Look What The Cat Hacked In - S03E07

no intro, no topics, no nothing eagerly waiting for the stream, as usual

 

Take a break Stefano, will ya?

 

40 minutes to go but still no topics in the description.... Interesting.

 

Stupid question - where were the questions for Stefano posted ahead of today's stream?

 

In the comments of the last weeks ''episode''.

 

If you are not watching he will show us something new today..........

 

Monza '66 Oval right now on the stream!

 

Not exactly, after the second banked turn you go on the old GP layout and after that the lap is done and starts with the 2 banked turns again.

Stefano said something about being part of the console version, so maybe it comes with an update with the console release.

 

stefano majorly broke his steering wheel, hah!

 

I think the clamp went off, not really broken.

 

Confirmed, the new Monza layout is breaking steering wheels.

 

Yeah I wrote it when he was loading the track so wasn't sure about the layout.


I think G27 has the same clamps as DFGT. If yes I wouldn't be surprised if it just broke. Happened to me couple months ago.

 

My G25 holds up fine till now and I bought that at least one year before G27 was introduced.

 

Monza combined course looks really fantastic, as it should be the banking looks to be seriously bumpy I used to enjoy the RFactor version so I can't wait to try the banking AC.

Has the rest of Monza 66 had a bit of graphics polish, it looks very nice. Maybe added placebo...

 

In regards to statistics of cars used in AC which was mentioned briefly on stream... I can at least say that I regularly try to drive cars I'm typically less likely to choose, I just pretty much don't drive online and don't have my own server. And even though I rarely drive and race them compared to GT race cars I do love how cars like the 4C, MiTo, Sport Quattro, 1M, Z4, Miura, many of the Lotus cars and other overlooked cars like this drive. But I guess it's just hard to do online racing with them.

Edit: Thanks for the stream Stefano

 

Yes, that's why I often drive in a "kind of track day" mode. That is full race weekend with 90 min. of free practice with a variety of AI opponents (as many as allowed), from P1/LaFerrari down to Lotus Exige, Cobra, Countach and a dusty track.

This takes about 30 min. until the grip is up and with tyre wear on it's about 40-45min. of driving one car (I don't actually qualify or race these events), managing and adapting to better track grip, tire deg and grip level with new tires (cold and after warmup lap). Plus with the opponents you have (positive) distractions with faster, slower and even-paced cars.
And it's fun with all cars with performance within the range of the opponents.

 

Better AI also opened up opportunities to race offline content we don't often see in the populated online servers. A custom championship mentioned in the stream is nice for single player. Still, making just some quick races with cars I don't normally see online, like the ones you mentioned epistolarius, makes the fun more diverse so you don't always grab the always used cars and tracks. For example if you are bored with some GT cars at Spa you always see online, you may think you're bored of Spa, but putting less used and different types of cars on Spa will change your perspective as you'll have to adapt differently to the track.

 

Certainly. Circuits like Spa are quire a different experience when driving one of the 250F, the old F1's, some street cars or whatever compared to when driving modern GT race cars.

 

With formula 1 fast cars Spa has 2 less corners.