Forza Horizon 4 !

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Shinysideup

814 posts

183 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Cutters said:
I’ve hit that plenty of times, crazily frustrating as you can hit the barriers quite hard all the way round and it doesn’t flag. Even dare to glance at that one and it kills your lap!

I’ll share my tune when I get home later on, love the different approach everyone has so I’ll try yours as well, I’ve gone for moderate (about 250ish iirc) power and as light as I could get it smile

ETA - tune shared
One of the good things about this thread is getting an insight into how others are building their cars.
I think it's probably easy to go down the route that you would always normally go and end up perhaps trying to drive around issues with your own car.

Will be neat to try different approaches. Will report back driving

Cheers CT & Cutters


Drabbesttunic

1,264 posts

41 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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I've turned it off for today but can share my tune too, I'd like to see what it does with a better driver.

I just can't get on with the mx5 you shared, I tried ct25s too but thats similar, I dont seem to be able to drive around the handling.
I dont think top ten is doable for me, I've got 1.2 secs to bridge to aj.

vacant-100

112 posts

80 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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Drabbesttunic said:
Great, the hardest danger sign of all, 7ft short, bd.
This one's always one of the hardest to hit right, couldn't get anywhere close in the Hoonigan RS200 so had to revert to the trusty Ferrari 599XX Evo. Try and hit the jump around 160mph and you should do it, but it takes a lot of rewinding to line it up right.

Shinysideup

814 posts

183 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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After a quick 5 laps with each different tune, Cutters - Yours is similar feeling to my #2 version. Balance is good and it feels like you can nail the power quite early mid-turn/exit. CT25 - The inline 6 build is a wild beast that needs a lot of focus to tame. I would need more laps with it to go faster overall.

Excellent laps by both of you.


Drabbesttunic

1,264 posts

41 months

Friday 5th March 2021
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vacant-100 said:
Drabbesttunic said:
Great, the hardest danger sign of all, 7ft short, bd.
This one's always one of the hardest to hit right, couldn't get anywhere close in the Hoonigan RS200 so had to revert to the trusty Ferrari 599XX Evo. Try and hit the jump around 160mph and you should do it, but it takes a lot of rewinding to line it up right.
I managed to completely destroy the target by about 150ft by fluking a jump using the king cobra laugh

CT25

56 posts

82 months

Saturday 6th March 2021
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Shinysideup said:
After a quick 5 laps with each different tune, Cutters - Yours is similar feeling to my #2 version. Balance is good and it feels like you can nail the power quite early mid-turn/exit. CT25 - The inline 6 build is a wild beast that needs a lot of focus to tame. I would need more laps with it to go faster overall.

Excellent laps by both of you.
Just tried Cutters tune. Like you say, you can be on the power so early!

Cutters - you have really nailed some of the turns in the last half of the lap. Especially the downhill right hand bend after the last long straight-ish bit. If i’m ahead on entry, by the exit you are a couple of car lengths ahead and just pulling away.

Speed1283

1,168 posts

96 months

Saturday 6th March 2021
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CT25 said:
Shinysideup said:
After a quick 5 laps with each different tune, Cutters - Yours is similar feeling to my #2 version. Balance is good and it feels like you can nail the power quite early mid-turn/exit. CT25 - The inline 6 build is a wild beast that needs a lot of focus to tame. I would need more laps with it to go faster overall.

Excellent laps by both of you.
Just tried Cutters tune. Like you say, you can be on the power so early!

Cutters - you have really nailed some of the turns in the last half of the lap. Especially the downhill right hand bend after the last long straight-ish bit. If i’m ahead on entry, by the exit you are a couple of car lengths ahead and just pulling away.
I haven't tried others tunes yet but built my first MX5 last night and tried a few different things this morning. For me I think the 6 cylinder engine suits me best, not sure why, on stats it should be slower but in practice (for me anyway) it seems better. That being said, I've not achieved very much consistency, I can easily lose a number of car lengths to my own ghost by the end of the first two corners!


ajprice

27,548 posts

197 months

Saturday 6th March 2021
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I've done what I can with the Cutters spec (thanks!) MX-5. Currently in the points but I don't expect to stay there by tomorrow night.

vonuber

17,868 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Season 3
Round 9 of 16
Elmsdon on Sea Sprint, Retro Sports Cars, B665, Any Mods, Any Assists, standing start only

As of 00:00:



Top ten above blue line. 16th to choose next week as shown. Final times 23:59 tomorrow.



Those crazy french.



miniman

25,018 posts

263 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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2:46? FFS rofl

Drabbesttunic

1,264 posts

41 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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miniman said:
2:46? FFS rofl
Anything under 2.50 FFS laugh

I just can't get those fast mx5s through a full lap, I can't drive them well enough.

vonuber

17,868 posts

166 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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miniman said:
2:46? FFS rofl
I noticed he had gone and suspected he had posted a quick time.

mw88

1,457 posts

112 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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Fastest non-MX5 - Do I get points for that? hehe

I did try the MX5 the other day, but couldn't get along with it. Might try and get a few more laps this afternoon

Speed1283

1,168 posts

96 months

Sunday 7th March 2021
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vonuber said:
miniman said:
2:46? FFS rofl
I noticed he had gone and suspected he had posted a quick time.
Yes indeed, I posted a 2:46.9 on Friday evening (which should have shown as the Xbox crashed prior to me starting).

Yesterday morning I managed to shave 0.1 seconds off with a different tune (changed to the 2.0 engine), I restarted the Xbox this morning so hopefully it's on the board now, although no doubt when I turn it on again in a bit it will disappear.

I think there is a low 1:46 that is 'technically' possible but I've only seen it once and it involved a rewind. It's pretty much at the point now where one wrong turn in/slide etc. means you might as well start again.



Edited by Speed1283 on Sunday 7th March 12:02

vonuber

17,868 posts

166 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Season 3
Round 9 of 16
Elmsdon on Sea Sprint, Retro Sports Cars, B665, Any Mods, Any Assists, standing start only

FINAL STANDINGS



Top ten above blue line. 16th to choose next week as shown.

Congratulations to SPEED12 for the win, with a great time! And well done to everyone else.

Updated table to follow..

vonuber

17,868 posts

166 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Table after 9 rounds...



Congratulations to brd ukcarscene and Crookie6199 for their first points this season!

ajprice

27,548 posts

197 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Congratulations to everyone Von said, congratulations to OrdinaryWalnut for the fastest not an MX-5, and thanks to those who donated an MX-5 tune to help us all out.

Yay a point!

miniman

25,018 posts

263 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Gah, 11th yet again! Did loads more laps last night and just got below 1:50 but scraped the wall across the finish line and gave up in disgust.

Hope everyone enjoyed this week thumbup

chrisga

2,090 posts

188 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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ajprice said:
Congratulations to everyone Von said, congratulations to OrdinaryWalnut for the fastest not an MX-5, and thanks to those who donated an MX-5 tune to help us all out.

Yay a point!
Yep it's a huge help for us that don't have much time to spend on the game when someone quick shares a tune. Also when the leaderboard fills up with one type of car its pretty obvious which one you need to go quick. I'll take quickest Auto. I thought it was a good course well matched to the level of power available. Nice choice. Enjoyed that one.

Drabbesttunic

1,264 posts

41 months

Monday 8th March 2021
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Was a fun one but I just couldn't get the fast mx5 through a clean lap so had to go with handling and just couldn't get any better.
I'll have the new challenge ready this afternoon, I know the track but am torn between cars.