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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 10, 2014 20:42:55 GMT
Rise and Fall (off) A monumental motorcycle tour of Los Santos and Blaine County in 10 acts. Prepare to be gripped by this epic tale of success, failure and repeatedly cracking your head open.
It all begins here, in the ‘hood. Where else? You’re tired of course, the endless rounds of drive thru fried chicken and convenience store hold ups. You’re going nowhere, hanging with gangbangers in the skatepark, picking fights with strip club bouncers.
Surely a move out to the upwardly mobile canal-side properties will signal a turn in fortunes, cut your ties to small time crooks. Where’s the action here tho? You’re just running over middle class pedestrians, beating up weightlifters and buying daft masks. Well, you gotta look the part.
This is where shit gets done. Downtown. Moving and shaking, checking out the high rises, visiting car parks, putting things where they don’t belong, running from the law… It’s business time, let’s get to work.
Selling candy, making money. 10 car garages, luxurious condominiums. fine wines, drinking whiskey from an actual glass. A few too many trips to the hospital…. But you’re on a roll.
Finally, the Big Time, Vinewood Boulevard, limousines, champagne, parking your bike in Ponsonbys. Light up that Cuban, brother, you’ve made it. What can possibly go wrong?
Interval.
Everything always goes wrong of course. Picking up that high class escort girl in a BF Injection and bashing her brains out with a golf club probably wasn’t a great move.…. You’d better skip town, there’s a plane waiting. If you can find it.
Lay low for a bit, this is a nice little town. Problem is, no one trusts a new face, some city dudes robbed the bank and blew a ton of shit up, you’d best clear out before you draw unwanted attention.
Can always rely on farming weed yeah? But country folk talk, the heat is on and the Blaine County cops are tightening the noose, time to bail. Again. Now where did you put that flamethrower?
Well this is great. The sewer all the crap drains through. Nothing here but hillbillies and meth heads, but you’re not so out of place you sad fucking loser. Only one thing for it…
End it all. Make the world a better place and remove a pox ridden excuse of a human being from it (that’s you). Be sure to out in style though eh?. A public place would be best. Maybe squash a few tourists while you’re at it.
Ok, I've put this in it's own thread because I wanted a bit more for it than being a mere addition to my other one. Had made 7 of these races and was looking at the map of all my locations when the idea came to me. Made 3 more to complete the 'story', edited all the descriptions to suit and then split them into 2 playlists of 5 for ease of consumption.
Now I've had major hassle getting online, not so much that I can't create and publish, obviously, but to the point where I couldn't host anything when I finally did manage to get on today. Annoying because the last few I created for this have not been tested with a custom bike, parts 3, 7 and 9. So you guys are hopefully gonna be my guinea pigs here. I'll be posting the individual races with pace notes in my normal creation thread but I thought a new one would be kinda cool to present my er... concept album in. Feedback, if any, put wherever you want.
As for what happens next, well whatever, I'll be running these lists when I can and hope some of you can join me or even feel inclined to run them yourselves. Once I feel it's of a certain acceptable standard, I'll open it up to the general mockery of GTAF.
I'm not taking this too seriously, the whole idea of presenting them like this was a bit of an afterthought if I'm honest, I just kinda got into it. Any creation I do now will be pumped into refining these races as they should be able to stand on their own 2 feet, none were made to be filler. Even the long PtP has been extensively reworked to make it a good run in it's own right. Personally, I'd order the races differently if the lists were just to be run as a series of races, for the sake of flow, but still, here it is.
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Post by coach_wargo on Feb 11, 2014 18:36:05 GMT
I love it!
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 11, 2014 18:50:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 18:56:49 GMT
Looking forward to running it, i love bikes at the minute
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 11, 2014 20:02:51 GMT
Excellent news! I do suggest adding them to your own game as I'm still having issues, couldn't get thru 3 consecutive races without d/c when testing with my Bro last night and in the afternoon I got an error every time I tried to host something.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 20:06:49 GMT
Have you tried using an ethernet cable straight from the PS to the router?
