Hmm,
i took a while to read almost of posts here.
Actually i dont like the idea that its nescessary to find out which bug or which physics issue will make you faster...lowering the grafics to get a second...d**n how boring is that? If i want to play a game with low grafic details i guess i can reinstall GTR2...then i will have to find out best setup and fight each corner to hold my car on the track...
I wasnt a NFS player before because i dont like arcade at all, maybe shift is just a bad "between Sim and Arcade" game which is perturbing the old NFS players so as the Sim players like me...i dunno...
Actually the only thing who made me faster in past was set handling to normal (cause everyone drive like that online) and changing the view from in car to "road"...when i use the outside view with the bunnet (? reverso says its bunnet) i ahve much more jumping car problems than with the "road" view...thats all...setups arent really important because i tried so much different ones (and really different) but i could do fast laps with all of them...My previous lambo, with which i did the good lap times on WR and the last one, a mix of mine and the one sesfontain gave to me, doesnt change anything...idk
Sometimes i can predict that i will do a very fast lap after 2nd or 3rd corner of a map, its really surprising and difficult to explain why, i just get the feeling my car is much more stable on some curbs than a lap before...WTF? But that arent such huge improvements like other player mentionned...My Dakota GP record is a good example, i improved 1/2 second cause i could pass the first left/right corner with full throttle, thats all, i dunno if this is a "speedbug"...speedbugs i had some BUT only with patch 1!! Laguna Seca 1:16 with 14 GTR and pro mode, that was a speedbug, since Patch 2 and DLC: I NEVER had some bugs like that again...
I will not reduce grafics and i will not search for bugs to get faster, maybe i will not become faster but i dont like the idea to use bugs to improve my lap times...
To the ramfest online i can just say (cause the thread is call "fairness"):
I try to be more clever with my experience, example on laguna, i brake on the right side of the road in first corner, wait a sec that the ppl make there ramfest, have a good time while looking at and then i take inside and pass them all
...And that all in a quarter of a second^^ and trust me thats funny to frustrate the ramkiddies cause they cant catch you...
And if im rammed 5 times before 2nd corner and i feel that i will explode, i leave, i take a "defeat" and i go to next lobby...
Actually the almost boring to me is that 99% of the races im just too fast and i have no challenge...thats really crapty and if the fast ppl like TomasT, poul, aaron, cipriani and and and doesnt play this game anymore it will be very bad...no challenge no fun...
I know that between good racers some crash happen and sometimes the crashed one think that was intentional, but when i see online how much cars are just flying away in front of me when i brake and im near of them and im 100% sure i didnt touched them i cant understand it...I posted this link before, have a look if u didnt saw it:
My opinion to "fairness in shift": its nearly impossible to have fair races in shift, the game is build for crashes and its buggy, SMS did a poor Job, surely cause EA said: Make it spectacuar and make i fast!!
Whatever...i will try to live with until a better racing game come (not as the GRID or DIRT2) and i hope to see you guys sometimes to have real fun with it
To the point unpacking Game:
For me its SIMPLE: Multiplayer with modificated Game (and YES, unpacking the game is a modification!) is a NOGO so as other cheats, trainers or whatever...The game has to be installed so as the installer does and thats all, i dont want to know if u will be faster or slower and i cant understand why some ppl just need to try it to know if it makes you faster...Maybe its just my point of view, i was doing semipro sports before and all crap about unregular thinks i dont like...What ppl do with the game offline, i dont care, they can modify it to race at 600kmh if they want...
Last but not least:
I have a question to you Ses.
Can you explain me how u can do some lap times like that in the leaderboards but not on wrecord (A part of it)?
SesFo 0:01:31.145 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 (Autopolis GP)
Sesfontain 0:00:34.479 Lamborghini MurciƩlago LP640 (Alpental)
Sesfontain 0:00:46.450 Lamborghini MurciƩlago LP640 (Silverstone National)
Look at wr...thats a huge improvement of the records, and i wont talk about the car used on Autopolis...
And to our last discussion about "Raven" (sesfontain and me pn), i say it again:
the guy is a cheater! Hes a player from Attax Team and he is a cheater, an 30 sec improvement on NS between the ladder race i did against him and the race in the TC its a JOKE, i do actually 6:08-10 in every race i do with this car on NS (if im not be rammed), but maybe he worked 24h per day to improve, OK, maybe,
BUT the only fact that he used "his unreal login problem" (unfortunaly this happend 2 days after annoucement of the prices in the finals... : to clear out the 2 defeats againt me and the other guy to get a place in the finals is a CHEAT, i won against him but my win doesnt count? With this defeat he would never get a place in the finals (If someone think that im wrong to say thats cheating, plz tell me!)...maybe he dont use trainer or modificated xml or whatever, maybe hes just using unpacked game and that made him faster...but it seems to be a "PRO" Mentality of "Professional" Team racers...cause montrey from n! used a disconnect to NOT race against me, just telling, sry if i disconnect plz be fair give me a chance, which i did, but he clicked on the "not there" button and played the guy who doesnt understand whats happend...Baaah
Greetz Marco
Sorry for the monsterpost^^ and i hope nobody has a problem that i use "ISRCIIrtxus" nick now
cause i cant login with rtxus anymore...