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Post by DaveO on Nov 22, 2008 20:58:25 GMT 2
Karl and I will be racing in a Series this coming January called LFS-Touring-Car-Championship (LTCC) a German Tribute to DTM. These are the awesome cars that Karl painted.   |
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Post by turtlewise06 on Nov 23, 2008 7:36:07 GMT 2
Wow gotta love those AUDIs All wheel drive or rear ? Im jealous dont have the s2 yet or s3
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Post by Administrator on Nov 23, 2008 12:39:50 GMT 2
All wheel cars Usually it takes me quite while to get into figuring out the REAL pros and cons on a sim - and up to now I never really got deeper into LFS. Lack of tempting leagues  This now sounds promising. Hope they'll be able to fulfill those promises ;D What I now REALLY like (and hated on on earlier versions) is the in-car sound. It's now damn close to the real thing. Especially the transission noise is brilliant. Kind of "having to get used to" is that you cannot push throttle and shift down at the same time anymore - as you cannot in a real life car. I noticed at online practicing that LFS still doesn't match NHeat's netcode by far. You can run 30+ cars online, but even on a 3 car field (with close-to-perfect ping) cars sometimes slightly jump - makes trading paint risky business  You wonder that with Heat being around a couple of years already, nobody (neither iLFS, nor rF, GTR, etc pp) was yet able to figure some similar great netcode. |
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Post by Administrator on Nov 23, 2008 22:23:41 GMT 2
initial test race was a blast - for Dave ! He got some really great racing out of this Me.... well... There must be something wrong. Just dunno what  My car seems to be the ONLY one that slows down after even looking at some of those obstacle wheel barriers. Other cars seem to be able to even drive thru these without getting any damage at all. They can even hit the curbs in a way that would my car topple over. Worse, my car lacks about 5km/h topspeed even on top conditions and it has a longer brakeway... I'd say it's the setup, but unless there's a setup option "no damage sustain" that I have missed.... I seem to miss something more basic here |
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Post by DaveO on Nov 23, 2008 22:45:55 GMT 2
initial test race was a blast - for Dave ! He got some really great racing out of this Me.... well... There must be something wrong. Just dunno what My car seems to be the ONLY one that slows down after even looking at some of those obstacle wheel barriers. Other cars seem to be able to even drive thru these without getting any damage at all. They can even hit the curbs in a way that would my car topple over. Worse, my car lacks about 5km/h topspeed even on top conditions and it has a longer brakeway... I'd say it's the setup, but unless there's a setup option "no damage sustain" that I have missed.... I seem to miss something more basic here SpeedSims earned it's first ever top 5 in LFS. We finished 4th.. We both ran the same setup today. Karl, we just need to hit the garage and do somemore testing.. |
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Post by humty on Nov 23, 2008 22:59:57 GMT 2
Well Karl,
You weren't the only one that struggled!!
In lap 1 there were 2 cars that spun in front of me and I totaly ruined my car trying to avoid them, limped back to the pits what probably dropped me 2 laps down.
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Post by Administrator on Nov 24, 2008 0:43:57 GMT 2
The bad thing is, it seems pitting doesn't help on a damaged car
It didn't for me anyway
Did I miss some pit option ?
Would be great if the pit guys could do some repair in LFS.
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Post by DaveO on Nov 24, 2008 0:46:38 GMT 2
The bad thing is, it seems pitting doesn't help on a damaged car It didn't for me anyway Did I miss some pit option ? Would be great if the pit guys could do some repair in LFS. Karl, If you hit F12 a menu pops up use the up and down arrow keys to select what you want to change or repair. Then once highlighted use the right and left arrow keys to change options of what you want to change. You can also have it automatically fix damage in the pitts by selecting yes under that menu. |
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Post by BurnOut on Nov 24, 2008 10:19:35 GMT 2
Looks like thats some interesting series! Spec FXR series has been always fun  |
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Post by ksheppard on Nov 25, 2008 15:32:06 GMT 2
hmm - beena long time since i did any lfsing might be i'll take a look at this series...how big a team can SS's field |
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Post by DaveO on Nov 25, 2008 15:53:03 GMT 2
hmm - beena long time since i did any lfsing might be i'll take a look at this series...how big a team can SS's field Would love to have you race with us.. Bummer is your only allowed two cars per team.. But were allowed to have a backup driver when someone can't make a race.. Or maybe we can field another two car SS team. |
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Post by ksheppard on Nov 25, 2008 16:20:44 GMT 2
Whats the link - i need to check the sched before I fully commit. hmmm I wonder if the SS admins would mind painting red & white w/yellow trim and a red & white w/black trim cars for team 2 |
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Post by DaveO on Nov 25, 2008 17:50:22 GMT 2
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Post by Administrator on Nov 25, 2008 20:22:57 GMT 2
So far as admins stated, the grid is complete - so they'll not accept any additional sign-ins. But Dave's right about the additional replacement driver's seat for each team For our Speedsims Team, that seat is still available |
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Post by ksheppard on Nov 25, 2008 22:46:44 GMT 2
Dave pm'd me the info - thanks, the times even work out just 1 problem - i can only race every 2nd week (when the wife is off to look after the kid) and that's her week to work - for the whole sched  - sorry lads I'd be up for test sessions though and helping with prep work. Is there a TeamSpeak server on the SS server - or somewhere (I have one I can re-boot) |
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This now sounds promising. Hope they'll be able to fulfill those promises ;D
You wonder that with Heat being around a couple of years already, nobody (neither iLFS, nor rF, GTR, etc pp) was yet able to figure some similar great netcode. 
Join the Speedsims 2 server: 
- sorry lads I'd be up for test sessions though and helping with prep work.