[Donnchadh MacGarry]

the 6 driver rule is for total registered drivers.
All servers beyond server 1 (servers 2,3,4) are official and get points(with at least 3 laps on the race) even if they have a single driver.

Oh that makes way more sense to me now. I assumed incorrectly and assuming really does put the ass into you and me as the saying goes. Thanks for clarifying.

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

Looking forward to tomorrow's race at (not) Monaco, or as AMS2 calls it the Azure Coast. I've shortened the gear ratio to the minimum for max acceleration and increased the steering lock angle (or whatever its called) to the max value of 28 degrees to help me get around the very tight hairpin more easily. I hit a 1:38 in the time trial leaderboard, but in practice mode I could only hit 1:39 if I really pushed. However I would often touch the barriers, so my more likely pace in the race when in free air is probably going to be closer to 1:40, 1:41 or even 1:42 depending on my confidence, hopefully I can avoid touching the barriers at that pace.

This race is going to be the ultimate test in discipline, it is so easy to make contacts with the barrier or another driver that will result in an incident points. If we have numbers like last week where server 1 was full, then this is going to be very tough. My advice would be to take it very handy, especially as it wasn't until the 3rd lap in practice before my tyres got up to the correct temperature and pressures. I did some practice against A.I. (110 skill, 100 aggression), there was a lot of bunching up on lap 1, especially in T1 and into the very tight chicane (at the Grand Hotel). I would highly advise on taking a very cautious approach here, hold your position on lap 1 so the field can spread out and be prepared to slow down and even stop if you see a pile of cars very. I nearly think skipping qualy and starting from the back to avoid the possible crashes could net quite a large amount of points relative to everyone else, or managing to qualify in the front 2 rows where its not as packed. Perhaps being a lone driver in server 2 is the optimal tactic   .

[Tim Cullingworth]

Don't tell everyone to go to the back or there won't be space for me there.

Also need to remember that in AMS2 you can seriously damage your car, even to the point where you have to retire.

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

Don't tell everyone to go to the back or there won't be space for me there.

Also need to remember that in AMS2 you can seriously damage your car, even to the point where you have to retire.

Whoops, the cat is out of the bag now.

Yeah the damage can be very bad, DONK (Frank Red) ended up flying into a tree near the end and got terminal damage so he had to retire. It reminded me a lot about Dirt Rally 2.0.

[Filip Stoyanovich]

Well, that went quite good for me for my first AMS2 race at SRS. Couldn't complete a good lap in qualifying so I started from 3rd spot. Snatched 2nd position from Sjoerd right into turn 1, and then Andre Tristao the leader makes a mistake at Casino and goes wide banging at the barrier. While he gathers back up, down towards Mirabeau I manage to snatch the lead from him. As I took a glance at the replay, it looked like I hit him on the inside while passing as he went wide again. But from my replay no contact was made. I was up against the walls at Mirabeau and there was almost 1 meter between us when he suddenly went wide there, like he was being pushed. I was kind of confused but that's got to be AMS2 netcode as Andre is racing from Brazil. AC is still much better there, in my opinioin. So, eventually I tried to just drive kind of carefully and fast enough and was able to stretch a bit of the lead towards the end.

Performance was similar to AC for me, with great AMS2 graphics. Occasionally would get some frame drops and micro freezes so I would miss braking points a bit here and there. But again, I was lucky to have a clear track in front most of the race. I made quite a few little mistakes, brushing the barriers a couple of times. That squeaky brushy sound makes me laugh so hard. In the second half I got loose into the Pools area through the fast chicane and banged the barrier hard. I wasn't laughing that much anymore and I expected a bent toe-link or something, but the car still went good. It seems from the results all those little brushes against walls didn't count except that big one, as I've got 1 incident point registered.

I didn't fiddle much with setups, except hoping more front anti-roll bar, more ride height and a bit softer springs could help me with bumps. Tire pressures were kind of more important to me as I don't know the proper ideal figure. It seems to me that if tires are at ~1.9 bars when warm, the car turns quite well and especially around here. Almost too good, as it was very loose after a couple of laps when tires warmed up and pressures got built up. Any ideas on ideal tire pressures in AMS2?

[Allen Moon]

If I caused any issues in today's race, I'm sorry. From my vantage I was offline any time traffic was near me. I didn't see any cars hit me, but someone else suggested their were issues? Some really weird bug or netcode issue was giving me fits.

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

Well done to everyone who survived last week's race at (not) Monaco, that was a very tough stressful race and it was pretty clean for the most part from what I can tell. It was great to see similar numbers to the previous week as well.

