Raceday Wednesday January 13 2016 (RDW 74)

btw, I recieved so many submissions from you guys over the holidays that I couldn't take them all in this week. Will include them next week

1) °S80°Corkscrew playground by superalex-80

2) R2 101 Rollercoaster #3 by Gamer101_YT

3) K-[PS4] Sonic TSL by Kalabantesh

4) [3-Turtle Drop by Bonigtbvc

1)Razor Pines II by Zorvaine

2)K-[PS4] Sonic TSL by Kalabantesh

3)EXTREME-STUNTS DARKSPINE by MysticBroly

4)Lucky Tree Circuit by jimbob-STROUD

1) [3-Turtle Drop by Bonigtbvc

2) TrackMania 10 by romain4stigy I continue to really enjoy these. Not everyone realised you had to jump to the right, I clicked on luckily 3rd place finish!

3) °S80°Corkscrew playground by superalex-80 Can' believe I'm voting for this, What a difference a day makes! ... or car choice.

4) C3R - Ride My Blue Curve by Crit3rion I really hope the course changes but even if it doesn't, great idea.


!V! Maradona #WALL by VoloVinho Great wall, nice natural ramp to get on, all very smooth. Only issue I had was the first 30 seconds of each lap. Racing with the games fastest cars and couldn't open up until the route through a load of awkward areas was over. Nothing wrong with that sort of route, just not for supers imo.

[3-Turtle Drop by Bonigtbvc Excellent build... needs to be 3 or 4 laps by default I'd say.

?Crazy Air Drop 3? by SimenLUFC no

°K24-Stunt ENDURANCE #1° by Kaffeefilter_24 I glitched into the barge at the start. easy fix, hover 2 barges ever so slightly above the ones already there, place the grid and remove the barges. I was going to complain about a wallride that leads you into a brick wall... but then I had a perfect lap. T20 at full speed all the way around and you don't need to steer on the second wall, you arch up then down and land with space to turn, very nice!

°S80°Corkscrew playground by superalex-80 First job I played when I joined the second lobby. Hated it, respawn over and over, no checkpoints, no flow... that middle spiral, ahhhhhh. winge winge winge. Oops! played it again this morning (yesterday Osiris) in a T20, no problems! failed a couple of times but I found it a lot easier and started to get into the flow. From rage to Bookmark lol. If you like spirals you will enjoy this race... eventually, after it kicks your ass. A slightly smaller car seemed to help me too, I could see what I was doing more.

{d1666} it's magic time 2 by destroy1666 The ramp that leads to the platform requires one more barge at the bottom at a less steep angle. Due to it's current angle it slows the T20 and Zentorno down too much to make the jump 70% of the time. I played it again on my own and still didn't get up there until 02:45 into the race with a big run up. Many other people were missing it too. The on ramp to the wall needs a rebuild too, difficult to get traction when you first get on the wall as the angles are off. The wall itself once I was on, no problems at all, nice and smooth, and a cool circuit.

C3R - Ride My Blue Curve by Crit3rion Fantastic concept, I really liked the walls! The race itself though really killed it for me. Half the group missed the second checkpoint as they went to follow the road, that little jaunt around the triangle could do with being removed. In the (I'm guessing) desire to make fairly quick laps so you can hit the stunts a lot I believe the race suffered a lack of quality. As you come off the first wallride, smash, eat fruit. Similar dead ends used throughout to keep the laps shorter. Personally I would have preferred a longer race with some natural corners or designed hairpin turns rather than the dead brick/fruit wall style. Everyone drove into the water after the tunnel, one you know the turn is there it's no problem, maybe a barrier for first time racers of the course. The 2 fruit stands you weave between before the jump, maybe delete and pull the jump back a bit, with all the stopping and starting it'd be nice to open up on that straight and get a cool jump out of it. I really want to enjoy this race, I was gutted I that I didn't. You may well disagree completely, only my opinion after all but I'd play the hell out of this with a different route. Great idea!

Lucky Tree Circuit by jimbob-STROUD Great circuit, smoothing out the bumps to get a quick fast race almost makes it feel like a new area. I realise irl races are contact and this isn't a stunt race, but I feel like non contact should have been default for this one. I couldn't move out to take corners fast as the race is quite tight and there was always someone there. I went from 4th to last after two different cars took me out, accidentally I know but still infuriating, at which point I quit. Bookmarked though, I will be playing it again, non contact

Mirror Image Wallride by JamieJohnWard Nice race, 8 laps though.... maybe 4 or 5, after that it's too much imo.

