loving the chav spoiler
and im sure you can lower it further than that
mind you that would prolly make it handle even more like a tugboat.-Ben-
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144bhp but only 98mph? you need either better gearing or a longer track - i've seen 96 on the clock of a 900cc.... mind you it was 5-up, downhill....
looks freakin' A though ... solid platinum awesome.
you havent been taking tips from the Panda roodboy round sutton have you?
Stick some darker tints, frownie eyebrows and underlighting on that and it'd be the living spit of it. (well....... that, and remove the chavofoil)
i've got tomorrow and monday off work.... and my bro's home with his PS2.... and payday is next wednesday - i think i smell an excuse for a trip to the shops brewing!
looks freakin' A though ... solid platinum awesome.
you havent been taking tips from the Panda roodboy round sutton have you?
Stick some darker tints, frownie eyebrows and underlighting on that and it'd be the living spit of it. (well....... that, and remove the chavofoil)i've got tomorrow and monday off work.... and my bro's home with his PS2.... and payday is next wednesday - i think i smell an excuse for a trip to the shops brewing!
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Update on THE panda's top speed. 166mph with the aid of NOS. I love my lil chav mobile.Tahrey1043 wrote:144bhp but only 98mph? you need either better gearing or a longer track - i've seen 96 on the clock of a 900cc.... mind you it was 5-up, downhill....
looks freakin' A though ... solid platinum awesome.
you havent been taking tips from the Panda roodboy round sutton have you?
i've got tomorrow and monday off work.... and my bro's home with his PS2.... and payday is next wednesday - i think i smell an excuse for a trip to the shops brewing!
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Update on THE panda's top speed. 166mph with the aid of NOS. I love my lil chav mobile.
carmadaaron wrote:ok then... is that actually aerodynamically friendly in the game? lol
sweeeeeeeeeeet... got myself a copy now, just got to get bro's PS2 hooked up (probably at about 4am when i get back from work!).... gotta have a go at that! (it's gotta be a red one though, in honour of the first car i can remember riding around in - mums flame red panda!)
funniest thing in the world in gt2 was putting together a cinq that would do 150
NOS in a panda.... *shakes head*... too funny.
It's about as aerodynamic as a Mk2 would be, I reckon - how fast would one of those with a G, long ratio box and NOS go?
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damn it, what have i done with my pendrive
maybe my digital camera will work as a substitute???
hehehe.... well no matter, haven't got enough free memory card space to get GT mode working yet, and all the shops are closed...
just playing around in arcade mode, game seems awesome so far - controls are precise but less likely to "kill" you than GT2 or 3 ..... they've fettled the useless GT3 lighting..... and... i just can't tell whether or not the anti aliasing is being used!?!?
tracks are fantastic and the cars look.......... wow!
and of course with all the extra models there's much room for silliness.
here's a challenge for you ---
VW Beetle 1100, unmodified, economy tyres, manual....... do the ring in under 14 minutes.
It's doable ... and you should come first, too. Though everyone else in the 500s and japanese quadricycle things might scoot away in the first half of the track, you'll maim them up Kesselchen (...at all of 37mph...! and at least two miles of no more than 45) and continue flying all the way back down the other side. Tip for preserving your sanity is not to set it to more than 2 laps - 1, if you don't like long races.
It's not high speed (the rev limiter kicks in at 89mph downhill, after redlining at 78 ) but it's quite good fun as the roadholding is a bit dodgy. Rear engine + RWD + 1930s suspension + pramwheels = a very tail happy car, but, it's controllable, and you can get some smile-inducing drifts at e.g. 50mph around Karussel
Then do it again in the 60's Mustang... fantastic speed (though it needs 5th badly) but even worse handling
And then the Volvo 240 (fairly quick but a boat) and the odd Toyota open-wheeled job
And..... finally.... do it in the Subaru 360 and try not to go mental (it's a slug-slow 15hp, meaning about 18mph up the big hill, and has a 3 speed box - with the rev limiter kicking in bang on 50mph). ...