Tomorrow's race is at Adelaide. There seems to be a bit of an issue with the track mesh here, so be warned that the track is incredibly bumpy. Combine that with some large curbs and its very easy for the car to get unsettled, lose balance and cause you to end up in a wall. 
Also there was an update today that changed the gearing of the M1 Procar. I did some practice earlier in the week and the gear ratio I went with that day, was no longer good when I tried it today, so I had to change it again.

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Well, that went quite good for me for my first AMS2 race at SRS. Couldn't complete a good lap in qualifying so I started from 3rd spot. Snatched 2nd position from Sjoerd right into turn 1, and then Andre Tristao the leader makes a mistake at Casino and goes wide banging at the barrier. While he gathers back up, down towards Mirabeau I manage to snatch the lead from him. As I took a glance at the replay, it looked like I hit him on the inside while passing as he went wide again. But from my replay no contact was made. I was up against the walls at Mirabeau and there was almost 1 meter between us when he suddenly went wide there, like he was being pushed. I was kind of confused but that's got to be AMS2 netcode as Andre is racing from Brazil. AC is still much better there, in my opinioin. So, eventually I tried to just drive kind of carefully and fast enough and was able to stretch a bit of the lead towards the end.

Performance was similar to AC for me, with great AMS2 graphics. Occasionally would get some frame drops and micro freezes so I would miss braking points a bit here and there. But again, I was lucky to have a clear track in front most of the race. I made quite a few little mistakes, brushing the barriers a couple of times. That squeaky brushy sound makes me laugh so hard. In the second half I got loose into the Pools area through the fast chicane and banged the barrier hard. I wasn't laughing that much anymore and I expected a bent toe-link or something, but the car still went good. It seems from the results all those little brushes against walls didn't count except that big one, as I've got 1 incident point registered.

I didn't fiddle much with setups, except hoping more front anti-roll bar, more ride height and a bit softer springs could help me with bumps. Tire pressures were kind of more important to me as I don't know the proper ideal figure. It seems to me that if tires are at ~1.9 bars when warm, the car turns quite well and especially around here. Almost too good, as it was very loose after a couple of laps when tires warmed up and pressures got built up. Any ideas on ideal tire pressures in AMS2?

Sorry Filip for the late response, I didn't see your post earlier in the week. Congrats on the race win.

Netcode can be weird in AMS2. I remember from the JCW Mini championship last season that there was an incident between Moonie and James Tumility that was a complete netcode issue. From James' perspective, it looked like Moonie sideswiped him and force him offtack on the straight. From Moonie's perspective, he was over a full car length ahead, moved across to slot in front of James and suddenly in the rear view mirror James just moved offtrack. Seems like something similar happened to you last week which is unfortunate.

I had one light front end tap of the barrier with 3 minutes to go which got me an incident point, so the hits don't have to be too hard to get one. Interesting that light brushes didn't cause any for you, I didn't want to risk those at all.

Setup last week, I just changed gearing and steering ratio (or whatever its called, the thing that is set at 20 something degrees). I was told the ideal tyre pressures are similar to Project cars 2, so you might find this helpful http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthr...Tyre-Temps . I've been aiming for 1.7 bar, which the default gets pretty close to after 2 laps, so only a few clicks lower are needed and probably not overly necessary. I might test 1.9 bar tomorrow before the race, to see if that feels nicer though. Be sure to check out what I said above about a new update changing gearing in this car.

[Filip Stoyanovich]

Went to take a look at the replay again and made a little video of that
https://streamable.com/390qji

Anyway, I like the cars even though there's work to be done on AMS2. And the Adelaide bumps challenge makes it more exciting for me. I'll make sure to get some laps in for today. It looks like the world records here are at 1:35-36s so let's see.

[Donnchadh MacGarry]

It looks like the world records here are at 1:35-36s so let's see.

Wait that sounds like you are doing the historic 1988 one, I was practicing the short one and the record is a 1:21 (I was hitting 1:23, 1:24 in practice from what I remembered). On the schedule it says Adelaide GP, but the names of the track version on AMS2 are Adelaide and Adelaide Historic 1988, so that doesn't clear anything up. I just asked Donk and he said he just asked for Adelaide, so he's not sure as well. I might do a few laps on the longer circuit just in case.


Also I just got another update today, so make sure to update the game everyone. There's seems to be another adjustment to the gear ratio so have a look again https://forum.reizastudios.com/threads/a...20/page-28

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Okay, Donk just got back to me after messaging SRS and confirmed its the modern version of Adelaide, so the shorter one.

[Filip Stoyanovich]

Oh the modern one hahah OK thanks!

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Meeh in fact forget it, gotta do something and can't make it

By the way, found out if you want to get rid of the snap oversteer when turning in, you can increase the number of clutches at the differential. Also positive toe-in at the front might help there, and also if locking up on all these bumps.