27-01-2014, 04:07 PM
I had high hopes of putting in some half decent results at Spa, after my bad result at Nordschleiffe I was looking to lift myself up to perhaps to around the Mel Fisk level even on the timesheet and elevate my standing slightly from the Nordschlieffe experience. I had gotten up to 325's in practice which for me was pretty respectable, I was crashing too much but find once events start I gain better concentration and can keep it on track far better, I would hardly say I was brimming with confidence it was gonna be tough or us all but I felt I could make it to end and hopefully get a decent position if I had no big accidents.
When I started sim racing with rf2 some time ago, public server races would often go to hell and it is easy to allow negative thoughts into your head when everything that can go wrong does go wrong, I grew out of that a long time ago and now when everything is turning to hell I look at it positively as all part of the fun and challenge of the game and I am much the better driver for it, but yesterday I was not able to summons such positivity.
A few hours before the Spa race I had another Lola race I had practiced for quite a lot totally ruined after 2 mins due to bugs in the game, and for the first time in a long time had a pretty negative feeling towards driving RF2, not because of my own mistakes or bad luck or other drivers, but because of ISI, I was pissed off with RF2 and pissed off with ISI for putting this build out which so clearly doesn't work. An awful lot of time wasted preparing for races that go to hell because the game does not work anywhere near properly, it's demoralising sometimes and little fun to be gained.
I think in SR4L you may have gotten off lightly with the collision detection bug in the current build, because with your mod the cars inevitably have more space between them on track than with most other mods, the problem only manifests itself when cars are running very close. Kind of makes it tricky to race when cars are wrecking into fresh air.
So I arrived in the Spa race in bad mind set which is very unusual, I missed practice because I did not want to play the game, I had 14 mins of Q to post a time and failed to do even that, ended up running on full fuel load for first time in race because I had missed practice, the extra weight caught me out a bit and I wrecked out of both races within a few laps. If I could have gotten back to pits I would have but it was impossible, too much damage. A bad day for me on RF or sure. I think simracing is 30% skill and 70% mental approach and yesterday I was not in the mood for it which is not typical for me.
The event was superbly arranged, the patch made by DJ was a step ahead, my frustration with the games faults was yesterday and is a thing of the past already for me, gonna stick with the mod which I do find very difficult (and enjoyable) and I would like to do the Monza 66 and Longford races with you guys and hopefully get a half decent result before the season is done.
Many thanks to organisers.
When I started sim racing with rf2 some time ago, public server races would often go to hell and it is easy to allow negative thoughts into your head when everything that can go wrong does go wrong, I grew out of that a long time ago and now when everything is turning to hell I look at it positively as all part of the fun and challenge of the game and I am much the better driver for it, but yesterday I was not able to summons such positivity.
A few hours before the Spa race I had another Lola race I had practiced for quite a lot totally ruined after 2 mins due to bugs in the game, and for the first time in a long time had a pretty negative feeling towards driving RF2, not because of my own mistakes or bad luck or other drivers, but because of ISI, I was pissed off with RF2 and pissed off with ISI for putting this build out which so clearly doesn't work. An awful lot of time wasted preparing for races that go to hell because the game does not work anywhere near properly, it's demoralising sometimes and little fun to be gained.
I think in SR4L you may have gotten off lightly with the collision detection bug in the current build, because with your mod the cars inevitably have more space between them on track than with most other mods, the problem only manifests itself when cars are running very close. Kind of makes it tricky to race when cars are wrecking into fresh air.
So I arrived in the Spa race in bad mind set which is very unusual, I missed practice because I did not want to play the game, I had 14 mins of Q to post a time and failed to do even that, ended up running on full fuel load for first time in race because I had missed practice, the extra weight caught me out a bit and I wrecked out of both races within a few laps. If I could have gotten back to pits I would have but it was impossible, too much damage. A bad day for me on RF or sure. I think simracing is 30% skill and 70% mental approach and yesterday I was not in the mood for it which is not typical for me.
The event was superbly arranged, the patch made by DJ was a step ahead, my frustration with the games faults was yesterday and is a thing of the past already for me, gonna stick with the mod which I do find very difficult (and enjoyable) and I would like to do the Monza 66 and Longford races with you guys and hopefully get a half decent result before the season is done.
Many thanks to organisers.