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Post by bigwill369 on Dec 17, 2019 16:40:38 GMT
Cheers guys, iv'e screenshot those settings & will give them a try out later.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 17, 2019 23:45:56 GMT
Cheers guys, iv'e screenshot those settings & will give them a try out later. Let any of us know when you need help with anything. This game likes to throw curve balls frequently, luckily once you figure out how to hit them they become really easy to hit. Loading up your setups, pit strategies, and Hard restarting your Xbox/routers before events become second nature.
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Post by bigwill369 on Dec 18, 2019 9:18:08 GMT
Cheers guys, iv'e screenshot those settings & will give them a try out later. Let any of us know when you need help with anything. This game likes to throw curve balls frequently, luckily once you figure out how to hit them they become really easy to hit. Loading up your setups, pit strategies, and Hard restarting your Xbox/routers before events become second nature. Ok thanks, i had a quick go last night, only had a handful of laps. I couldn't find any go karts, is there a dlc i need or maybe i didn't look hard enough?
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 18, 2019 18:49:34 GMT
They come with the game, look under the SMS manufacturer for the Karts.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 19, 2019 14:37:29 GMT
Will, in the 2nd tab of Car Setups, you can also adjust the steering ratio for individual cars. So that's convenient.
Some cars will feel heavier or lighter and you'll have to adjust those if needed in the actual FFB.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 19, 2019 14:43:22 GMT
The steering ratio is quite important as is the DoR that you have your wheel set to. Mine always defaults to 900 which I find too much and drop it down to 720 or 540. Thisis hard coded in F1 to 360 but in pCars you have a choice.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 20, 2019 21:46:41 GMT
We have to find a way of bringing more drivers to this series to freshen it up. The number that have been found for the WEC and LeMans shows that people are out there but just more limited in what they want to drive. These cars are the biggest challenge without doubt but there must be some other like minded people just looking for a place to go back in time Some of it has to be the day/time we race our events. Then again, there wasn't a lack of drivers that turned up when we raced GTE at Nürburgring the other night so you're definitely spot on Peter about openwheel and Vintage being unattractive to what seems like the vast majority. The 72D may be quicker than the previous cars, but it also has more downforce and slick tyres available which helps it stick to the track much better. In other words, it makes it an easier car to drive. Hopefully that aspect can draw more attention to us. If we get Matt, Neale and Mike back that would make 7 which is a decent start. If we could get an adverage grid size of 9 or 10 everytime we wouldn't need AI to help fill the field out When's the last time any of us have advertised for the Vintage? It's been too long for me, i'll probably get on that very soon!
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 20, 2019 22:40:30 GMT
Open wheel just isnt popular in PCars 2. The modeling for these cars just isn't as good and same goes for road cars. Many open wheel guys use Assetto. It's maybe $15 if you don't have it, and it is phenominal. A must own if you love open wheel!
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 21, 2019 15:45:33 GMT
Formula1, it's worth a shot hosting public lobbies. You guys can just use Private chat so you don't have to deal with lobby chat.
Whatever Practice length and 15 or 20 minute Qualifying and a 30 minute race is long enough to filter out the spring racers and short enough to encourage people to join spur of the moment. Use the exact settings you guys always use and run the same tracks. Whatever racers you like, just message them the link to the signup.
I'll put Vintage F1 in my Xbox profile, too.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 21, 2019 17:54:57 GMT
Open wheel just isnt popular in PCars 2. The modeling for these cars just isn't as good and same goes for road cars. Many open wheel guys use Assetto. It's maybe $15 if you don't have it, and it is phenominal. A must own if you love open wheel! Most guys on the forum have it but the problems with it have meant it's not used any longer. We did have some good fun with it despite the poor porting of the game from pc and worked around some of the issues experienced but the interest is no longer there. Didn't get a single taker when it was mentioned about running something on it again.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 21, 2019 18:19:26 GMT
That's unfortunate. I drove the 98T at Mugello yesterday on both games and it is an astronomical difference. Assetto doesn't look as good, but the cars and physics is incredible, especially for open wheel
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 21, 2019 20:02:28 GMT
We drove all of those classic cars and several non-open wheelers too. The C9 for instance which was a real handful.
The driving experience in Assetto is good but like you say graphically it struggles and it lacks the flexibility and overall experience you get with pCars. Having Time Trial with no leaderboard for instance was a crazy decision and made it a pointless exercise until the Time Trial competitions and external leaderboards were introduced by third parties.
One of the things that was always frustrating in online racing was the lack of gap information about the cars you were racing. That was one of the many little frustrations that would have been so easily fixed but nobody bothered despite numerous requests.
