best positive effect for me is taking it slow. Like actually really boringly slow because thatāll let you get a better feel for the car. Donāt even go into 3rd gear, just get a feel for holding a constant speed and how the car acts on the road. I usually end up feeling far more confident in the car after about half a run like this.
Hmmā¦ interesting notion, and may it be that I should switch over to manual instead of automatic? I didnāt think about that and maybe pushing the throttle up to full in each gear and testing out stability that way.
I have never driven a manual car myself, always driven automatic in reality, if I switch over, I might just forget to shift gears a lot of times. (Do you have to gear down with braking as well? Or does the game do that for you automatically?)
While I donāt think itās boring, itās kind of where I am right now, heavy braking and slow turns, just trying to keep up a clean run. (I had one recovery in that run aboveāmy PB currently, so you can imagine how slow things are for me at the moment.)
Isnāt this more or less on all of the other cars as well, I tried the others, I think they have similar (though located elsewhere) indicators.
The ford also have a rather nice little curved meter that fills up with lights, I donāt fully remember the others one of them I donāt think have any notifier at all and you have to go on the shaded part on the dial and the other have a single light that comes on like the MINI.
What I mean is that youāll find yourself on a straight at some point and youāre just going to want to get to the next corner because it takes ages at that low speed and you KNOW you could just put the gas down. The point is to not do that but to focus on maintaining your speed and control.
I have never driven a car at all. Iām using manual sequential and have altered the controls so I have shift up on X and shift down on A. Not sure what it was from the start but I remember not liking it. Anyway manual shifting allows you to use engine breaking by shifting down, it can make a rather large difference in slowing down over just breaking. I was curious about how the automatic handles things like that.
Do you not use the clutch for switching gears then? I know that the game has I think the left bumper mapped to clutch, and when I see clutch, I think to myself, no way on earth am I going to remember to use clutch every time I want to shift gears. So I just stayed with automatic.
I think this is just speed dependent, although I can see that in the animations, the so called āautomaticā is the driver deciding to shift on his own accord, not really automatic transmission in that thereās no gear shift.
I will look at this later, thanks for the advice. We have guests over, and itās going to be an afternoon of barbecuing and entertaining.
@Doomy I only said I was from Ostend (originally), lol; Iāve since moved to Ottignies, Brussels, Antwerp, Hadhramaut (Yemen), Alexandria (Egypt), and iāve been living in Cairo for about 10 years now, which is, as @YQMaoski said, a bit further down the road
being a gamer here has its own complications (many of them), lol
Ah well then my assumptions were wrong. Youāre quite the traveler then
You donāt have to use the clutch, in a racing sequential gearbox you can literally slam the car into the next and previous gear without using the clutch. You can in a normal manual car as well but you have to rev match and youāll wreck your syncroās in no time, but itās useful to know if you ever have a broken clutch.
The game doesnāt force you to use the clutch at all, the option is there so you can disengage the wheels from the engine if you want to. (More control in corners, allows you to spool up the turbo for example if applicable)
I was referring to real life mostly, where the clutch isnāt used in a typical fashion compared to normal driving.
