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Shame there is no rain in this game, had to make my own.
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exactly my point, you cant win ither way can you so may as well give as good as you get!! well if its with randoms, if its with mates then the odd nudge here and there you laugh at makes for a good race if there a little tap tap to try and hole postion but should only be one move not all over track like it is in F1 defend and if lost then sorry try and get it back.
i also tend to outbreak most people with not using ABS can work and also wont work if your to hot but if you do get past you do get people hitting you to get back past of if someone coming in hot on you aiming for the hit then simply move, again on dirt3 a lot of people would do that so u just learn to break and move at same time, another little trick i do is when breaking and comin down the gears, between gears let off break get some extra speed but again can also go against you haha
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nice bit of photoshopin but i think the rain would be at more acute angle than that as your goin at some speed in that pic
i also tend to outbreak most people with not using ABS can work and also wont work if your to hot but if you do get past you do get people hitting you to get back past of if someone coming in hot on you aiming for the hit then simply move, again on dirt3 a lot of people would do that so u just learn to break and move at same time, another little trick i do is when breaking and comin down the gears, between gears let off break get some extra speed but again can also go against you haha
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nice bit of photoshopin but i think the rain would be at more acute angle than that as your goin at some speed in that pic
I find the best way with dealing with dodgy drivers in public games, sit on their tail going into a fast hairpin, fake a move, watch them brake later due to pressure. Meanwhile you brake a bit early and stay wide, cut back in underneath them with a good exit and a lot of the time you'll be clear enough by the next corner to take it with some space to cover you if they try and ram you off again 
yeah thats a good one, i did that before on SP haha lambo tryin out break me and went way wide haha, what also does my head in is people who dont really know the tracks and are slowing down on a slight curv when u can take it flat, road atlanta for example, those turns down hill 99% of time its flat unless your way off line or sliding.
To be fair it can vary on the car a lot, I know most of the cars I like driving won't take that section completely flat, I need to lift through them. But I tend to prefer cars without aero, that are a bit more lary to drive!
Think you just need to assume they'll brake unless you know them well enough to trust them.
Back on Forza3 when we used to all race a lot we'd get to the point where we know how people drive and we could drive nose to tail
Tonights racing was fun.
Certainly not keen on those S Class FWD cars, they just aren't anywhere near as fun as I thought they'd be!
Forza is definitely most fun when driving F to A class stuff, anything faster shows up the oversteery physics too much, as well as the low quality of some of the fantasy tracks.
I'd like to see us do more lower class racing and more same car racing, or at the very least similar cars, not one guy in a racing car, one guy in a fast sports car and three others in tuned cars. I'd rather see everyone in a racing car, everyone in a fast sports car etc.
I've really got to learn the tracks, I only know Mugello, Nurburgring (both GP and Nordschleife), Suzuka, Tsukuba, Le Mans and the Top Gear track really. I'd like to do more racing on those tracks as well as Motegi, Silverstone, Infineon and Road America.
The drifting was fun, shame I accidentally put traction control on. Still came third!
Certainly not keen on those S Class FWD cars, they just aren't anywhere near as fun as I thought they'd be!
Forza is definitely most fun when driving F to A class stuff, anything faster shows up the oversteery physics too much, as well as the low quality of some of the fantasy tracks.
I'd like to see us do more lower class racing and more same car racing, or at the very least similar cars, not one guy in a racing car, one guy in a fast sports car and three others in tuned cars. I'd rather see everyone in a racing car, everyone in a fast sports car etc.
I've really got to learn the tracks, I only know Mugello, Nurburgring (both GP and Nordschleife), Suzuka, Tsukuba, Le Mans and the Top Gear track really. I'd like to do more racing on those tracks as well as Motegi, Silverstone, Infineon and Road America.
The drifting was fun, shame I accidentally put traction control on. Still came third!
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I think if people are going to follow closely, then that's fine, but then they just need to be that bit more ready to brake if needs be. I brake cautiously going into corners, and it annoys me when people go into the back of me because they're going to brake at the right point, other cars be damned. If I'm braking early, I'd expect my competitors to go round me one way or another, or to just accept that I've cack handedly blocked them on that corner and wait for a straight or the next corner to make a pass.
There seems to be an attitude that you must come out of the first corner on top, so it just becomes a complete cluster**** with no regard for proper technique. Everyone just piles in with the hope of coming out near the front.
There seems to be an attitude that you must come out of the first corner on top, so it just becomes a complete cluster**** with no regard for proper technique. Everyone just piles in with the hope of coming out near the front.
I agree with you vonhelmet and it annoys me but I know I am guilty of it too sometimes. I think it is a mix of people not knowing where their virtual front bumper is mixed with different cars having different braking points mixed with different levels of experience. I know for me the most common time I hit people up the back is mid corner due to either me going too fast for the corner and clip them as I run wide or they are going slower than I expected them too.
