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[spectre51]

What event is it?

[GraphicX]

it's in one of the last pyramids, a beat the time one where you start off with a doughnut, then spin, then i think a drift, smash, smash, drift, doughnut, spin.  i honestly hate doing them.

[spectre51]

Yeah a few of those DC Challenges were tough, I suck at donuts in the DC challenges and had to turn the trick help on which is odd since I don't have trouble doing any trick with it off in the actual gymkhana events.

Gymkhana Sprint 02 and 03 were the two Sprints that gave me trouble the other two were fine. 02 was just annoying all of it, 03 was make or break for me in the donut after the air nailing that in one rotation was the key for that one.
Do you have tricksteer on, I never had trouble with donuts in the events but a few in the challenges gave me all sorts of trouble to do. Do you tweak the car any? I dropped the height, shortened the gear ratio and moved the brake and differential to a rear bias.

[GraphicX]

i fiddle car settings for races, for gymkhana i just gold it & try & forget it.  it honestly shouldn't even be in the game, maybe just a side line you could elect to do but it's even in the championships for specific rally disciplines.  just annoying.

[GraphicX]

finally finished dirt 3 & weeded out a few achievements that were close/in reach, will do a review later.

have just hit dirt rally again, only played it literally 20 minutes before & have now done 2 championship runs (i think there's 3 bits in the championship but).

loving what is there, purchased my first car which was a mini cooper s.  took it for a couple of 'shakedowns' & it's pretty well like dirt 3.  if you want it to turn in more tighten the diff, if you want the brakes to actually work balance them 50/50, if you want to go fast & not shat yourself going too fast then shorten the gear ratios.  doing the above chucked me 30 odd seconds quicker than everyone on my friends list on my first runs, even with finishing missing a tyre at one point lol.  i think in the 2nd bit the closest on my friends list to me is gc who's about 5 seconds out but having wheel feedback issues (?).  dunno if they've patched it but the wheel with the cooper is really nice & heavy, so maybe they've looked into it.

before switching off i hired an engineer, cost 22,000 credits & i think he's good for 32 stages so you don't keep them.  also didn't realise where you could repair the car til the second part of the championship but only had enough time to repair 'wheel's which were at 92% anyway with everyone else above.

one thing i'm loving is i can't beat the computer yet.  i've beaten him in some stages, but never overall.  it's really satisfying actually getting a win even for a stage as a result unlike the grind in D3 where you just win everything.  i think i placed 4th in the first championship & maybe between 2nd & 4th on the next one, can't remember.

funny thing.  read about you guys looking at drivers here somewhere (think it was axe as it spazzed his game out) & thought i'd check mine.  they'd last been updated october last year lol so i got geforce experience to check & all it would do is loop.  so i manually downloaded the drivers & updated gf experience & it had all this extra crap, on top of that it optimised the settings on my games so the last couple hours of d3 i had a really shiny looking car, smooth as butter frame rate & absolutely no screen tearing, that's great considering i'd already spent like 20 hours on it rofl.

going to hammer dirty rally now until witcher 3 steam keys are reasonably priced or i jump to something else randomly.  also thinking about taking my race chair frame out to the shed & adjusting the height of the shifter & maybe setting up a proper handbrake.  dunno, will see how i go.

[GasClown]

GraphicX, on 22 May 2015 - 11:46 AM, said:

i think in the 2nd bit the closest on my friends list to me is gc who's about 5 seconds out but having wheel feedback issues (?).  dunno if they've patched it but the wheel with the cooper is really nice & heavy, so maybe they've looked into it.

Yes - wait until the FFB is fixed (for my wheel) and I'll come give you a shakedown myself. As I said, there were a few wheels that were supported off the bat so the G27 could very well have better FFB than mine as it was one of the supported ones.

The last patch (v03.3) only fixed the Error 41 bug (which I never ran into)... here's what's on the horizon (copy/pasted).

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Coming up next we’re continuing to work on bug fixes, FFB, Pikes Peak and more.

So hopefully the next patch it'll be fixed and I'll return to give you a battering. haha.

[Axe99]

GraphicX, on 22 May 2015 - 11:46 AM, said:

one thing i'm loving is i can't beat the computer yet.  i've beaten him in some stages, but never overall.  it's really satisfying actually getting a win even for a stage as a result unlike the grind in D3 where you just win everything.  i think i placed 4th in the first championship & maybe between 2nd & 4th on the next one, can't remember.

funny thing.  read about you guys looking at drivers here somewhere (think it was axe as it spazzed his game out) & thought i'd check mine.  they'd last been updated october last year lol so i got geforce experience to check & all it would do is loop.  so i manually downloaded the drivers & updated gf experience & it had all this extra crap, on top of that it optimised the settings on my games so the last couple hours of d3 i had a really shiny looking car, smooth as butter frame rate & absolutely no screen tearing, that's great considering i'd already spent like 20 hours on it rofl.

A good AI challenge is the best thing in any game, imo (well, at least one which has an AI ), great to hear Graph .  Also, that Geforce experience is great.  It doesn't support most of the games I play (but then you hardly need to get too worried about optimising strategy titles, they're not so fps-dependent) but when I have used it, it's been very handy (although it doesn't know the 'lower res for small UI if you're playing from a couch' trick, so I don't use it all the time).

Still hammering Gal Civ 3 here, with smatterings of The Wolf Among Us.  A great couple of games, will do a review of both when I've played a bit more of 'em.

