DonFerrari on 11 October 2017
SvennoJ said:
DonFerrari said:
I haven't played the arcade... so there you have, no processing limitation, maybe lag have something to do with it or they just don't want a fuckover fest on most starts.
Well I started about 32s behind the first place, would take about 4-5s per normal lap until the 6th lap on the tank because my racing soft tyre would be a little slower. I was second or close when I done the first pit on start of 8th lap. Then it was a matter of recovering all the time I lost because of guys making me spin (lost about 12s per spin, happened more than 4 times).
I used racing soft for 6 laps strategy with full tank. I had to do a lot of late breaking and closing doors on some corners where the lambo would catch up very fast to me on the straight, but was bad on fast corners (to me it was a brazilian racer called Castellano that were on first the whole race).
One thing I noticed is that for this race as long as you don't push too hard so you don't commit mistake I would have been leading for half the race instead of just on the last lap.
I suspect that the AI top car have a target time that depends on you. When you are behind it allows you to catch up, but you have to look for very good portions to pass, I suggest you the 3 fast corners that then are followed by 2 almost no corners to gain terrain (that I usually lost on the deep turn) to catch up and then the 2 deep turns for almost 180 degrees for late breaking to overtake.
Considering how much better your times in DC were compared to me I think you can gold all session 6, perhaps you need to get adjusted to GT and TV after DC and VR for so long. I compared our times and positions on the challenges and you weren't as fast as I saw in DC.
The good and bad part of the old campaign starting with the bad car was that you could totally obliterate others if you choose a too powerfull car or you could give you a real challenge by choosing a bad car. With newer installments we got the performance points to show how we compare but still had lot of space for you to humiliate others... but nothing will come close to GT2 when buying Twin Peaks Escudo and going on the first races and being able to overlap some cars on a 3 laps race.
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I haven't tried improving my times yet, just hit quit after finishing the challenges. It's not grabing me, plus I had time last night for it, yet the server went down. I played DC VR for the rest, racing in VR is simply better.
Maybe it's also a bit of luck on the last laps, as there I had straggling AI (that I had lapped before) blocking the corners where I can make up time. What was most suspicious is that T. Oshimo always went right back to 100 meters in front of me after catching up in corners. It felt very fake, worse than DC AI. Plus why are cars that are 1 lap behind blocking my path, isn't that a racing violation?
I forgot to change the tires the first 3 pit stops so was racing on hard, then medium. I didn't want to risk burning out softs, didn't know how long they would last. Fuel certainly doesn't last long.
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If you race 7 laps on soft they'll be quite rough on the last lap (even more when competition send you spinning), their life would be between 1/2 and 1/3, but when I tried 7 laps I hit empty tank around 100-200m of the pitstop. So you are good with soft for 6 laps if you can manage to care for the 6th lap not being aggressive and losing control.
It's a violation to not open for a lapping car to pass, but no AI bothered and I had to be somewhat forcefull, but all the lapping AI I had to pass were considerably slower than me either on the straight or in their cornering so by right positioning and breaking I passed them fast enough, but I don't mind giving them a small occasional scratch if needed.