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If you get a chance, try the Forza Le Mans game type. You get 4 classes of cars (GT 1/2, LMP1/2) racing on the longer tracks. The GTs get a head start and so there's much less chance of T1 carnage, plus if you're in an LMP by the time you catch up most of the GTs have crashed, or you're that much faster you can easily take them under acceleration from most corners.
yeah thats true, most hits are in breaking zone and people diffending line but again im sure people should learn to expect breaking but people dont, its like they arnt watching.
some nice pics there starkill3r
this my OWN skinning if anyway says different i can prove it and this was on my way to beating peterattheboro on catalunya school rivals drift
some nice pics there starkill3r
this my OWN skinning if anyway says different i can prove it and this was on my way to beating peterattheboro on catalunya school rivals drift
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Might have to rob my x box back from my daughter as this looks pretty good
It's a common thing in racing games, people get under pressure and try risky maneuvers to try and make a pass or defend their position.
The race I comfortably won on Mugello in my EK9 last night was an example of that. Most of the people I passed were braking crazy late into the corners and usually ran wide, especially on the first corner. I was shunted in the back several times on that track for braking in a more realistic position, but fortunately it didn't cost me the race.
Whilst looking behind myself on the main straight I saw people shunting each other off the track, just on the main straight! That's certainly not even accidental.
You've just got to think to yourself, can I pass safely? Will this result in contact or an accident? If it will, back off, look for a suitable place to pass, continue applying pressure, it really does work and it's a lot more fun.
Most have the idea that they have to take crazy risks to pass at all costs, like it's an Arcade racer and if they don't pass someone before the 15 second count down they lose their single credit and have to put in another pound.
Racing is a lot more clean in GT5 online, particularly amongst random players. There's also the option to add collision penalties, which can dissuade kids from driving like lunatics, although I routinely race with those disabled and still enjoy clean racing.
Still not that keen on Forza's oversteery physics, no matter what car I'm driving, no matter what level of down force it has, or whether I have traction control on or not, they still slide through corners, it's very irritating and those cars just aren't like that.
I think over time I'll get used to it, but it's still frustrating being such a slow driver in Forza compared to my speed in GT.
The race I comfortably won on Mugello in my EK9 last night was an example of that. Most of the people I passed were braking crazy late into the corners and usually ran wide, especially on the first corner. I was shunted in the back several times on that track for braking in a more realistic position, but fortunately it didn't cost me the race.
Whilst looking behind myself on the main straight I saw people shunting each other off the track, just on the main straight! That's certainly not even accidental.
You've just got to think to yourself, can I pass safely? Will this result in contact or an accident? If it will, back off, look for a suitable place to pass, continue applying pressure, it really does work and it's a lot more fun.
Most have the idea that they have to take crazy risks to pass at all costs, like it's an Arcade racer and if they don't pass someone before the 15 second count down they lose their single credit and have to put in another pound.
Racing is a lot more clean in GT5 online, particularly amongst random players. There's also the option to add collision penalties, which can dissuade kids from driving like lunatics, although I routinely race with those disabled and still enjoy clean racing.
Still not that keen on Forza's oversteery physics, no matter what car I'm driving, no matter what level of down force it has, or whether I have traction control on or not, they still slide through corners, it's very irritating and those cars just aren't like that.
I think over time I'll get used to it, but it's still frustrating being such a slow driver in Forza compared to my speed in GT.
Feeling a bit let down about this. The AI still starts the race like they have warm brakes and tyres, and they just swipe at you while you struggle for the most basic of traction. Makes it almost impossible to race R class cars, it's just pure luck :/
So I'm wondering why I'm only a measly 7.0% done with career after completing World Tour. Completed an event in World Tour, went back to event list and sure enough it's not listed. Seems a hell of a lot of the events you do in World Tour are NOT actual events in the event list...I wish I knew this earlier. 
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is it really that bad?
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So I'm wondering why I'm only a measly 7.0% done with career after completing World Tour. Completed an event in World Tour, went back to event list and sure enough it's not listed. Seems a hell of a lot of the events you do in World Tour are NOT actual events in the event list...I wish I knew this earlier.
That's because they're only individual races of the events in the Event List. Look for yourself (not the grid view, but select an actual event you've done in Career Mode and you'll see that only one of the races has a medal stuck on it).
No it's not, I checked myself. It was an Italian Supercar event something or other. Did the event in World Tour, checked event list, 0/3 events completed, no gold medals. It's been mentioned over on NeoGAF as well. A lot of the events in World Tour are entirely different lap and track settings to the ones in event list. I'm 100% sure that I did the Audi Q7, BMW 2002 and Scirocco events in World Tour. I remember the Q7 event in world tour, as I did it in season 10. It was Nurburgring Short. The event list Q7 race is on Hockenheimring Short. These are only single race events in event list, all 3 are 0/1.
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