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Yup, check the thread here:-
http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...and-prix-date-7-26-14-time-10-30pm-gmt.90126/
This is the first race of the league season for us...
And here is the schedule for the season :-
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/atcc-race-schedule.89200/
It'll be great to have you on board
http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...and-prix-date-7-26-14-time-10-30pm-gmt.90126/
This is the first race of the league season for us...
And here is the schedule for the season :-
http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/atcc-race-schedule.89200/
It'll be great to have you on board
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thnx peter, i will miss the first race because i dont have the game yet.
No problem Wes, with your speed I'm sure you'll quickly catch up lol. Just sign up for the races once you have the game
well not sure about that. you have mswheel dont you ?.. is this game good with this wheel. no issues.
I do have that wheel Wes, and the game is fine with it although you do need to play around with the settings somewhat to get the best feel. I am still experimenting with things myself tbh. I have it pretty much where I want on the whole but there are some things that maybe need refinement still and it's probably the case that to get the very best out of it you need slightly different settings for the open wheelers as opposed to the sedans.
I'll check mine again tonght and re-post in the thread I created here where I have asked anyone with a wheel that doesn't have independant settings like the CSR to post what they use.
http://www.racedepartment.com/threa...-independantly-tuneable-wheel-settings.89799/
@Robert Waddell
Morning buddy,
Here is that post I was telling you about from the CM forum regarding rewards.. not sure if this helps you at all but thought I would post it in case you had missed it amongst everything else over at the CM forum:-
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SRS13Rastus1701Member
Wheel Nut
July 22
I said earlier in this thread ALL your saves SHOULD work with racenet. No idea if you can have more than one save per user ID though but you can on PC and ALL my saves link to my Racenet account.
I had a corrupted save with all the 1st weeks challenges done at a high level (Top 1-3%). I thought I'd lose the rewards or only get them after the fix.
I started a new driver profile and to my surprise I received the rewards on the new save, in other words the rewards CAN be added to the new save profile. This meant that in the new 2 day old save I suddenly had enough cash to buy the cars for the next set of challenges (almost).
This has happened twice so I now have 3 saves at various stages, the REAL bonus is in jumping from one save to the next as with only 30-35 garage slots available I can have up to 90-105 cars and test them against each other to decide which suit my driving style best.
It seems I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe....
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Morning buddy,
Here is that post I was telling you about from the CM forum regarding rewards.. not sure if this helps you at all but thought I would post it in case you had missed it amongst everything else over at the CM forum:-
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SRS13Rastus1701Member
July 22
I said earlier in this thread ALL your saves SHOULD work with racenet. No idea if you can have more than one save per user ID though but you can on PC and ALL my saves link to my Racenet account.
I had a corrupted save with all the 1st weeks challenges done at a high level (Top 1-3%). I thought I'd lose the rewards or only get them after the fix.
I started a new driver profile and to my surprise I received the rewards on the new save, in other words the rewards CAN be added to the new save profile. This meant that in the new 2 day old save I suddenly had enough cash to buy the cars for the next set of challenges (almost).
This has happened twice so I now have 3 saves at various stages, the REAL bonus is in jumping from one save to the next as with only 30-35 garage slots available I can have up to 90-105 cars and test them against each other to decide which suit my driving style best.
It seems I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe....
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Just another note on all this mess.. with your alternate iD can you not still link your Racenet account to that and continue to build up your money and then when the patch is out unlink the alternate iD and re-link your real iD? It’s probably too simple but just something I was thinking about. I am hoping that this patch is out by middle to end of next week but we could be waiting until mid-August if it has only just gone to Microsoft for approval. Can’t believe that they have done this yet again!! Talk about shoot yourself in the foot. And of course all this is without the fat that we are still waiting for them to bolt on the Time Trial part of the game that was promised to us for shortly after release.. sheesh!!
I had already decided to avoid the boost pack for the time being and also the Best of British pack too. It does seem as though this save problem has surfaced mainly since the boost pack so there’s a fair chance that it’s at least part of the reason for the issues.
