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Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1IXlRWpWQ

No lie; I will drive the F40 forever.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 14:05

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 00:30

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Kal Reegar - 01:42.041 - 1,480
yes we nyan - 01:42.065 - 1,513

Come at me bro!

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 14:50

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

GOD IS BED posted:

Please say I'm not the only person who will force every person who visits my house to run the Top Gear track and put their times on a powerboard.

Here's the Top Gear powerboards for each car and F1 drivers, so you can compare to celebrities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_test_track

I did this in Forza 2 with a Mazda on Suzuka west. It was pretty fun!

# ¿ Oct 7, 2011 23:25

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

GhostDog posted:

WHY? Why only .02 seconds? I could concede if you made it into the 41s. I could just go "Welp, I lost" and back out gracefully. But .02 seconds? I can surely find another .03 seconds! I might even get lucky and only need to drive another thirty. loving. laps.

If you think that's bad, yes we nyan and I have been doing this over the course of an entire second.

We're now in the 1:41s... :v:

# ¿ Oct 9, 2011 23:43

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

fuckpot posted:

Because of no weather and no night racing I won't be buying this.

Those were the two things I really hoped they would implement in Forza 4

With the current 360 architecture they could either have 60fps constant or weather/night racing. I would take 60fps constant every time.

Also, There's alot more to weather and night racing than the shaders. Entirely new tire data would be needed for the different grip levels due to the dampness of the track and the decreased temperature respectively.

Not many sims have managed to get rain 'right', and most don't even factor in the less grippy nature of the track due to the track temperature being lower at night.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 06:51

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

I have a preorder with gameplay and a preorder with gamestation, so hopefully one of those will go through.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 12:12

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Dr JonboyG posted:

Yes, 1992 NSX-R, Suzuka.

Yessssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFDHvqd0ICM

Onboard footage of his lap here. Such a classy dude, heel-toe shifting with loafers on.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 13:44

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Remember that the LF-A and 458 Italia are both reward cars for the career mode too.

Also gosh darn, those engine sounds...

Spaceman, how does the Ferrari 355 Challenge sound? It was an angry angry girl in FM2 with the exhaust mods, but sounded kind of dumbed down in 3.

e: Everyone should at least try GTCC. I haven't raced with them for ages due to work commitments, but it's a blast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kajPdMUWX1Q

Here's a race edit I made of our A600 Front engine RWD American car race. (group 2 best group 2)

Falken fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Oct 11, 2011

# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 00:25

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Bodacious Bagel posted:

Alright so I got the game last night at midnight at Walmart, played for a few hours and I love it already. I've been a diehard fan of Forza since the beginning, and consider myself to be an above average racer (all assists off, clutch, etc.). The reason I'm saying this is because I SO BADLY want to buy a Fanatec wheel so I can become even better and enjoy the game more. However, the $500 total for the wheel+pedals+shifter is the only thing holding me back. For those of you that have the Fanatec setup, is it worth it? If it makes any difference I put roughly 100+ hours into Forza 3, so I should be playing F4 for a long long time as well.

tl;dr: Should I spend $500 on a Fanatec wheel, pedals and shifter?

Yes.

FM3 was good with the Fanatec wheel, but FM4 is leagues ahead of even that. You get so much valuable feedback from the tires with the FFB that you'll be smooth as silk with some practice.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2011 21:57

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

My copy should be here tomorrow. Who is going to run the UK group? I'll volunteer mainly because I'll be putting so much time into the drat game that I'll always be around to ensure people get in.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 14:28

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Same reason as FatboYgw, gameplay. They usually deliver 1 or 2 days ahead of release.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 14:47

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Can you use the kinect to look to your direct left or right to ensure you don't smash into someone when overtaking?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 15:06

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

The Fanatec CSR wheel is allegedly better than the GT2 as the wheel rim itself is lighter and 'faster' than the porsche wheel, however it does look very toy-like and doesn't have alcantara all over it, only at parts of 3 and 9 on the wheel.

I drive the race room one (F1 2010 style car) in race 07 and can go lock to lock very fast with my GT2 so I dunno what else that'd bring to the table.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 20:53

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Ringo Star Get posted:

Realized that my Clubsport brake pedal vibrates when I max out the brakes...owns owns owns owns.

You can adjust the vibrate point by adjusting "ABS" on the wheel itself.

e: Thanks Jarf. Unless there are any objections, I will form the EU group tomorrow!

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 22:35

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Minimaul posted:

When I noticed mine wasn't on the receipt I went back in and told them and they got me a new receipt with a code printed.

Some people are saying that switching from 900 to 270 is a work around for now.

this thread

I'd rather just go skint than use such a plebian degrees of rotation. :smug:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 22:54

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

GhostDog posted:

Soooo, do we have a Euro club and how do I get in?

Also, Freude am Fahren.

Not yet, but I will set one up as soon as I get the game tomorrow.

Any suggestions for the name?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 23:14

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

quote:

^ I took the Yaris because that's what I drive in real life, and if you don't buy/drive your IRL car in every game you can, you a scrub.

Oh, I would... but my car is a Porsche 944.

Well played, EA.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2011 23:49

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Jarf posted:

Oooh that gives me hope, I was anticipating my copy arriving yesterday as they shipped it on Monday. Finger crossed for it arriving today.

