Czech RepublicThat's pretty cool.
There's also ECU glitch that lets you have insane amount of horsepower, but it takes hours to get it.
I can't play racing games with a gamepad. I've tried it many times and I was nowhere near as fast as with a keyboard. Steering wheel would be best, but it's really slow for drifts and the built-in deadzone is very annoying. I'll give it another try though.
EDIT: What mountain glitch?
The question is can you do all these mountain drifts reliably? I couldn't, so Golf was the safety strat. Maybe it's easier with tuning or a gamepad :) There's also one thing you maybe don't realize yet - U2 speedrun is quite tiresome. There are absolutely NO pauses, so keeping 100% focus throughout the entire run is really hard.
Also, drifts can be sometimes very rng heavy. Sometimes the AI can have huge differencies in score each event, which may screw up the run.
I used Golf only because Hard difficulty and no dyno tuning. It's a piece of cake on Easy with Corolla.
You can easily save 5 minutes compared to my run just by playing on Easy :) There's also a hidden drift in the mountains I didn't do, cause I couldn't do it reliably even with Golf.
Launches can be solved via hydraulics. I already mentioned that.
The main benefit from tuning should be in stage 4 and stage 5 since these two takes most of the run, so we might do the tuning twice. Needs to be tested, especially suspension.
Hah, I didn't even know you can apply vinyls on each other. Good find. Well, a guy can't find all the tricks by himself, can he? :)
Did some tuning testing on just one track and I'm afraid it's gonna take a shitload of time to test properly. There's also that thing when it's the right time to tune, since it takes some time and you're also limited by parts (ie. you can't get fully stiff/soft shocks with just stage 1 suspension).
Fuck my life, it really does work. So I guess we should talk about proper tuning.
As far as I know, dyno tuning doesn't work in Career. Or maybe I tested it wrong, but I really don't recall having it any effect. If it does, it should be worth to tune the car for URLs, sprints and street x.
You can do quick starts using hydraulics. Microwav does that in his drag ILs.
Windows tints give you around 0.2 rating and you'll still have to use couple stickers to get 6 stars. It's really very tight in this stage.
I'm pretty sure that Corolla is the fastest car in later stages. Did a lot of testing and nothing comes even close. Also people use it online, although they don't use stage 2 and 3 upgrades for transmission. I know this trick increases top speed, but from what I've tested, it was always about a second slower in every event, so I'm not sure what it's about.
You need to do all 30 events in order to unlock window tints that will allow you to have 6 star visual rating. I think it's impossible to have that rating sooner, or I haven't found a way.
What car(s) are you gonna use and what difficulty? We have recently found that P206 is significantly faster in stage 0+1, so it might be worth to compare it with Corolla in other stages. Easy difficulty saves roughly 10 minutes over Hard, at least with my strats.
You should be able to set the degrees in logitech profiler.
Never had any issues with inputs, even on steering wheel or gamepad.
Btw, did you guys notice U2 has some kind of built-in deadzone? It's really annoying and makes using gamepad or steering wheel almost impossible. At least when compared to MW, which doesn't seem to have this issue.
I wasn't offended by your point since it was a valid one.
"About super-mods. If Ewil feels like making me one, I'm more that fine with it: I would greatly accept it and try to make NFS community even bigger."
I thought about it yesterday, but are you sure you're up to it since you don't have much free time?
I'll delete all the off-topic posts in a couple days.
