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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 20, 2010 14:13:34 GMT -5
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 20, 2010 19:24:55 GMT -5
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!
PD, I salute you, for being the FIRST developer to actually LISTEN to what we want, that i have dealt with. thank you for your cooperation.
Also, limiting certain things, like the extra rewards, is good for the people who bought at release, and have been grinding hard. I think we may actually have CoD's ":double xp weekends" partially to thank for this.
ONLINE CAR DEALER! fuck yes!
I just wanna pelvic thrust all night. the building of a full racing seat has been delayed in favour of playing time.
they implemented almost everything I wanted them to. anyone down for some online? hehe.
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Post by DeltaMustang65 on Dec 20, 2010 20:34:08 GMT -5
Link keeps freezing my IE for a few mins.
What gives with the patch?
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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 20, 2010 22:51:59 GMT -5
The problem is that you're using IE tl;dr Patch 1.05 is 600 MB and has some new content! Woot! What's most exciting to me are the new Seasonal events. Essentially, there are some more races to be won. You're limited to a specific car for the race (in three of four cases so far, they have to be mostly stock), which presumably makes the races more difficult. They're like the Special Events in that the prize money can only be won once, but the races have pretty decent amounts of prize money. They're called Seasonal because the races will only be there for limited amounts of time (the current Seasonal races say they'll be playable until 1/5/11). I haven't actually tried one of these yet, they all required new car purchases for me and I was in the middle of the second-to-last Nurburgring academy special event. Along with this they've released an Online Car Dealership, which they say will contain "rare or uncommon" cars that will change on an as-yet undetermined time basis. It currently contains the FGT, a couple of trucks, a couple of DTM cars, and 5 Skylines of various vintages. Further excellence comes in the form of cash and experience rewards for racing online. No explanation necessary there. They've increased the monetary value of A and B spec events temporarily, the HUD is now able to be disabled in races, users can set their own background music for the menus, the license test menus have been streamlined, save data can now be backed up ( ), and the X1 prototype is now called the Red Bull X2010. Oh also, mechanical damage is now available in Practice mode. I'm reserving judgment on whether this fixes my gripes with the game until I try some of the new stuff out some more. I'm hoping they'll rotate new seasonal events in quickly enough to keep me going. The new car dealership is nice as well, but I think it needs more cars in it. It would be pretty cool if users could sell their cars for set prices in the dealership, but I doubt that will happen. I still think that too many of the 1000 cars are too inaccessible. The new dealership seems to focus on cars you need to complete races, which is good, but not perfect. This patch is at worst a large step in the right direction and at best exactly what I was hoping for. I'm going to be digging my steering wheel out of the crawl space tomorrow and letting loose on some stuff. Woot woot. Addendum: Upon firing up my game after applying the patch, I have two new cars waiting in the Car Delivery for me: a Mercedes 190 Evo and the Mercedes CLK GTR Race car. I have no idea where they came from, but you won't catch me complaining
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 21, 2010 18:13:20 GMT -5
i had the 190 as well. totally random. althoguh i didn't have th eCLK, ya lucky bastard. this fixes most of my gripes with things that I was hoping for. exp online and cash online is a given. this shoulda been in from the get go, IMHO. lets hope next months "big patch" has some premiumized standard models, and proper gear tuning. along with, of course, new seasonal events. nightmare, I built my racing seat setup today. I went from a sheet of 3x4' OSB on milk crates to a full rail seat this afternoon. I need to figure out a good way to mount the stick in a proper position (just to my right and lower than the wheel), so it's not quite done, but it does have full floorboards. yay for scrap wood from my latest site! on a side note: I've gotten half a dozen PM's already about "duping cars" with people. holy hell. . .can't anyone just play the game? the b day glitch was too much effin work already.
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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 21, 2010 22:18:37 GMT -5
...PMs? Have you been using Gamespot!??!??!
The seat should be pretty sweet. I'm waiting to move into some more permanent housing before I do anything cool like that (think two years or so from now).
