9 years ago
blackridge rivals
is anyone else having trouble with these races? i seem to have lost just as many as ive won and more often than not if you "just" win a race you gain less points than you lose if you "just" lose a ra...
@jin1995x wrote:
@TheRealJony lol i thought are 30+. I am 21.
@jin1995x I would have thought my avatar would give it away... lmao
Most of the Swifties are young teenage girls and young ladies.
I'm young, yes.
But I'm not a girl. I'm a guy. 😃
I'm a young guy who is a Swiftie.
And I already have some "Bad Blood" with some people here.
Just in case you don't know what a Swiftie is: What are you Swifty or swiftie
@jin1995x wrote:
Crews are a good idea. I'l call you if i make one.
Awesome!
I have never been in a crew before, but I do have some decent ideas on how to make a successful crew.
I've played NFS World and there were tons of crews in the game (even though there was no official Crew system in the game).
I've also seen their crew threads and their threads look very impressive to attract people to joining their crew.
@jin1995x wrote:
Are you on google hangouts?
Unfortunately, no.
I never even heard about Google Hangouts before to be honest. XD
@jin1995x wrote:
@TheRealJony
this is it😎
O_O
Wow!
Kudos to you!
That's quite an impressive feat. Props to you!
@BossNaija I know it when I see it.
And you just proved me right. You are a talented driver. 😛
Your #3 spot says it all.
Although I'm shocked at how you both managed to upgrade your Ferrari LaFerraris so quick (unless you guys already had installed everything prior to Holiday Season crates being on sale) since I'm still managing to upgrade my Koenigsegg CCX. I still haven't unlocked Tuning for any of my cars yet...
I finished #30 on Blackridge Rivals Season 2. Pretty pathetic.
But at the same time, it was pretty darn good when I managed to place that high on the leaderboard with my 7-Star Ferrari LaFerrari.
I couldn't compete for the #1 spot when all of my cars lack tuning. And that was the reason on how I had a pretty big downfall.
Got match-maked to race both of you and others with tuning that know what they're doing. No chance of winning and had a pretty big SP deductions.
Although I did have quite a few "Race of the Season" during Season 2 though. 👿
I only can post three screenshots at a time though. I'll post them on my next post.
My highest SP was 5906 SP in Season 2 until my opponent destroyed it with their car with superior performance to mine.
I didn't make any mistakes.
They didn't make any mistakes on their run.
I lost.
I only could win I got my opponents' worst runs.
By the way, my challenge should be up shortly. 🙂
Race of the Season 2 #1
I didn't make any mistakes.
My opponent didn't make any mistakes.
However, I took a corner much faster than my opponent and that was the difference between winning or losing.
Please post in the following board, it is the DE board for NFS:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Andere-Need-for-Speed-Spiele/bd-p/other-nfs-games-de
I don't need to understand German to know what @Spetty1504 is grumpy about. (I believe that's the mild description of how Spetty is feeling)
Once again, EA/FM take whatever smidgen of fun and excitement we can eek out of BRR, right out of the game, by introducing more and more AI Ghosts with impossibly fast cars that far exceed any kind of PR capability us mere gamers are confined to. (gamers being the generous folk who fund EA/FM)
Since the start of season 3 my SP has remained around the 4,500 mark because it's impossible to progress. Why you might ask? Well it's very simple... when you start making progress towards 4,600, BRR 'randomly' pits you up against an AI Ghost with 4500 SP in an untuned Koenigsig or even a McLaren ... which should be a cinch to beat in a maxed out CCX fully tuned with 7 spanners and a perfect start, Right?
WRONG!
The AI Ghosts have some 'magic' under the hood that us mere mortals are not privy to. AI Ghost, 'Mikey_M' has a jet engine in his McLaren, because even against my perfect start, I'm sucking on his NOS fumes from the first second, Against my 'perfect run' with a new personal best time, he's already sitting at the clubhouse sipping on a virtual Martini, while I'm finishing up the race!!! ... and I'm 30 to 40 SP down for the privilege!!! WFT? Rinse and repeat and before you know it you're trying to fight your way back up to 4,500 after a few of these UBER AI cars.
I've posted just a few examples below... Note these AI Ghosts are typically way better than my personal best with full tuning.... and they ALWAYS have a lower SP, so that when I lose, I lose BIG.
So much for BRR being a player vs player tournament! It's just a total scam. Currently I'm racing AI Ghosts as much as 30%-40% of the time. They always have a perfect run and finish with the same 'record' time each race, give or take 0.01 of a second occasionally.
