Hello y'all! I randomly stumbled upon a trick while messing around with the drag race time trial as to where if you disable the transbrake (with a keybind) it lets you launch. Now I went and used this on the drag race time trial and despite not breaking any rules, it was rejected due to the timer not starting properly. Yet, it did! It started immediately after I pressed the button on my wheel that I use to start every scenario and time trial. Only difference is, I figured out how to make the game let me move. I submitted my time based ENTIRELY off of the end time trial screen.

But I'm here not because I want my time put on the board, but I am here because I believe that my method should be put in the rules officially to be banned as it breaks the spirit of the game. In it, I did not bring the fastest car to the line, nor did I launch it best. I got it solely because drag racing is my main thing to do in Beamng, and I realised you can move when the transbrake is disabled and the front brakes aren't a factor (either due to sheer power or removal).

-Cheers! hwf0712

(PS: heres the run )

Yeah, that's pretty clearly against the purpose of the drag race mode, so it should be banned (IMO), otherwise it's just gonna be a race until someone gets a frame perfect button press and no improvement can be made.

If this is the first run you've made doing this, it's quite possible you are the first person to do/discover this. In that case, it's not unreasonable that it isn't in the rules yet. I will also advocate for this to be officially prohibited. Maybe the mods thought it was fairly obvious it would be prohibited, and didn't think it was necessary to add as an explicit rule.

Can you do the same thing in Scenarios? As in, start the scenario without starting the timer? In that case, a universal rule should be applied across all categories.

Thanks for bringing this up, I found this quite interesting.

Whether it is stipulated in the rules or not, all runs that abuse the timer / start it early are automatically disqualified. If you see any runs with this exploit or similar ones just contact a mod.

Yeah Ive known about this for a while, I discovered it the same way you did about a year ago. I just ignored it because i hadnt seen anybody else use it. we will look into implementing this rule. Thank you for bringing further attention to this "glitch". You can join our discord server here: https://discord.gg/cdjWC4

I agree with the ban, vote on discord though

Thats almost the same bug u get on the highway strip with the rocket bus, if u strip the engine out and let it run on rockets only, it will bypass the starting sequence...

yeah, although I don't think you can really use that to your advantage too much