This is excellent. With .6T it would get a notchy feeling with the forces turned up in particular. The dynamics felt a bit subdued as well.

This patch improves the feeling significantly. Smooth, dynamic, responsive, all the good stuff. You can feel the rear of the car coming around quite well now.

Using the max FFB rate and number of steps should be the default for all DD wheels imo. Some of the high powered Fanatec non-DD wheels might benefit as well.

I think the max FFB rate should either help, or not hurt pretty much every wheel out there.

Mine is named 'SW10 Compact+', as a first person controller. Any time you see 'SW#' it's more than likely a Sim-plicity DD wheel.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Regardless of the available technology, motorsport should be more about challenging the teams AND drivers. Whilst F1 should remain as the pinnacle in terms of applied technology, I do think the drivers are getting an easier time because of it, without benefitting road car technology (not that they ever did).

Power steering? In a racing car? Surely a joke!
Gear changes that require no skill? Surely a joke?

I am over the moon that the engine brake reduction electronics were banned, and that traction control electronics were banned. But I still hope that one day electronically controlled gearboxes are banned, and h-shift boxes become mandated, or an alternative gear change solution that requires even a slight amount of skill. Hell, even a mechanical sequential would be okay as long as the drivers still had to lift and blip....

Sadly, I get told I'm against technology for saying this, but when you watch a GP does it make it better having paddles or having missed gears and more overrevs?

The same applies in road cars in my opinion. A car designed for fun driving should be about fun driving, not having a computer do all the complicated stuff for you. A shopping trolley can have electronics like that, but a sports/super car shouldn't.

Perhaps we need an engineer to sit beside the driver to manually operate the fuel pump the entire race? You know the fuel pumpers arms will get really tired, opening up some great overtaking opportunities.

That is one bitchy opening post.

Quote from spacedskunk :

Also the tank's dont take linear damage, its not like a 3 hits and your dead structure, you have to hit the right places. I survived 10 minutes of punishment in a German Panther tank simply because I parked the tank ontop of a hill just far enough for my teammate to have visual on the enemy tanks....and the tanks returning fire kept hitting the front sloped armour, their shells just kept deflected off. It was great fun.

It often feels like my tank is made of peanut shells, while the opposition has adamantium armour.

Quote from BullHorn :

RO is not moddable. RO used to be modded on the Unreal engine, now it's moved to the Source engine, I think. Or maybe it's some other version of the Unreal engine, I don't remember.

You might want to check out the recently released Darkest Hour mod. Focusing on the allied landings. Lots of new fun stuff, weapons, tanks, boats. There's only one RO mod but it's up to (or above) the quality of the original. It's the reason RO was $5 in the first place.

RO started as an unreal (2k4?) mod, but they went commercial. Still uses the unreal engine, so it's not the prettiest. But it plays nice. Simulated bullet ballistics, maybe folks here appreciate this touch. Insurgency is promising. They really need player models to point their gun where the user is looking. Also too easy to no-sight, army guys fire m-16's from the hip.

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Quote from chanoman315 :

oh and good article from wikipedia

It is a pretty good article, along with it's 45 references! Here's an interesting book with many case studies and photos.

And animals don't think?! Entertain yourself with the world's greatest internet video, battle of kruger.

Animals don't think.
We are animals.

Quote from Paranoid Android :

Well for me Rosberg has much more of an excuse since he was following Hamilton. Remember that drivers don't race from Tv or Chase cam but from their cockpit.

If Hamilton had stopped in time, Rosberg would probably have hit him(or Kubica) anyways. Hamilton was hit in the spot vacated by Raikkonen. Rosberg screwed up just as big. He had exactly the same chance to see the light, yet he managed too stop the car 1 length to short to hit kimi's spot.

So if you're gonna burn hammy :bananadea, burn nico too :bananadea:bananadea

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Quote from JamesF1 :

Rosberg (all-but) stopped. And he did it in a seemingly shorter distance than Hamilton. Both were on the limiter beforehand.

How can you bash Hamilton for crashing, then say that Rosberg all but stopped? Rosberg crashed too, he had more time to react to the sitting cars and ended up making an identical mistake.

People make mistakes, then they learn from them and go on to someday become WDC. Anyone who doesn't think that hammy will someday win it all is a little bonkers.