Although the post probably won't show up until 10 minutes after I leave the house meaning I'll have to wait until tomorrow to go and pick it up from the post office myself

Eurogr�ppen to the end!

edit: got my copy now, trust it to arrive 5 minutes before I have to leave. 4 hours till the Forzapocalypse!

The club will be called Something Awful Eurogr�ppen with the acronym being SAEG.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 11:52

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

shodanjr_gr posted:

So where's the LLJK v2.0 club?

Is that for US goons or are you in Europe? If it's the latter, I'll be forming the EU group as soon as I get the game. Which will hopefully be within the next hour or so.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 12:47

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Attention!

Anyone who wants into the SA Eurogruppen club please give me your gamertag. I think there's alot of plebs trying to get in.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 17:56

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Hi, my name is Dominic Toretto.

The PI system is incredible in this game. This car was pulling laptimes that my 355 Challenge was capable of.

Yes, it's very tail happy, but it keeps surging forward even if it is pointed 45 degrees away from the corner exit.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2011 15:25

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Jarf, could you possibly handle any SAEG invites for tonight? I should be doing this, but I just worked a 13 and a half hour day split in two, so I'm absolutely loving knackered and I have to get up in 4 hours to watch the Korean Grand Prix.

I'll be making ammends by adding some tuned cars to the club, such as my crazy fun (and competitive) aeroless 2010 Camaro and 2009 Challenger.

By the way, anyone who has added cars to SAEG's garage without a tune or even parts to bring it up to the top of one of the car class tiers, could you please possibly pull them and just add a tune? If it's a car that anyone can own (non unicorn) and you don't feel confident to tune the car, shoot it my way (GT: Kal Reegar ) and I'll set it up.

It's just that they'll rarely get used if they're not specced up to a class you see.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 02:22

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Sunday Punch, have you considered making a Kerbal Space Program livery? What with your heavy involvement with modding in parts.

I'd drive any car with :jeb:

on the side.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 02:32

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Brace posted:

How do the rival races that you do online work? Most of them are showing 500CR and I've seen people talking in this thread about 50k per event or whatever.

Picking rivals higher up the leaderboard will net you more bounty.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 03:25

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Jarf, got any screenshots of the Nurburgring GP and Norschlife races?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2011 01:21

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Thanks very much, Dirtyworker!

Falken fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Oct 17, 2011

# ¿ Oct 17, 2011 11:10

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Ok sandwich, will get on it

e: in the disclaimer text, there's a section that says

"The views and opinions made by Top Gear are not that of Turn 10 or Microsoft studios" hahaha

e2:

grande diabolik, greenflash7 and Cute as Heck have been added to SAEG.

Falken fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Oct 18, 2011

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 12:05

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

I really really like driving the NASCAR/stock cars on road courses, goddamn. I hope we can do some road course NASCAR funtimes, fellow SAEG members!

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 12:37

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Oh hey, look what found it's way into the SAEG garage.

It is awesome to drive by the way. 2100lbs, so it handles well and stops on a dime, and the handling is beautiful, coupled with over four hunnert horse powah.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 17:17

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Turn 10 are on about some extra bonus for LCE owners who also have season pass.

Also, the replay cameras for Road Atlanta have been completely overhauled. None of those stupid cameras that just hover over the car anymore, and alot of trackside TV cameras.

I need to watch more replays to see what else has been changed.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 17:33

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Huh, it's pretty cool that R class race cars have more upgrade options, namely tire width to allow them to reach the top of their PI class, which should make each of them much more useful.

I had a good go of the McLaren #43 F1 and my god the drat thing is like a rocket.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2011 03:02

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Brainwrong posted:

Does anyone know of a guide along the lines of "How To Drift in FM4 For Idiots Who Can't Seem To Do It"?

Either use the e-brake or turn the wrong way initally into a corner before swinging yourself around hard to the direction of the turn. The resulting body-roll will cause the car to pendulum out. Otherwise known as a Scandinavian flick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqmZFhI0co

# ¿ Oct 19, 2011 09:24

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Or SAEG, we're all racing fans there, and buddies.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2011 00:06

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

I've never had the bug, but then I tend to have a little opposite-lock every now and then. :v:

# ¿ Oct 21, 2011 16:43

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

GT: Kal Reegar

Nice idea, I might try something similar at a later date.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2011 10:53

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

We were doing a time trial on Nurburgring Norschliefe with R1s, which was fun as hell.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 10:24

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

I made a good B500 Delorean, I could dish the tune out to people.

Sunday Punch, could you add the "QUIT GETTIN' MAD AT VIDEOGAMES" panel to that?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 13:43

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKP1iFtved0

I think the 30 second rolloff difference between class 1 and 2 was a great idea.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 15:14

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

Well, I made a fast 1971 Skyline.

So I covered it in Touhou, oops.

(bahahaha, nice error there Turn 10)

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 19:12

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 00:30

Falken: Jan 26, 2004; Do you feel like a hero yet?

xzzy posted:

If you're bored, you can experiment with this in your real world car. Either fill a clear bottle of water and put it in a cup holder, watch how the fluid reacts when you slam the brakes versus smoothly lean on the brakes. Or if you have a flat dashboard, put a quarter on it and try to keep it from sliding around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9-z4C3aAxE
^^^ xzzy irl ^^^

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 21:59

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