I’ve done a first (slightly rough) episode in a series about my adventures in sim racing.

I’ve done a podcast version

https://anchor.fm/clod-of-war/episodes/Bonus-episode-Adventures-in-Sim-Racing-1-ecp4ll

and a video version.

It’s a little bit shoogly in bits but I know what to improve on for the next one. It’s more autobiographical than the rest of them will be as well, as it’s all about why sim racing has come to the rescue for me.

I’m going to try and produce videos and bonus podcasts at a more regular clip as - a month in to this weird new life - I think I’ll go nuts if I don’t do something positively creative.

All my photography projects are on hold and I need creative outlets. If I can provide a ten minute distraction here and there ( however rough), even just for a couple of folk, then I can at least feel good about that too. 🙂

    Nice one, I’ll watch it tonight in the YouTube hour.

    Brave (immediately went to check wheel and stand prices but would be limited to PS4) 😂

        Yeah there actually is. WRC 8 could keep you occupied for months but there’s Assetto Corsa, PC 2, F1 as well.

        All genuine sims imo.

        • SRR replied to this.

          Brave
          You know who you need to get in touch with. Kinduchi. If the voice doesn’t ring any bells with you, that’s Rob. As in Rob 147.
          He’s been big into iracing and such like for years now.

            4 days later

            Brave finally got round to watching this properly last night. Really good, personal, little clodcast. Very enjoyable to listen to and watch. Good stuff @Brave.

                9 days later

                A Noob’s Guide* To Knockhill


                *As in a guide by a noob 😉

                I’ve got my new best lap in there as well. 54.015 iirc. I’ll be pleased if I can get under 54 soon.

                  Brave Start of lap six was great. 😂

                  I enjoyed that, nice one.

                  Edit - Or was it seven… Lap counter causing me confusion there.

                      Great video, very useful. If you do another one might be worth mentioning which car you’re in, so people can compare times. Unless you did and I missed it, it was late when I watched it. 😃

                        Fumanstu cheers matey! I did forget to mention that 😄

                        It was the NGTC BTCC Mercedes. ’18 I think, although looking at the forums that’s just a reskin. They seem to think there were no upgrades on the real cars. Which is really puzzling me.

                        I’m trying to get an idea for how much off the pace of RL times I am and looking at the BTCC real life poles, they get much faster in 2018. I’m very much mid pack compared to the ’16/'17 times. But 18 onwards and the times jump a good two seconds and I’m not even in the pack.

                        I’m not saying I’m anywhere near good enough to be close in RL but it’s fun to try and get there in the game; and their insistence that the cars didn’t change from 2016 - 19 really doesn’t wash with that 2 second jump in RL, which isn’t just the pole. It’s all the way from 1st to 30th pretty much.

                        So at the moment I’m comparing myself to the 2017 lap times because I think they should have treated the 2018 cars as a faster separate car.

                        I’m probably going to move back to the first car I used. I feel like the Merc isn’t riding the kerbs in The Chicane as well as that one did.

                          GassyHaggis hehe, I quite liked that one. Also liked Crew Chief early on “We think… Hughey… binned it… at Taylor’s hairpin”. 😄

                            5 days later

                            Yeah, so I’m doing this now…

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                              4 days later

                              I finally set up VR and tried out ACC, RF2 and AMS2. Man it’s something else. Rf2 was really hard to set up, but laser scanned Nordschleife in VR is a dream come true.

                              The sense of scale; being able to judge the angle of a slope /because you’re craning your neck to look up it/ , just makes it so much easier to judge braking points and turn in, not to mention how much force you need to apply to the brakes because you’re either trying to scrub off speed at the bottom of a serious descent or your trying to maintain momentum coming over the crest of a climb.

                              Absolutely blew me away. AMS2 had the best implementation imo, rf2 was predictably far from simple. They were all worth the effort.

                              I’ve heard that good old LFS has a terrific VR implementation. Scawen is a perfectionist of course, for good and ill.