Quote from danowat :

Reports trickling in that the update server is being hammered / down, which is causing the game to hang.

Currently people are saying just wait at the hung screen and it will eventually start, or disco the ps3 from the net

Yep had that, pulled out network cable and all was good!

So far I'm not sure what to make of it, only done a few licenses so far before stopping for food - going back on now, I'm sure once I start racing it'll be much better!

PSN: thechrisenglish (i think)

My shopto order hasn't been sorted yet, I pre-ordered it around 2 weeks ago so I guess you guys ordered yours a lot longer ago.

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

Its a wager match so it's not combat training mode.

Ah yes, so it is - didn't notice the loadscreen! Still - they all look like newbies!

And to those who say "I don't like kids whining on it" here's a tip for you... Join an xbox live party (or PS3 equivalent) with your friends and enjoy killing the shit out of the kids with them - no whining while having an absolute blast! It is a great FUN game when you play with friends.

Looks like he's playing against AI on Combat Training mode to me.

I never understand why in most damage models these days after the side of the car gets a hit the doors open... RBR had it too - was the first if I remember rightly.

Don't doors usually dent and cave in a bit? I'm certain I've never seen a car (rally or race) with a door open after contact... Although thinking about it, it happened in the BTCC once a couple of years back with Rob Collard, but my point is, doors don't fly open as often or as easily as these games suggest it does after damage!

Feeder - This Town

Quote from Luke.S :

The laser costs £100 to have replaced. I know, it broke on mine and cost me £100 to have fixed. So if you can get one that is working fine for around £100 more it is a good idea and will save you hassel.

New laser and mechanism is around £40-£50 online - just a case of pulling apart PS3 and blu ray drive, I can repair it myself - used to be a computer technician before I decided to do a course relating to it at uni. Plus there's plenty of guides online/youtube!

Quote from DejaVu :

Think i'll get a second hand ps3 off fleabay just for gt5

I'm hopefully getting a broken PS3 (blu ray laser) to get repaired ready for GT5... Saving of about £100ish of a 2nd hand PS3. When you're a student as skint as I am, it's worth the effort!

Quote from anttt69 :

not only that, they had already started on the 2011 version before this hit the shelves. F1 series seems to be just another cash cow for them. any patches in the pipeline?

Sorry to quote you, I could quote anyone saying it's a Codies rush job, but has anyone actually thought that it could be something to do with the FIA? Reading the dev blogs and Q&A stuff it seems they're very limited with some things by what the FIA say, an example is in multiplayer codies were only allowed to allow 1 car per team instead of 2 due to an FIA license restriction.

Also the way the FIA are they probably wanted the game out before Singapore and not a day later, if it was delayed then maybe they'd have the F1 license taken off them.

Personally I'm happy with this game, I never went into it with the view that it'd be a sim, just a good fun game, and that's exactly what it is. Yes it's full of bugs, but that could be down to what I've said above too, lack of testing time. Reserve judgement until F1 2011 or a patch for 2010, that's all I'm doing.

Just got Virgin installed in my flat today - getting 8MB down 1MB up, yet to give it a proper test, Steam downloaded at 780KB/s though. Paying £26 a month for it including line rental. It's through phone line as well, despite me being in Nottingham city centre there's no fibre cable here!

Virgin did, however, fail at setting up the router for me before they shipped it, 10 minutes on the phone to a nice Irish lady to get the right settings sorted it out!

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

Ah, and thanks mr x! I didn't really think about browser add-ons. I'm using Chrome, but maybe there's a similar addon for it. But if anyone finds a Facebook one, let me know.

Biggest plus side for Firefox IMO is addons, no doubt Chrome will have something there too!

There's a slightly bigger more chunky addon that shows where your bookmarks do on firefox called YooNo which can have twitter and facebook feeds on top of each other. I used it for about a week and couldn't get used to it, too chunky for my liking. I think there's a desktop version of it too though. Again, might be available for Chrome too.

Echofon Firefox addon - Twitter is on a handy little button on the bottom right of the browser, easily accessable, and just there in general! Much better than integrating it on facebook.

Feeder - Renegades.

New album, absolutely awesome! Back to their older heavier stuff!

Bump - as above, I'm looking for this and their website is down.

Oh how I wish I was doing GCSE/A-Level exams!

I'm currently doing end of year 1 university exams, the first exams I've done since I sat GCSEs 6 years ago! I've only got 3, but there's 2 2 hour exams and a 3 hour one. Had Computer Technology exam in machine code programming already! Next comes Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design on Friday and Introduction to Networks next week. Networks will be a walk in the park as I've been doing it for god knows how long - the other 2 exams are right sods!

I didn't revise for my GCSEs and got 8Cs and 2Bs, I'm revising like crazy for these ones and it's still not sinking in!

Radiohead - The National Anthem

Quote from Bob Smith :

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I hit the same pothole last week coming off the 'Consett Loop', luckily got away with it!

I have seen much bigger and hit much bigger on the A1 (near Scotch Corner) especially without (fingers crossed) any problems.

There's a couple of inches in Nottingham, first time I've seen snow here since I came down for uni! I thought this city was always missed by it.

Does anyone else lose the 09 WRC cars after installing patch 01?

Quote from danowat :

And......back on topic.......

The car pack, I think its a very good pack, was suprised by the GTR, handles very well, apart from the active diff modelling (something that the GT5p version does very well).

The Panamera is suprisingly competitive, for what it is, and the Lambo SV is a great car.

Love it, of course, you have to love Forza first to even think about getting an addon pack, for for 400MSP, I think its worth it.

To add to this the Jag XFR is really nice to drive too! Had a quick race with it last night around Silverstone, it's very quick down the straights for what is a 4 door saloon!

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

Wow i get i to

I'm getting random crashes now in Free Play - Just picked Hotlap > Focus RS > Tsukuba Circuit, once again resulted in a crash, as did RS200 on Sidewinder Layout I in hotlap.

Does anybody else get a crash on Forza 3 when you go to Free Play > Quick Race > pick car VW Golf mk6, on the Sidewinder Layout I track (the long one)?

I've not made it on yet tonight, parents won't let me have TV... Will probably be on in around an hour if anyone wants some late night racing.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I'l ad you for some fun in the evening?

Depends if I end up in the pub or not, so I'll say maybe for now.

Been on the public hoppers for the last few days and been kicked twice for winning a race (with no contact AT ALL) and taken out at least 4 times by various idiots...

Anyone here who hasn't got me on XBL my gamertag is btccmad - will be good to race with people who won't kick me for winning!