PS4 The better I get...the better I get...

Laptimes are only relevant within the poll of drivers participating, so if you did good with 2:23, it's good. You don't have to be the fastest to win a race as you already know, but surely you have to learn and practice to get more pace to be competitive in the leagues with more experienced drivers. Sub 2:20 in GT3 on Spa is a must here. On a long track like Spa, being 2-3 seconds slower looks like a huge gap, but it really isn't that much per turn and those top speed straights. So it might look impossible to go from 2:23 to under 2:20, but it's really just a 1/10sec faster in each turn and making sure top speed through f.i. Eua Rouge and Kemmel are maintained to get that extra second.

 

There was a time not too long ago (maybe prior to Mar/Apr this year) that I was stuck in the high 2:24 to mid 2:25 range, so I suppose things will come around in due time with practice and patience. If that takes a year or two more, then so be it! Not like I can get tired of hearing the 488 GT3 especially sing and dance around Spa anyway...

Just in amazement at how the big boys at the 24 hour race dropped 2:17s and 2:18s in qualifying like they were nothing!

 

Yes, it was indeed a long time ago...you could say I'm on the downhill run! Still love my racing, though!

This picture is what it looked like!!!

Mate...it seems like a lifetime ago!!

This is pretty much what it looked like...

 

...and here is another that we used to play 'back in the day' - 'Night Driver'. How do you get around a lack of graphics? Easy, make it at night, and just show the road-edge guideposts!!

 

Very true but i suffer chronic migrains so anything like that for me is a no no

 

Used to love that game.Brings back a lot of memories.

 

I remember that one, evolving into Supercars on the Amiga

 

Have you watched Aris' tutorials? That helped me get faster by quite a bit.

They had the newer 4 player version at my local arcade.

 

I had that on my Atari game system way back when


T300rs , t3pa with Bodin load cell brake conversion, t8ha, pc, htc vive, gt omega rig, etc.

 

you all made a great portraing of this simulator, you couldn't convey it better. I feel much alike and same as you expressed, and that's also a sign that we're not "fanboys" in the bad term... I have played every possible driving simulation since I was 7 years old, and I managed to play too Sprint and Night Driver (thanks for bringing back those fragmented memory chunks).

I've started with Spectrum ZX, then a lot of Amiga, then a lot of PC with its endless upgrades and fixes / tweaks to get a hold on..., then after a lot of PC playing I was needing a more minimal approach, and thus.... XBOX, X360, and then PS4.... since I got into PS4, the waiting for a decent driving game has been pretty long.... started with need for speed, then driveclub, and Project Cars.... this last one got me hooked for hundreds and hundreds of hours.... despite the flaws and the objective predictability you get on the simplified physics model it has (in my opinion of course)... when I got into AC, exactly what you all experienced.... and it's nice to share this in a quiet way, since rarely I get into forums.... but I definitely like the vibe of posts like this, and of WHC series, pretty rare to find nowadays around the net.... is like AC has satisfied a lot of the features we were aiming for (despite being imperfect), being first of all a passion work for passionate people (besides the real needs to make it fit in to a market with all that it means).

cheers

 

Cheers to you, my friend!

Great comments. I appreciate your comments re the vibe of this thread. There are a lot of decent, very keen racers of all ages and abilities out there, I think we just need to tap into that vein.

As a bloke in my mid fifties, I am not the fastest, but I love my racing, and sharing the experience with other like-minded respectful folk.