u/heelandtoeguy

I'm starting a league racing older cars- 60's, 70's, 80's cars, and our first race is coming up on Nov 14th, Noon EDT. We'll be racing mod cars and tracks, this race is at '67 Kyalami with 1974 BMW CSL, Ford Capri, Porsche RSR and BMW 2002. Full manual, no assists allowed- manual clutch and stick shift only.

After free roam is released, we're going to have regular Cars & Coffee events (yup, I'm resurrecting that in a new form) where you convert the car you want for the Cars and Coffee. Any car, any period- you convert, send it to me and that's your car

We're going to do regular cruises where you drive the car you convert and we cruise the Eifel region, or LAC and other future cruise tracks and free roam areas coming up

And we're going to do fun RDB races too. RDB is Rich... umm person... You convert a 50's/60's car that costs over US$1M and we do a fun race.

We will be making heavy use of EvoForge

GT1 & GT2, Nurbs GT 2020. New day, same crap. The AI is the same, they added some sliders 👎

I apologize for the AI in 0.9. It's my fault.

I was racing with a m8 last week and I said something along the lines of "well, the AI can't possibly get any worse"

I present to you, the worse.

Yes, this is a mod, but I have seen this AI behavior (including on a Traxxion review of 0.9) with official content too. It's like Kunos is punishing us for wanting to race offline

It's taken a while but I finally tried out RRRE after the update. It's not earth shattering or anything but some things were improved. The sound seemed a lot better. I was in the GTR1 GT-R and the sound improvement was immediately noticeable. The tires take a bit longer to heat up and turn on and I can feel what they are doing better. The FFB is improved. I don't know why they are obsessed with the HUD so much though it was fine before and IMHO worse now.

Overall it's better for me. I just turn off the HUD unless I need something anyway, so that's not a huge deal. I still need to tweak it and get it where I like it.

These sorts of old cars are some of my favorites. Hard to drive, look awesome and when I crash- incalculable damage to irreplaceable motoring history 🤣

EvoForge has made it easy to mod this game make the grids I want for offline racing. Now if Evo could just fix the AI 😒

So I was talking to my mechanic, Tony, about the poor braking performance of the GTO. He said he knew a guy in Maranello, Tony, who knew a guy at the Ferrari warehouse, Antonio, and could get a F40 brake kit. So I went down with Tony, talked to the warehouse guy, Anthony, who set us up with a new-old stock F40 braking kit. (This is my fantasy world-too bad- but you're invited over and talk to Tony he'll hook you up.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XxgoQRtKKc86x1akjLFjsLJiP2Opb1Uk/view?usp=drive\_link, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bDOldA2JzuXo9VE7j6gfNBcvCKCqy6c8/view?usp=drive\_link

This is the json and kspkg files that go in your Mods folder

This doesn't magically fix the GTO 100% (check the brake torque I think it defaults to 105% so turn it down some). BUT the GTO is SO MUCH BETTER TO DRIVE with the F40 brakes. It always irritated me how badly Kunos botched this car with bad brakes. Same with the Countach (which I'll work on next).

I eventually did lose first place but not because of this incident with the AI! This is AMS2, those are AI, I was driving like a 13 year old chases a girl. I was way too aggressive, and clumsy and having fun! It's AI oh well. Best part of the race. I would have finished 8th (maybe 7th) but I ran outta gas with 2 mins left.

I introduce to you the Zhuhai pirouette 🩰

Ever since the rain patch in June, I have been getting rain or a wet track in almost every race weekend I do. But it so happens, I like racing in the rain!

Sebring, MC12, multiclass GT1 and GT2 (first race with it- my plan is to do a race in every 05 GT1 and GT2 car) lots of rain in the race. At times I couldn't see the sides of the road, I was following lights ahead. It was insane but it was fun. The weird thing is, I only finished 4th in this race but I was excited to finish 4th!

https://youtu.be/d3Dc4tcNd5A

The rain effects in AMS2 are awesome

This fucking game is 2 steps forward 2 steps back. The AI was excellent before the newest patch. They can't just leave well enough alone.

GT1 and GT2, I'm in the Spyker. Curitiba. This happened several times, I've given up on this race. One time, the AI was behind before that esses section and went off track from a car length behind and pitted me from the dirt. This one is just the good ole' fashioned idiot lunge.

Plus the AI rubber bands now. I'll pull away from one AI, put up a PB lap, just to have another AI magically surge forward to do something stupid. Plus, low % passes in bad spots. This is just bad AI. They had it working so well before this.

I need to try other classes I guess and see if they fucked the whole game or just this class. They just can't get the AI right and keep it good- every patch is a roll of the fucking dice.

This was a Lambo Diablo Hungaroring race weekend I did yesterday. Since the patch ALL my races have had rain or a moist track at some point (I use historical weather). This race featured a qualification session where it was raining buckets. I think the AI was on slicks, they were 5 secs off my pace when I hit the pits but at the end of the session they were only 2 secs off. Anyway, the race session had dry, cool weather but the track was still wet (not soaked and much of the track was still dry).

Here's a time lapse of the same corner the entry to T13. There was a lot of puddling around T13 and the puddle dried up as the race went on. The first shot is of qualifying and how rainy it was. Shot 6 shows when the track was dry but there was still some moisture being kicked up by the cars ahead on my windscreen. The final shot (9) shows the exact lap when the dry line appeared. It was really cool to feel the car change, to feel when the tires hooked up and when I could push. The car was changing every lap and I had to feel out how the change was affecting the grip.

The puddle patch has been amazing so far. Some of the changes are not subtle- the rain spray, & hydroplaning. But this corner was a much more nuanced change that I haven't experienced with another game.

Ronin Road 50 server

This is the state of online with Evo right now. If it's not straight up wreckers like these 2 cocksuckers, it's drifters who are just as bad. I know that getting in with a league is the only way to go, it's just too bad that it always devolves into this shit. Sometimes I just want to do chill laps, it's frustrating.