I might be insane

Naturally after i lost a permadeath save i said "let me try and get a Automatic Transmission SLX as i never had one." did i get it? ohhhh no i did not. out of 184 attempts, i got zero Automatics. but, i have the full data:

Total tries: 183-184

Total SLX manuals: 22

Total GT Facelifts: 2-3

Total GT Pre-Facelifts: 4

Rest: L,LX, 152-154

NO SLX Automatic

Total Time: ~3 hours 5 minutes. (split across 3 sessions)

Trim / Variant | Total Hits | Drop Rate %

SLX (Manual) | 22 | 11.96% (Roughly ~12%)

GT (Pre-Facelift) | 5 | 2.72%

GT (Facelift) | 3 | 1.63%

Standard Base (L / LX) | 154 | 83.69%

SLX (Automatic) | 0 | 0.00%

As you can see, i got 22 Manual SLX's, but zero Automatics. Call it bad luck however you want (because this isn't just bad luck, this is extremely unlucky), but the 3 scenarios below would prove that i SHOULD have gotten one by now.

  1. If the Automatic is a 1-in-10 roll on the SLX trim

If the game picks the SLX trim (~11.96% chance) and then applies a basic 10% sub-roll to give it an automatic transmission, my overall spawn rate per new save is 1.196%.

Chance i SHOULD have seen it by now: 89.04%

Reality: Nearly 9 out of 10 players running this exact grind would have caught it by now.

  1. If the Automatic is a 1-in-5 roll on the SLX trim

If Topless was feeling reasonable and coded a 20% sub-roll for the automatic gearbox after hitting the SLX luxury layer, my overall spawn rate per new save is 2.392%.

Chance i SHOULD have seen it by now: 98.88%

Reality: i am sitting in the unluckiest 1.12% of the entire player base.

  1. If the Automatic SLX has a flat 1% overall spawn rate

If the code completely bypasses sub-rolls and just assigns a flat, hard 1% total chance for an Automatic SLX to drop on any given new game creation:

Chance i SHOULD have seen it by now: 84.28%

Couldn't dig into the files to see what the odds are, if anyone can and can give results here it would be much appreciated.

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u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 3 days ago

new player here. any tips on getting this achievements please?

beat story (all 18 of them from base story) but obviously not S or A+. i'm planning on doing that then the rest then Ironman Mode. any tips? much appreciated.

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 7 days ago

bought the game 2 days ago and just beat Hide and Seek.

SPOILER CONTAINS THE POST MISSION RATING SCREEN FROM HIDE AND SEEK
holy crap was this an experience in itself. the whole story was BEAUTIFULLY crafted. no regrets on my purchase.
now, i have to at least try and get A or A+, or try the side missions... or try Ironman mode on Standard. seems like a masochistic choice i would do.
please give me some tips i struggled hard on missions like Relapse and Greased Palms. Relapse took like 4 tries in total to actually finish it, Greased palms more like 2-3 and that was on Casual not Standard. i also struggled on Sins of The Father (think it was called like that) to the point where i did finish it but in mission selection it just says "Unresolved" when i got a rating of F :D my platoon is a whole mess. many deaths of officers were involved sadly.

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 8 days ago
▲ 13 r/BeamNG

Made a unique "Forza-Style" intro if BeamNG ever had one

mostly combined elements of Forza, NFS, The Crew, and obviously Beam.
no, these are not the actual graphics, nor 0.39 :D i used heavy color grading for this to look how it is (and a fix to the blown out exposure in a particular shot).
this is just the final iteration, the first iterations were subpar to say the least. one shot didn't make it in the final iteration since, well, it was too low-poly/quality to include (engine bay shot).
i know many will ask "where is driving part?" and for that i have a few reasons:
-as this is a modified Scintilla it doesn't last long on the road before it blows up because of over torque damage
-camera path is harder to make a nice, consistent shot of it driving, mostly because of either jittering when putting too many in too many intervals, or clipping through the ground, or just not finding a consistent part of the car to "film".
-also because of performance reasons. i could manage around 30-40FPS for these stationary shots (Ultra graphics) so driving required physics computations that could likely tank the frame-rate even lower.
-i mostly did the hangar shots because i thought about Forza Horizon 4 and a sprinkle of NFS (for the cop shot) with it's virtual stuff in menus or loading races/finished races, so the garage was the most likely contender for that. the outdoor shots were mostly influenced by Forza Horizon 2 and 3.
you might ask "what influence had The Crew?" and my answer is.... probably in some of the camera shots. idk, some of them just don't look like NFS or Forza so maybe The Crew.
feedback is welcome

