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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 23, 2019 22:06:20 GMT
I guess I have yet to try a Codemasters game with my current wheel which is the Thrustmaster TX LE. Maybe they've fixed the issues I had. My previous 2 wheels which were a Thrustmaster Ferrari Spider for Xbox 1 and a Porsche 911 S Turbo for Xbox 360, the in-game settings and mapped buttons on F1 would get reset everytime i'd play a different racing game.
I've not had the issue with any other racing games as far as that's concerned. I frequently switch between the default wheel rim and the 2011 Ferrari F1 rim depending on what I'm driving and have had no issues with wheel settings getting reset on Project Cars 2.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 24, 2019 0:55:00 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. I can understand and appreciate that. Will be curious to see what you guys find, there will be a bunch of people online the next week or two.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Dec 24, 2019 1:00:08 GMT
I guess I have yet to try a Codemasters game with my current wheel which is the Thrustmaster TX LE. Maybe they've fixed the issues I had. My previous 2 wheels which were a Thrustmaster Ferrari Spider for Xbox 1 and a Porsche 911 S Turbo for Xbox 360, the in-game settings and mapped buttons on F1 would get reset everytime i'd play a different racing game. I've not had the issue with any other racing games as far as that's concerned. I frequently switch between the default wheel rim and the 2011 Ferrari F1 rim depending on what I'm driving and have had no issues with wheel settings getting reset on Project Cars 2. Was that Porsche rim a Fanatec? I have that one, too. My first "real" rim. Race Pro and some other good titles were on 360.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Dec 24, 2019 1:08:54 GMT
Race Pro was a terrific sim on the 360. Most realistic race on that platform. It was a bit flakey online but we had some great fun with it in a midweek series we ran.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Dec 25, 2019 15:37:08 GMT
I guess I have yet to try a Codemasters game with my current wheel which is the Thrustmaster TX LE. Maybe they've fixed the issues I had. My previous 2 wheels which were a Thrustmaster Ferrari Spider for Xbox 1 and a Porsche 911 S Turbo for Xbox 360, the in-game settings and mapped buttons on F1 would get reset everytime i'd play a different racing game. I've not had the issue with any other racing games as far as that's concerned. I frequently switch between the default wheel rim and the 2011 Ferrari F1 rim depending on what I'm driving and have had no issues with wheel settings getting reset on Project Cars 2. Was that Porsche rim a Fanatec? I have that one, too. My first "real" rim. Race Pro and some other good titles were on 360. Yeah it's a Fanatec. I almost forgot that I also had the Fanatec CSR for 360 but used it so much that the belts inside became shot. I'm glad the Thrustmaster TX doesn't use belts or i'd probably need another wheel already lol.
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Post by boothy116 on Dec 25, 2019 16:52:58 GMT
Race Pro was a terrific sim on the 360. Most realistic race on that platform. It was a bit flakey online but we had some great fun with it in a midweek series we ran. Race Pro still better then most games.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 2, 2020 1:55:39 GMT
I'd like to get the season started by the end of the month so how does the 15th sound for everyone for testing? The 8th can be Mario Kart night and the 29th can be the season start.
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Post by niblips on Jan 3, 2020 20:59:07 GMT
I should be good for the 15th.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 13, 2020 17:54:40 GMT
You guys may be able to get some traction (pun intended) with public Kart lobbies. Drivers you like, just send them a message post race if soundbite want to be in open chat.
Pretty good chance people coming in to race long Kart sessions would be excited about vintage F1. I'd start one, but have my hands full with WEC.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 13, 2020 22:32:53 GMT
You guys may be able to get some traction (pun intended) with public Kart lobbies. Drivers you like, just send them a message post race if soundbite want to be in open chat. Pretty good chance people coming in to race long Kart sessions would be excited about vintage F1. I'd start one, but have my hands full with WEC. I hear ya. I'm having trouble finding the quality time to sit down and advertise for this. I'll be hosting a public lobby on Wednesday at 5pm EST with bots for testing. If Peter has problems i'll switch it to private but i've updated the schedule to start on the 29th.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 15, 2020 10:01:35 GMT
Unfortunately I have yet to step into this car at all. Got to be honest guys I am not 100% on full participation in this one at the moment. Just haven’t been able to find the time for any track time and of all the cars we drive these Vintage F1 cars demand the most practice. It’s my favourite series of the ones we race so I am loathe to drop out of any of it but i’ll see how tonight goes and then how things play out in the next couple of weeks. I certainly didn’t enjoy the 1970 series as much as the previous series we have run simply due to the fact that I never truly got a handle on the car for most races because of lack of getting on track. I also do much prefer the non-aero cars 😊
I really want to start enjoying the offline career side of these games as over the years i’ve always missed out on that due to having to devote my time to practicing for the various leagues so I think with the way things are for me at the moment that that’s going to be my focus on the racing front. I’ve recently picked up Nascar Heat 3 and I am keen to get involved in that and there’s also another non-racing project that I am looking to get involved in that I need to find the time for so something has to give and it’s the online racing that is the main take-up of my free time.
