Yeah, by best time I meant the AI. I didn't do a time.
Well, at least I'm used to this model from Warframe, and it works out.
Wouldn't the moral of the story here be not to launch with a ton of bugs? And to actually test all versions of your games in-house?
Also probably only the biggest WEC fans will spot the differences between existing and new
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!I just did a tire wear test.
McLaren 650S GT3 @Catalunya GP, summer, 45°C track temperature(113°F), dry sunny weather, 2pm in the afternoon. Started with 89L of fuel (default) and drove until I ran out => 37 laps.
I tried the Hard Slick for now(there is no "medium", just soft and hard) with standard tire pressure.
On the more stressed, left side of the car, the tire temperatures had an average of 95°C over the whole time with a standard deviation of 4.5°C. The track got 3°C warmer over a timespan of 68 minutes. So basically I was in the upper part of the ideal operation window.
Over the course of the 37 laps, I did not reach any real fall-off of the hard slick. Actually, had I not run out of fuel in the last corner of the 37th lap, the last lap would have been my fastest. I could feel the wear to some degree at the end, but at that point the lower weight (89l of fuel have a weight of about 63kg) still meant that I could accelerate out of corners faster and brake later than in the beginning.
Lap 6 S1 (blue) vs Lap 36 S1 (orange):
My lap times went down by about 1s (~1% at Catalunya). Which is not entirely unrealistic.
The whole thing wasn't as useful as I thought it would be, since I never reached that fall-off on the hard slick. One lesson can be learned here though: If you pick the Hard slicks on a hot day and don't overdrive your tires, take more fuel with you than the default in GT3 cars!
I might do another test with the Softs later this week. Not sure if I should take more fuel this time, or change the default tire pressure according to the hot track surface this time. Probably be best to keep everything default and hope that I'll actually reach the fall-off wear point where lap times will get worse again and then see how fast they get how much worse.
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PS: Nice to see you back, James!
In context, RD were late on all of the sim racing expo news too; the rF2 news and AC information took ages to be released. I got news on AC 2 on Discord long before RD's news appeared.
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the purple one was when I had problems with an overheating left front tire, also pic #3
Got a little harder to drive, way less consistent and between 2-3 seconds slower per lap.
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Did the Soft Tire now. Comparison between the last Sector of ...
Lap 1-8:
Lap 29-37:
Got a little harder to drive, way less consistent and between 2-3 seconds slower per lap.
Differences between Hard and Soft GT3 Slick:
Btw. the in-game tire wear indicators (=how color-filled the tire symbols are), are empty at about 50% wear already, higher wear is only visible with 3rd party apps that use the game's shared memory telemetry channels. So, when one tire symbol is empty, the car still drives ok, I'd stay longer.
No lap-time graphs because I was slacking off a little, not super consistent lap times. Audio low and listening to podcast [don't drive and ...laugh].
I haven't noticed any change. Then again, my experience was mostly smooth before the patch, with some minor problems, such as flag not showing correctly or my WMD badge not showing. Other problems I had have easy workarounds (pit exit panel showing wrong info can be countered by actually looking at the track signs or no virtual mirror can be avoided by using lite HUD).
Upon further investigation, this is what I've been told:
So first 50% is for the treads and the other 50% is the rest of the carcass.
Have a read of RD: http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/project-cars-2-updated.141583/
Could you elaborate? Is this a HUD thing or what? I noticed the Minimal version of the positions Widget is bugged and position sometimes shows 99/99. Full version seems to work well.
Do you use relative box? That shows you wether you are lapped or not.
In the HUD menu there's a box in the bot left corner, set to off. That box tells you the distance you have against the three cars physically behind and in front. So, if it shows the car behind in white, then you are on the same lap. If it shows red, you are outlapped. If it shows blue, he is outlapped. It's really a very useful tool to know what's happening around you (specially handy in multiclass races).
It's a feature. You need to be faster than the AI by at least a whole lap during qualifying.
PC1 was (and arguably still is) worse on PC.
People use the word broken so bad these days.
No, it's not. A bad setup is a bad setup, not a broken setup.