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 11, 2014 23:20:43 GMT
No but it's more than that, we had wear to our outside line so every time it was wet it fucked up. So they replaced the line, same problem still occurs, net is on and off, phone is crackiling. Ran a speed test when it was dry and stable and you simply would not believe how slow it is, we're talking fully constipated, way less than 1mb dl speed. I've seen pings of over 2k. My mate up the road has the same ISP and recently, the same abysmal data flow. We need to ring em up really.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 17:10:56 GMT
If the difference between testing with stocks then racing with customs is annoying you could try locking each race to a different bike? It could be a multicultural event lol
Have the Sandy shores races on a Nemesis, long freeway race on a Daemon etc etc
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 12, 2014 19:02:41 GMT
I wouldn't say it was annoying but I think that's a great idea, I'll definitely look into that when I want to freshen it up. Probably require some re-edits to suit the different bikes but I'm game.
Atm tho, the aim was to put me in charge of my Akuma, just starting on that really. Ran so many stock laps on these when testing and tuning (Bati and Akuma, have to say I hate the sound of the Bati), I ended up with my 'best' racing line being sort of a natural thing to follow, when I wasn't purposefully testing variations or just seeing what it was like if I didn't use the brake at all anyway....
So I get into the real deal with others, track them round to see how it's going, either come off and get left behind or decide to hare off and push for a strong lap and all of a sudden all the extra power is murdering me on my usual lines. I've just gotten way too used to the bikes stock.
I think that the stage I'm at now is a combination of owning the custom Akuma and finding out where tweaks need to be made to accommodate the customs power. There's been a few points where an absolutely beautiful set of curves on a stock just don't have the same flow on a custom but I think that's probably more down to control of the bike than anything. Obviously taken a fair few bits out that are just too hard when you're nailing it and had to overcome my fear of long straight bits.
Do genuinely feel that the tracks are mostly done now, had a good run of the 1st list last night, with 4 thumbs up out of 5 from Addeari, then got most of the way thru the 2nd before d/c. Sandy Sores is not finished, might be some big changes to that, basically because of the custom difference but it's not an easy place to make an interesting street bike race (can really see the multicultural possibilities in the entire 2nd list). Passing Through required a major edit to improve the flow and balance of the track so that needs more runs as well. Otherwise I'm pretty happy, vast majority of changes now will depend on what others think.
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Post by refuso on Feb 18, 2014 11:31:42 GMT
Played the first PL with you last night and it was good. Felt a little dizzy on one of the tracks with so many turns though lol. I think 3 and 4 are the best ones
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 18, 2014 13:25:04 GMT
Forgot what one you said that about, one of the 1st 2 I think. Those are the trickiest imo, quite a few obstacles and tight areas. If it didn't suit the 'story' I'd probably split em up. Might look at them once again and see if I can smooth one out more than I have already.
Looking at the maps, I might add a couple of fast, easy bits to both, I can see where they'd fit. Fine tuned what's there to the point where I don't really want to take anything out.
Likes schmikes.
3 &4 are my favourites in there too. Funnily enough, 3 was the one that had me scratching my head the most, trying to get a good flow going.
Thanks to all who played and more so, liked. Expect to run one or both again tonight. Bobchilli is an alley fan and wants to check out pt1 and I want to give pt2 a proper run thru.