Trick is to change down once you hit the limiter, then back up again once your speed returns to 49mph. You can actually come in 3rd or 4th with the thing, unmodified!
this thing's gonna keep me busy for years... i've only even tried the three tracks so far
PS from the look of the dials in Replay mode, the Panda is indeed about the closest match you'll find for a mk2/3 1-litre
Only disappointment - the sound. The music's great and all (though i'm sure it will soon start to grate horrible, as ever), but the engine and tyre noises are unchanged not just from GT3, but from GT2 (possibly even GT1!). That's just downright lazy and their audio team should be ashamed.
You know what gave it away?
The Mustang sounds just like the Fiat 500 from GT2.
That's not just wrong, but spolied the whole drive for me til i forced myself to ignore it. A car like that shouldn't make a stupid farty/groany noise (not even as racy as the old 1L...), it should ROAR. Sort it out, Sony!
(the Bug sounds like a box of scissors being shaken - close, but obviously not sampled from the real thing - and the electric pod-racer thing uses the one-size-fits-all rally car gearbox whine. rubbish, when you consider the phenomenal amount of work the graphics and modelling teams must have put in!)
tch!
that, and how they don't seem to have realised any type of gearbox apart from the basic crash box exists - in the GT world, neither synchromesh manual, the epicyclic/torque converter automatic, or any kind of sequential/semi-auto box other than the horrid Smart Car type seems to exist. And the clutch control, whilst improved for most situations, still has moments of pure horror that you just dont find in any other game. Arrrgh!
HOWEVER
Photo mode is far too addictive - i find myself bemoaning several missing "things" that could have been done with it.... but at the same time it's a very good thing that they can't, otherwise I would simply have to quit my job.
Farting around on the 'ring with the multitude of different cars is bad enough, in terms of time eaten (or putting maximum NOS on a Panda and seeing 115mph out of an otherwise unmodified 1-litre... on the flat of the test track)... but dicking around getting that just-so perfect pic is LETHAL .... hours disappear!
Gotta get a USB drive to transfer them with....!
Being creative with them is fun ------ Car Wars mode (drive round the wrong way and try to make a six-vehicle pileup... the AI is stoopid), Dukes of Hazzard rally shots (Hemi Orange Charger, Cathedral Falls, the bubble car drift challenge, etc 
wicked cool!
note: this post has been edited/re-edited such that, effectively, i bought a memory card halfway through..
maybe my digital camera will work as a substitute???
hehehe.... well no matter, haven't got enough free memory card space to get GT mode working yet, and all the shops are closed...
just playing around in arcade mode, game seems awesome so far - controls are precise but less likely to "kill" you than GT2 or 3 ..... they've fettled the useless GT3 lighting..... and... i just can't tell whether or not the anti aliasing is being used!?!?
tracks are fantastic and the cars look.......... wow!
and of course with all the extra models there's much room for silliness.
here's a challenge for you ---
VW Beetle 1100, unmodified, economy tyres, manual....... do the ring in under 14 minutes.
It's doable ... and you should come first, too. Though everyone else in the 500s and japanese quadricycle things might scoot away in the first half of the track, you'll maim them up Kesselchen (...at all of 37mph...! and at least two miles of no more than 45) and continue flying all the way back down the other side. Tip for preserving your sanity is not to set it to more than 2 laps - 1, if you don't like long races.
It's not high speed (the rev limiter kicks in at 89mph downhill, after redlining at 78 ) but it's quite good fun as the roadholding is a bit dodgy. Rear engine + RWD + 1930s suspension + pramwheels = a very tail happy car, but, it's controllable, and you can get some smile-inducing drifts at e.g. 50mph around Karussel
Then do it again in the 60's Mustang... fantastic speed (though it needs 5th badly) but even worse handling
And then the Volvo 240 (fairly quick but a boat) and the odd Toyota open-wheeled job
And..... finally.... do it in the Subaru 360 and try not to go mental (it's a slug-slow 15hp, meaning about 18mph up the big hill, and has a 3 speed box - with the rev limiter kicking in bang on 50mph). ...
