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[quote=“strop”]BROBOT has changed a couple of things… most of all the times. Second place now is quite likely to be a lot further down the leaderboards in the old builds.

While it is possible to get down Haruna on a drivability of 0. It will however be terrifying and your driver will poke around the hairpins at about the same pace as a Daihatsu Move :laughing:

This said, this all depends on just why your car has a driveability of 0. My 500km/h ultra fuck-off boosted Mercury has a super laggy turbo with a late spool, naturally, to yield somewhere in the realm of 2200hp. It’ll definitely go around corners, provided you don’t turn the driving aids off, and have a feather-light throttle foot. Having modded a few cars in Assetto Corsa to model its acceleration and handling, I can very much attest that going from 500 to 2200Nm of torque in less than 1000rpm is very difficult to control without aids!

That said, if your car was undriveable like Kristina’s E30 LS2 was because the dynamics were completely shit, then nothing can save you :stuck_out_tongue:

P.S. It seems that turning driving aids on/off in the new system no longer makes a difference to your track times, which means that the new simulations pretty much wring the absolute theoretical maximum out of your car assuming perfect control. I’m glad I discovered this sooner rather than later! That’ll be something we need to somehow take into account.[/quote]

cough LS7 twin turbo cough on 185 tires wasn’t it?

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Well, the rears were 245s but seriously LOL, 1240hp on 245s was just like 8bs’s 700 on 165s :laughing:

Also sorry, LS2 would have been truly ancient.

I’ve just left a question on the new build feedback thread. I’m curious to see what we can do with this, even on top of all the work done on recalculating the simulation thus far.

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So, any idea if this happening this year, or has it been postponed to next year?

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Lol awesome necro, you’ve been away a while.

Currently the bsll is postponed until I pass my physician hurdle exams. At the very least that’ll be next year (mid-late) :joy: I’ll keep you posted.

On the plus side maybe we can hold it on the new Unreal engine, that would be mad awesome.

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Either way you look at it, you can bet your ass Luke’s not going to miss it. Hardest part for me is going to be deciding what car to take, honestly. I’ve got plenty of ideas… I mean, hell, the Cascabel in your Reasonably-Priced Hypercar thread is technically “League Ready” from the factory showroom floor…

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Luke in the story part of the BSLL, I dread to think what crazy shit he’ll end up doing…

…because you can bet the plot’s probably going to end up pretty left-field. I mean the first one had guns and explosions and government agencies and some secret technology conspiracy and terrorists and international politics and shit. It was just meant to be a two week whirlwind flash hooning event for unhinged thrill-seekers with questionable regard for the law.

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Well, if we consider that the average characters on the crazy scale weighed in at around an 8, I’d say Luke’s more a 6, but that’s because logic and reason kick in and keep him from being too wild.

Back him into a corner with no way out, though, and he will fall back on hidden default programming, and you’ll see a different side of the soldier-turned-civilian.

As for things Luke would do, well, you can almost certainly guarantee that some of the designs I’ve been testing are pretty unique. I’ve got at least four different cars that can make 1000 horsepower without using anything electronic. I think one might even have carburettors. And something that is part of his story but hasn’t been written yet is that Luke enjoys drifting. Something to do with the elegance of being on the razor’s edge of control, where any action has an immediate reaction and an instant response.

And, to be fair, he is probably a little less insane than the others, at least in most respects. Though at the same time, if he has a need to call in some heavy-hitters, well, all bets are off.

Effectively, my car choice list is a little wild, but again, I haven’t quite decided what Luke really would bring for the BSLL.

1000+ horsepower 1980’s Storm Excel with a small magnesium V8, powering just the front wheels.
Storm Mamba, Taipan, or Cascabel SRD, any of which are 1000+ horsepower (and in the case of the Taipan, 2000 horsepower)
Storm Emperor (120x120 V12, mechanical injection, RWD stupidity in a 50’s body.)
From one of my throwaway companies, a 1955 Minn Model 227 (which has a 227-ish cubic inch inline 4) with mechanical injection and very few driving aids. Virtually undrivable, but hilarious to build.
Plus the fact that any number of insane cars could arrive between now and the BSLL.

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between the last BSLL where even i haven’t joined and the number of active players currently… this is gonna be quite a chaos… and i also have something just needed to be tuned for this to be elligible :smiley:

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Well, BSLL ended up being a lot more about the story than the racing anyway. I mean, sure we had races, but the most interesting part was getting from one race to the next cough Paris and Bonneville cough

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cough cough :kissing_heart: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Balance testing for bsll2 will happen shortly after the Unreal update settles down. Balance testing will definitely be required, as many many things have changed!

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so about 3-4 months to go right?

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Yeah in all likelihood I’ll run a one-shot early March I.e. after my first exam. Whether I go on to run the full thing depends on whether I’ve passed :cold_sweat:

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I’m gonna be there. Probably with carburettors and pushrods, because why not? I know, I usually wouldn’t be caught dead playing around with pushrods, but it’s something I’ve been messing around with lately.

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There was one carbs and pushrod engine entry from memory in bsll… 8bs’ Testis, with 731hp and kg. Sure, with its two speed, it was completely undriveable, and being a relic from the sixties it was about fifty years early to the party and got completely destroyed at the end but hey it did work and it was one of the maddest machines there.

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