[GraphicX]

dirt rally - pretty much figured the game out now, consistently winning & stuff.  it's really difficult/unforgiving which is sucking me in, but in all honesty the physics are bad.  it just feels like you're not really driving along a road, perhaps more 'planing' along it like a boat would across water, due to this everything else just feels wrong also.  early days of the game but see if they do anything with it or not.

[GasClown]

GraphicX, on 24 May 2015 - 06:40 AM, said:

dirt rally - pretty much figured the game out now, consistently winning & stuff.  it's really difficult/unforgiving which is sucking me in, but in all honesty the physics are bad.  it just feels like you're not really driving along a road, perhaps more 'planing' along it like a boat would across water, due to this everything else just feels wrong also.  early days of the game but see if they do anything with it or not.

It's probably more the FFB - the physics seem to be intact, it's just not translating what's happening on screen to the wheel.

[GraphicX]

it kinda reminds me of shift 2, there just doesn't seem to be that actual connection to the road, also the instant on of motion blur/speed the second you hit 100kph is annoying & it only becomes more pronounced as you progress.  i know it's not the be all & end all racing sim but in gt5 you really did feel as though you had wheels rotating on a surface giving you speed, not just some type of floating carriage.

the ffb also feels fine, it's really heavy now i've set the car up to turn in a lot, guessing it's as you said that the g25s & 27s are what's supported atm with that bit.

[GasClown]

GraphicX, on 24 May 2015 - 08:01 AM, said:

it kinda reminds me of shift 2, there just doesn't seem to be that actual connection to the road, also the instant on of motion blur/speed the second you hit 100kph is annoying & it only becomes more pronounced as you progress.  i know it's not the be all & end all racing sim but in gt5 you really did feel as though you had wheels rotating on a surface giving you speed, not just some type of floating carriage.

the ffb also feels fine, it's really heavy now i've set the car up to turn in a lot, guessing it's as you said that the g25s & 27s are what's supported atm with that bit.

Well that's what everyone (including me) was whinging about from the start... I just couldn't be bothered playing it until it's fixed. Feels like you're driving on nothing as there's no FFB. The hands are animating on the wheel but you're not getting that same feedback on the wheel.

[GraphicX]

started & finished alan wake's american nightmare.  good little game, exactly like an episode of 'the twilight zone', had the narration & everything.  took well under 3 hours to go through so very short, but it was a basic spin off.

now playing xcom enemy unknown.  i played & finished it on the ps3 but really enjoyed it.  didn't expect it to be much different but there seems to be a bit more balance to it (ie. snipers aren't anywhere near as powerful) so guessing there's been some patches.  also have all the dlc & that seems to be adding nice little missions here & there.  also didn't expect the graphics to be as nice as they are, particularly the woodlands when you've downed an enemy ufo !

[Aromaci]

Have you played Alan Wake proper? Love that game.

[Axe99]

Nice one Graph .  XCOM is excellent, played a good amount on PS3 and only stopped when my save glitched out, looking forward to the sequel.  Apparently Enemy Within DLC was a goodie as well, so hopefully you've got that in the mix.  Hopefully we're not too far off a sequel .

Finished The Wolf Among Us (great) and still playing Gal Civ III (which is still a bit 'hot off the press', getting patches every week or two, and fairly big balance changes in the patches, which is why I haven't thrown up a review yet.  It's good, no two ways about it, but not quite stable yet), with a bit of Lego Marvel Super Heroes thrown in.

[GraphicX]

@ aro; yep & finished it, really liked it, was a bit slow in some parts but good story kept me engaged.

@ axe; yep have got the dlc so will be looking at that when i finish enemy unknown.

[SmokeyPSD]

I have forgotten about literally all the other games I've been playing lately and just been absolutely loving the Witcher. I'm barely anywhere near finishing the main story still as well. This is probably going to continue until MGSV at this rate haha.

[straussy240]

Im going back and forth between fallout 3 and the witcher 2. I should really just focus on the one game and immerse myself in it, but I I need to mix up my RPGs otherwise I get bored.

[GraphicX]

well i dunno if it was a senior moment or just not reading enough or what but i just have a great deal of regret.  so just finished XCOM enemy unknown again, went to play the enemy within add-on only to find it's the same campaign just with the extra content in it ... which is great ... if you hadn't just finished the regular game thinking you could then just play the dlc missions =(

[Aromaci]

Been chipping away at Witcher 3. Find myself spending a lot of time just looking at the scenery.

[Axe99]

GraphicX, on 08 June 2015 - 08:08 AM, said:

well i dunno if it was a senior moment or just not reading enough or what but i just have a great deal of regret.  so just finished XCOM enemy unknown again, went to play the enemy within add-on only to find it's the same campaign just with the extra content in it ... which is great ... if you hadn't just finished the regular game thinking you could then just play the dlc missions =(

Commiserations Graph!  I looked that up online before I started my current playthrough (cheers ) but was a bit off, so thought I'd start with what I'd done before, rather than have to learn something new.

Been a bit buggered, so in the recliner a bit gaming, but not really playing anything that I can play for more than an hour or two, so had been mixing and matching between XCOM, Cities: Skylines (going to see how many people I can fit into the default nine tiles sustainably) and Wander.  And Assassin's Creed: Unity, until it glitched out 20 minutes in, in a way that seems to be irretrievable (I've hit up Ubi support, looks like a fairly niche glitch, as can't find much online, but done a full re-install, tried playing offline and all the usual stuff and it still won't get past the problem).