{"id":3364,"date":"2011-08-23T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2011-08-23T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T13:06:22","slug":"racing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/racing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I jump firmly back into the loving embrace of <em>Pride of Nations, Supreme Ruler: Cold War, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Six Gun Saga, Sengoku, Sword of the Stars II<\/em> and every other amazing strategy game to come out this fall, I should update you on how the racing is going.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/eW1Ach.jpg\" alt=\"Hood Sans Ornament\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is how a lot of my races are ending on my first drive through a new course in <em>Shift 2: Unleashed<\/em>, which has become my racing game of choice. <em>F1 2010<\/em> is what I <em>want<\/em> to play, especially with the new one right around the corner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rc6jWpA-03k\">and looking great<\/a>, but the map is useless and I don&#8217;t know the tracks well enough to do more than get in everyone&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dirt 3<\/em> still looks great, but doesn&#8217;t handle very well. I&#8217;ve learned just how different driving games are, because while <em>Shift 2<\/em> fights me hard and gives me good feedback on traction and corners, <em>Dirt 3<\/em> always feels like I am driving on ice, except &#8211; as my racing coach and fellow Canuck <a href=\"http:\/\/jenncutter.com\">Jenn Cutter<\/a> notes &#8211; when you are supposed to be driving on ice; then it&#8217;s like you are driving on some unholy mess of god knows what.<\/p>\n<p>But I am improving, and a lot of the advice from the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/24\/training-wheels-learning-to-race\/\">in the earlier blog post helped<\/a>. I turned off most of the driving aids, focused on learning the braking lines and sticking to beating my own times, racing against myself. <em>Shift 2<\/em> desperately needs stewards or something, because they will penalize you a lap for the slightest cut across the grass but someone can T-bone you into a concrete barrier and no one seems to care. So I may be a little &#8220;aggressive&#8221; on my starts now.<\/p>\n<p>I have made podiums, souped up my car, beaten proper lap times, raced on Suzuka and Nurburbring. I am getting the hang of this bit by bit.<\/p>\n<p>But it will soon be time for world conquest again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I jump firmly back into the loving embrace of Pride of Nations, Supreme Ruler: Cold War, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Six Gun Saga, Sengoku, Sword of the Stars II and every other amazing strategy game to come out this fall, I should update you on how the racing is going. This is how a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-Sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}