R2 101 Rollercoaster #3 by Gamer101_YT Rollercoasters for a car that won't fall to bits after the first lap, sweet. Only issue I had was the flip back to your wheels after the blue spiral/wall bit. I turtle slid the first lap and got faced off to the left on the other laps. I came 3rd so it's probs happening to a fair few people, might be worth revisiting that little bit.

(1) Razor Pines by Zorvaine

Outstanding air race, truly one of the best I've played and a real challenge in the rickety ol' Duster! Lots of knife-edged flying and careful balancing off the rudders is required to negotiate successfully around this tricky course weaving between the Paleto Forest and Raton Canyon, can only imagine the chaos and carnage a full lobby brought! Won the race with a perfect run though in the U.S re-run, as can be seen below. 



(2) EXTREME-STUNTS DARKSPINE by MysticBroly

Was most excellent in The Stunting Line last week and remains an excellent race this week as well! Perfect stunt that works with the Entity XF every time, while the race around is pretty entertaining and well thought out as well.

(3) K-[PS4] Sonic TSL by KALABANTESH

I'll forgive the rather jarring checkpoint placement on the corners as, while not in the spirit of 'pure racing', is perfectly suited to this fast-paced and flowing lap around downtown, with a cool stunt at the end that works perfectly with the T20. Thought I was doing well coming 2nd in a stock T20, until danner1620 burst my bubble by informing me that everyone was in the same car.   

(4) [3-Turtle Drop by bonigtbvc

Not sure what's going on here but the movement of the camera sure was exhilarating as I ping-ponged around in some sort of pinball setup, eventually getting thrown out the other side! This appeared to work every time without fail in my Entity XF but I don't know why the description said "No Osiris" when the winner (who also nabbed the fastest lap) used that very car! Also, should be 5 laps default, this is a TSL track if ever I saw one. 

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°S80°Corkscrew playground by superalex80

Took 15 MINUTES for the countdown timer to start in the U.S. re-run and there were only 12 of us, I shudder to think how much time was wasted in the full prime-time lobbies! I understand that some of you are masochists that enjoy the pain and torture of repeated failure but please, do not bring it into our events, especially one that is supposed to cater to ALL abilities. A race consisting of nothing but corkscrew spirals, with THREE of the buggers between each checkpoint is nothing but a troll race unless confined to a small group of people who enjoy this sort of thing. 

Also

?Crazy Air Drop 3? by simenlufc

File under 'it was mildly amusing the first time' but, like most high-concept, low-brow idea's, sequels are ill-advised and almost always utterly pointless. All you did was move the original construction at the airport to another location on the map, potentially you could make 99+ of these with a different exit point but really, what is the point? 

Thank you HALC_187. I will change it to non-contact by default.

1) EXTREME-STUNTS DARKSPINE by MysticBroly - didn't get time to pick my car and ended up with Osiris when description clearly says entity only... had 3 flawless laps in Osiris and won the race, since played with entity and was even smoother and worked perfect for entity so definitely gets my no.1 this week

2) K-[PS4] Sonic TSL by Kalabantesh - everyone knows my love of TSL's and this 1 is brilliant and works everytime since playing it quite a few times after, clean stunt + clean racing route = my no.2 vote this week

3) C3R - Ride My Blue Curve by Crit3rion - another race that worked perfect for me this week getting my 3rd vote, think I ended up winning this 1 too, quality build and route.

4) Lucky Tree Circuit by jimbob-STROUD - final vote goes to this pure race. played this quite a few times before and always enjoy playing it, as its built by an excellent pure racer, the cp's are perfect and propping is perfect in my eyes, no dodgy blind props or dodgy props in wrong places that you can get with quite a few other pure races.

