Antilag GT5 Online Racing (Thursday 23rd June)

[MGR]

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Driving standards: You will inevitably be punted during the evening (from accidents or lag) but 'revenge' punts just breed more shit driving.
Keep it clean. Even if you think you've been hard done by. Keep it clean.


http://i.imgur.com/bjI0V.jpg

DETAILS

- From about 8:30pm onwards

Eligible cars
> Racing cars GT500/DTM/FIA GT etc 630PP* or less and Racing Soft tyres.
- If you don't have any racing cars in your garage you can choose one from the arcade list (eg Calsonic Nissan GT-R or Castrol Toyota Supra)
> And the usual one make stuff from the 'Recommended' arcade car list.


* You can de-tune your car for online racing by adjusting the Power 'slider' control if your car creeps over 630PP.

> Various Tracks (inc some random generated tracks)
> Driving aids allowed except skid recovery

Driving Standards

Some drivers are obviously faster than others but we're all racing for fun so boost is turned on to keep the pack together.

> Give each other racing room. No other pushing or ramming other cars off the tarmac.
> If you accidentally push or hit a competitor off the track, slow and let them re-pass you to address the situation (apologising via your headset will also help).
> If you deliberately push or hit a competitor off the track, you won't be invited back.

For how to join and connection troubleshooting CLICK HERE (http://www.antilag.com/forums/showpost.php?p=818220&postcount=2).

See you all tomorrow.

http://i.imgur.com/lhRad.jpg

[ALEX.]

At this time I'll likely be at a mate's house with wireless internet.
He's not gone online in GT5 before so we're hoping to give it a go tonight.

We'll test out the ping and make the settings as best they can be, but I honestly have no idea how good/reliable/fast wireless connections are, so MGR if you want to let me know in the first few races if we're lagging the fuck out of everyone and we'll jump off, no worries.

I'll add you - my mate's PSN handle is hurrikane I think. :)

[Miggy]

PS3 SYSTEM UPDATE! Not sure how big it is I have a fairly good connection and it took me about 5-10mins.

[Tre-Cool]

will be in as ussual

[Miggy]

At this time I'll likely be at a mate's house with wireless internet.
He's not gone online in GT5 before so we're hoping to give it a go tonight.

We'll test out the ping and make the settings as best they can be, but I honestly have no idea how good/reliable/fast wireless connections are, so MGR if you want to let me know in the first few races if we're lagging the fuck out of everyone and we'll jump off, no worries.

I'll add you - my mate's PSN handle is hurrikane I think. :)


Wireless seems to run pretty good BUT it's not uncommon to get connection problems and get kicked out of a race half way through for no reason a few of us have found.


Everyone should check out the online collectors dealership heaps of cheap cars with 0k's on them.

[Milhouse]

^ +1

i dont mind a bit of panel rubbing but smashing into someone by cutting them off then racing away really isnt sporting.

[Azrian]

Ill pop on.

Guys if you end up taking people out by accident or by just not braking, please drop back and let said person pass as good gesture.

It makes racing so much more fun.

[Tre-Cool]

fucking 178meg download going slow as all fuck.

been 10 minutes allready and only at 43%

[TJ]

Cant get in - have cleared cache.

[NoOg_sTaR]

Home for a change and wanting to join. 60 mins in still updating.

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

[2jzlux]

Home for a change and wanting to join. 60 mins in still updating.

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

Same
Not sure how you guys are getting it in 10 mins, my conection isnt slow and its downloading at 44kb/s

[ALEX.]

6 updates for my mate's PS3 we are using. Started an hour ago. 50% done..
PS: we are now wired connection

[2jzlux]

Does wired/wireless really make that much difference?

[MGR]

Cant get in - have cleared cache.

Try now.

[TJ]

nope. no deal. have reset, cleared again, etc. farkin

[MGR]

nope. no deal. have reset, cleared again, etc. farkin

Miggy now host

[Azrian]

I gave up. Connection keeps on dropping out.

[Milhouse]

game froze on daytona track loading. left lobby and rejoined only to get the black screen when the race started.

couldnt hear what people with headsets were saying properly, so appologies if i interupted anything. Really need to invest in a headset so i can respond faster.

[mys1]

Sorry for some scrappy driving, takes a bit of getting used to!

Fun times

Riggytc

[Tre-Cool]

was some good tight races when it was working properly. same car racing and the 630 pp race at the end was also good.

Corvette Power!

[TJ]

Probably the worst one Ive been part of.

[mys1]

Fuji in the GTR's was good fun, The boost kept fucking with my judgement into turn one, once I figured that out I punted less people.

Headset will make communication easier, I think theres a spare one at dads

[hostage_85]

lol... One thing to say:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q37/hostage_85/7LYWHBfIzZLrsjOuk_0.jpg
Airborne FTW!!! haha

[Crispymk2]

Thats a pretty good effort! Points for style

[Tre-Cool]

was some funny shit from a couple of cars back.

[Fusion]

The R8's at Tsukuba was an awesome race. The GTR's at Fuji were good as well once everyone settled down a bit in the second race (plus winning off the strategy of pitting for tyres helps make it a good race)

The ISF's at the Le Mans track was just stupid racing. Reminded me a lot of the front wheel drive car races around Nurburgring, corners being cut, cars being taken out on straight, but had some hilarious moments.

[ALEX.]

Looked a bit rough from a spectator's point of view.
Obviously my mate had some teething problems this time. He hadn't given GT a go so we had to install all the game data too.
Took over 2 hours to do that + updates and when it was all done there was too many problems to race (black screens entering and exiting races which didn't fo away). We'l fix it and be back next week!

[Miggy]

lol @ the GTR pic, Bj's car had wings I swear that was in the air more then on the ground.

As soon as you hear Dave's laugh you know some serious shit is about to or just has gone down.

[MGR]

Connection issues a plenty last night, no matter who was host.

I'll be taking some additional measures to try and improve the situation for next week, but I suspect the problems were probably more likely related to the PSN network or the most recent GT5 patch which seems to have spawned a few game bugs.

GTR's on Fuji and some of the Tsukuba races were the highlight. The Circuit de la Sarthe race was 'interesting'. Wouldn't mind trying it again next week in the dark (with penalties on and boost set low)

http://i.imgur.com/igrbi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Cfqgo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2WjLy.jpg

[ALEX.]

RACING TOMORROW? (I believe it's international caps day... or was that yesterday?)