The Single Player Custom Cup is certainly a very nice mode of the game and like you say it’s such a shame that they didn’t just replicate it for the Multiplyer side of the game. The practice sessions are very handy to give that bit of track time free of other cars for a while and just help to learn the tracks in a more leisurely manner.
As for Washington in the Mini.. well it seems I have a hell of a lot of work to do to get anywhere near competitive based on those times. I am nowhere near getting below 2:10 at the moment. I think some of this is due to still driving in an F1 manner lol, these cars need much more throwing around than the smoothness and finesse of what I usually try to achieve in F1 and it’s tough to shake that off. I am being too cautious through some of the turns and taking them a gear or two lower and slower than is really necessary. I love that fast left, left, left section near the end where initially I thought a bit of braking and dropping down a couple of gears was required but turns out it’s all flat out and in sixth. Hopefully another session tonight will get me finally breaking the 2:10 mark.. if I can do that I’ll be happy enough at the moment,
I do wish there was a bit more information available for those sessions though. Sector times and lap times for the session would be nice to see just so you can visually check your progress during a session. It’s good to hear the info from the engineer but it’s a bit too vague for my liking, I want to hear ‘you lost 3/tenths on that sector’, ‘good job that sector was 6/tenths faster than your best’, etc, etc.
Anyway, here’s hoping we get some patch news sooner than we are expecting and that your woes are cured with it
I had already decided to avoid the boost pack for the time being and also the Best of British pack too. It does seem as though this save problem has surfaced mainly since the boost pack so there’s a fair chance that it’s at least part of the reason for the issues.
The Single Player Custom Cup is certainly a very nice mode of the game and like you say it’s such a shame that they didn’t just replicate it for the Multiplyer side of the game. The practice sessions are very handy to give that bit of track time free of other cars for a while and just help to learn the tracks in a more leisurely manner.
As for Washington in the Mini.. well it seems I have a hell of a lot of work to do to get anywhere near competitive based on those times. I am nowhere near getting below 2:10 at the moment. I think some of this is due to still driving in an F1 manner lol, these cars need much more throwing around than the smoothness and finesse of what I usually try to achieve in F1 and it’s tough to shake that off. I am being too cautious through some of the turns and taking them a gear or two lower and slower than is really necessary. I love that fast left, left, left section near the end where initially I thought a bit of braking and dropping down a couple of gears was required but turns out it’s all flat out and in sixth
. Hopefully another session tonight will get me finally breaking the 2:10 mark.. if I can do that I’ll be happy enough at the moment,I do wish there was a bit more information available for those sessions though. Sector times and lap times for the session would be nice to see just so you can visually check your progress during a session. It’s good to hear the info from the engineer but it’s a bit too vague for my liking, I want to hear ‘you lost 3/tenths on that sector’, ‘good job that sector was 6/tenths faster than your best’, etc, etc.
Anyway, here’s hoping we get some patch news sooner than we are expecting and that your woes are cured with it
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Oh well any hopes of the patch arriving soon have been just slightly bashed in an answer from one of the Codies guys...
Currently we've got another PC patch getting ready to be deployed and the console patches are starting their submission process, I don't have any exact dates as largely once a patch enters submission it's up to Sony and Microsoft, it could be a few days, it could be a week or so, but as soon as we hear anything we'll let you know.
The damn thing hasn't even been submitted yet, last week it was with Microsoft according to what I read so wtf is going on.
Currently we've got another PC patch getting ready to be deployed and the console patches are starting their submission process, I don't have any exact dates as largely once a patch enters submission it's up to Sony and Microsoft, it could be a few days, it could be a week or so, but as soon as we hear anything we'll let you know.
