you should strap it to a fligeon and fly it around the track
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Aw why did the Lattice score a 0 in aesthetics I couldn’t help but admire my design this time I think it looks super cool!
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I’m confused, does higher Pos. mean faster, or slower?
I can’t tell, 'cause on the higher end we have stock family minivans and a semi truck, but on the lower end we have trolleys, 70’s SUVs, and a Betterdeals.
(if I could have a Forza-style racing game with this lineup I’d buy 1 mil copies)
Common Lorem Ipsum fail. Have fun with the snail though.
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it goes from very easy to drive at the top to absolute hell to drive at the bottom (don’t ask how the glober is #12, because i don’t know either)
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From my own 37-minute glober run, it was pain. I haven’t even finished a run with the piece of crap minivan. They’re both horrible.
Then the Xenia in 56th will probably be a huge relief to drive compared to the rest around it - the turbo lag is hardly noticeable unless starting from an almost standstill and the FWD wheelspin in first gear goes away with shortshifting or a slight lift off the throttle.
Oh hey, my entries got in!
I really want to see the attempts at completing a lap in the painful one. I might post a little preview so y’all can see why I want to see it, because uhhhh… It’s pain.
the guns make it in the top 10 for starting
lets see how they do
and good luck to you, especially when you start diving into madness
the runs will be publicly viewable
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I’m interested to find out how “easy” vs. “hard” to drive was decided, and how well that holds up in practice.
Like @Madrias 2009, 600 horsepower, FWD Sinistra is 22nd. Yet @AndiD’s Xenia, 11 years newer and with 200 less horsepower (as well as I think being smaller and having better tires), is 56th. And mine, which has 300 less horsepower and which I know is smaller with top-grade tires, is 48th. My instinct would tell me the latter 2’d be easier.
I mean, the Sinistra is probably the only one with traction control; but I doubt that’s enough of an advantage to put it so much higher on its own. I wonder what else is at play here?
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It’s in the post, way up at the top. It’s a combination of drivability, safety and comfort, as scored in Automation. Plus LS’s subjective style judging.
(Style Points (max 10))+(Comfort/4)+(Drivability/2)+(Safety/5)
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Xenia has 34 drive (4k+ turbo spool, semi slicks etc.), min comfort and safety, and Mara’s signature class and style - but handles great if driven like a racecar
The question remains, why numbers is divides by denominators in the formula?
Probably for the convenience of table reading.
In addition, he evaluates on a progressive, absolute scale, and not only on relative, when all numbers should lie in a strict range.
It’s not for table reading, it’s a scaling factor. LS decided a point in drivability should be worth twice as much as a point in comfort, and a point in comfort should be worth a little more than a point in drivability. He also decided that his “up to 10” style point system should have every point worth twice as much as a point in drivability.
This could have been done with multiplication rather than division, but there’s no difference mathematically.
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And I thought just to bring to percents.
@LS_Swapped_Rx-7 Upload this run to Vimeo if you must. We can’t let YouTube content policies get in the way of the Dildozer!
Eyyy, apparently my BIG BOI engine with a die-cast car built around it isn’t ridiculously poor! I’m surprised it came in above several of the more realistic production cars and not just the meme entries.
Both my 2009 cars (the Sinistra and the Bricksley) have ESC, which means they also have traction control and ABS.
The Bricksley is an 850+ horsepower twin-turbo V10 pumped to the rear axle, but is a relatively safe and comfortable car, and tuned to be drivable - there’s a lot of potential left on the table for it that I didn’t use.
The Sinistra is a 600-ish horsepower FWD car, a relatively comfortable and safe vehicle in general.
I just grabbed two premade cars and put them in here with minimal adjustments.
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