I’ll be on tonight for the testing session though unless things crop up in the next 12 hours which is not entirely unlikely.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 15, 2020 21:41:02 GMT
Late one tonight so don't think I'll be able to get on by ten. I'll get on as soon as I'm in.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 15, 2020 21:58:36 GMT
That's ok we can run a quali session or something to start
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Post by hurtmagurt on Jan 15, 2020 22:00:30 GMT
My One X is doing one of these dumb ass long console updates
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 15, 2020 22:21:07 GMT
If there's an update that'll be me done for the night then... They take bloody ages!!
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 15, 2020 23:39:38 GMT
Gosh, sorry you've had a couple of bad sessions with us Peter. It really does take away from the group when someone isn't having a good time and throws off my concentration.
I love having bigger grids but the AI will need more testing with if we are to run with them. Karl's probably right about turning the aggression down. One of the AI ended up running into me and took themself out with no damage to me lol. I was also disconnected from the session just as I was making my way past 2nd place and started attempting to catch up to Greg in the lead. I'm not sure what happened...
On a positive note Greg seems to have the best grip on the car so far and will definitely be a challenge and the one to beat this season 👍
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 16, 2020 1:03:25 GMT
You guys may be able to get some traction (pun intended) with public Kart lobbies. Drivers you like, just send them a message post race if soundbite want to be in open chat. Pretty good chance people coming in to race long Kart sessions would be excited about vintage F1. I'd start one, but have my hands full with WEC. I hear ya. I'm having trouble finding the quality time to sit down and advertise for this. I'll be hosting a public lobby on Wednesday at 5pm EST with bots for testing. If Peter has problems i'll switch it to private but i've updated the schedule to start on the 29th. Lotus 72D, correct? Been messing around with it in PCars and Assetto for the hell of it, pretty fun car. Lobbies can be ghost towns one minute and a flood the next. 25 minute races with track limits on etc seem to filter out the sprint racers. I learned the hard way last night to at least have a bumped up Safety minimum in the lobbies. F is probably fine, but U can be a little dicey. It can be also good to sandbag your times until the end of Qualifying or the newer people seem to frighten off. Not sure if having AI will help or hurt people staying, but worth a shot either way.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 16, 2020 7:46:55 GMT
Gosh, sorry you've had a couple of bad sessions with us Peter. It really does take away from the group when someone isn't having a good time and throws off my concentration. I love having bigger grids but the AI will need more testing with if we are to run with them. Karl's probably right about turning the aggression down. One of the AI ended up running into me and took themself out with no damage to me lol. I was also disconnected from the session just as I was making my way past 2nd place and started attempting to catch up to Greg in the lead. I'm not sure what happened... On a positive note Greg seems to have the best grip on the car so far and will definitely be a challenge and the one to beat this season 👍 Had a decent quali so was looking forward to seeing how the car felt in the race but that AI was having none of it... Drive right into me and tore my left rear off before I even got into turn 1.. race over!! They looked ok in that first race I spectated but boy that was a bad one in the second race. I do think the AI are perhaps more unpredictable online as the game has much more to work out. Give it another go next week and take it from there.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 16, 2020 7:50:21 GMT
I hear ya. I'm having trouble finding the quality time to sit down and advertise for this. I'll be hosting a public lobby on Wednesday at 5pm EST with bots for testing. If Peter has problems i'll switch it to private but i've updated the schedule to start on the 29th. Lotus 72D, correct? Been messing around with it in PCars and Assetto for the hell of it, pretty fun car. Lobbies can be ghost towns one minute and a flood the next. 25 minute races with track limits on etc seem to filter out the sprint racers. I learned the hard way last night to at least have a bumped up Safety minimum in the lobbies. F is probably fine, but U can be a little dicey. It can be also good to sandbag your times until the end of Qualifying or the newer people seem to frighten off. Not sure if having AI will help or hurt people staying, but worth a shot either way. The trouble is by excluding lower rated drivers you can miss some really good ones. New people for instance and those that haven't raced online much but are dippng their toes into the multiplayer waters. For instance it took myself and Karl ages to get out of the U's because we only raced the league races online so that was maybe one race per fortnight at times.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 16, 2020 13:48:02 GMT
That's a good point. There's just no perfect way to do it and it's rare someone malicious comes in. More often than not, especially with longer races, you can have some good racing. On another note, Peter opened up the Assetto boards a while back in hopes of getting some casual racing going there. A lot of people have it and love it, but between leagues, it's tough to find time. It's mainly just been Greg, Peter and I that have been in that section. Tried to think of something fun that could be done on people's own time and used the Lotus 72D. Didnt realize it wasn't a 4 speed until I tried it in PCars lol consoleracing.boards.net/thread/610/2020-casual-tt-fun
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