The damn thing hasn't even been submitted yet, last week it was with Microsoft according to what I read so wtf is going on
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The goods news however is that I had a reply to a tweet where I asked about the inclusion of the Time Trial mode in this patch and have been told that it 'should' be in so thats some good news at least.
so thats some good news at least.Peter:
Thanks for all that very helpful information. I had seen that post from the guy who did multiple saves and the first thing I noticed was that he said he was in the top 1-3 %, I think the best I have ever done is top 40-50%. But yea, I'm kind of leery of switching back and forth between I.D.s too much or changing my RaceNet I.D. then changing back, because I haven't gotten a clear answer on whether a separate User I.D. is different from a separate Microsoft live account. I've heard people mention that they had to pay extra to get more user I.D.'s but I've created about 5 of them with no issue regarding money or account information/passwords/etc/ This leads me to believe that they are really sub accounts under the master account (whatever that is named) with Microsoft. In fact, some games recognize two users on at the same time, in exercise videos, for instance, or multiplayer games. Also I'm not sure how the guy who wrote the post has gotten access to all of his "saves" at once. Seems like he can jump from save to save and play in a multitude of garages, which, of course, I could not do. But I guess I could try to get on and gain the money from last week's challenges, then try to level up the MINI again.
Isn't the change in driving style fantastic! I can see Boothy's times on the challenge leaderboards (X button) and Jordan has friended me, so I've seen his times too, which are faster even than boothy's. And Wes, with you in the mix, God knows there should be a tremendous battle up front. I'm like you peter, I tend to baby these cars around when I really should be flooring it. Washington is a good example since the streets are so wide, you think "oh, this is easy and such a nice drive" when in reality, you should be having the same feeling you do at Monaco. Your description of the three apex left is perfect, and a great example of this. I too geared down for it until I realized, "wait a minute, this should be scarier" and so tried it flat out. And it was scary. lol. But I was properly fast through there then, and had to hit the apexes just right at much higher speeds than at Monaco. Or at least it felt faster. I think a wide road course is actually harder than a tight one, because you deceive yourself into thinking that you are going fast when you are really not. At least I do. So I've had to push myself...and it's a whole new experience. The street courses in Race Pro were sort of like this, but many of them were tight as hell, so you never really had this wide open feeling. Or if you did, it didn't last long.
Regarding the patch, Loore, the guy most people communicate with on the CM forum, said he was "hoping" the patch would be out in 2-3 weeks. This was two days ago. How that relates to the above, I have no idea. But I do know that you are right about Codemasters...their testing process is a big fail. Especially online. Notice how all the pre-release videos never had any info about multiplayer. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is the wrong approach. A fully playable demo would be better. Didn't they used to do that? So all the bugs could be worked out?
Thanks for all that very helpful information. I had seen that post from the guy who did multiple saves and the first thing I noticed was that he said he was in the top 1-3 %
, I think the best I have ever done is top 40-50%. But yea, I'm kind of leery of switching back and forth between I.D.s too much or changing my RaceNet I.D. then changing back, because I haven't gotten a clear answer on whether a separate User I.D. is different from a separate Microsoft live account. I've heard people mention that they had to pay extra to get more user I.D.'s but I've created about 5 of them with no issue regarding money or account information/passwords/etc/ This leads me to believe that they are really sub accounts under the master account (whatever that is named) with Microsoft. In fact, some games recognize two users on at the same time, in exercise videos, for instance, or multiplayer games. Also I'm not sure how the guy who wrote the post has gotten access to all of his "saves" at once. Seems like he can jump from save to save and play in a multitude of garages, which, of course, I could not do. But I guess I could try to get on and gain the money from last week's challenges, then try to level up the MINI again.Isn't the change in driving style fantastic! I can see Boothy's times on the challenge leaderboards (X button) and Jordan has friended me, so I've seen his times too, which are faster even than boothy's. And Wes, with you in the mix, God knows there should be a tremendous battle up front. I'm like you peter, I tend to baby these cars around when I really should be flooring it. Washington is a good example since the streets are so wide, you think "oh, this is easy and such a nice drive" when in reality, you should be having the same feeling you do at Monaco. Your description of the three apex left is perfect, and a great example of this. I too geared down for it until I realized, "wait a minute, this should be scarier" and so tried it flat out. And it was scary. lol. But I was properly fast through there then, and had to hit the apexes just right at much higher speeds than at Monaco. Or at least it felt faster. I think a wide road course is actually harder than a tight one, because you deceive yourself into thinking that you are going fast when you are really not. At least I do. So I've had to push myself...and it's a whole new experience. The street courses in Race Pro were sort of like this, but many of them were tight as hell, so you never really had this wide open feeling. Or if you did, it didn't last long.
