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rinks wrote:We really need to get a team sorted. I tried The Trial a couple of times yesterday, and finished each race mid-table, but the good players quit once we lost the first round (shitty, but I can understand why), and everyone else was a non-scorer. And one teammate nudged me outside a checkpoint flag, which was beyond frustrating. I don't claim to be great at the game, but just a team of competent players would be nice.

Now that the online servers seem more stable, definitely up for doing this. I've been doing a fair bit of Horizon Tour as for some reason I really enjoy the team of players vs the AI kind of races. Did you try downloading a tune? It can make such a big difference in those events. I'm not great either but just from the start line would usually pass a few people.

Cheers for the tip. I noticed that a couple of people got off to flying starts, so I guess they had tune-ups sorted. I'll definitely try that for the new season, where I'll have more time (I only got in the Hall of Fame last night).

my secret gamer tip for trials is to use standard rented cars

anything where the ai difficulty is turned up and them in fully modified cars is very hard, so if you use a rental car bottom of the class, the ai will use rented cars bottom of the class, and you'll have an easier time against cars with realistic performance instead of optimised s1 900 3000hp rockets

i usually play on expert difficulty and even thats touch and go some classes with mods

Another good tip. But I guess that won't work with The Trial, unless everyone on the team does the same (and it uses Unbeatable-level drivatars as the opposition).

In FH4, I found tuning so effective in The Trial as it didn't seem to match you like a regular race against AI would. You can go in with an 800 PI car and most of the AI will be in 800s too, but there will always be some that are 720 or 740 ish.

This week it's Modern Supercars and A800 again, which means I'm probably going to buy something as looks like everything I have is minimum S1 class even without upgrades. Unless I'm missing something, the only car Modern Supercar you can buy in A class is the BMW i8.

I like how this one changes the season without a restart required. As I'd always be using Quick Resume with FH4, sometimes it would take me a couple of days to realise the season should have changed.

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:I like how this one changes the season without a restart required.

That's good to know. I've been restarting the game for each new session up to now, as it seemed to help slightly with the connection issues (might be my imagination), but now that seems to be stable too, Quick Resume can do its thing.

The Trial definitely feels tougher this week, but the 1st race is probably the hardest which will put people off. All on wet tracks so there is a lot of sliding. I only managed a couple of 4th place finishes and a 5th after coming 1st every race last week, but somehow we pulled it off with a group of players who apparently didn't have working brakes, so it can't have been that bad. The second track is one of this urban ones with lots of 90 degree corners and pretty much everyone was just slamming into them at full speed. The final one is a sprint though, very high speed, and since most people tune their cars for speed over everything else, it suited them and the AI scored zero points.

I'm going to try some more tunes and see if I can find one that works well for the whole thing.

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I managed to get the trial after the first two races with the bmw tuned. The other guys were in stock. First race i missed a check point and had to battle back to 6th - after the cpu in the top two places there was a block of us beating all the other cpus, so we took the win. Second race i managed to lead the player pack, but was closing in on 2nd too slowly for the race and first was way ahead - but we got the reast of the player block to beat all other cpu so we took the win. I found it easier than last week - but ive always disliked the cross country. maybe its becasue im not breaking enough.

EDIT: Ive retuned my bug to oversteer a bit more, and started to use the hand brake more and it seems to be coming together better for me now.

I haven’t tried the trials. Seems like too difficult with randoms. I have won on unbeatable legitimately, takes time.

I like the wet and storm season.

You are best off doing the trials early, or peak weekend times - becasue the quality in team mates drops off as those who've won it / better players stop doing it for the week.

rinks wrote:Another good tip. But I guess that won't work with The Trial, unless everyone on the team does the same (and it uses Unbeatable-level drivatars as the opposition).

yeah exactly right, still applies to unbeatable level

Do you even have to win the trial to complete the seasonal playlist item? Last week I got it and we lost 2 of the 3 races

This weeks season challenges seem to be counting for last week. I just did the eliminator for this week but it’s not completed, but added 1 point to last weeks total for completing the daily challenge that was play eliminator. I also haven’t completed the daily challenge this week for buying a car despite buying the car for this weeks weekly challenge

The baja bug for the weekly challenge is so slow, and it’s horrible for getting skill score. This is no fun at all.

rinks wrote:The baja bug for the weekly challenge is so slow, and it’s horrible for getting skill score. This is no fun at all.

Agreed. Tune it and upgrade. The Jump of the volcano danger sign needs an acceleration/launch tune too.

Yeah, I’ll have to tinker when I’ve got a bit more patience.

Just cracked the trial on first attempt. Like GrinWithoutaKat said, the second round is all tight corner smashes, and the AI can’t quite seem to cope with it, so an easy win. All the carnage reminds me of good times online in the PGR series.

rinks wrote:The baja bug for the weekly challenge is so slow, and it’s horrible for getting skill score. This is no fun at all.

I downloaded a tuning kit which turned it into a monster. So much fun to drive now.

A good time to stop for today, because nothing will top the excitement of this.

rinks wrote:A good time to stop for today, because nothing will top the excitement of this.

I can’t be arsed to cheese the skill points and credits, just play the game. But when you get a super spin like that.., :fp:

Really enjoying storm season and wind/rain/lightning and the mud and pools of water.

Xcloud via Mac

I tried Xcloud today for the first time and wow I am really impressed!

Firstly I thought because I am playing on Mac and there is no app support like there is on pc that it would be glitchy or simply not work correctly = I was wrong, I played via edge and made it into a app for quick access and it works perfectly and in full screen

Secondly I thought because I would be playing over Wi-Fi, far away from the router and while the tv is streaming Netflix and my partner is using a laptop and a tablet that is would be slow = it ran perfectly, it looked amazing and ran fast (like it should)!

The main thing that impressed me was being able to click on a game and play it straight away, no waiting for hours for it to install and update and then wait for it to load, it’s crazy to think that I had a better experience playing this game than I did with Horizon 4 using a purchased disc version on a Xbox One X console

Up to this point I have dismissed game streaming platforms and have thought the only way for me was with physical consoles playing physical disc based games, well after spending a few hours on xcloud it’s changed my mind, if they could get the rumble feature working on Mac then it would be perfect,

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FH4 had 2 million 1st week.

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