I might still dig it out again though to take it for a spin just to remind myself about it. Got to be over a year, maybe even two since I last tried it.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 21, 2019 20:16:14 GMT
Agree, it is barebones. You can see gap of cars in front of you, though.
The actual driving is still far beyond anything else on console and especially open wheel.
The clutch works correctly in it, too and that's a plus for manual drivers. But still, once you pick up speed, it feels very very close to a real car. It's pretty incredible. Might be worth you guys hosting a night here and there over there just to see if people join. May be surprised. Modern open wheel is really popular over there, at least.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 22, 2019 16:28:29 GMT
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 22, 2019 18:54:21 GMT
Agree, it is barebones. You can see gap of cars in front of you, though. The actual driving is still far beyond anything else on console and especially open wheel. The clutch works correctly in it, too and that's a plus for manual drivers. But still, once you pick up speed, it feels very very close to a real car. It's pretty incredible. Might be worth you guys hosting a night here and there over there just to see if people join. May be surprised. Modern open wheel is really popular over there, at least. Depends what position you are in. It's been a perennial problem with online that you can't determine the gap to cars behind you, mainly if you are leading. I'd be more then happy to race it again but only if there were decent numbers.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 22, 2019 18:56:35 GMT
I'll stick a post on there about our little virtual world. Cheers. Bottom line is if we could get 10-12 I would be delighted 😁
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 22, 2019 20:06:29 GMT
If I had a PC I'd probably already have Assetto because of the sheer number of mods that there is for it. I have heard very good things about the open wheel in that game.
As far as games go, I like the ease of using just Project Cars 2 for all my racing needs at the moment. Especially when people out there are saying that the type of stuff we've been running lately like TCR, LM, and GTs give iRacing a real run for it's money, it's really good to hear.
I hate having to dial in FFB and all that yadda yadda to make sure i'm getting the most out of my experience. Everytime I'd play a Codemasters F1 game after playing a different racing game it would reset all of my wheel settings on F1 which became annoying.
But for sure without a doubt hosting public lobbies is going to help increase interest and hopefully numbers.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 23, 2019 1:19:52 GMT
Can you save different profiles on your wheel? Only time I lose my FFB settings is if I change between an F1 and a GT rim. But it does happen too often.
Recruiting for this I think just go where the people are. Online lobbies and host whenever possible. The more "XRF" the better. Especially when they see it is a clean lobby. It wont happen overnight, but it will.
Only other recommendation I would have is use more popular tracks. You already have an uphill fight with the cars and you have some really obscure tracks. At least maybe use the popular ones at the start of the season so you can host lobbies with them. Then pull the old bait and switch. Lol
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 23, 2019 9:03:04 GMT
If I had a PC I'd probably already have Assetto because of the sheer number of mods that there is for it. I have heard very good things about the open wheel in that game. As far as games go, I like the ease of using just Project Cars 2 for all my racing needs at the moment. Especially when people out there are saying that the type of stuff we've been running lately like TCR, LM, and GTs give iRacing a real run for it's money, it's really good to hear. I hate having to dial in FFB and all that yadda yadda to make sure i'm getting the most out of my experience. Everytime I'd play a Codemasters F1 game after playing a different racing game it would reset all of my wheel settings on F1 which became annoying. But for sure without a doubt hosting public lobbies is going to help increase interest and hopefully numbers. If I still had a PC I would still be racing Grand Prix Legends.. the all-time greatest open wheel sim. Even back in the day when I was racing the modding community was unbelievable with every track you can imagine painstakingly recreated. Even the awe inspiring Taraga Floria (http://srmz.net/tracks/targa/) 44.7 miles and 567 turns of amazing work. You certainly wouldn't want a formation lap on that one lol Your wheel get's reset by a game!?! What wheel is it Tyler, that shouldn't happen as the game should not change the wheel settings? I can go from Codemasters F1 to pCras to Nascar, etc and each one is independent of the other. The only thing I have to do with my wheel is if I power it off I have to quickly reset the wheels DoR which defaults to 940 when it powers up.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 23, 2019 9:08:16 GMT
Can you save different profiles on your wheel? Only time I lose my FFB settings is if I change between an F1 and a GT rim. But it does happen too often. Recruiting for this I think just go where the people are. Online lobbies and host whenever possible. The more "XRF" the better. Especially when they see it is a clean lobby. It wont happen overnight, but it will. Only other recommendation I would have is use more popular tracks. You already have an uphill fight with the cars and you have some really obscure tracks. At least maybe use the popular ones at the start of the season so you can host lobbies with them. Then pull the old bait and switch. Lol I get your point but the tracks we use are to recreate the actual season we are trying to duplicate. Going to the popular tracks would negate the object of the series which is to experience something as close as possible to the way the series was back in those days and also drive tracks that would otherwise not be used.
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