What exactly is EA/FM trying to prove or achieve by introducing AI ghosts at the lower SP levels of the game? I can understand introducing them occasionally at the top end of the leader-board when there are few real player ghosts to match against.
Anyway, I'm well past being annoyed by the lack of intelligence, fun and genuine competitiveness in NFSNL.... but seeing @Spetty1504's post, I thought I'd give the English version of what he's on about. I'll just continue playing my 15 annoying BRR races a day for the cash, until I've maxed out all my cars in the garage with black parts.
PS... one BIG hint if you do want to compete in the top 200... get yourself a really slow device like little Jony (i.e an iPod Touch) so that the game slows down to a snails pace and you have all the time in the world to dodge EST's, ramps, roadblocks etc and to pick the perfect line every time. No need to have fast reaction times or figure out what you gonna do in milliseconds... you have all the time in the world!
I figured this out when my lightening fast iPhone 6s Plus had too many apps loaded and slowed NFSNL down to about a 10th of the game's normal speed. I won all five BRR races while sipping my coffee and having a smoke all at the same time. But hey, what's the fun in that, unless you want to swing your charlie around the forum pretending to be a genius racer, when all you are is a loser with a slow device that makes you look like a superstar in the rankings. Personally, I'd hate to play NFSNL or any game at those horribly slow speeds. It would bore me to tears and there would be absolutely no satisfaction beating opponents running on fast devices who are actually being challenged to complete a perfect run.
@jin1995x to be able to tune a car, it needs to be maxed out on black parts. I.e. my CCX is at 1053PR
On a slow device, it doesn't matter whether you use tilt or touch, either way you do not require lightening fast reaction times and have plenty of time to ponder whether to go left or right and weave your way past these irritations with ease.
After playing NFSNL at max speed for over a year, your reactions become so well honed that playing at a 10th or even half the speed, makes winning child's play.
In slow-mo... dodging EST's and all the other obstacles was so easy I actually laughed out loud when I realized how most of the guys at the top are actually getting there. So much for all the back slapping and aggrandizement of NFSNL's so called "Icons"
Personally, I'm a high speed kinda guy and playing a game with 'trainer wheels' attached has absolutely no appeal to me... that's for the little ones.
As for the track... that's Novato Coast Highway Sunset.... it's a Nitrous Run.
@jin1995x I agree with you. An untuned CCX should be able to win, particularly with a perfect start and a perfect run. However, against an AI Ghost, I've even been ahead and followed a perfect line and the McLaren comes screaming past me like I'm looking for parking a third of the way through the track.... and I'm supposedly running at 500kph hitting every nitro strip. Theoretically it should be impossible to catch me.
@jin1995x post some screenshots of races against AI Ghosts. These are screenshots of human ghost opponents.
What device are you running on?
@jin1995x there are many strange anomalies in BRR that defy logic and we know that different devices behave differently in-game and there are other 'mysterious' behaviours that make life difficult for some players and easier for others.
The point of my post was that AI ghosts should not be in BRR... it defeats the object of the game which is to pit your skills up against other players. Further to this, AI Ghosts with unrealistically fast cars in the lower SP ranks simply kills the game for everyone because you're going to lose 30 to 40 SP against these cars each time you race them. I've beaten an AI ghost once in season 3 by a few milliseconds... I should be beating it by 1 or 2 seconds.
@jin1995x agreed, getting better is always the highest priority... it's the reason we play after all. However, there's no joy facing up against AI opponents in a game that's supposed to be against 'human' ghosts. I want to work my way up through the ranks against other players... that's the whole point of BRR. But EA/FM muddy the waters by throwing in AI ghosts at SP levels they do not belong in.
@jin1995x good luck to you too... enjoyed the discussion.
@jin1995x wrote:
@TheRealJony
you did good with the car you have. What's important is you didnt give up. Glad to see you working on your ccx.
@jin1995x Thanks!
Hopefully I can join the battle for #1 between you, Boss, and the others in Blackridge Rivals with my soon-to-be Tuned Koenigsegg CCX. :eahigh_file:
@jin1995x wrote:
Well i was saving stuff for laf ever since i maxed out my ccx.
thank you!
How many Ferrari LaFerrari blueprints did you have to buy from Holiday Season crates? And how many stars did your Ferrari LaFerrari have before buying the crates?
I've played No Limits from the very beginning, so I participated in every single one of Kelly's Blackridge Spirit special events (and gotten every single Ferrari LaFerrari blueprint possible from there).
That is how I have a 7-Star Ferrari LaFerrari and 45 / 80 blueprints for the last star.
