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flash lights - Marco Arnold - 01-03-2020
I was wondering weather or not it is accepted to flash my lights at opponents, when fighting against them?
In real life, e.g. 24h Nürburgring, they do it all the time. However I don't want to annoy my opponents to much.
Whats your view onto this? Should it be accepted to flash your lights allot to put pressure onto your opponent or is this just annoying?
RE: flash lights - Rob Russo - 01-03-2020
I'll flash lights at backmarkers when necessary, but never at the guy being chased.... seems redundant!
RE: flash lights - Russell Sobie - 01-04-2020
I doubt they do flashes to add pressure. I did a little googling about it and found this blurb in talking about Le Man 24hour here: https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/213197
"The cars must keep their front and rear lights on at all times during the race. They are allowed to flash their headlights to signal an overtaking manoeuvre, the sequence can only last for 2 seconds and no more than 4 flashes at any one time. The flashing is actually automated by a button on the steering wheel."
As far as there being a rule here against blinking your lights, there is not one. The rules are pretty sparse on SRS so basically anything the game lets you get away with is fair game... and I don't know of anything in the game that prevents flashing lights to be annoying.
The only time I do it is when I'm trying to get by a backmarker or just someone much slower than me after I've been tossed to the back of the grid due to an early incident. It isn't to pressure, but to communicate "Please allow me to pass cleanly; you are slower than I am, and you are slowing us both down."
RE: flash lights - Igor Relja - 01-04-2020
(01-04-2020, 05:48 PM)Russell Sobie Wrote: The rules are pretty sparse on SRS so basically anything the game lets you get away with is fair game... and I don't know of anything in the game that prevents flashing lights to be annoying.
Turning off post processing practically renders them invisible.
RE: flash lights - Pawel Kusmierek - 01-04-2020
The poll is meaningless without specifying what "a lot" and "minimum" means. I am with Russel, flash if you want when approaching clearly slower traffic. As many times as needed. Not sure if that means "minimum" or "a lot".
RE: flash lights - Michal Janak - 01-05-2020
I am with Russel
I am using lights for lapped cars and sometimes when driver in front is slowing me a lot, unable to pas him safely as he tryes all types of maneouvres and we are lapping so slow and drivers from rear are cathing us, sometimes it is prety frustrating when i know i can make laps faster and instead get stuck by "too wide" racer lapping 1 or more seconds slower than i can do , and only producing bigger chance to crash
RE: flash lights - Nico Mollica - 01-05-2020
(01-05-2020, 12:28 AM)Michal Janak Wrote: I am with Russel
I am using lights for lapped cars and sometimes when driver in front is slowing me a lot, unable to pas him safely as he tryes all types of maneouvres and we are lapping so slow and drivers from rear are cathing us, sometimes it is prety frustrating when i know i can make laps faster and instead get stuck by "too wide" racer lapping 1 or more seconds slower than i can do , and only producing bigger chance to crash
Happened to me yesterday, and he hit me, twice went I was pass him... So time, people don't now how to drive a 1 hs race!
RE: flash lights - Russell Sobie - 01-05-2020
(01-04-2020, 07:35 PM)Igor Relja Wrote:(01-04-2020, 05:48 PM)Russell Sobie Wrote: The rules are pretty sparse on SRS so basically anything the game lets you get away with is fair game... and I don't know of anything in the game that prevents flashing lights to be annoying.
Turning off post processing practically renders them invisible.
What I mean is, there's no game mechanic programmed into Assetto Corsa that prevents people from flashing their lights in an obnoxious way outside of the "valid" reasons I've listed for flashing. So basically everyone is free to be headlight happy if they so choose.
But yeah, if you are one of the drivers that find people behind them lighting your backside, I suppose turning off post-processing might be a good way to not feel the pressure. But then how would you know that the guy behind you is SO ANGRY!
