When did drag racing in ac become awesome?

I just tried drag racing two Cobras to discover we now have a tree and the ability to false start!

When the hell did this happen? This is awesome. I never remember this being mentioned in an update log? Am I just stupid or is this new? Check this out:

I suck I know (the false start was on purpose, I swear! The loss after that was an honest missed shift though..) but this is great. The tree isn't perfect and something seems to be off with the timing but other than that I am amazed I never heard of this. It's so much fun.

 

going santa pod and watching drag racing is great,playing it in a game not so but I like the false starts,when we gonna see that on an actual track??

 

The drag mode was always like this, at least since I've been playing from almost a year ago. But the drag mode in AC is not the complete experience. I think they just wanted to simplify it, cutting straight to the point of car vs car 400m and 1000m option.

Read here in the section "Basics of drag racing": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_racing

I'd like like if they could open access to the whole drag track, because behind the main straight there's a skid pad And there's also a very big straight road, but at least skid pad access.

 

This would be so cool in multiplayer!

Anyone here played the dragraces in LiveForSpeed? Couple dozen XR GT's lining up on the Blackwood back straight

If AC implement such an "open" structure to drag racing, in particular in MP, it would be great!!

 

I think drag racing could be doable online just like the tourist layout of nord with parking spot inbetween start and finish. a timing gate could work loosly and maybe an app can provide a countdown., at very least you could have a lobby room where you can drive round back to the start line, line up with competitor and go. just like amateur street drag racing lol.

 

I cannot imagine this would be difficult to implement to be honest. Have a common parking area/garage/setup/etc.., skidpad to warm tyres.
The procedure could work like this;
Say there are multiple people in the server.
Player A moves from parking to the strip and stages (four yellow). He then would have to wait for a second player to stage as well, whereupon the race could start in a random amount of seconds, up to and including 10 seconds for example.

 

Never tried drag racing
Is it possible to do a wheelie?

 

Not with the current cars. Maybe mod one to be like those insane drag racing cars

 

3D spectators also. They could just do with some simple animations.

 

The last time I tried drag racing in AC was over a year ago, and when I did I'm pretty sure there was no tree, just the standard starting lights AC has, and you couldn't false start as far as I can remember. It was so boring I never tried it again until last night.

But yeah it's still missing quite a few things that would make AC a better drag racing sim, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for them.

 

Yeah, I think you always had the ability to jump the start in drag mode. I remember when it first came out and it was like this right off the bat. I just wish we could have the same sort of starts in circuit mode.

 

The light tree is relatively new though, no?

 

Wow thats nice! Haven't noticed!
Whats that red time on the left? Shows 1.xxx, that cant be 1 second reaction time?!?

 

d'oh. Guess I am just stupid after all. I'm with @Mogster on the tree being new though, I really don't think that was there, right? Or more accurately, it was there, as in modeled, but I don't think it lit up.

I think it's supposed to be reaction time but you're right, it seems really off. I'm 21 so all my reflexes are all going downhill already but I don't think I'm that slow yet lol. If John Force can still win in his 60's I'm pretty damn sure I should be able to dump a clutch in under a second. The lowest I was able to reliably get was down into the 0.6XX area with the P1, and even then that was only if I guessed at the green light and preemptively shifted into first.

I think the problem might be that the starting line and the spawn point are static, so that all cars spawn centered in the starting area. That would mean a longer car would have the advantage of spawning with its from bumper (or wheels, whichever the game uses as the front of the car) closer to the starting line. I don't have time to try it now but I'd bet a good way to test it would be to see if the tatuus is slower off the line than a really powerful formula k (the test car from the car modding sdk) since they share the same model.

 

If people want false starts in regular races, what's the penalty for doing it? Drivethrough every time, with DQ if you don't complete the drivethrough on the next 2 laps?

I don't see how it contributes to better racing to let people screw up their race in the first seconds...

 

Everyone gets one false start, and if a certain driver does a 2nd false start he is then given black flag?

Or is it allowed only one false start per race grid and when any one who false starts after that is immediately black flagged, even if he wasn't the first person to cause the false start?