Ryzza5

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We've had 3 themes before. Maybe one person can pick the car, another can pick the colour, and one can pick the background scenery.

I think down under the options are grouped together differently compared to EU/UK/USA and some are just not available It has the comfort pack (whatever that does), the technik pack (sat-nav, bigger MMI, etc), and the S-line pack (appearance, wheels, flat-bottom steering wheel), plus the sunroof (meh). I've got the sunroof blind closed most of the time because of summer, although coming back to a dark interior it could be decent for the colder months. The only thing not ticked is the driver assistance pack - of which the only extra item I would have liked is radar cruise control. The ability to soften the suspension a bit might also be nice but I don't think that's available on this model. It can reverse park itself, although I always forget about that and just do it myself. I'd also have preferred the 'normal' leather seats - these have leather backs but are suede for the most part - but at least they still are heated (sure, not required, but once you've had them, there's no going back). Audi Drive Select is installed with only the ability to set engine responsiveness and electric steering wheel weight. I have Individual enabled (Dynamic Engine + Comfort steering) Dynamic puts the gearbox into Sport mode (just holds gears) but you can keep Dynamic and return to Drive mode so that all gears are used but responsiveness remains improved compared to Comfort/Efficiency modes. Efficiency is quite interesting. It's just like Comfort but if you stop accelerating it disengages the clutch so that you essentially coast at higher speeds for longer (no engine braking). Both steering weights are not ideal for me. If Comfort was 0 on a scale and Dynamic was 100, I'd like to set the steering at around 70 and forget about it (which I guess is roughly where the Mk6 Golf was). Comfort is great for navigating back streets (90 degree turns) which is why I often use it, but not great for the motorway or spirited forest driving. Dynamic just makes the wheel unnecessarily heavy and doesn't do a lot to improve the predictability of steering outputs. Or maybe it's just because I was cornering faster than I thought I was. Cup-holder location is a bit of a pain as well if using bottles as they hit the dash. Door pockets are angled so no good for fast-food drive-thru runs. Other imperfections with this particular car: Strange rustling drivetrain noise under light acceleration from behind the firewall near the pedals. Steering wheel emits clicking sound only when turning right DCT is very jerky when downshifting/stopping, especially in sport mode. Never had that with my Golf or any other DCT. Rushing sound heard left-rear as if a window wasn't closed properly, and strange window fogging there as well. I seem to get treated like an 'Audi driver' a lot more often now though :(

Because second hand ;) Despite only being ~18 months new I paid 58% of it's original sale price. Also I do prefer the extra capacity in the sportback It's the 1.8T petrol Quattro S-Line insert other random stuff here version. At stock it's 175bhp / 275nm / ~6.8s 0-62 but I'm pretty tempted to get Stage 1 loaded which will be around 251bhp / 402nm / ?.? 0-62

I should probably get around to uploading these shots I should also probably tint those windows :hmmm:

Best episode evar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzfW16ENKf0

4. Click on first result link to turboduck.net 5. World domination!

A few there I can't remember seeing before, 'kitchen sink' had me laughing out loud :toof:

Would you get fined for crashing any car in any first world country? 'Reckless/Dangerous Driving' and/or 'Causing Property Damage' I presume That's assuming police become aware of it, which they probably have to be if you want to claim insurance, which you would for a McLaren F1.

Yep I can see a very small amount of green near the hood ornament

So, uh, what colour are you claiming that to be? :oook:

only undone by the garage door jaggies, but the pic does have great presence to it

Yep agreed. I'd say the extra peripheral vision may assist you spotting other RL players sneaking up on you when in goal keeping position for example. Very hard to judge the pCARS shots (haven't checked full screen). On the one hand the steering wheel appears to be the same size in both which you want, but on the other hand you'd expect the track map (HUD) to be over the same part of the side mirror in both. Have a play with FOV and see if you find any improvement. The official forums probably have suggestions somewhere.

Please do. I'm not sure if FOV requires adjusting or not.

I have something similar to that at work. Great for productivity (designing user interfaces) but for gaming (racing) I'd go a curved variant and higher resolution. The extra pixels didn't help at all for cockpit view, Brian?

Again, wasn't that the idea behind FH2? I gave up playing it early on (X360) so not sure what you guys find lacking there (besides the usual map size)

That's just because we're old members who prefer the good old days

Shall we do this again for 2016? You've got <30 days to cram in some super exciting stuff! :)

Does Forza Horizon 2 extend to Monaco? Or just 'southern France'? Many circuit games have the Monaco track obviously, but Project CARS also has a 7km point to point set of public coastal roads inspired from that same 'Azure' region.

Reminds me of that ol TDU1 movie (started ~2009) I never got around to finishing which starred the GTO :hmmm: One day...

Crash Time 2 + 3 (Alarm fur Cobra) were pretty fun for me - just forgot about them. I never played WR2 because those 'better' games were already out and I didn't have the time or desire to try it.

As far as I know, there are no games earlier than TDU1 (or can otherwise run better on bad hardware) with a map as large or subjectively good as TDU1. That aside, here are a list of games from around that time in no particular order you may wish to investigate: Driver: San Francisco Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Carbon Burnout Paradise Race 07, GTR2, rFactor - with very long community-made track mods (some circuits, others point-to-point). i.e. one example is Targa Florio Midtown Madness, Midtown Madness 2 GTA MOTORM4X Offroad City Car Driving (Learner driver simulator) Hope this helps

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Great article, great story.