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PJTierney

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  1. From the past 2 weeks of hammering out Rockton Plains (Australia) on my wheel:

     

    • Fiesta is a good all-rounder.
    • Space-Star is more nimble through the tight sections but loses out on top end.
    • Polo is very stable at high speed and easy to predict.

     

    For me though there's only 2 choices:

    • Fiesta R5 because of the Galway Rally livery.
    • Polo GTI because of the Petter Solberg livery.
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  2. Day 13: Time Played - 2 Hours

     

    No Time Trial improvement today, but I did manage to confirm one thing: I'm faster round that Stage than I am on a controller, so this marks one of my 2020 goals as complete.

    I tried beating my Personal Best in the same car (Volkawagen Polo GTI R5) with the same tuning setup, and despite multiple attempts the best I could manage was a 3:18. That's still a very good time considering I was on a controller, but almost 2 seconds slower than my best time on the wheel.

    Comparing it to the wheel runs I noticed that some sections felt much easier to handle on a pad, whereas others felt much stronger on a wheel. With the wheel you pretty much have to drive smoothly to be quick, whereas you can be a little more aggressive on the pad in some areas, at the cost of greater punishment when you go too far.

    I did also have a go on the wheel and while I can make minor gains on individual sectors, stringing them all together for a perfect run takes a long time and can be rather frustrating, especially when you see no progress after an hour.

    I think this is a natural stopping point, at least for that Time Trial run. I've hit my goal with it, showed that I can get good pace and learned a lot along the way. As I continue my move towards Masters Tier in My Team I'll be posting fewer updates here, since "I beat the AI again" isn't really an interesting thing to say every day. I'll probably pop back in with an update every so often though if anything significant happens.


  3. Day 12 - Time Played: 2 Hours

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    • Time Gained: 0.9 seconds
    • Places Gained: 4

     

    Started off in Career in the Escort again, this time at Finland. I was feeling reasonably happy with my run through the first stage until I misjudged a jump and wrapped it round a tree. I retired from the Event on the spot but since I already had a big points lead I won the Championship and got promoted to Pro.

    That gave me some time to take on Rallycross and I've chosen the RWD Speedcar Xtreme for the Clumban Tier. It was quite a handful but once I started to drive more smoothly I did a lot better, and comfortably won the Event.

    In the Time Trial I feel I'm approaching my limits now, as every run is either blindingly fast or ends with me rolling the car over a fence. I tried for almost an hour to beat my PB in the Ford Fiesta but failed to do so. Switching to the Mitsubishi Space Star gave me a few tenths and switching to the Volkswagen Golf gave me some more. I would like to set an Xbox World Record (which is a 3:35.5, or thereabouts), but even at my current pace level I feel I've already hit one of my goals for the year, as I highly doubt I can go this quick on a pad.

    Over the last few days I was hearing some rattle from the pedals, and at the end of the session I figured out why; the mounting screws had begun to come loose from the Playseat. I tightened them up so they should be good to go again for a while.


  4. 30 minutes ago, Deltone91 said:

    @PJTierney Speaking of co-drivers.. I keep reporting wrong notes in Italian in the bug forum, but to date not even one has been corrected, almost a year after the game was released.. 

    Your notes have been helpful and noted by the team 🙂 

    Can't guarantee that they get updated but at least the team's aware, so thanks for the detailed reports.

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