I got 2:10:618 on the Nurburgring GP with the Ferrari 458 stage 3. (my favorite track and favorite car) I suppose there's room for improvement, but for now I am the Spartan champion on that track with that car with that tuning setting in that game!
I don't think the other records are even worth mentioning here... I tried the challenge where you're supposed to drive a Ferrari F40 around a certain track under 2:08:00, but my best time was 3:08:00... I just can't tame the beast! I was actually a few seconds faster while learning the track going about 80 km/h than going as fast as I could and driving off the track all the time.
I've played Assetto Corsa for a total of four hours on the weekend. I'm starting to learn how to drive the Ferraris. The road version of the Ferrari 458 is difficult to control, but if you pick the stage 3 tuning version, it's much easier to control. The Ferrari 599XX is also manageable and fun to drive. The F40 requires a lot more from the driver, so I'm not very good with that one.
The Pagani Zonda is insane, just like in Race 07. Driving it is like trying to control a tornado. But maybe some day I will master that one as well.
Mostly I've been doing hotlaps, but I've also tried some of the challenges. I can't beat any of the drag races. There was one challenge where I had to beat a certain time on a certain track in a BMW M3 E30 from the 80's. I wasn't familiar with the track and had some trouble mostly because the sun was so low and I couldn't see. Another similiar challenge was with a Ferrari 599XX in Monza. I thought I didn't know the track, but it was in the F1 2012 demo. I did reasonably well, but ended up driving off the course a few times. I was still 15 seconds away from the target time. What could be more fun than driving a Ferrari to the limit? This means more practice and more fun.
If anyone's still wondering, Assetto Corsa is an upcoming PC racing simulator that can be bought now on Steam Early Access. While it's still on beta, you can buy it for about 35 €, and you'll get the full game and all upcoming updates (at least until release) for free. For this weekend it's just 25 €, so I bought it right away. The full version will be 45 €. The graphics, the sounds, the physics and the driving are superb.
You don't have to persuade me at all! I already bought it and have played it for two hours. After tweaking the force feedback settings down a notch or two and adding something called filler, it started to feel good.
I drove a few cars around the Nurburgring GP track, Imola and Silverstone. With all assists off, driving a Ferrari F40 is difficult. A newer Ferrari 458 is easier to drive, but it still has a really powerful engine, so it's easy to drive off the track for driving too fast or just start spinning in a corner.
The Abarth (a modified Fiat 500, I think) and the BMW M3 from the 80's weren't too powerful for me, so I liked them more. I'll just have to learn how to drive those and move on to more powerful cars. Even if the M3 "only" has about 250 horsepower, it's quite easy to spin out, at least in my hands. So far I've only managed to catch the tail once. But I'm learning and getting better.
Damnit Scriv, you're supposed to know everything about small European nations!
I do think it's a rather strange choice if you're picking a city from Finland. All of Finland is in the same time zone (GMT+2), so Helsinki would be exactly the same, just more well known. Whatever, it doesn't matter.
I did know that Adelaide is a city in Australia, but do we have a need to see what time it is in Australia? Do we have any clan members from there? I'd replace it with GMT+0, which should be the time in London, if I'm not mistaken.
Scriv was requesting the time zone for Central Europe. This would be GMT+1, which is already there in the form of Stockholm, Sweden. You could replace it with Germany, France, or any other country in Central Europe if you wanted.
For a moment I thought the title meant some sort of a pub floating somewhere in time, like in a Douglas Adams novel. Maybe the SWF clan doesn't have the necessary resources for that...yet.
At the moment it only seems to be possible to log out by going to the main page and clicking the log out button. Why can the user menu be only accessed from there? It's a minor thing, but being able to access it everywhere would make using the forum a little bit smoother.
I would assume that the CS games have way too small maps and too infantry-focused gameplay for the clan members' preference. These dayz everyone's playing either Day Z or Planetside 2, and earlier Battlefield 2 was THE clan game. A common factor in these three games is huge maps, vehicles and teamwork.
I just don't like any of the CS games. I guess they are just too "simple" and small for me.
Ohh, now I understand why we changed to a different forum! I was way too good, writing hundreds of long posts while others struggled with a few dozen. The only real competition was between me and Scriv, and he cheated by posting a lot of videos instead of well-thought text!
Alright, now we're back in the beginning and I've given you a head start. Will I write yet another encyclopedia of every subject imaginable? Will I post a full novel series in the off-topic section? Time will tell...
