My thoughts on beta 5 :)

[Arrowjmax4]

Tonight I downloaded beta 5,

First I tried the fs250 at a track I know quite well, essay short, first I thought woah, this things slow, but after some testing and setup changes I figured it is a GREAT KART, it is very well for trying things on setup cause it's slow enough so u can feel and see what different setup stuff does, so u should be able to transfer that knowledge back into the kc1 2 and ks3.

Next, I go online, to see......... 7 people online! That is alot for krp IMO, so I joined one called, towoomba 2, so I thought, well that's in australia, and it had 3-4 people in it! So I joined it, the online, was FANTASTIC! to bad the people who were in it were driving around being stupid etc, I hat about 60-70 ping and there was NO lag,

I find another server, it was being run from france I think, I joined and had about, 300-390 ping? I thought, well this will suck, but to my amaze, and I mean, I was shocked! I was able to follow these guys, and battle with them with little lag but no jumping just little twitches! I was ecstatic, we had fun, great bunch of guys and close times cause we were in the fs250.

Cons- I love my ks1, and I have previously set the 3rd fastest time around essay and essay short in beta 4, but when I tried it this time, I didn't Like the engine "blowing up" when I hit Max revs, it was undriveable, it needs to be fixed.

Other things:
Rubble- AWESOME feature, very cool indeed.
Ducking- this I love, I do this in real life alot, and when I followed people in game and they werent ducking, I could catch them up the straight. one thing, not that I have it but I might get it, the head tracking thing? If I was able to duck my head in real life with it, it would be cool if he did it aswell.
Radiator cover: like the new %5 and able to change it while driving, makes life easier.


PiBoSo, I think for a small team, u have produced my favourite game of all time, karting is my only sport I do, and it is great to do this when im not racing, game of the year 2012 nominee I think it should be.......

[Rupe W]

Im still playing round with facetrack Noir and this games supports it. Load facetrack noir, click on freetrack,and in game check freetrack. Once in game you may need to invert yaw,pitch,x and y. and than configure keyboard shortcuts, dissable roll rotation and your good to go. 

ive still got to try this with beta5

"Cons- I love my ks1, and I have previously set the 3rd fastest time around essay and essay short in beta 4, but when I tried it this time, I didn't Like the engine "blowing up" when I hit Max revs, it was undriveable, it needs to be fixed."   AGREED, adjustable rev limiter... or on off button not all of us are so hard core..

still got problems with people entering servers .. leaving seems alot beter..
would love to drive into my pitbox as apposed to quit to pits
rear facing camera on my skid lid and a small screen in my wheel etc...   We can all dream  :-}  but its getting there...we are racing close and clean...

[Racehard]

I've just checked out the homepage of face track noir.
Seems to be very interesting and it is for free! I will definitely give it a try when I have some time.

Maybe you can share your impressions when you tried this on beta 5. Facetrack Noir deserves an own thread here, at least if it works, because I think a lot people don't know it.

http://facetracknoir.sourceforge.net/home/default.htm

But I think it would need to be very sensitive, otehrwise you would loose the monitor out of sight 
Maybe it is usefull when somebody is close behind or besides you, too see him easier?

PiBoSo, I think for a small team, u have produced my favourite game of all time, karting is my only sport I do, and it is great to do this when im not racing, game of the year 2012 nominee I think it should be.......

Well said

[Rupe W]

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/trackir-freetrack-and-face-track.15777/   i got all my info from here... i cant say it any beter...