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Old 23-10-2014, 19:34
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I've been on it an hour and a half now, doing only the hot lap and my best time is 1:16:496 but I lost 0.836 seconds on the last sector compared to my previous best lap. So I know I can do it.

My sector times are 22.425, 26.870 and 27.201. It's the last sector that's getting me.
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Old 23-10-2014, 20:02
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If only the PS4 worked the way it was shown when it was revealed, I could get someone to take over my game and do it for me! lol

I've disconnected from online & I get my ghost car to race against so it made it easier to see how I was doing. I shaved 2 seconds off doing this but still not quick enough. When connected, I rarely get my ghost. Maybe 1/20 races
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Old 23-10-2014, 20:35
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If only the PS4 worked the way it was shown when it was revealed, I could get someone to take over my game and do it for me! lol
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Old 23-10-2014, 20:45
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1:16:261

That's me done for the night. Will have to try again tomorrow
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Old 23-10-2014, 22:25
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Some of the cars are such a pain to drive. Id rather drive my own car around the tracks.
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Old 23-10-2014, 22:33
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For the venom hotlap I found best way to find time was a sideways slide into the first corner. Keep trying, it can be done!
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Old 23-10-2014, 23:00
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1:15:663 & all stars completed 😄

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Old 23-10-2014, 23:01
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Well Done!!!!
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Old 23-10-2014, 23:17
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Congrats. That star is mine tomorrow. Grrrrrr
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Old 23-10-2014, 23:26
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1:16:8 is the best I've got it down to with Ian's first corner side-slam trick. Just never look at youtube, there are people in the 1:14s doing it normally. I'll have to give ghost hunting offline a shot.
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Old 23-10-2014, 23:47
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I've gone against the first corner slamming method. I can do it faster taking the corner normally. I can do the first sector in under 22 and a half seconds so I don't think that's the problem. The last corner gives me awful trouble.
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Old 24-10-2014, 00:10
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I've gone against the first corner slamming method. I can do it faster taking the corner normally. I can do the first sector in under 22 and a half seconds so I don't think that's the problem. The last corner gives me awful trouble.
21:9 is the best I've done the first sector, I can't get anywhere near that without slamming and I can do the last sector in 26:7. It's all those fiddly bits in the middle where I'm throwing away time.
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Old 24-10-2014, 00:13
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using the ghost as a target helped me a lot. I really don't know why it doesn't show all the time when you're connected. If I got half a second behind, I'd restart as I knew I couldn't catch up.

I used the side crash technique on the first corner from when I started going for the star but it was the 5th corner with the huge flowerbed at the bottom that o kept getting caught out on. There's such a narrow margin between going over the bumps & getting a penalty for cutting the corner
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Old 24-10-2014, 00:29
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The ghost and knowing the sector times helps a lot.

My best sector times -

S1: 21:904
S2: 26:852
S3: 26:670

I'm no mathematician, but that comes to less than 1:16 to me. The problem is being able to string it together in one lap.

Edit: Yes!!! Finally done it!

http://i.imgur.com/M461NRM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EfsGile.jpg

Made sure to log back in before the screen that tallies up all the points for the club so that they counted.
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Old 24-10-2014, 07:51
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I'm beginning to struggle with some of the races. Having to re do them time after time and I start to become bored with it. first race I had to re do was 'punching above your weight'. I kept coming in second and I'm struggling to control the 'hyper cars'. I end up fish tailing and losing control, especially when being rammed into from the A.I cars.
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Old 24-10-2014, 13:13
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You're not alone ix. It's essentially too dirty for me. I can't drive how I think you should race. Taking me a bit to adjust
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Old 24-10-2014, 14:13
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Couple of questions if anyone doesn't mind answering:

Does this game have mostly point-to-point or mostly circuits?
Mostly full grid races or lots of time trials, one v ones, drift challenges etc?
Genuine brake & accelerate zones or just sliding round corners?

I'd really like a game which appreciates circuit racing against a full grid, rather than the recent fashion to make every game a series of time trials and challenges with the occasional race thrown in.

I certainly don't mind the occasional time trial or special challenge but the essence of the game should be full grid racing, I think.
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Old 24-10-2014, 14:20
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Couple of questions if anyone doesn't mind answering:

Does this game have mostly point-to-point or mostly circuits?
Mostly full grid races or lots of time trials, one v ones, drift challenges etc?
Genuine brake & accelerate zones or just sliding round corners?

I'd really like a game which appreciates circuit racing against a full grid, rather than the recent fashion to make every game a series of time trials and challenges with the occasional race thrown in.

I certainly don't mind the occasional time trial or special challenge but the essence of the game should be full grid racing, I think.
I would say mostly circuits, but the ratio might be 60 / 40.

The tour is divided into races, time trials and drift events. I say mostly races, with a good few time trials and a small few drift events.

The slower car events use genuine braking and accelerating but the faster cars are better at drifting so I ended up sliding around a lot of corners.

Going by what you're saying I think you'd like it.
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Old 24-10-2014, 14:36
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I still can't believe there is no PS+ version. I think most people now, and i'm starting to include myself in this, is just starting to look ahead at other games coming out. Christmas is in 8 weeks. I think the DriveClub experiment has failed. I just can't see people taking notice as we head into November and many big releases coming up.
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Old 24-10-2014, 14:41
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Thanks Yuffie

Think I might still wait for the PS+ edition to arrive as a taster, but there are others on the way aren't there? Project Cars, the Crew? Wonder if I'm better off just waiting a few weeks/months
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Old 24-10-2014, 20:45
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2 stars left. Leaving Venom to last. I think I will get that eventually.

The one I'm finding more frustrating is the Chungara Challenge. Nearly a second to find and it seems nigh on impossible. What a horrible horrible circuit. Is there a specific car you guys could recommend for this one?
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Old 24-10-2014, 21:11
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Reached driver level 50 tonight so now all my XP is going towards the Digital Spy 1 which currently sit at level 28. Hoping these challenges are made available soon so I can go on and get the platinum for this before the DLC hits
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Old 24-10-2014, 21:15
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2 stars left. Leaving Venom to last. I think I will get that eventually.

The one I'm finding more frustrating is the Chungara Challenge. Nearly a second to find and it seems nigh on impossible. What a horrible horrible circuit. Is there a specific car you guys could recommend for this one?
The Zonda, it sticks to those squirrelly roads like glue.
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Old 24-10-2014, 21:19
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Thanks Yuffie

Think I might still wait for the PS+ edition to arrive as a taster, but there are others on the way aren't there? Project Cars, the Crew? Wonder if I'm better off just waiting a few weeks/months
Project cars has been delayed until February-ish so there's only The Crew left. Some of the guys here played the beta and weren't impressed at all. Up to you.

Reached driver level 50 tonight so now all my XP is going towards the Digital Spy 1 which currently sit at level 28. Hoping these challenges are made available soon so I can go on and get the platinum for this before the DLC hits
Wow. You've been busy. Did you climb 10 levels today?

I only have the level 50 and challenges tropheys left.

The Zonda, it sticks to those squirrelly roads like glue.
Yup. If you are given the Zonda as a car choice, you take it. No question about it.
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Old 24-10-2014, 21:34
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Yeah, earn about 6 million XP going for accolades. Some are worth 400k
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