Too hard?

[Skree]

I am playing the "career", and i am finding difficulties even in passing the very first "stage", N1.

I do not pretend to be an ace pilot or anything, but i do have a tiny bit of practice in driving simulators, and i can't manage to pass the time trials or races without resorting to tricks.

Please ,lower the career difficulty or at the very least make it so that the difficulty is selectable.

Call me names, bash me saying i can't drive, i don't care, but the career is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard it is not fun.

[scalman]

best thing is that i know myself that im braking too early and too long and well AI driving better and with slower cars they can get me any sec if i making those mistakes.. and that driving line is not making things easier because its bad .. i still need it kinda .. but then i see red line and i know its wrong braking line .. so im just guessing for brakings and then i remember what i did before but most times i dont .. AI makes all races realy intense .. im on T2 with ferraris and ok i won monza , because i cut track incouple places .. but thats all i could do .. in fair race ..against all other italias .. i wouldnt had chance... well maybe i could be 3rd but not sure about it too ..
i could compare now lil .. i played some of project cars now in days too ..so there .. car is more nervous maybe and all .. but in race you still feel that you not some last person in race ..i mean in this game its only 80% AI difficulty lowest .. so they still hard and i dont see realy any diff.. cars not becoming slower because of those % sure automatic gearbox getting in my way .. i see how same cars passing me in straight line .. and they braking so differently from me ..im on factory abs and TCS i duno they helping me or not .. i think all those assistants realy making you slower actualy and not faster .. so you loosing more then u getting . but factory settings should be ok still .. i finished one race with italias and i exited game.. its kinda ..too much .. i know next race wouldbe just harder and i will make some mistakes and AI wont make mistakes and i will only see how im not catching them and they just runing away infront me...its not evenfair fight i would say ..im on controller and AI on perfect lines raming everything and staying on track no prob for them ..still i almost saw all now .. i wont play formulas for sure.. i maybe try to finish those italias .. and thats all carrer .. shame that they put all ferraris same cars .. i was enjoying more races with mp4 12c .. it was diff cars so i had chance. i know its not single player racing and devs not made it for career .. sure im having fun with just practice too .. its fine for some time .. but then it needs more still
i tryed online and somehow it didint worked for me .. i just get to qualifications and then no race .. duno ..

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by fxscalman:

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Man, that was hard to read. My eyes hurt. Use some paragraphs and capital letters. And less .. .. :D

[scalman]

... is empty space. so its instead of caps and paragraphs i guess. life is pain :)

[vali]

I found the career mode too easy (did about 60% in an afternoon, got bored and stopped playing) but I am used to harder things and knew some of the tracks, so it helps.

A few tips:
- Practice. Half the people in the thread said it and that is not a coincidence. It is just the better way. In a simulator if you want to be fast you must learn the track.

- Don't rush, take your time. Before entering the next challenge practice the track alone and just do lap after lap trying to be fast and try to not lose grip never. If your wheels start to drift, slow down there in the next lap.

- Slow down before the corner. The exit speed is much, much, much more important than trying to extract the last inch in the braking. The longer the next straight, the more important the exit speed.

- Consistency is king. Until you are not able to do 5 laps in the same second in a row, you need more training. Career mode are sprint races, but if you are consistent there is 90% of chances you are fast enough to beat most of the IA.

I don't think a wheel is a must, but it really enhances the experience. The good thing about PC wheels is they will last years and you will have no worries about compatibilities with the post-next-generation (and then people say consoles are cheaper, having to buy overpriced wheels again and again). I have an G25 wich I bought in 2007. Works like the first day.

If you tink AI is hard in this game wait until pCars hit the stores... (ok, pCars have a slider where you can choose the "agression", but at max they are FAST).

[quf]

vali, there are interesting career mods already created by users: http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/categories/ac-career.60/

[delirivmcordia]

Originally posted by vali:

I found the career mode too easy (did about 60% in an afternoon, got bored and stopped playing) but I am used to harder things and knew some of the tracks, so it helps.

You should take a stab at the Formula Abarth Championship.
I mostly breezed through the rest of the career, but I'm pushing as hard as I can to barely maintain podium positions in this - which I'm really enjoying.
I can literally feel myself developing new skills and trust in the car on a lap-to-lap basis.

[scalman]

Originally posted by vali:

I found the career mode too easy (did about 60% in an afternoon, got bored and stopped playing) but I am used to harder things and knew some of the tracks, so it helps.

A few tips:
- Practice. Half the people in the thread said it and that is not a coincidence. It is just the better way. In a simulator if you want to be fast you must learn the track.

- Don't rush, take your time. Before entering the next challenge practice the track alone and just do lap after lap trying to be fast and try to not lose grip never. If your wheels start to drift, slow down there in the next lap.

- Slow down before the corner. The exit speed is much, much, much more important than trying to extract the last inch in the braking. The longer the next straight, the more important the exit speed.

- Consistency is king. Until you are not able to do 5 laps in the same second in a row, you need more training. Career mode are sprint races, but if you are consistent there is 90% of chances you are fast enough to beat most of the IA.