@Tunerboy72 wrote:
Session 3 is the best !!! I will loose more Races than ever with my Pagani!!!! you Firemonkeys this Game is the biggest Joke ever i think i Look for a better Racegame (not made by Firemonkeys) 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
@Tunerboy72 I'll see this as feedback for Blackridge Rivals is killing the game from very frustrated players.
@jin1995x wrote:
@TheRealJony
download google hangouts and login with your gmail account, we can chat as easily as whatsapp without givin any private details or email id!
I fish, boss were arell chattin in the last couple of hours. Hahah
I don't have a gmail account, but I'll make one.
I'll let you know what my gmail name is. 🙂
I downloaded Google Hangouts for my iPod Touch by the time I post this.
@CMBosss wrote:
Hello jony,
Thanks for the compliment ....
Ur an awesome driver too with ur car, cant wait to see the wonders ur ccx will perform, how many more days before its tunable ?
@BossNaijaThanks!
I've been practicing driving my Koenigsegg CCX (even though it's not fully maxed out yet) in Campaign to prepare for Blackridge Rivals.
Believe me, you won't be disappointed. 😛
It's not "how many more days?" It's "how many more weeks?" 😉
2 weeks until my Koenigsegg CCX is maxed out and finally unlocking Car Tuning for the first time.
I need to farm 3 more Engine Scanners from Tuner Trials before my Koenigsegg CCX is pumped up and ready for action. (Two of them next week and one of them the week after next week)
Since I only have an expired VIP Level 1 (from Lamborghini Accademia special event being delayed in 2015), I don't have any VIP perks at my disposal.
And I wouldn't want to have VIP perks anyways.
I'm playing No Limits without spending real money and it's going well so far as you can see. :eahigh_file:
It'll definitely take me much longer to farm materials at Tuner Trials as a free player, but I can handle it.
I'm a very patient player when it comes to gaming.
I have this way of thinking:
1. If I have time to play, then I really have time to play.
2. If I don't have time to play, then I really don't have time to play.
That's all there is to it. lol
@CMBosss wrote:
I always wanted the LF so when it came up in holiday crates, i grabbed it, grabbed some legendary 5 star from kelly and worked it to black in a couple of days.
Same question as I asked Jin from above: How many Ferrari LaFerrari blueprints did you have to buy from Holiday Season crates? And how many stars did your Ferrari LaFerrari have before buying the crates?
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
I don't need to understand German to know what @Spetty1504 is grumpy about. (I believe that's the mild description of how Spetty is feeling)
Once again, EA/FM take whatever smidgen of fun and excitement we can eek out of BRR, right out of the game, by introducing more and more AI Ghosts with impossibly fast cars that far exceed any kind of PR capability us mere gamers are confined to. (gamers being the generous folk who fund EA/FM)
Since the start of season 3 my SP has remained around the 4,500 mark because it's impossible to progress. Why you might ask? Well it's very simple... when you start making progress towards 4,600, BRR 'randomly' pits you up against an AI Ghost with 4500 SP in an untuned Koenigsig or even a McLaren ... which should be a cinch to beat in a maxed out CCX fully tuned with 7 spanners and a perfect start, Right?
WRONG!
The AI Ghosts have some 'magic' under the hood that us mere mortals are not privy to. AI Ghost, 'Mikey_M' has a jet engine in his McLaren, because even against my perfect start, I'm sucking on his NOS fumes from the first second, Against my 'perfect run' with a new personal best time, he's already sitting at the clubhouse sipping on a virtual Martini, while I'm finishing up the race!!! ... and I'm 30 to 40 SP down for the privilege!!! WFT? Rinse and repeat and before you know it you're trying to fight your way back up to 4,500 after a few of these UBER AI cars.
I've posted just a few examples below... Note these AI Ghosts are typically way better than my personal best with full tuning.... and they ALWAYS have a lower SP, so that when I lose, I lose BIG.
So much for BRR being a player vs player tournament! It's just a total scam. Currently I'm racing AI Ghosts as much as 30%-40% of the time. They always have a perfect run and finish with the same 'record' time each race, give or take 0.01 of a second occasionally.What exactly is EA/FM trying to prove or achieve by introducing AI ghosts at the lower SP levels of the game? I can understand introducing them occasionally at the top end of the leader-board when there are few real player ghosts to match against.
Anyway, I'm well past being annoyed by the lack of intelligence, fun and genuine competitiveness in NFSNL.... but seeing @Spetty1504's post, I thought I'd give the English version of what he's on about. I'll just continue playing my 15 annoying BRR races a day for the cash, until I've maxed out all my cars in the garage with black parts.
