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[YoMrWhite 11]

Hey guys, you can have a wheel and still stuff your car in nearly every snowbank around. Just ask me. I'm definitely an expert in this.

By the way, @dytut's time puts things in perspective. I still have a lot of ground to make up. Sigh...

[Dytut 89]

YoMrWhite said:

Hey guys, you can have a wheel and still stuff your car in nearly every snowbank around. Just ask me. I'm definitely an expert in this.

By the way, @dytut's time puts things in perspective. I still have a lot of ground to make up. Sigh...

I just made sure not to hit the snowbanks ;-)

I know the feeling though, just a few months ago I was fighting like crazy just to be able to maybe match @RyuMakkuro and @Snaky115 if they had a bad day. It's frustrating, but one day it'll just click and your times will improve.

[YoMrWhite 11]

Dytut said:

YoMrWhite said:

Hey guys, you can have a wheel and still stuff your car in nearly every snowbank around. Just ask me. I'm definitely an expert in this.

By the way, @dytut's time puts things in perspective. I still have a lot of ground to make up. Sigh...

I just made sure not to hit the snowbanks ;-)

I know the feeling though, just a few months ago I was fighting like crazy just to be able to maybe match @RyuMakkuro and @Snaky115 if they had a bad day. It's frustrating, but one day it'll just click and your times will improve.

They are improving. But very slowly...

[RyuMakkuro 6]

YoMrWhite said:

Hey guys, you can have a wheel and still stuff your car in nearly every snowbank around. Just ask me. I'm definitely an expert in this.

It's not about one making you a better driver. It's down to the fact keyboard and gamepad are limiting the performance.

It's insanely difficult to make very small corrections in a quick succession... like on those massive straight parts on the Sweden. It actually may be even impossible, given simply how our human body reacts. Keyboard on top of that doesn't have analog throttle or steering. I have very good throttle control, but those small changes are a major pain in the rear. On the tarmac when there's a straight it's... well, straight, so my biggest problem goes away. On the gravel, when there's a straight, majority of the time it's not actually straight. And that is the biggest slowdown me and @Snaky115 have. On Sweden if I go anywhere near full throttle and over 5th gear on that narrow slalomy straight, it's a constant dance with the black ho*cough*... I mean snowbanks. Same goes for the start of Ostra Hinnsjon or end of Bjorklangen.

[Snaky115 18]

https://youtu.be/ertavMa-PT8

Example of aforementioned Ostra Hinnsjon. Why Night? Thats the best pace you'll ever see me do in Sweden. :D
I have to release throttle as a measure of "bump control", something that will be a problem in Finland too, hence why i am still miffed at my Monte retirement.

[Dytut 89]

Yikes, that looks quite fiddly. Can see how you struggle with the throttle, I usually step off just a little bit on the trickier fast sections, but having to release like you do must be tricky in sweden.

[RyuMakkuro 6]

Dytut said:

Yikes, that looks quite fiddly. Can see how you struggle with the throttle, I usually step off just a little bit on the trickier fast sections, but having to release like you do must be tricky in sweden.

Well, keep in mind Ostra is easier, since you start on that bumpy straight. On Bjorklangen you're finishing there, which means you're faster... that's when the "pu$$y footing" comes into a completely new dimension.

[BadD0g 0]

@Snaky115, I really think you'd benefit a lot from a controller! It's no wheel, but having analog throttle/brake makes a HUGE difference (you can actually left foot brake!) and you can customize the way the sticks work a lot. Wired 360 controllers are pretty cheap and work out of the box in most Windows games.

[RyuMakkuro 6]

BadD0g said:

@Snaky115, I really think you'd benefit a lot from a controller! It's no wheel, but having analog throttle/brake makes a HUGE difference (you can actually left foot brake!).

I'm pretty sure he can "left foot" brake as well :p

[Snaky115 18]

I do have an X360 controller i st-... borrowed from a friend for some FIFA attempts, but current practice ive had makes my left hand go completely BLERGH, as it doesn't want to be responsible for steering and braking at the same time. I Really really don't like the shape of controllers.

P.S.
before suggesting - switch something to right hand thumb... I can't - nerve damage to right thumb from sports. :D

[RyuMakkuro 6]

Snaky115 said:

before suggesting - switch something to right hand thumb... I can't - nerve damage to right thumb from sports. :D

I would never suggest that. I would suggest trying a DualShock 3/4 :p 

[Evilsmurf 90]

Update on my pc situation: is now looking like the weekend before I'm up and running.

[RyuMakkuro 6]

Evilsmurf said:

Update on my pc situation: is now looking like the weekend before I'm up and running.

Just in time for the longest event of the season... Finland :D May the squirrels be with you xD

[YoMrWhite 11]

First place right now! Yay!

