Race Driver: Grid

That is some very good news there, good to think they have thought something like this through.

Have only done about 7-8 online races and havent encountered too many dimwits, though there was a dodgy french guy doin doughnuts in the middle of the track between turn 2 and 3, but was easily avoidable.
 
Surely part of the point is crashing into each other though. I can understand its annoying because of a few idiots, but sometimes they can be funny, and they can be dealt with. If people dont like hitting one another then they might as well play Trackmania.
 
sh+t does happen though, look at fiscichella on sunday, apparently 3rd time in turkey he ploughed into someone on the 1st corner, does that mean he would be banned? :D
 
Its alright when it happens at beggining or something but if your on a roll 1st or 2nd, and your having a nice race battle with a guy, then he just smashes you into the barrier and he carries on, it gets a little frustrating:rolleyes:
 
It is brilliant when you find a good server, found a 12 man server before, BMW racing was epic, just like the real thing, overtaking, got a nice slipstream to overtake a guy to get 5th on the big straight:D
 
Calabi said:
Surely part of the point is crashing into each other though. I can understand its annoying because of a few idiots, but sometimes they can be funny, and they can be dealt with. If people dont like hitting one another then they might as well play Trackmania.
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no way, this aint a fairground simulator where your in bumper cars, what racing series in the world is there where the point is to hit other drivers ? ;)
 
Daytrader said:
no way, this aint a fairground simulator where your in bumper cars, what racing series in the world is there where the point is to hit other drivers ? ;)
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flatout, destruction derby :p

But yeh this isn't really one of them, I believe it does have a demolition derby mode in the full game though. hopefully that will be in multiplayer and keep wreckers off the normal racing servers
 
no way, this aint a fairground simulator where your in bumper cars, what racing series in the world is there where the point is to hit other drivers ?
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Now that would be cool, and there is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banger_racing. When you have little consequences and plenty of detachment, things will crash and splode very easily. I see your point though, some people take it too far, but a few accidents every now and again doesnt hurt anyone.
 
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It just needs to make cars that are going the wrong way round the track become ghosts. Or those that havent moved for a while (i.e. doing donuts or sitting still on an apex)
 
eekfek said:
sorry was busy fixing a PC ...

i grabbed the file from here http://rapidshare.com/files/114297507/charger.zip < dwnload at your own risk ;p

locate :> Program files\Codemasters\GRID demo\cars\gtr and back the 'gtr' file up then just place the new file in the cars folder

you can even put 20 drift cars on the track and race

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That mod is awsome! Nice change from the green GTR. I do recon however its only changing the appearance, as I dotn expect they have the handling code for any other cars? IT basically turns all the cars that would be GTRs into looking like Chargers, so in online races everyone is in the Charger (although it only appears so for you, everyone else will see the GTR).

You know if they have done this for any of the other cars?
 
Zogger said:
flatout, destruction derby :p

But yeh this isn't really one of them, I believe it does have a demolition derby mode in the full game though. hopefully that will be in multiplayer and keep wreckers off the normal racing servers
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i did mean real life driving series :)
 
Still can't get the game to recognise my audigy 2 for some reaosn. Doesn't let me select hardware acceleration or high quality audio. Tried fiddling about in the config manually and I'm not convinced thats doing anything either
 
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When i double click the .exe file, it loads into task manager, then just vanishes again for no reason, even safe mode does this. Anyone got this or know how to fix it?
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You mean command prompt? Create a copy, rename the extension to .rar and try to open it then.

Mine downloaded without an extension, creating a .exe opened command prompt for a second but .rar had all the files. Just make copies.
 
Good to see they're willing to add extra stuff into the game if asked by the community. Hopefully they will throw in some online friend features and you have it, the best online racing game ever.

On the subjects of idiots, they need to do something similar to the original Burnouts, you could only go about 50 meters backwards before a big red sign came up blocking you from going any further backwards. Tad unrealistic, but why do you need to go backward any further??

Crashes themselves are immense, tis why they re-wrote the whole crash and damage code while updating Neon to Ego. Like many of said, crashes happen. The muscle track has a tight beginning (small chicane followed by two right turnings) while the european track has a long straight followed by a slow hairpin. Fischella proved on sunday that people can get their braking points wrong, mainly to the consotina effect of cars all slowing for the same corner.

As its only a demo, many will be playing because it is free. We'll lose some idiots when we all buy it. Then we can focus on some proper racing :)
 
[ZiiP]carrot;11676783 said:
On the subjects of idiots, they need to do something similar to the original Burnouts, you could only go about 50 meters backwards before a big red sign came up blocking you from going any further backwards. Tad unrealistic, but why do you need to go backward any further??

Crashes themselves are immense, tis why they re-wrote the whole crash and damage code while updating Neon to Ego. Like many of said, crashes happen. The muscle track has a tight beginning (small chicane followed by two right turnings) while the european track has a long straight followed by a slow hairpin. Fischella proved on sunday that people can get their braking points wrong, mainly to the consotina effect of cars all slowing for the same corner.

As its only a demo, many will be playing because it is free. We'll lose some idiots when we all buy it. Then we can focus on some proper racing :)
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Yeah, crashes happen, but not every lap of every race at almost every corner! There was plenty of overtaking in the Turkish grand prix that didn't end in a crash. When a driver knows that he's beaten he'll yeild cos he knows that it's not worth risking damaging the car.

They should take out the physics that makes you spin when hit in the rear corner. I know it's realistic but it just makes it far too easy for the following player to push the car in front into a spin with consequence to themselves as there are no stewards. Or add some code that can black flag a player for driving like that.

They've got to have a way of policing it or I won't buy the final game.
 
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I think TOCA 3 online had a penelty system for taking a shortcut over grass, did they have a penelty system for causing an accident (can't remember, if someone could confirm)

As said by the GRID exec 'people kicked from any session will remain kicked from that session forever, which means that with our host migration system (sessions may never die) constant bad drivers will start to run out of sessions to join...'

Of course this will work until a session does end (I cant see them going through the night) and then you're back to square one. Maybe the codies will do something that if a player has been kicked so many times they will get warned and banned online for a set period of time. That will never happen though...

But if there is a friends buddies thingamigid in the game they'll be nothing to worry about cause you could just join us lot* :)

*I'll apologise now though for any crashes I do cause, I don't drive and have just brought myself a steering wheel coming from an xbox gamepad, what can possibly go wrong :rolleyes:
 
[ZiiP]carrot;11677105 said:
I think TOCA 3 online had a penelty system for taking a shortcut over grass, did they have a penelty system for causing an accident (can't remember, if someone could confirm)
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The host could set it like that.
Grass/Hit penalty.
I light tap was ok but if you hit hard you got a warning.
The Host could instant kick you at any time for bad play.
TOCA 3 on-line is quite good & intact im going to install it as soon as i find the disk.
 
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