@WildeKnight07 The "AI opponents" that you and everyone are racing with are actually No Limits devs.
@Haemophilus_EA wrote:
So, here's a juicy tidbit.
All the ghosts of 'bots' in-game in BRR, those are actual real-life runs done by members of the development team which have been recorded, usually by one of our designers.
They'll do a variety of cars, at various stages, tuning, etc, and literally do the track over and over again, racing each car by hand. There's no computer/AI generation here, just straight up human racing.
So when you next come face to face with a 'bot' ghost, know that in fact, you are literally racing against one of the developers on the NFSNL team 🙂
PS. Trippa is real. He's a short walk away from my desk.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/comments/5mpsh3/hacker/dc7tf9l/?context=3
So that means you're having trouble winning races against No Limits devs. 😉
As for me, I've raced with three of the hardest devs.
They've given me quite a challenge, but I prevailed in the end.
Keep in mind that I did all of these with a 7-Star Ferrari LaFerrari.
So yea. I have no issues whatsoever winning against No Limits devs, although it's very difficult and requires flawless driving and fastest car possible. There was no room for error when racing against the devs as one little mistake (such as failing to get Perfect Launch) means it's a loss.
Anyone remember the Fastlane special event (featuring Nissan 180SX Type X) infamous Hunter races? This brings back memories.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
PS... one BIG hint if you do want to compete in the top 200... get yourself a really slow device like little Jony (i.e an iPod Touch) so that the game slows down to a snails pace and you have all the time in the world to dodge EST's, ramps, roadblocks etc and to pick the perfect line every time. No need to have fast reaction times or figure out what you gonna do in milliseconds... you have all the time in the world!
*Facepalm*
This is one of the BIGGEST misconceptions I have ever seen here.
Have you ever heard of input lag?
Input lag is the delay of pressing something and seeing the game react on the screen.
If there's input lag caused by lag in No Limits, then you would probably hit something you would otherwise dodge if there's no lag.
The game ignores your commands frequently if there's input lag.
For example, you're lagging in No Limits and there's an ESF charging to zap you.
You press left to attempt to dodge the ESF. However, the game ignores your command as the game is lagging.
You, then, get zapped by ESF as the game has input lag caused by lag. You would have dodge the ESF if the game wasn't lagging.
As I said before, this is one of the BIGGEST misconceptions I have ever seen here. And I'm genuinely surprised how a "veteran" (note the quotes) like you has even thought of this.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
I figured this out when my lightening fast iPhone 6s Plus had too many apps loaded and slowed NFSNL down to about a 10th of the game's normal speed.
You seriously don't know what you're talking about.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
I won all five BRR races while sipping my coffee and having a smoke all at the same time.
You must have raced against nubs then.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
But hey, what's the fun in that, unless you want to swing your charlie around the forum pretending to be a genius racer, when all you are is a loser with a slow device that makes you look like a superstar in the rankings.
You are seriously underestimating of how capable I am when it comes to racing in Blackridge Rivals.
And you're claiming that I play with a slow device when you don't even know how my iPod Touch runs.
Do I need to remind you how you struggled with getting Perfect Launches during Blackridge Rivals Preseason?
You came here to get some advice on how to get Perfect Launches after losing an excessive amount of Blackridge Rivals races due to fail launches.
If it weren't for this "genius racer", then you would still be down by the docks and dreaming of the Blackridge Rivals Top 200 leaderboard.
By the way, I got match-maked with you plenty of times in the previous Blackridge Rivals seasons.
And from what I've seen of your driving, you really need to improve.
The issue is not with your opponents. The issue is you. You just need to improve.
As Dark Souls players would say, "gid gud". This means your driving skill is average and you still have a lot to learn when it comes to pushing your cars to the limit.
@WildeKnight07 wrote:
On a slow device, it doesn't matter whether you use tilt or touch, either way you do not require lightening fast reaction times and have plenty of time to ponder whether to go left or right and weave your way past these irritations with ease.
After playing NFSNL at max speed for over a year, your reactions become so well honed that playing at a 10th or even half the speed, makes winning child's play.
In slow-mo... dodging EST's and all the other obstacles was so easy I actually laughed out loud when I realized how most of the guys at the top are actually getting there. So much for all the back slapping and aggrandizement of NFSNL's so called "Icons"
Personally, I'm a high speed kinda guy and playing a game with 'trainer wheels' attached has absolutely no appeal to me... that's for the little ones.
I actually laughed out loud looking at this post.
But hey. You can keep using pathetic excuses to cover up the fact that you need improving. Well, whatever floats your boat.