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 15 days ago

please rate my new crapbox

also rate my photography skills as i think they are pretty mediocre :D
don't just rate it please give some of YOUR Rivett's as well. i want to rate some of yours as well :D

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 20 days ago

PRINTSTREAM - PROTOTYPE

i'm experimenting a bit to see how a Printstream skin from CS2 could look like for the Rivett.

Note: it is still not finished, this is the first revision i'm doing as i used AI to get the base texture and pearlescent feel. It will most likely be improved in the future.

note that the pearlescent effect is stationary, it doesn't change or show in different lighting due to limitations.

Excuse the bad placement on the bootlid, it doesn't work well with ducktail bootlids.

Would you want this as a public skin for MWC? for public i will remove my name on the black stripe of the bootlid though.

(Heavily Work in Progress. Subject to change. The Printstream name belongs to Valve.)

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 1 month ago

obviously not perfect but i'm very impressed.

prompt is this:

"can you create a image of a steam library worth like 2k dollars? it must run on an Windows 11 GUI, steam username should be "CHATGPTHOARDER#4", and notable games should be listed in the library page:
-[your games here]"

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 2 months ago
▲ 130 r/trucksim

depression

surprisingly, this is not Project Next Gen or Snowymoon's 1$/month mod.

-Realistic Brutal Graphics and Weather
-Grimes Frosty Winter
-Snowymoon TAA mod (with motion blur on)
-right place at the right time

i'm proud but also terrified of where i'm driving now. especially with a hard difficulty mod on top of it all

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 2 months ago

1973 SLX with a very unique and interesting color combination. Yellow body with White vinyl roof. Somehow, i like it.
And yes the black interior is because of the VIN. No, it doesn't have a NE engine. sadly, it's NA.
I plan to keep the original color and vinyl roof to somehow preserve it's roots. I will also try to keep many of the aftermarket exterior parts pretty accurate to it's dual-tone colour.
I still have a bit more until i can even participate in the rally or ice race. I plan to install the Turbo (from Donnertech), 4barrel carb and other performance parts. for a stock engine car, it's really solid.

u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 2 months ago
▲ 108 r/linuxmint

look, i know that many people are probably posting such stuff, but my experience was a bit... different from others.

I used Windows 11 for a LONG time. I never complained until a few weeks ago. Seeing many switch to Linux, Windows privacy concerns, bloat, all that stuff, it started pushing my PC's buttons.
For reference, i have these PC Specs:
Intel Core i3-6100 2C/4T Desktop CPU
8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM Single Channel
AMD RADEON RX580 8GB (the XFX Edition)
ADATA SATA SSD 480GB with a 1TB HDD (which has not been formatted. i have tons of stuff on my HDD that i just cannot format it to EXT4.

My first day?
-Troubleshoot for 1-2 hours because of why is my internet speed on Steam so sh*t (i would get 12MB/S or stuff like that, but after a few hours i managed to get it to around 35MB/s. for reference, in the panel for network, it says 1000MB/s. if someone knows why, please let me know.
I tried disabling IPv6 but after doing that, many browser sites because basically bricked because many modern websites now use the IPv6 protocol.
I learned to copy-paste bash commands in the Terminal. sudo is something i seen is basically written almost always in commands.

I didn't try games yet but i am going to in a bit. for the other issues, please let me know if there are fixes for it. i'm new here, cut me some slack...

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u/Active_Boysenberry76 — 2 months ago