Trick is to change down once you hit the limiter, then back up again once your speed returns to 49mph. You can actually come in 3rd or 4th with the thing, unmodified!
this thing's gonna keep me busy for years... i've only even tried the three tracks so far
PS from the look of the dials in Replay mode, the Panda is indeed about the closest match you'll find for a mk2/3 1-litre
Only disappointment - the sound. The music's great and all (though i'm sure it will soon start to grate horrible, as ever), but the engine and tyre noises are unchanged not just from GT3, but from GT2 (possibly even GT1!). That's just downright lazy and their audio team should be ashamed.
You know what gave it away?
The Mustang sounds just like the Fiat 500 from GT2.
That's not just wrong, but spolied the whole drive for me til i forced myself to ignore it. A car like that shouldn't make a stupid farty/groany noise (not even as racy as the old 1L...), it should ROAR. Sort it out, Sony!
(the Bug sounds like a box of scissors being shaken - close, but obviously not sampled from the real thing - and the electric pod-racer thing uses the one-size-fits-all rally car gearbox whine. rubbish, when you consider the phenomenal amount of work the graphics and modelling teams must have put in!)
tch!
that, and how they don't seem to have realised any type of gearbox apart from the basic crash box exists - in the GT world, neither synchromesh manual, the epicyclic/torque converter automatic, or any kind of sequential/semi-auto box other than the horrid Smart Car type seems to exist. And the clutch control, whilst improved for most situations, still has moments of pure horror that you just dont find in any other game. Arrrgh!
HOWEVER
Photo mode is far too addictive - i find myself bemoaning several missing "things" that could have been done with it.... but at the same time it's a very good thing that they can't, otherwise I would simply have to quit my job.
Farting around on the 'ring with the multitude of different cars is bad enough, in terms of time eaten (or putting maximum NOS on a Panda and seeing 115mph out of an otherwise unmodified 1-litre... on the flat of the test track)... but dicking around getting that just-so perfect pic is LETHAL .... hours disappear!
Gotta get a USB drive to transfer them with....!
Being creative with them is fun ------ Car Wars mode (drive round the wrong way and try to make a six-vehicle pileup... the AI is stoopid), Dukes of Hazzard rally shots (Hemi Orange Charger, Cathedral Falls
, the bubble car drift challenge, etc wicked cool!
note: this post has been edited/re-edited such that, effectively, i bought a memory card halfway through..
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I'm with Tony! The DeLorean is crap, ha ha! I haven't sold it because you can't win it again 
The Jaguar XJR-9 is good for high-speed-ring endurance racing (arouund and arouund and arouund...) but not much else...
And yes you can link up two (or possibly more?) consoles through a LAN and play against each other through the LAN. Presumably the more ethernet connections you can get hold of, the more racers can play, up to 6 players at a time I think, although I'm still to test it out. Sounds promising though. Online play is currently "not supported", that is, it doesn't work without some fiddling about and some extra software and stuff, as you can tell I've read a lot about this but rumours are that Polyphony will re-release GT4 later in the year with online play built in 
The Jaguar XJR-9 is good for high-speed-ring endurance racing (arouund and arouund and arouund...) but not much else...
And yes you can link up two (or possibly more?) consoles through a LAN and play against each other through the LAN. Presumably the more ethernet connections you can get hold of, the more racers can play, up to 6 players at a time I think, although I'm still to test it out. Sounds promising though. Online play is currently "not supported", that is, it doesn't work without some fiddling about and some extra software and stuff, as you can tell I've read a lot about this
but rumours are that Polyphony will re-release GT4 later in the year with online play built in 
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