Aw crap... One of those rallies again, where I'm either too slow or crash. After the first three stages I thought I could push more, had a good first half of SS4 (at least it felt so) and promptly crashed and had to reset. The final four stages were a mixed bag of clean and not so clean runs with another reset along the way. Car felt good, so this was just to blame on the driver.

Maybe the two week hiatus comes just at the right time for me. To everyone else: Sorry for delaying the season so long.

[Snaky115 18]

I think i've found a decent setup for me C4 to build around.
And that involves the Rideheight NOT BEING "Yippe-ki-yay motherf#$%er" A.K.A. +40 NM but just +20 if a nudge less. :D

Also learned that my brakes can fade in this, speared off into the sunset at one hairpin on stage 7 :no_mouth: Remedied that on Stage 8 at least

[Dytut 89]

I've been running the C4 pretty much default setup so far, and I've started to like the high ride height on it. Feels right with the active diff somehow.

[RyuMakkuro 6]

I'm quite consent with finishing 2nd, right behind @Snaky115 . He's very fast there and I fully realise that it's basically his "Monte Carlo" when it comes to this League, just like @Dytut is Sweden. However... sweet Lord Bahamut, did I had a good run in Greece this time. Normally I prefer to drive the gen1 Focus basically everywhere apart from Monte Carlo, even in Greece, but for some reason in Greece alone with the gen2 Focus things just... flow. It's not as nice to handle or enjoyable as the gen1, but it just goes. I may not be very fast, but I'm... consistent. Such an uncanny feeling. I would get addicted to it, if it weren't for the fact I'm incapable of it in any other combination in any game xD

In other news of the day, my second service station looked like this -_-

[Snaky115 18]

RyuMakkuro said:

I'm quite consent with finishing 2nd, right behind @Snaky115 ...

Scumbag. :D                                                                                                                               

[BadD0g 0]

I wasn't in the mood to do Sweden, so I put it off and eventually forgot about it. Oops! I like Greece much, much better anyway.

Unfortunately, I did terribly! Here's the thing: I'm crap in the modern cars. Complete, utter, absolute, crap. I think it's because they are easy to drive fast, so I push, and pushing is NOT my strong suit, so I make tons of mistakes. Plus, you guys being way faster flips a switch in my brain that I need to push all the time. I've found that I have WAY more fun in slow cars, or cars that are hard to drive, because I don't fall into the trap of thinking"this car is easy to drive fast, so I can push without consequence." I think that's why I did better with the Delta S4, a car that I can't handle at the limit, specifically because I don't drive it at the limit.

On another note, my Lead Duct Tape Specialist had his work cut out for him today. He did his best, but he can only do so much with one roll of tape and a hammer. I really like the idea of all of you guys at the service area with our own tents and full crews, and me off to the side parked under an umbrella with one guy frantically trying to fix the entire car all by himself.  :D Since I'm down one event's worth of points, I think I'll keep going with this low-budget, one-engineer team just for fun. This is the first time in a while that damage has actually been really consequential.

[Dytut 89]

Hope I can get Greece done tonight. Was way too tired to do a serious stab at the league last night. 

It's a real challenge to beat @Snaky115 in Greece, and now @RyuMakkuro is even faster... this is going to be a challenge to say the least. 

[Evilsmurf 90]

PC is alive! with windows 10 also. Should get back to racing this weekend :) 

[RyuMakkuro 6]

Evilsmurf said:

PC is alive! with windows 10 also. Should get back to racing this weekend :) 

Yay, let's celebrate it with a drift battle :D

[Dytut 89]

Well... I went ahead and ruined it for myself. SS1 went great, SS2 went OK except for a small touch on the back once that was enough to make me spin and lose some time.
Got the feel for the car back on SS3, where it felt so good that I tried to tuck the front in just a wee bit too enthusiastically and got a small nudge from the inside rock face. Lost the line but it was quite OK, just half a second lost. Kept the power on for the car to claw itself into the straight afterwards. But it didn't. It oh so slowly continued to slide outwards somehow, and caught the outside of the track just the slightest, which tucked the rear just slightly out into a tree, which spun me around and out into one of the unrecoverable zones....

[RyuMakkuro 6]

Dytut said:

Lost the line but it was quite OK, just half a second lost. Kept the power on for the car to claw itself into the straight afterwards. But it didn't. It oh so slowly continued to slide outwards somehow, and caught the outside of the track just the slightest, which tucked the rear just slightly out into a tree, which spun me around and out into one of the unrecoverable zones....

[Evilsmurf 90]

Fighting understeer and oversteer all night. Nothing I did made any difference, Don't think the 2010 cars like my driving style. It's certainly not a class I feel comfortable in, or use much outside of the challenges.

Recorded the last stage live. My best run all night - and it was still a pig of a drive... 

https://youtu.be/hEvBsJ9IixU