Regarding the patch, Loore, the guy most people communicate with on the CM forum, said he was "hoping" the patch would be out in 2-3 weeks. This was two days ago. How that relates to the above, I have no idea. But I do know that you are right about Codemasters...their testing process is a big fail. Especially online. Notice how all the pre-release videos never had any info about multiplayer. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is the wrong approach. A fully playable demo would be better. Didn't they used to do that? So all the bugs could be worked out?
@JordanHampson-P70EMOkay yeah that's fine
Just want to make sure you are licensed at Race Department, since you have to be to take part in the races. I mention it because I didn't see it under your name. It's not a hard process. Just go here: http://www.racedepartment.com/forums/become-a-licensed-member-here.4/
Follow the necessary steps. And you will be licensed. If you have already done this, just ignore this. However "licensed" should appear under your profile name.
Hey Robert, that bit of info re the patch being almost ready for submission was also from Loore. I guess at the end of the day the best thing is to just sit tight and wait until the patch is out but it is frustrating for me who has not had any issues so far so it must be really maddening .
Thanks for the clarification re Jordan.. i'll have to add him then.. too many fast guys getting on board here lol
I'll report back any further progress I have at Washington tonight. Looking forward to it. I ended up losing 5th gear in my practice last nigth.. at first I thought something had gone wrong with my upshift paddle until I got an engineer mesage telling me the gearbox was damaged lol
.Thanks for the clarification re Jordan.. i'll have to add him then.. too many fast guys getting on board here lol
I'll report back any further progress I have at Washington tonight. Looking forward to it. I ended up losing 5th gear in my practice last nigth.. at first I thought something had gone wrong with my upshift paddle until I got an engineer mesage telling me the gearbox was damaged lol
Wow, that's interesting. That's pretty deep stuff re: the gearbox. And creative. I wonder why they think your shifting was damaging to the gearbox? Now I'm afraid. lol.
Just as an update: I got a private message from Loore regarding this league and the fact that the patch is delaying us. It's really the same thing, but still gives hope:
"Understood about the patch, it is on the way. I'll get some questions over to you soon and we can hopefully get it all sorted and sat ready to go." --Loore
Just as an update: I got a private message from Loore regarding this league and the fact that the patch is delaying us. It's really the same thing, but still gives hope:
"Understood about the patch, it is on the way. I'll get some questions over to you soon and we can hopefully get it all sorted and sat ready to go." --Loore
@JordanHampson-P70EM Don;t forget to get your name down for this race Jordan.
I can only assume that I was perhaps mis-shifting too often. Didn't really think I was to be honest but I have had some issues in the F1 games of the last two years where partway through a race I would have smoke coming out of my car which tended to indicate I was leaving it too long in hgh revs and damaging the engine. So maybe thats what I was doing last night. However, I did see some mention of constant gearbox problems on the forums when the game first came out so it could be related to that as well. I'll be bit mopre careful next time I have a run and see if it re-occurs.
Good to see Loore responding to your query. I reckon we'll still be looking at the first two rounds taking place with an unpatched game.
Good to see Loore responding to your query. I reckon we'll still be looking at the first two rounds taking place with an unpatched game.
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Yea, the use of loaner cars will not be so bad in the MINI and BTCC categories. Although they will drive slightly differently, it's not all that "slidey" compared to GRID2. However, I'm sure the cars would not be as loose IRL as the loaners, but close enough. It will be fun regardless. The MINI's are a blast anyway.
i cant race on saturdays. all other days are good for me, i work in shifts so i will always miss 1 race in 5 weeks. 10pm is good for me
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