Need for Speed Time Trial Championship ** Season 2 ** (Multiplatform)
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Incidentally, check out my new driving setup - I'm testing it out for the first time tonight -
I'm not jealous honest. Lucky git.
Very nice dan, that looks awesome.
Now all they need to design is a lightweight helmet where the visor is the view of the track with surround sound & mic incorporated. There's enough bulk in a helmet already to incorporate all that surely.
Lol! The wife thinks I'm mental enough, if she saw me putting a helmet on I think it would be divorce time!
@ chronic86, poor performance, kept me away from my new chair for 90 desperate minutes. Still, top of the league!
I have just tried this car out, and yes i do infact have the same problem with the gears 
Pick a new one me thinks http://www.nfscars.net/game/content/carlist/shift.aspx
Pick a new one me thinks http://www.nfscars.net/game/content/carlist/shift.aspx
That's not a bug, Merlin, that's just how the gears are - once the car is rolling 1st, 2nd and 3rd hardly get used anyway - however you tune the gears 3rd is almost useless when accelerating.
Nikaz - a tuning question for you. This car seems to 'sway' a lot all over the track, for example I am about to clip the grass so I steer left a little, I then seem to fly right over to the left and spend a few turns stabilising the car. What sort of things can I use to counteract this? I have tried messing around with the rollbar settings, spring settings, camber etc but I can't seem to tame it
Anyway, first time for me:
Oh right. Because I thought it was the same problem nikaz was describing with the other car. I get up to 43mph in 1st, then only up to 46 in 2nd and up to 48 in 3rd. It's meant to be like that is it, only 2 or 3mph faster per gear?
inam22, what is the top speed you're hitting? I've been around this track a good 50 times now and am doing it pretty well, as fast as the car will go and holding the racing line pretty accurately, yet my time never goes below 1:42, it's really frustrating. I'm not expecting to get 1: 32 yet but I think my driving has been good enough to get into the 1:30's. Top speed of the car is over 146mph but I can never get above 126mph because there's not enough time or else the car doesn't accelerate quick enough, but I'm about to quit I think unless i can sort it out. 2nd and 3rd gear are non existent, I don't know if that's the problem
inam22, what is the top speed you're hitting? I've been around this track a good 50 times now and am doing it pretty well, as fast as the car will go and holding the racing line pretty accurately, yet my time never goes below 1:42, it's really frustrating. I'm not expecting to get 1: 32 yet but I think my driving has been good enough to get into the 1:30's. Top speed of the car is over 146mph but I can never get above 126mph because there's not enough time or else the car doesn't accelerate quick enough, but I'm about to quit I think unless i can sort it out. 2nd and 3rd gear are non existent, I don't know if that's the problem
Let me have a quick go, will come back to you.
I am hitting 132mph max but the difference in speed could be down to different gear settings though.
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Nikaz - a tuning question for you. This car seems to 'sway' a lot all over the track, for example I am about to clip the grass so I steer left a little, I then seem to fly right over to the left and spend a few turns stabilising the car. What sort of things can I use to counteract this? I have tried messing around with the rollbar settings, spring settings, camber etc but I can't seem to tame it
Danny, firstly let's eliminate any game related issues. Can you drive the Porsche from last week round this track without this severe swaying?
No. I get the same problem. - Game related/bug
Yes. OK it's this weeks car.
As you've already tried Rollbar, suspension etc wisely I may add, you can also consider;
'Caster Angle' - controls steering response
'Toe' - Add -ve Toe to improve straight line stability. Don't go overboard though, you'll compromise traction.
Slow Bump/Rebound - Driver input sensitive. Try stiffer setting.
Need I say take one setting at a time.
Try new setting1 - nope that didn't help
Reverse change
Try diff new setting2 - nope that didn't help
Reverse change
Try diff new setting3 - hey that's an improvement but still not ideal
Save/write down setting
Try tried setting1 again - that's better still
Save/write down setting
That's my approach
Thanks Nikaz - it's defintely the car, the Porsche is much more stable for me on this track. I will try again later and see what I can do
Merlin - if you go to the gears section in tuning you will see the lines for second and third are almost vertical, meaning they are very short. No matter what settings I have tried this is always the case, you just have to live with it. I only drop down to third for a couple of corners, 4th is powerful enough most of the time so it shouldn't affect you much. It's the same for everyone.
Initial time:
Very difficult to handle car, I've got the front caster and toe values set at the maximum to try to keep it in a straight line. Also got the gearing set to full speed and then 2nd and 3rd set at full speed also to try to help that a bit.
Still getting huge oversteer at the moment so just need to try and iron that out and I might get some more from this car.
Very difficult to handle car, I've got the front caster and toe values set at the maximum to try to keep it in a straight line. Also got the gearing set to full speed and then 2nd and 3rd set at full speed also to try to help that a bit.
Still getting huge oversteer at the moment so just need to try and iron that out and I might get some more from this car.
