My short review and gameplay videos on ipad 4 and iPhone 4S http://youtu.be/CiQ4qWntYig http://youtu.be/fD0mjflxst4
If you mean the corner before the long straight, it's one of the trickiest ones, and it's where I'm quite bad at. I recommend you to break early and aim to the right. And don't accelerate until you have about 3/5 of the corner done, or you'll suffer oversteering. I don't own the Ford GT, and don't even think twice about getting the GT-R. It's one of the best cars in the game, period. It is faster than anything else on that group, by a huge margin. Add about $50k in handling improvements, and you're unbeatable. You'll need to do that, because the acceleration power is so big you will oversteer unless you don't get excited Believe me, buy it. You'll appreciate it.
Have you tried practicing with the Ford GT with traction control and the other assists on? I have the Porsche Carrera GT in the Supercare League, and am able to control it with all assists on using the default control scheme.
In my opinion, the Ford GT is one of the worst cars in the game (and the Carrera GT). Either way, if you're aiming for 100% on the event, you will need that car. In that series, the GT-R is definitely the car to own, to complete most of the events.
I noticed the Nissan GT-R Premium (R35) accelerates at 2.8s, while the Porsche Carrera GT accelerates at 3.8s. The Nissan is a full second faster, has better handling and costs half the Porsche Carrera GT. I was a little bummed after buying the Porsche when I noticed the Nissan specs. The Porsche also often takes 2 hours to repair. I'm not really happy with the Porsche Carrera GT and would get the Nissan GT-R Premium (R35) if I were to do it again. The cars are lined up in cost order, not performance order, it seems. The most expensive cars are not necessarily the best performing.
Same thing applies to the other event where the GT-R also participates. Despite the obvious price gap and that the GT-R is the only car that isn't race-type, it behaves extremely well, even towards the 918 RSR.
Regretting blowing 1/2m on the 918 discounted porsche ... seems like the only championship it opened up is useless for without mass upgrades.... getting absolutely trounced with it. Wish i'd bought something else now ... Game overall is now starting to slow down ... most championships i'm in i'm at 80's% complete (ie need another car or two to complete) and the ones i'm not near finishing i can't make money / gold quick enough to get the upgrades done The prize money is unbalanced ... getting just R$3k for a win in a championship running cars all costing 2/3mil with basic upgrades costing 60+k is unrealistic now. Would pay for IAP money but £13.99 for R$700,000 isn't value I've had a couple weeks solid fun from the game but seems now if you come at a championship late and all your friends have already done it you tend to be outgunned in horsepower ... Can't really complain at having a total of 52 hours gameplay for free .... just wish it was possible to buy some more time in the game for a reasonable fee .... will see what the new content brings since EA say FM are working hard on more content
Yup, the last part is a no-go. Last events aside, when you compete with the very best cars it will often be at loss. You'll lose more money than you earn - the only 'good' thing about that is the fact you actually earn fame points.
That's what I thought. Had my fingers crossed for something a bit extra as it is level 100 but oh well lol
Once you dial in and figure out how to drive without assists, it can feel pretty amazing to win some of these races. Indianapolis Speedway is the only one where I feel I just need traction control because the downside of spinning out is just unrecoverable at times. I think the most repair points I've seen was 18. .... I'm starting to feel the steam go out of my motivation to continue playing. On Pro/Am I'm sitting at 100%/100%/99%/86%. Some of the races just seem impossible even with repairs and that's with cutting the net connections and mostly dealing with the AI (people with flag icons). I guess I'm just starting to feel more frustration than fun in trying to 100% complete the game. I want to move on to better cars and events, but in order to get that 20% off on cars... I need to save some serious bucks. I'm starting to think saving up for that Porsche last week was a bad idea despite how much I love driving that car. So, I'm going to pass completely on the weekly deals because grinding for that one car cost me progress in unlocking cars naturally and the price on the "lower" end cars that I haven't purchase is something around 200K. I'm also considering just retiring the game for now (backup my save and delete it from my iPhone) and dive deep into RR2. My kids have been playing that and having a lot of fun... and the whole repairing process and stuff and how it eats into prize money is feeling way more grindy than it did early on with the game. I have had fun with it, but I just feel my passion being sucked out with every impossible race that is holding me back from 100%'ing some of these events. I think I'll give it this week and if I feel the same way on Friday then I'll move on to RR2 and let this go for a while.
I was curious to see how long you would keep playing, since I am sure at some point, it would get very difficult to 100% everything in a circuit. I'm not even sure it could be done without inapp purchases. I'm still hoping for an icloud save option soon so I too can delete the game and save my progress, cause it takes some hours to a point with 4 decent cars like I have now. Since it is close to 2 gb disk space, kinda need the disk space for my new icade core games. Too bad this game won't support my icade core bluetooth joystick. Now that would be awesome, and it would probably cause this game to remain on my system.
Sadly, I'm with you. It's become more work than fun at this point (unlike SSG2, which is my new obsession). I just don't have the patience to endlessly grind $2k at a time (the way I drive, that's about what I net ).
Yeah, the 2K profit grind is kind of a pain. I usually clear around 4K on the multi-lap bigger races... sometimes as much as 8K (after 3K in repairs and servicing). I'm pretty resigned to give it through the rest of the wee, but I went ahead and installed RR2 today just so it's there. I think I've topped out at around 20K on a race. Once you beat a friend then you can't make money from them again until they beat your time. So you can't just grind the same race over and over and rake in both the winnings and the money from friends unless you just have hundreds of friends or something (which honestly I don't want just a ton of random people in my friends list).
Not sure if this bug has been mentioned but I figure I'll toss it out there just incase. The good news I discovered this morning : . The real money currency cars do get discounted if you wait until the discount price is offered mid series. . Real money car purchases are instant delivery. The bad news I discovered this morning : The after spending 52c (normal price 65c) on the Mclaren MP4-12C and getting the congradulations screen it returned me to the buy screen. Worried that I hadn't bought it I tapped buy again... and it charged me again. In my 'garage' I can now hit the arrow past the mclaren like there's another car there but the on screen car dosent change since the mclaren is my most recent purchase. Sigh, I just spent 104c on a car that normal price is 65c. Consider yourselves warned folks.
I disagree. It gets very difficult in times, to get to 100% on an event, but difficult doesn't make it impossible. I didn't spend a single cent on the game, and I have 13 events/series on 100%: all four in Pro/Am World Series, two in Supercar League, all three in Production master, both in V8 international, one in Showdowns and one in Grand Tour (RWD). And that without those "tricks" regarding turning off Internet access to disable your TSM friends. Sometimes it gets frustrating (I have one event stuck at 97% because I was trying not to spend money upgrading the Carrera GT, and I'm not able to win its showcase), but when I finally get that very extra difficult victory in a race, the reward is totally worth it.
Yes, but you can do that in a large nr. of races. I mean, if you repeat it ten times - which is definitely possible - you will end up grinding a very nice sum of money.
