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Post by skroting on Apr 24, 2011 22:04:54 GMT
I don't know if this is a bug or just coincidences, but sometimes it's almost as if there is a force field around my car. I can be a full car lenght behind or infront of a car that suddenly spins as if we made heavy contact. There's no sound to indicate that we hit eachother and my car is in no way affected when these strange spins occur. I will get a bad rep if people think I'm slamming into them...
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Post by dimitrikhoz on Apr 24, 2011 22:55:18 GMT
I don't know if this is a bug or just coincidences, but sometimes it's almost as if there is a force field around my car. I can be a full car lenght behind or infront of a car that suddenly spins as if we made heavy contact. There's no sound to indicate that we hit eachother and my car is in no way affected when these strange spins occur. I will get a bad rep if people think I'm slamming into them... Cool stuff, we need to research it, it may help to prevent losing unfair online races.
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Post by TomasT (PC) on Apr 24, 2011 23:30:04 GMT
Nothing new to racing online, Skroting. I even mentioned this before release as a possibility how the aggresiveness might get miscalculated. It's either bad ping between you and another driver or the net code can mess it up if it's bad. I think nfs has pretty good net code though, but this is happening in all racing games more or less.
It looked like you went off at laguna seca when we raced online btw.. and I can swear that I didnt touch your car, on my screen that is..
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Post by rcgldr on Apr 24, 2011 23:52:43 GMT
What happened is what I call "lag collision". On your screen you're 1 car length away from another car, but on another player's screen there was contact. Every player in a race sees a slightly different version of the same race because of the lag.
Nascar Racing Season 2003 has (had, the public servers are down now) best code for handling this. 42 players can get within just a few feet of each other and even bump draft if the ping is good. If a player's ping is bad, his car "wobbles" on all other players screens as a warning to keep about 1 car length away to avoid "lag collisions". If players connection drops for more than a brief moment, his car dissappears (other games just turn the cars into ghost mode and disable collision when lag is bad).
Getting back to Shift 1 and 2, I don't know how close you can be to another car before "lag collisions" are an issue. I usually see this happen when braking for turns because the cars get closer to each other as speeds decrease but time separation remains the same.
I've only done a few unranked races online in Shift 2, so I don't know how it is. I do recall some weirdness in Shift 1 at certain tracks. The worst track was Donnington, on the downhill section near the start of the lap, where other players cars would appear to be 50 feet or so off track in the grass on my screen, when in fact they were on track. At other tracks, it will appear that another player has gone wide on a turn on my screen, but not his.
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Post by dimitrikhoz on May 5, 2011 23:47:56 GMT
Guys, I have an interesting problem.
I am an owner of USB Microphone AudioTechnica 2020.
I can use it in Skype, WinVoiceRec, ... But for some reason it does not work in Shift2 when I race online.
Does someone know how can I fix it? What type of mics are you using?
I will really appreciate your feedback.
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 6, 2011 4:55:29 GMT
I have totally separate problem, after losing my hard drive and trying to reload the game, this digital download copy or download manager won't give me a full blow version of the game. I have been online with EA chat support three times and they gave me 3 set's of Key codes to use now and it still doesn't work.. This time I scrub my registry for anything to do with Shift 2 and removed all folders and files.. And I'll try it again with these new numbers but I am never buying the digital download again, I am not sure why this has happen to me but if I would have bought the game from a retail outlet I wouldn't have this problem.... this is what I see below when I get the game install, just Career and Options that it....
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Post by skroting on May 6, 2011 6:29:51 GMT
If you complete the first two or three races, aren't the rest of the menu opened up then?
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Post by VGSpeedPro on May 6, 2011 7:44:12 GMT
Yes, it is... Monster if you didnt backup your Savegame, you will have to start from scratch... And that means doing the 1st couple of Races to re-launch the game...
Rogério
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Post by AlexBolt on May 6, 2011 16:02:37 GMT
Talking about Savegame, I think the Ubisoft's system is the best of all, because every time you leave a game of this company, there is a synchronization of your save, where you have the possibility of your online backup ...
In short, if you loose your hard drive and save, dont worry .. is just reinstall the game and log into your account when you run the Ubisoft game for the first time and there will be the last point of your savegame...
Alexandre
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Post by VGSpeedPro on May 6, 2011 16:33:34 GMT
Many companies use that system... My Steam Account keeps my COD Black Ops Savegame on their servers... When I install the game I get it back in an automatic way...
Rogério
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Post by CrazySwede JR. on May 6, 2011 18:18:31 GMT
Rogerio do you play COD MW2, i would love to play COD with you because i play FPS games on PC and all other games on PS3. Btw i havent any bug or any problems with Shift 2 on PS3, io guess it mostly bug on the PC right now
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Post by VGSpeedPro on May 6, 2011 18:43:02 GMT
Hi! No, just play COD Black Ops... This is in fact the first COD I play. I did competition in Unreal Tournament since 2003 to 2008. Then Unreal died and I didnt play FPS until a few months ago when a friend invited me to play Black Ops! I have a video in YouTube with some clips of my first few weeks of playing COD! ;P Rogério
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Post by CrazySwede JR. on May 6, 2011 21:29:13 GMT
Ohh okey cool i will watch the clip, i havent played so much COD either only MW2 and just a little Black Ops because BO sucks But i have played FPS before as well like F.E.A.R 1, SWAT 4, FarCry 1 on PC. But i play racing games the most because im a BIG fan of racing
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Post by TheGreenMonster (PC) on May 10, 2011 13:22:35 GMT
WOW you guys are right, EA support didn't know that, they kept on telling me I didn't have administrator rights.. But after the first race I could see everything but autolog and then after the second race I could see autolog.. I figure out a way to re-rout the user folder on the c:\drive to my D: drive so I won't lose anything in case my PC crashes again. So I am back in business and currently at lvl 6... I am working 10 hrs a day five days a week and don't have alot of time for racing except for the weekends... So should I install that patch that everyone is talking about or is there another patch coming out?? If you complete the first two or three races, aren't the rest of the menu opened up then? Yes, it is... Monster if you didnt backup your Savegame, you will have to start from scratch... And that means doing the 1st couple of Races to re-launch the game... Rogério
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