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Re: AC News
« Reply #735 on: July 13, 2015, 02:37:31 PM »
slightly OT... I had a couple of races at Monza and Oulton Park in the little Escort in... dare I say it... PCars... it was good!


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Re: AC News
« Reply #736 on: July 13, 2015, 04:56:30 PM »
slightly OT... I had a couple of races at Monza and Oulton Park in the little Escort in... dare I say it... PCars... it was good!


sorry running away now.....

PC has some interesting content and at times its pretty close but some of it just has me scratching my head thinking wtf. I will need to try the latest update and I have yet to even try it in mp yet. Tracks like Oulton and the other scanned tracks are very good even their bathurst is quite nice. Monza seems rather wrong to me after running the AC version and this is the case with all tracks in both games. Car wise I havent tried them all far from it but only a few seem nice and again comparing to AC the car in both just feel so wrong in PC especially the p1 for example.

I did just get Dirt Rally, downloading it atm as it looks like a fun rally game and it sounds like it has hope unlike the latest f1 game by codies which sounds like another slow motion train wreck experience going by reviews.

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Re: AC News
« Reply #737 on: July 14, 2015, 07:51:33 AM »
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”

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Re: AC News
« Reply #738 on: July 14, 2015, 08:39:15 AM »
Hm...Dirt Rally.   It's good fun.   And after a while I don't mind the tyre physics either.
It's somewhat "off" to say the least, eg I can turn my car on throttle+brake very well.  Which is ok for a FWD, but on an RWD it's just plain wrong.

However, the collision physics are great, the car does not get thrown away for marginal collisions, you just get a bit of sound, a bump - and a bit of damage.

But it's a Dirt series code(not)masters game, not RBR.  Good fun though.  Pikes peaks hillclimb, anyone? ;)
I hope they'll put Trento Bondone in as well.
« Last Edit: July 14, 2015, 08:40:49 AM by Bird »

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Re: AC News
« Reply #741 on: July 15, 2015, 10:04:29 AM »
Hell yes.   Now onto mid-ohio :)
And maybe a properly scanned Donington would be nice, too - the washboarding on the exit of the hairpin is completely missing.

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Re: AC News
« Reply #742 on: July 15, 2015, 11:39:32 AM »
AC does have a laser scanned rip of oulton park, I thought it was maybe ripped from project cars but guys say its an Iracing rip. I wouldnt mind if there was a bathurst that made its way like this to AC too.  ;D

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« Reply #743 on: July 15, 2015, 11:46:19 AM »
AC does have a laser scanned rip of oulton park, I thought it was maybe ripped from project cars but guys say its an Iracing rip. I wouldnt mind if there was a bathurst that made its way like this to AC too.  ;D

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Re: AC News
« Reply #744 on: July 17, 2015, 10:58:32 PM »
Wally, given your mega-coding super powers, would it be at all possible to create a website or phone app which would allow you to look at the server list for AC?  Perhaps even set alerts or something when there were a certain number of people on a server, etc.?

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Re: AC News
« Reply #745 on: July 17, 2015, 11:40:10 PM »
Wally, given your mega-coding super powers, would it be at all possible to create a website or phone app which would allow you to look at the server list for AC?  Perhaps even set alerts or something when there were a certain number of people on a server, etc.?
It must be possible. The game already can read that information in order to populate the lobby. You must be able to connect to the central server and query its server list.
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Re: AC News
« Reply #746 on: July 17, 2015, 11:53:11 PM »
Wally, given your mega-coding super powers, would it be at all possible to create a website or phone app which would allow you to look at the server list for AC?  Perhaps even set alerts or something when there were a certain number of people on a server, etc.?
It must be possible. The game already can read that information in order to populate the lobby. You must be able to connect to the central server and query its server list.

Excellent, well I'll let you get to it.  I'll help you test it tomorrow and then by Sunday it should be right to go.

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Re: AC News
« Reply #747 on: July 18, 2015, 07:37:46 AM »
That would be pretty awesome actually.
A lobby app would be kickarse!

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Re: AC News
« Reply #748 on: July 18, 2015, 08:50:19 AM »
Would be interesting, when I had stracker on all my servers I could check how many were on and also who simply by going to the players tab.

As I have turned stracker off for 3 of the 5 servers it doesnt work as well but still can directly track particular servers with the direct http link.

Thats why I jumped on my Nords server as it already had a few in then got to 24 players at times which is impressive for a nords race server. Was a bit of fun too though starting further back was a bit of a lottery if you could avoid the odd accident.

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Re: AC News
« Reply #749 on: July 18, 2015, 09:14:01 AM »
Yeah it would be great if there was a phone app or website that you can have send you an alert based on server filters, such as when a certain server gets to more than 6 drivers, or when certain drivers are playing, or any server in Aus + USA that gets to more than x drivers, etc.

I'd pay 99 cents for that!

So many times I've got nothing on, start up the PC and login to AC,  see that there are only a handful of drivers playing in the pub servers so switch it all off.

 

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