Looks like I'm joining a long queue but why not.


dave_w11@hotmail.com


Thanks! Dave.

"I drove past every member of the rFactor team for my girlfriend."



LOL it's not as good as a fortune teller but good thread.

Mmmmm that scary that it decided to announce it without you finding out somehow. I hope winamp doesn't do it, I might not want people to know what I'm watching/listening too

Great to see this might actually happen. Should be fun.

I think it was 5.2 on level 1. Then about 3.2 on 2, 4.3 ish on 3 (going forwards) and 4.8 ish on the last (going backwards). Although that adds up to 17.5 so must've got some a bit wrong.

9.6? You realised there are 4 levels?

17.7 :d

I like the idea of it and it's quite fun if you get on a good server with good people.


I wish there was one of the commercial football games that allowed you to just control 1 player like this instead of the whole team. I remember the euro 96 game by codemasters allowed you too I think you can on pro evo aswell but I don't remember it being much fun. I would prefer to be able to have better control over a single player rather than what I find to be the annoying control system in games like fifa and pro evo


Is this thing new and still being developed?

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Really stuck at level 49. Any hints?

I found the cheapest way was by breaking some bits. Other ways by guiding the ball down the shoot worked but I only just had enough money.

EDIT: Doh, just realised I wasn't looking at the last page! Oh well I'll leave it there for anyone else ^^^

EDIT 2: I guess you did it a different way if that link doesn't give you any clues?

Quote from Execution Style :

-look left
-look over left shoulder
-look right
-look over right shoulder (in LFS, big diff esp in open wheelers)
-pit speed limiter
-handbrake (rally fan )
-horn

and in the not critical but nice category:
-TC toggle
-flash headlights

I guess I can do without a horn button and a pit speed limiter, but the handbrake is something I don't want to be hunting a button for . Used correctly, you can save a little side-trip on the grass and 5 seconds out of your race. And the horn can save some accidents in multi-player.


I'm kind of in disbelief about the number of buttons on the wheel.


But can't wait to have a clutch pedal!

I guess you could use one of the gear shift paddles for handbrake if you're using the shifter for gears Or shift with the paddles and use the shifter in sequential mode for handbrake?


For looking left and right you only need 2 in LFS because if you hold them both it looks behind over the shoulder of the button you pressed first.


For me 2 buttons on the wheel is fine. I think I prefer how it is with buttons out of the way on the shifter. Pitty there aren't buttons on both though so you could choose.

I think I'll probably get one then despite not really being able to afford one! I'd love to be able to play later on without waking up the whole street!

I got an act labs shifter thing but found I barely use it with having to have another wheel lying around somewhere to have a clutch pedal and all the messing about plugging it in. Aswell as needing space for 2 sets of pedals and them sliding away from each other while racing etc. This looks like the perfect all in one solution and should get me racing again

Looks very good.

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And with anti-backlash gearing, there is no slack in the steering response, making any race a smooth, realistic and quiet experience

I hope this means that the high pitched grating whining noise of the DFP is gone!

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and suspended a cheeseburger from a remote control helicopter, and hovered next to his cage, LOL

Brilliant! I take it this was on his 40 day (I think?) starving himself one?

I went for another swivelly bit too. Not much money left though!


For 48 I got 912 by using tensioned cloth wrapped round the ball to flick it and a cloth catcher. Can probably save another 100 because I couldn't get it to flick far enough by just tensioning one of the lengths of cloth so I had to do one of the ones wrapped round the side aswell.

Quote from Hyperactive :

I was just trying to fish some info, if anyone had done it without a rocket

I didnt use a rocket

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I made a big pulley with some weight on the end to pull the ball up.

Last edited by dave_w11, Tue 2 May 2006, 22:22.

I'm on 9281 for the normal levels. There's quite a few where I couldn't work out how to do it properly so resorted to a big pulley type thing with weights on the end. Should be able to save some money on those ones! I like Extra 9

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Thanks for the tip Hyperactive. 3 bits of rubber did the trick. But I was saddened to find there was no Extra 7 :'(

So I made my own level. I'll fiddle with it tomorrow, and then post it, and I'll send a cookie* to the person who uses the least money.


*cookie may be small, mouldy, fake, or poisoned.

I think there are 10 extras. A new one seems to get unlocked per 1000 of spare money you have on the normal levels. There's definately at least 8 extras.

Doh, I needed that money but after playing the demo I couldn't resist!

Great game

One disadvantage to this is that people like to keep several versions to play old replays. I guess it could be there but disableable. It wouldn't work for stopping cracks if this was the case though.

As Hyperactive says though there aren't that many updates so perhaps it's not really worth having. I personally would prefer not to use it.

Could someone post a direct download link in here? Liveforspeed.net is struggling a little!

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..lol why would we be 'warned' a week before a patch is released

actually.. why would we be 'warned' anyway lol

lol. I guess warn is the wrong word. I think they did when the first S2 came out so people didn't have to check for release so much. I guess people would be checking at least daily for the updates anyway so it wouldn't make any difference this time.

Are we not getting a weeks warning of the release this time then?

If you do a search on google video for 'caterham knockhill' there's a little report alongside one of the other videos of that race. I think it seems to suggest stewards decided against the white car and deducted 12 seconds from his time unless that was another incident.

I agree that it was the white cars fault (well the driver...).

Very nice! Santa's been a couple of days early?

I just check when I notice something out of the ordinary like a drop in performance. There's nothing private or unretrievable on my computer so I don't worry too much.