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 21, 2014 19:12:15 GMT
More props added to one of the tracks, Paleto Run, to better aid Ref in his quest for domination. I think it's made that one single bit you struggled to own much clearer, put a tyre stack on the pillar but the main thing is a tyre line that strongly suggests you should brake a bit harder and take the inside path through the entrance. Also given Grapespeed a hefty edit as I thought it was a bit dull, need others to test it as it's kind of a gamble. Otherwise, thanks again for the plays and likes. Apologies to Bossdogg for not catering to his tastes |
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Post by refuso on Feb 22, 2014 18:35:37 GMT
More props added to one of the tracks, Paleto Run, to better aid Ref in his quest for domination. Lmao, that's all I ask  I came first on every race in Swifty's PL the other night too. (Only because he stopped/hung back when we were struggling but I like to ignore minor details like that) Think the only track I haven't tried recently is It's Round Here Somewhere since I last gave feedback on it ages ago so I'd like to try that 1 Come on Cuz! You gotta admit braking and turning gets SO annoying!!! lol |
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 23, 2014 0:01:47 GMT
What really made me laugh, I said to Boss that the last track was more open and in the country like he was after, made sure you all saw the WARNING in the description. When we got to that part he went sailing over my head and into certain doom, then seemed to quit before we really got going. Tbf to him, he always joins when he can and goes thru the races I put up, just Crotch RRRocket- he does so well on that one every time and still no votes. I dunno.... I know this list does require a certain kind of taste so full respect to anyone that sticks with it if it's not quite tuned to theirs. You should have a challenger on Round Here, Gills. He's been on it quite a bit and loves it, one of his favourite EVER races I think, he really does fly on it. Thought I had him for once the other day, I was ahead and even tho he was always gaining.... I really shouldn't have crashed  One thing I really need to know, who has a custom Bati? On Passing Through there's a zip through a multi story car park, a red building after the Alta St apartments car park which is the open one following the construction site, the exit has a small speed bump. I made the track with a stock Bati and in testing it occasionally sent me flying but not turning too hard over it was fine. I think Bobchilli was the only one of us the other day on a custom Bati and he moaned that it chucked him past the CP on all 3 laps. Thing is, he can be kind of hard headed so I can imagine him hitting it the exact same way every time in order to highlight the flaw rather than try to circumvent it.... I don't want to take it out until it's confirmed to be consistently bad for that bike as it appeared no one had problems with the Akuma and I certainly haven't. So it needs testing with a custom Bati, the rider paying particular attention to that potential problem. Otherwise I'll just tell him to stop pissing around on a clearly unstable machine. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 1:48:56 GMT
I've changed most of the off road races i made ages ago so they flow better and i've ended up locking them to the stock Double T, i found it's a perfect all rounder,
It's much faster on and off road, up and downhill than the Sanchez, it's got more grip off road than the Akuma, mainly though it seems to hit the ground with a lot more give after big jumps, it's not as fast obviously but it's got decent enough speed to race on roads.
If you've got any tracks what have on and off road sections have a go with it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 7:38:52 GMT
What really made me laugh, I said to Boss that the last track was more open and in the country like he was after, made sure you all saw the WARNING in the description. When we got to that part he went sailing over my head and into certain doom, then seemed to quit before we really got going. Tbf to him, he always joins when he can and goes thru the races I put up, just Crotch RRRocket- he does so well on that one every time and still no votes. I dunno.... I know this list does require a certain kind of taste so full respect to anyone that sticks with it if it's not quite tuned to theirs. You should have a challenger on Round Here, Gills. He's been on it quite a bit and loves it, one of his favourite EVER races I think, he really does fly on it. Thought I had him for once the other day, I was ahead and even tho he was always gaining.... I really shouldn't have crashed One thing I really need to know, who has a custom Bati? On Passing Through there's a zip through a multi story car park, a red building after the Alta St apartments car park which is the open one following the construction site, the exit has a small speed bump. I made the track with a stock Bati and in testing it occasionally sent me flying but not turning too hard over it was fine. I think Bobchilli was the only one of us the other day on a custom Bati and he moaned that it chucked him past the CP on all 3 laps. Thing is, he can be kind of hard headed so I can imagine him hitting it the exact same way every time in order to highlight the flaw rather than try to circumvent it.... I don't want to take it out until it's confirmed to be consistently bad for that bike as it appeared no one had problems with the Akuma and I certainly haven't. So it needs testing with a custom Bati, the rider paying particular attention to that potential problem. Otherwise I'll just tell him to stop pissing around on a clearly unstable machine. Have you tried just running the tracks with randoms Cuz? I got help from Ref and Skoader on a few tracks yesterday, pointing out some things and what problems new players might run into what i had overlooked, i changed some of what was pointed out then i ran a risky test....I only invited randoms, a couple friends and members of my other crew....no Red Rum racers or people who had seen the tracks before, just to see how it would go. I was expecting people to keep getting lost or keep crashing then i'd have to edit loads more or just delete it but most of them flew round, i even tried to go for the win on the last laps but couldn't catch up to them on both races i ran lol |
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Post by Cuz05 on Feb 23, 2014 13:11:02 GMT
I've run several of them with randoms but not all. I'll try that one I want testing with em, seems like almost all RRRers ride the Akuma.
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I came first on every race in Swifty's PL the other night too. (Only because he stopped/hung back when we were struggling but I like to ignore minor details like that)