Be Excellent To Each Other

Post your best times here. A new time trial will be picked by the winner on Friday 11th July at 9pm.

This just the arcade mode one? Or a sim mode "Use any car" one?

I don't know - perhaps arcade mode would be fairer?

CURSE YOU RED RING OF DEATH.

I started playing Forza again last night (before I noticed this thread) and had made a concerted effort to start unlocking shit again, and then it goes and RRODs on me and now I see this thread. Balls.

Either's good, how about whoever picks, picks. Depends, it's easier for fixed car because then everyone has a chance.

You're this week, you make the call.

I propose fixed cars in arcade time trial with all assists off

I'd agree Snappa, but the only thing is it'd alienate people who do use assists. Perhaps if you use assists you have to specify it when posting your time.

Arcade time trial on Tsukuba Short for this week. Go!

Ok, after about 10 laps, my best time is 44.183s with no assists. I'm going to keep trying, but I doubt I'll get much quicker than that.

Which car? You need to set all of the rules in the opening post or this is gonna become a free for all!

Arcade time trial mode fixes your car for you. If this is the first one I think it's a Focus.

No, it's the Top Secret Skyline, I think.

I haven't played this for months - I'll have to dust down my wheel!

I don't mind what car it is as long as it's not that oversteering nightmare that is the drift special car...

I can't get any better than my previously stated time. Is anyone else going to have a go, or are we going to have to ban AAB?

I've had a go but I remember now that I farkin' hate that S15. I just can't seem to get my brake points right. It was single handedly responsible for stopping my playing the arcade mode time trials.

You have to brake extremely early. Have you tried with assists on?

They will be for some people.

I will be giving this a go during the week. Only got back late tonight.

43.550 on about my forth lap, and no better 20 laps afterward.

I did it in seven secounds.

Do I get a prize?

Yes, you win a dictionary.

I'll have a go at some point. Won't post a competitive score, mind.

My existing time is 0:44:547. I dare say that in the time between posting that and now, I'm capable of over a second a lap faster, but I really don't want to drive that shitheap of a car.

Resoult!

Yep, you'll find that your tyres degrade enough that you won't be able to record a competitive lap time after about 6-8 laps. Just visit the pits and you'll be good to go again.

I will have a go a bit later on.

It is that drift car. Good choice myoptika

IIRC I got about 44.952 all assists off and with the wheel and pedals. Daresay I could improve on that by about a second with more practice, but I hate that evil handling piece of shit so I doubt if I will bother.

May I suggest the Lingenfelter for the next car if we're going to deliberately pick vile handling cars to kill my interest in playing this game

Hey, don't look at me; I created the thread, but it was AceAceBaby who initially posted his time in the other Forza thread. It is a difficult car to drive, but then again I suppose it's a challenge to post a decent time.

Perhaps someone else should choose a time trial next week, as AAB has terrible taste in cars.

I propose a yaris round nurburgring for next week just so Db Snappa can play in safety.

So it seems. Obviously a MaxPOWAAAAAAAR subscriber Or worse, the masochist's monthly called Hammer Me Nads...

I don't mind, really I just haven't played Forza in ages and that is a particularly nasty car to get to grips with after such a long play gap - unfortunately every time I got close to getting that 'flow' needed to post decent times I caught myself thinking this is the antithesis of fun and stopped playing before I constructed effigies and got my jigsaw out

Also, how do you switch off the ghosts. I fucking hate ghosts.

Me too - does anyone know?

Tell you what, you go for it and post your best time.

Porsche Targas round Nissan Speedway.

I like short courses like this, because if you fuck up, you're trying again very quickly.

I spent (probably literally) days pounding round Autumn Ring Mini in a Cerbera LM in the first GT. Got down into the 25 second bracket eventually, might go back and see how much worse I am now, I do remember being around 30 for some time.

I love short courses, also. I sometimes wish we'd do an endurance race on MVS.

Yeah, although Autumn ring mini (before they butchered it in later games) is surprisingly complex with that car (as you can see by the huge time I gained), the last 10 seconds of the lap especially. (iirc, a double right into a very quick double chicane and a long right hander). You always have to slightly sacrifice at least one for the others to be better.



The advantage of stuff like that of course is also that you see cars so much more often, you're lapping or being lapped rather than sitting on your own in a vast expanse of track. It also works for damage since in a long race, you can pit and still have something to fight for.

It was one of the quickest, it was 25 seconds of nightmare twitch reactions, awesome, ARM did flow though.

Road Atlanta is a glorious track, if I get a chance to pick it's highly likely we'll be punting round it or it's short version in some kind of LM class.

I find the Lingenfelter is a useful Class U car once specced right up to max, but only on the speedway circuits.

I love Motegi and RA. It's such a crying shame that I never get to race on them, as they're not in the singleplayer game, and no one else has them on Wednesdays.

Road Atlanta is possibly my favourite track in forza.

Here's the current standings.

Whoo! Second by not much! Go steering wheel crew!