@Xpander. I noticed you set your car suspension very firm compared to me. Yet it appears your car handles the jumps nicer. Might have to try that in finland. Also your very lucky. When I crash in same places I get flat tyres :(

Quoting: Skully@Xpander. I noticed you set your car suspension very firm compared to me. Yet it appears your car handles the jumps nicer. Might have to try that in finland. Also your very lucky. When I crash in same places I get flat tyres :(

firm is better because it doesn't want roll that much when i make some hard turns that go down hill a bit. but it also kills the car a lot more with the jumps :D like exhaust etc. i actually was super lucky with the tires this-time indeed. For example last time i got flat tire just with the jumps :D cause i set car too firm.

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Quoting: Skully@Xpander. I noticed you set your car suspension very firm compared to me. Yet it appears your car handles the jumps nicer. Might have to try that in finland. Also your very lucky. When I crash in same places I get flat tyres :(

firm is better because it doesn't want roll that much when i make some hard turns that go down hill a bit. but it also kills the car a lot more with the jumps :D like exhaust etc. i actually was super lucky with the tires this-time indeed. For example last time i got flat tire just with the jumps :D cause i set car too firm.

I tried a slightly softer setup than default to play it safe. I even saved it as I thought the car handled surprisingly well. Here's a shot:

Woow, that damping is way too soft for me to drive in finland :)

also, god damn i have made a typo in the event. Finland already ended this morning. my bad.
seems other events are fine with the timeframe.

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Had a good run in Monaco. Only 1 little incident on track 3 or 4.
Back to using controller instead of wheel. Need to fiddle with settings more I think before I use it again. Still think I have ffb to high. It seems ok in some cars and not in others. Or maybe it's just me lol. But I feel more consistent with controller even if a little slower when comparing perfect runs.

DNF for me on the first stage end :(

i was flying, was on the best time course about 6.30 or something like that..

well one second gear corner, a bit over the snowbank and that was it ...

Monaco done. I had to do it in several sittings due to Christmas and job related stuff, and once my wife actually turned off the computer while I had it on pause. That happened in the beginning of the fourth stage, which forced me to redo the third stage as well. It doesn't count as cheating as the stage went slightly worse the second time around.

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Will be hard to catch Skully with the points now :) DNF is really bad

Ohh how i suck on tarmac :D

S1: 2 spins, one with reverse needed
S2: clean
S3: crash into stones, spin
S4: crash into trees
S5: clean
S6: spin

lost most of the time on both long stages. yeah i cannot understand how skully drives so fast on tarmac, impossible for me, i slide a lot, loosing time with that and finding breaking points is where i struggle a lot.

One of my worst Germany runs in a long time, never got friendly with the car. I blame all the food of the last week :D

Horrible driving in the first stage, two instances of manslaughter in the later stages, ended up a bit behind this round. Bring on Greece and 2018!

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Greece is up for a challenge!

Happy new year!

Ok, had lots of problems with my frontpanel USB connector, wheel got disconnected 3 times, had to do the third and fourth stage 2 times because it disconnected in the middle of the 4th stage
2 times it disconnected on the first stage... i canceled video recording after the disconnection after 4th stage so theres no footage, i didnt feel like having 2 videos and then edit them later

Greece summary time:

S1: Crash into the ditch, spin
S2: Spin with reverse
S3: Spin with reverse (this was my fav stage, i was flying like crazy)
S4: Clean
S5: Clean
S6: Went into ditch, tried to get out, got +11s penalty, lost around 20 sec at least there.

@Xpander, Wow all that and you still beat me. I had all clean runs with no problems. Damn you must of been flying! Nice job.

And a challenge Greece was! I managed to fly off into oblivion twice in the first stage! Passable driving in the rest of the stages though, the game even claiming I got best time in the last stage, something I have trouble believing. Overall satisfying event.

Quoting: ArnvidrAnd a challenge Greece was! I managed to fly off into oblivion twice in the first stage! Passable driving in the rest of the stages though, the game even claiming I got best time in the last stage, something I have trouble believing. Overall satisfying event.

you were faster than me about 5 sec on the last one, but skully was 12 sec faster than me, so that is odd indeed. maybe it shows the difference to the leading driver

I checked the totals between run 5 and 6 on the web page, and it seems you must be right, I closed the gap to you by 5 seconds, but skully closed a bigger gap. I don't remember if the difference it showed me after the race was 5 seconds, but it was about that kind of number.

Really not a fan of Group A now that I was driving the Peugeot 205 for a while. Had to use the Lancia Integrale in career mode a little bit to unlock the upgrades. Still only got 2/3. But I like Greece, so here we are now…

Crashed on stage 3 doing a barrel roll. Fortunately I didn't fall off a cliff or puncture a tire. Other stages went fine with small mistakes like always. Got in a few seconds after Xpander all the time and went into the last stage with +12s and was surprised when I got the lead with -7s. So the estimate of 20s lost with that crash seems accurate.

Next up is Wales which I also like so I'll try to be there. Might even try to get the damn 3rd upgrade.

Quoting: muellReally not a fan of Group A now that I was driving the Peugeot 205 for a while. Had to use the Lancia Integrale in career mode a little bit to unlock the upgrades. Still only got 2/3. But I like Greece, so here we are now…

wait wait, you need upgrades for the car? ohh god :D i don't have any. i thought that if we dont use career vehicles those don't matter anyway.

but yeah, my last stage was my doom :)

Quoting: Xpanderwait wait, you need upgrades for the car? ohh god :D i don't have any. i thought that if we dont use career vehicles those don't matter anyway.

but yeah, my last stage was my doom :)

The way we are playing has us driving fully upgraded version of all cars. Because we aren't using career vehicles.

Quoting: SkullyThe way we are playing has us driving fully upgraded version of all cars. Because we aren't using career vehicles.

Huh, interesting. Well, at least I got some experience with a group a vehicle now ;)