Sabertooth
very basic stuff... pure jump race

Maradonna
Beautiful and cleanly built stunt! got the angle of the spiral exactly right so it doesn't mess up your view. Transitions between walls work flawlessly if you steer correctly... very nice. Did not like the race around the stunt though. Too many tight turns around backalleys and unforgiving terrain... very hectic and chaotic... also the placement of the gas tanks in these narrow areas didn'T help


Turtle drop
great creation. loved it! the type of stunt where you're like "what the f*ck just happened??" ... Zentorno does tend to get stuck sometimes. will have to try in a different car... I'm not a great fan of stunt cams.. thought the 2 cams exiting the stunt were a bit overkill... and I'd definately increase lap numbers... could easily be 4 or 5 laps

Cinematographic Wall
Nice high speed race track around the walls. The dill billy flip on the first wall works flawlessly and very smooth. You hit the wall at exactly the right angle and hight. The exit of the first wallride is a bit off to the right. On the second wallride you have to know to stay low otherwise you'll hit the ledges of the film studio. The blue barriers that guide you up again are a bit to steep causing you to brick if you go straight into it. All in all a fun race. Nice

Air Drop
Another one of those crazy air drops Always good for a laugh... This is the highest one yet as only three barges were used to build each segment of the tunnel


K24 Stunt Endurance
My top pick of the night. Title fits the race: Endurance! Can you keep it up for 4 consecutive laps without failing? Very well worked out concept. Love how the Zentorno sticks to the almost flat wall half way through the track. Great race and highest replay value for me this week!



Corkscrew playground
A challenge and pretty confusing with 30 players. Playing this in a smaller group is very fun though. Granted you have to like spirals. If you're not acustomed to them this one will probably be very frustrating. Nice build, fun race... keep it up!


Magic Time 2
nice high speed race with a big stunt to top it off. didn'T have any of the problems Halconian described on the run up ramp ,but agree: wouldn't hurt smoothening it out at the bottom. wallride, flip and, vert container wallride worked perfect for me. Very smooth. Nice one!


C3R Ride my blue curve
I love the concept. Absolutely awesome taking the blue walls down the curves. You build up so much speed, but then unfortunately slam into a dead end. Kind of a flow killer. I would design the race in a way that you can maintain your speed after exiting the walls. Would be much more fun imo. Some checkpoints were iffy, especially the first two. The fanny flip jump made of two cabins took many of us directly in the street sign. Many of us failed the on ramp to the last wallride leading into the train tunnel. We ended up cheating that checkpoint by just driving to it regularly.
All in all great concept which could have been a top pick had it not been for the race design.

Extreme dark Spine
Another "smooth as silk" creation from MysticBroly. Not much that you can say except that it works perfect! High quality build from a great creator. A standard not a lot of people can achieve on their builds. Top Pick... Keeper for the bookmarks


K-PS4 Sonic TSL
Great build! Love the Sonic reference I'm not a big fan of the T20 but this race was very fun. Nice short TSL track, allowing you to hit the stunt over and over. It'S just too bad that Rockstar servers can't handle 30 players and great stunts stop working in full lobbies

Lucky Tree circuit
Beautiful track. Absolutely loved it. Have replayed it quite some times already. Great checkpoint placement and great use of the props placed. It all makes sense. Agree that this should be on non contact.
We luckily did play it on non contact on Raceday Wednesday as some brazilian troll kids managed to get in the playlist (accidentally left client invites on before first race). So I made an exception to the rule that the host may not change any settings as I was certain they would have ruined the race by playing bumper cars with us.
Great creation, one of my top picks, great replay value!


Mirror Image Wallride
Great concept! I love how you can choose to go both directions. Very straight forward high speed endurance race. I'm certain this would have been recieved more positive if it had less laps. Doing this for 8 laps it does start to get monotonous after some time. Other than that great creation that was very fun.


R2 101 Rollercoaster
Nice coaster for the Osiris. all worked really well except for the last flip on the platform. had some inconsistancy with it. Good technical race around the stunt. Very fun!

Razor Pines 2
Tricky tricky... Very fun track especially with 30 players. A lot of emotions in the lobby as naturally people crashed Great track for advanced pilots, might be a bit too tricky for beginners. Had a lot of fun and a lot of moments where I held my breath doing knife flights through the tree tops. Great race in a vehicle rarely used.

Trackmania 10
another quality build from Romain. Always curious to see the next Trackmania creation and see what he's come up with again. And he builds them so fast that we can't even keep up putting them in all the Raceday Wednesday events I found the transition jump from quarter pipe to platform descend very tricky, others not apparently...


btw: I have my spreadsheet for counting votes on another PC which I don't have access to right now... will announce the winners tomorrow before the event