I don't think a wheel is a must, but it really enhances the experience. The good thing about PC wheels is they will last years and you will have no worries about compatibilities with the post-next-generation (and then people say consoles are cheaper, having to buy overpriced wheels again and again). I have an G25 wich I bought in 2007. Works like the first day.

If you tink AI is hard in this game wait until pCars hit the stores... (ok, pCars have a slider where you can choose the "agression", but at max they are FAST).

all is not so simple .. practice you say .. what about AI hits you and you fly off or you try to pass AI and its push you off .. practice as you want for better time .. but real race is not just empty track with cars...
and i fell way better by doing career without knowing all tracks or racs .. like in bmw i was first time driving them in career , and i learned them in process .. not going home and practice for 100 hrs and then show all how good you are.

[vali]

You mean real drivers don't practice before the race and they are given a car when they get to the track and spect to win?

This is a simulator. To be fast you must know the track and the car. The mantra "I want to win but I will not want o put any effort to achieve it" does not work here.

The best way to be faster is practicing... just driving around alone without any pressure or incidents will make you faster.

When I started with simulators after getting a wheel I spent a lot of time to be able to win a race in GTR2, then I spent a lot of time trying to win a race online in rFactor.

Sometimes you see some lap times and think "they are cheating" (specially when the setups are fixed). Then, after a lot of laps, you notice you are driving in those times and even if you don't push you are beating those personal times from before, lap after lap.

This is the reason simulators are niche: you get your satisfacting after having to work for it. It is not given to you.

[pennarguy]

+1

[scalman]

yes without practiing. and im coming in good places actualy without grinding into game ... yes its sim , but still yes its have that fun factor too. but we all want from game something diff.. someone faster lap times .. im not . I just want to have fun by driving cars i love .. so some i love here and some cars not ..
when i practice alone doing lap by lap .. its not for making best time ..well its maybe some part of making better time , but more important for seeing and feeling how car drives and what can i do with it.. how much i can push it and when i cant push it. Those kinda things i wann find in game and im finding.

[pennarguy]

Originally posted by fxscalman:

yes without practiing. and im coming in good places actualy without grinding into game ... yes its sim , but still yes its have that fun factor too. but we all want from game something diff.. someone faster lap times .. im not . I just want to have fun by driving cars i love .. so some i love here and some cars not ..
when i practice alone doing lap by lap .. its not for making best time ..well its maybe some part of making better time , but more important for seeing and feeling how car drives and what can i do with it.. how much i can push it and when i cant push it. Those kinda things i wann find in game and im finding.

What you are really doing; is you are becoming a track racing sim' follower. Everything you describe about what you are doing in AC is really a learning process and at the end of the day you will see that. :)

[P*Funk [ESG]]

Originally posted by NPC 888:

A g27 is like, 200 dollars on amazon. That's pretty damn expensive for a controller for ANY game. If you are using mouse and keyboard and losing, I suggest a budget wheel or gamepad. (logitech pad or 360 pad work fine)

Logitech Driving Force GT. Craigslist. Fifty Bucks.

Congratulations. You just became capable of being good at any racing sim for as much as or less than a crappy console controller.

[Marty]

I gave the career mode a go and wish there was an AI difficuly slider, I found it way too easy and won every race I tried easily on default setup. Maybe some slower guys will find it too hard but it would be good to have an AI difficulty slider. Im pretty sure I have raced AI at 100% tht were much quicker then they are in the career mode. Also there are only 9 cars or so in each race and they all tend to get rubbish starts so I will be in the top 3 before t1 most of the time then during that lap pass the leader and have a boring run to the end.

This was the case 50% through and it never got any harder just more boring. :) I hate the timetrial system so dont bother with them but the races arent much better if we cant set AI to a difficulty setting to either challenge or be able to keep up with depending on drivers level.

[NPC_CO8ALT]

Originally posted by P*Funk ESG:

Originally posted by NPC 888:

A g27 is like, 200 dollars on amazon. That's pretty damn expensive for a controller for ANY game. If you are using mouse and keyboard and losing, I suggest a budget wheel or gamepad. (logitech pad or 360 pad work fine)

Logitech Driving Force GT. Craigslist. Fifty Bucks.

Congratulations. You just became capable of being good at any racing sim for as much as or less than a crappy console controller.

Not to knock the wheel itself, but WHY would using that particular wheel magically make someone better at sim racing? FFB? better handling? I'm legitally puzzled as to why this one wheel is seen as "use this and you get better" as opposed to other wheels. I use a cheaper wheel (Thrustmaster) and i'm just not sold on dropping X amount of dollars on that wheel instead of what I already have.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by NPC 888:

Originally posted by P*Funk ESG:

Logitech Driving Force GT. Craigslist. Fifty Bucks.

Congratulations. You just became capable of being good at any racing sim for as much as or less than a crappy console controller.

Not to knock the wheel itself, but WHY would using that particular wheel magically make someone better at sim racing? FFB? better handling? I'm legitally puzzled as to why this one wheel is seen as "use this and you get better" as opposed to other wheels. I use a cheaper wheel (Thrustmaster) and i'm just not sold on dropping X amount of dollars on that wheel instead of what I already have.

It's the cheapest decent wheel with ffb and 900 rotation. (I imagine your tm has something like 270:)