I just don't think people understood how the start was going to go. Because it was a "flying start" I think some people thought it was "go like hell" from the start. I didn't even accelerate because I knew people would screw it up

Quote from nikopdr :

Well, that was disappointing. Even though you were generous to let me start without doing the qualifying, I failed to deliver.

The start was a bit messy, since most of the cars in the rear didn't seem to react to chat saying green flag, and the traffic jam into T1 was horrid, but everyone got out quite safely though. A suggestion for next time though, would it be better to display the green flag message via /rcm_all? Atleast that way it'll show up on the screen large enough and it overrides message block, but I doubt anyone blocked messages there.

Managed to get some decent pace but R3's weren't the best tyre choice, they became very thin at 45ish minutes, and my first mistake was to adjust the F12 menu whilst on the last turn. The pitstop failed completely, I miscalculated fuel, forgot to remove tyre pressure when I switched to R4, and cooked my clutch leaving pits. It teared my motivation apart. What finally broke the spirit was a lapped car clipping me in T1 resulting in me losing my spot and 20 seconds.

I won't go as far to name and shame anyone, but you guys should be more aware of your surroundings and the size of your car and the lines people take into corners. I almost got shut in the beginning laps even though I have my front wheel overlapped so far that I would have the right to inside line. Almost got taken out by a lapped car that suddenly in a side-by-side situation closes in on me, which could've ended up far worse.

There were some good battles though, altough a bit short. Thanks for hosting the race, see you all on round 2, I'll come prepared next time.

I watched the replay and a few people did mute messages.. so the green flag wasn't seen by some.

I'll also be streaming from my POV in VR (XRR)

https://twitch.tv/gu3st12

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Quote from the_angry_angel :

Old man yells at cloud.

Thread to Share setups.

Vulkan also isn't a silver bullet and support is lacking for users of older GPUs (which is a reasonable part of LFS' target market).

You need an AMD GPU that supports GCN or a pretty modern nVidia GPU. Intel AFAIK has 0 Vulkan support.

Even on my fairly recent laptop, I had to recompile my kernel to enable experimental support for the AMDPRO driver to be able to support Vulkan.


Open Source is also not a silver bullet to improvign a project.

Quote from nacim :

I'm also hyped for Kyoto (as all the other tracks actually lol) but I can't wait for the pièce de résistance: South City. I think it will be the last one as it should be the most complex.

But I'm also wondering: is it just me or every new track so far starts to look a bit similar? I don't see the same level of track identity as before, a bit more sterile. I guess its a time constraints. Eric, I would love to hear your thoughts

I think the level of polish contributes too. Tracks like Blackwood/Westhill/RO currently look much much better (and different) compared to SO/FE so there's a certain amount of "identity" just in the difference in resolution. Where all the tracks are getting upgraded to a relatively similar standard of quality.

Quote from Flotch :

Let's trust in Eric and the karting tracks : remember Westhill => almost nothing spoiled, and 2 additional tracks
By the way we received a newsletter ^^ ! It's been a longtime since we get one

Only downside is that we don't have a car small enough for smallest karting track. MRT5 doesn't make a very good kart

Quote from simon1234 :

Looks even worse to me now your working for a client on LFS compaitability. So you are being paid yet you still use the demo.

If Scawen didn't want people to be able to use the demo with OutSim, then Outsim would be disabled to demo users.

Quote from Racon :

Says resident contrarian number 3. Not from his original account, mind, because that was banned. In the interest of future kettle-pot relations I shall feign forgetfulness as to the reason, fail to notice the image you choose to represent you, and forget entirely his character, and the character he's based on.

Exactly the same kind of unhelpful response that scares people away. Bringing up decayed skeletons that have been dealt with long ago, hence why this account has been unbanned for my use.

deko 4 president

Quote from simon1234 :

Heaven forbid I drive him away for another 11 years.

Or you give him the impression that the entire community is as combative as you and feels no desire to participate.

When people talk about LFS' community being weak/dead, it's attitudes like yours which directly contribute to that.

Quote from simon1234 :

But he joined in 2007 it often takes me 11 years to work out if I like a demo.

He also has 0 Kms driven online.

I've created a League of Legends account years ago but I've never played a single match. Should people treat me like I'm an amazing player because my account is old?

It doesn't do anything but drive people away when you respond in a condescending and unhelpful manner. Telling people "lol just buy the game because you can afford a motion platform" isn't a helpful response.

Quote from k_badam :

Well, things like the battle pass from Fortnite are totally cosmetic, you only pay if you want you character to look cool. Also i wouldn't exactly say content releases = updates, never seen a game that only updates for people with the DLC.

Expansion packs are genuinely updates that segement the player base based on their ownership (or not) of the update.

Same with map packs for COD/other FPS games.

You might recieve bug fixes/balancing for the core game, but you're still not recieving the rest of the update for free.

Other games also use battle passes to create game modes that are segmented only to those who pay for the battle pass. DOTA tends to have a few special event modes for Compendium owners only, and even a ranked matchmaking mode that only applies for those who subscribe to the montly "battle pass"

Quote from simon1234 :

Come off it so he is going to go to the trouble to set up a motion simulator for a game he is not sure he likes yet.

That's usually why demoing a product exists? What if LFS didn't work with his motion simulator? Then he's bought a sim that doesn't work for his desired use case.

Just because a paid copy of LFS is relatively inexpensive compared to a motion platform doesn't mean that he should be expected to piss money away on a product that couldn't fulfill his needs.

Holy crap a bump of a 13 year old thread...

Quote from simon1234 :

You can afford a motion platform, and want to spend time setting it up with LFS atleast buy the game LOL

I don't think that response is needed. I know that I'd want to try a demo to ensure it works before purchasing the game.

It's one of my biggest issues with VR games is that I have no idea how well they will play until I purchase them. Demo's would avoid that.

Battle passes are a form of charging for updates. Content releases that are only accessible with a fee.

It's not just the server though, the client needs to be able to recieve those packets as well, or their experience will be significantly degraded/dropped packets

Even in VR I can see the text improvements coming in handy as the font edges will be a bit tighter.

Software development is hell.

That's gonna be a fun/dangerous pitlane as the ideal line to enter pits seems to be treating that corner more like a chicane and cutting across the racing line to enter.

I can't wait

Thanks

Can someone take a short video of a lap of the round 1 layout. I'm not at my computer for a few days and I'm having an issue visualizing the layout with the pit lane.