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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2015, 10:04:50 AM »
Good luck Joe. I recently went from my G25 to a G27, the first thing I did was scurry back and get my GTeye spring out of my G25 :D

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2015, 11:13:18 AM »
Yeah I am a left foot braker...
And if I do have ABS available I'm flooring the brake pedal...
Any good news?
 :'(

Maybe good news for me being able to get my lafa ahead of you of I can manage to not F up a race.  ;D

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2015, 02:24:04 PM »
Gunna get ma post numbers up!!  ;D

Now about this dodgy P1... After the race on Tuesday, Jeremy was talking about the 'charge' display in car. So I dids a little bit of testing and it looks like he's right. I too seem to have this problem.
If you go in car view, on the right hand side of the dash is the 'Charge' display which starts out on 4 green bars and everything is working well. I then go out in hot lap mode, switch off all possible battery drains, ABS off, TC off, and don't even use DRS. After about 5 laps my 4 green bars have disappeared and when they go, you lose power. A lot of power... at least 20k's of power in the straights. Using the ghost car in hot laps clearly shows the difference.
I also tried this on the server and it seems to be the same.
Any one else notice this?  :'(

Strange, I didn't notice that all in any of my P1 races. I'm a left foot braker too, and I had ABS and TC on, and used DRS wherever possible.
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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2015, 11:04:27 PM »
Gunna get ma post numbers up!!  ;D

Now about this dodgy P1... After the race on Tuesday, Jeremy was talking about the 'charge' display in car. So I dids a little bit of testing and it looks like he's right. I too seem to have this problem.
If you go in car view, on the right hand side of the dash is the 'Charge' display which starts out on 4 green bars and everything is working well. I then go out in hot lap mode, switch off all possible battery drains, ABS off, TC off, and don't even use DRS. After about 5 laps my 4 green bars have disappeared and when they go, you lose power. A lot of power... at least 20k's of power in the straights. Using the ghost car in hot laps clearly shows the difference.
I also tried this on the server and it seems to be the same.
Any one else notice this?  :'(

Gave the P1 a go tonight and yeah it sucks! (Also sounds shit compared to the Ferrari) With ABS and TC on, I can do two laps at Monza before the 'Charge' is completely gone, meaning I get one chance at a hotlap and then have to go back to the pits.

I tried with TC off and it seemed pretty much the same. With TC and ABS off I managed a couple more laps before it's fully drained, but like you say it's huge difference in power. Big enough that you need different brake markers.

Seems it charges from braking? I tried just cruising around with my left foot half on the brake for a while and it started to charge back up. I think the problem is Monza with the long straights it's just not enough braking to keep it charged.

On the plus side the GTEye brake spring is niiiiiiiiice...

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2015, 11:44:48 PM »
The long straights and short braking zones will adversely affect the charging at Monza.
It's not charged by braking but by off throttle, so make sure you don't keep some throttle on during braking.

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2015, 08:07:09 AM »
Sounds like an interesting challenge in the P1. Hopefully racing there is doable.

I didn't think it sucked though. It feels quite different to the Ferrari, but it also feels more planted and corners better.


Hmmmm.... yes. I just tried it myself, and I got to lap 6 (left foot braking but with as much off-throttle as possible), but by then the IPAS charge wouldn't last, and drained rapidly, killing the top speed.

So I think for this round only, EVERYONE WILL DRIVE THE FERRARI.
(except Bird, who still has to drive the P1).
« Last Edit: June 20, 2015, 08:23:01 AM by Wally »
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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2015, 08:34:11 AM »
So much for my strategy choice of picking the p1 early, give up an advantage at some tracks to the lafa to get the better car for Monza and Mugello.  ;D

Wally I tried to run a lap at the MAM track in the p1 and the game was crashing, have you actually tried these cars there. I got the dl from the link you posted, if the track doesnt work luccaring is awesome in these cars.  ;)

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2015, 08:38:42 AM »
Just reading about iPAS... it's a complicated thing! The real car has an iPAS button, as well as a boost mode that can be activated, and all systems interact together. Although Aris has said in the game, they model race mode of the car only, in which iPAS is automatic and always "on" (he also says "so so battery life": https://twitter.com/Aristotelis/status/557606615839686656)

Its sounds like iPAS is only a button you'd press in real life for a short boost, not leave permanently on.
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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2015, 08:40:04 AM »
So much for my strategy choice of picking the p1 early, give up an advantage at some tracks to the lafa to get the better car for Monza and Mugello.  ;D

Wally I tried to run a lap at the MAM track in the p1 and the game was crashing, have you actually tried these cars there. I got the dl from the link you posted, if the track doesnt work luccaring is awesome in these cars.  ;)

Yeah, I made the same strategic choice! But it would be a one-horse race - a prancing one.

Of course I tried the cars at MAM. I'll try again. Maybe there's been an update since I first tried it.
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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2015, 08:53:21 AM »
Also which layout of mam would it be, I may need to try again but I downloaded it and the folder seemed to show 3 variants but ingame I think only 2 were shown, I tried the first layout option.  I will give it another go tonight but each time I tried it had the same crash error in the p1. I didnt try any other cars and that was just in hotlap mode.

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2015, 08:56:07 AM »
I just tried both cars, and no problems here. It's the long, GP version (just called "Mid America Motorplex" in the game). I have version 1.0 of the track. Maybe you need to re-download it.
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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2015, 10:24:39 AM »
I didn't think it sucked though. It feels quite different to the Ferrari, but it also feels more planted and corners better.

Yeah it doesn't suck, was just frustrated trying to do some laps and loosing power so quickly  :o

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2015, 11:26:10 AM »
I would say the P1 issues aren't so much related to left foot braking but the nature of the circuit (Monza).  Well I didn't see any difference between left and right foot anyway, but then I don't hold both accelerator and brake on at the same time.

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2015, 02:13:59 PM »
So I think for this round only, EVERYONE WILL DRIVE THE FERRARI.
(except Bird, who still has to drive the P1).
Cheers Wally!!  :D
Might even get Gratulin and Bird back in...

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Re: S7R5: Monza Pre-Race Chat
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2015, 02:16:52 PM »
So I think for this round only, EVERYONE WILL DRIVE THE FERRARI.
(except Bird, who still has to drive the P1).
Cheers Wally!!  :D
Might even get Gratulin and Bird back in...
Ha! Read my mind. Which do I hate more - P1 or Monza?

 

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