Well, I tried the demo. After 10ish second, I realized that GRID is the worst game ever made. Not just the worst racing game. I would rather play Super 3d Noah's Ark. It's like wolfenstein, but instead of nazi's you fight goats.

ps i must play lfs for 10 straight hours to cleanse my soul

Quote from Jakg :

To be fair it didn't look like it was really Kimi's fault, but it's really s***** luck he still gets to race an Sutil gets ****ed.

It really looked to be 100% his fault. Unless fairies made him brake too late.

I've figured it out, microwave guns. They can beam food cookin' microwaves onto tire stacks.
Pity the fool who crosses the beam.
:mr-t:

thumbs up!

phew

Quote from ajp71 :

That's precisely my point, the teams have the new car that they're only going to use for one race, they still have to setup and test it, which is inevitably going to run into a 7 figure bill. At the same time they've got to go through the same process with the new IRL car they've ordered.

It's the same car as last year, they probably just need to oil them up. I will watch this race as a hilarious end to the past decade... Perhaps in another 10 years we can go racing again.

Yay, it's 1995 again.

This year doesn't look very interested because.. well it's IRL with a handful of new road courses. (Edmonton and Long Beach for sure, other?) Hopefully next year we can get new cars and a nice schedule together.

Looks like python.

shootout!!!


This game was rather wet, at least now there is good snow fall. The 2003 game looked frickin' freezing.

Just host an s2 game with visibility set to local. No need to worry about ports when you're on the same router. Just turn off software firewalls.

Quote from ajp71 :

Why are you doing pitstops in a Formula Student it's hardly realistic is it. I'd be for the inclusion of a pit area on the autocross but only for cars that are able to do long runs and refuel IRL (ie. not for the MRT, FBM or FOX)

MRTCC was a while ago, but we let people pit to fix damage. You would come in and request a pit, press space bar to get a new car and off you went. Hardly realistic true. But much more fun due to having less damaged, already twitchy cars on track.

How realistic is long runs on an autocross track? Usually have to drive to the gas station.

Sand it, paint it(get paint with primer, like car touch up). You could rub vaseline on it, but that seems worse to me than rust.

I went in 2006, I sat at the hairpin on the exit side.

Pro: It's a great weekend! Witnessed 30 odd laps of Raikkonen chasing down Alonso, might not have been riveting on tv but seeing it up close was amazing. Kimi had a big advantage at that corner, so was laying the pressure on huge, putting Fred into a rare (2006 remember) mistake that didn't make it to broadcast. The corner was in bod shape, with oil spilled from the ferrari race, and the track generally falling apart from the sun+cars. Lots of slippin and slidin fun around the casino Opening lap looked quite a bit like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=T8lVhNqWYqo

The atmosphere was great, you could feel the tension in the whole crowd on thursday, until the first car came blazing into the hairpin (Monteiro I believe). Everyone erupting with cheers. It's great feeling the grandstand shake when the engines rev, I knew they would be loud, but wow, bring ear plugs.

Also got to get very near (3 ft ) to a BF1 going through some warmup revvy thing. This was at the sauber f1 fun park that was set up downtown.

There's lots to do in the town on the weekend, it's a huge, huge party. The main streets are closed and there are people everywhere. I recommend http://www.citynoise.org/article/6602, finest gentlemen's club in the world the say

Con: Expensive.


The mazda star accident was huge, but the problem was really between the harness and the steering wheel if you catch my drift. The track itself is not that dangerous, the straight before the hairpin is probably the most dangerous, where kubica had his accident. That's the only time you are going quickly head first into with a fast corner instead of chicane.


Tickets for any grandstand also get you into general admission. I found very little good viewing space for GA, the hairpin is very far away if you try that route.

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This is not really a big deal, since they did the same development ban last year. It's just a clear message to the teams that they need to shut down their engine departments for good. If they banned for just 1 year, the teams would keep the departments and there would be no cost saving.

F1 is changing too a new type of engine, I just wonder if it will be open development, or restricted to just some shit tech like biodiesel.

how about petrol+turbine hybrids, that would be fun.

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can't connect to liveforspeed.net

My bet is on 'fixed'. I'll fight anyone who disagrees.

this thread would compress well