And depending on how they do the seasonal events, they may not need to patch new ones in. It would actually be pretty easy for them to have it pull the events from a server every so often, same with the used car dealership. This is all assuming that the event configs and used car lineups are as simple as I think they are. I mean, once you have the graphical frontend in place to display the races, you just need a config file to tell the GUI what the race is going to entail and what cars, tracks, restrictions, etc. need to be present. Such a config file would be easy to just have each client pull from a server using RSS or something similar when the time comes. I don't think they're going to patch the game every two weeks or however long the seasonals last.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 21, 2010 23:47:37 GMT -5
we get a weekly update anyway, so addin in new events every 2 updates wouldn't be bad at all.
on a side note: challenger seasonal event isn't that bad. you need to gain roughly 6 seconds per lap on the lead car (all 3 times I got the same lineup, with a chevelle at the front, oddly enough).
key here is a fully custom tranny. bump up the top speed to about 260km or so, and then get a height adjustable suspension. harden it all up a bit, and watch the seconds fly by.
currently trying the nissan GTR event. I'm wondering if the lineup changes for the model of GTR you're using. right now I'm trying it with an 07 R35, and it's running against a ford GT. good effin luck with that. I'm actually LOSING time to the GT.
so we'll see, if I take an R32 to the event, if the lineup changes. would be cool if it did.
on a side note: those 2 events are worth 1.7 million, and 140,000 driver xp.
yep.
nightmare, I meant PSN pms. it's just dumb.
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Post by J Money on Dec 22, 2010 0:41:27 GMT -5
I think the lineup is the same (except colors) because the GT was at the front during my attempts. I've used an R34.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 22, 2010 11:31:47 GMT -5
yeah, it's the same.
I beat it with an R35, lightened, right below the HP limit, with all aero mods. on soft tires of course. and lets just say that it takes some really balls to the wall driving. although it did only take me an hour to beat it. . . .
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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 22, 2010 12:43:19 GMT -5
nightmare, I meant PSN pms. it's just dumb. And those of us with 0 friends on PSN just sit back and smile :D
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 22, 2010 20:00:14 GMT -5
i race with many of my friends, and chat with them as well. I can delete PM's.
I'm enough of a paranoid shut in already. don't need to cut mself off on PSN.
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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 23, 2010 0:19:57 GMT -5
It doesn't help that exactly zero of my real-life friends own PS3s. My high school friends all have gaming PCs and my college friends are either casual CoD players or not gamers at all. I'm actually mildly surprised at how few gamers there are in the electrical engineering program here, though being an EE major doesn't leave much time for gaming between studying and drinking to forget about all that time you spent studying
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Post by J Money on Dec 23, 2010 1:15:19 GMT -5
It doesn't help that exactly zero of my real-life friends own PS3s. My high school friends all have gaming PCs and my college friends are either casual CoD players or not gamers at all. I'm actually mildly surprised at how few gamers there are in the electrical engineering program here, though being an EE major doesn't leave much time for gaming between studying and drinking to forget about all that time you spent studying My roommate at school is an EE major. I couldn't study that much and still be sane... And that's why we're here, to have cool PSN friends! ;D
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Post by ½ A Gram on Dec 23, 2010 1:59:37 GMT -5
I saw my lady friends notes from her first semester of biology chem and physics (basic arts and sciences degree as pre-req for dentistry).
I legitimately took more notes in my apprenticeship diary. and I read that bastard back to front almost every day.
maybe I'm just over-killin it?
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Post by nightmare75 on Dec 23, 2010 2:20:12 GMT -5
You aren't overkilling it if you feel like you need to put forth that much effort to understand it or if you're genuinely interested in what you're reading/taking notes on. However, there's something to be said for taking efficient notes. You should be paraphrasing, not copying, and primarily hitting the real key points. Some books contain more important stuff per page than others, too.
I haven't actually taken notes from a text since I started college, interestingly, though I did spend about 70% of my non-working, non-class time reading texts last semester. It seems to me that lecture notes are far more important as far as understanding the material and getting prepared for tests are concerned. Unfortunately, lecture notes are way more difficult to take properly, even if the instructor is writing down the steps or the analysis on the board.
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