Monday Night Racing: Race Pro

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:04 am

Folks:

Who'd be interested in some racing tonight? I'd love to bounce around from class to class, but we will start with a few in the GT Club cars, the lowest class of GT cars. Let us know if you don't have at least one of those available. We can bounce back to the WTCC cars if need be, or more likely dabble a bit in the Caterhams, or what the heck, let's try out the Formula BMWs again for a race or two.

I'll send out the invites starting around 10:30pm edt.

Who's in?

mixdj1 · Post by **mixdj1** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:09 am

I should be on by then.

spooky157 · Post by **spooky157** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:19 am

Sounds good to me. I'll need to unlock that GT Class but I am almost there.

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:26 am

I finally have a reasonable work schedule this week and should be around.

DChaps · Post by **DChaps** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:46 am

A little OT: Post patch I still lose connection to host and am unable to race online. I get farther this time, but it still crashes. Forza 2, Halo 3, RockBand 2, Nascar don't have the same issue, so I am at a loss.

Anyway, since I can't play online I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a weekly hotlap competition using the Time Trial mode.

Every week would be a different car and track. With the patch they have wiped the leaderboards so we would all be starting from scratch. The cheat glitches still exist, but I figure we have honest people on here.

Unfortunately, the leaderboards and Time Trial modes in Race Pro leave a lot to be desired when compared to Forza, PGR, etc. It does not differentiate between difficulty settings and it does not allow you to download other players ghosts to race against. Likewise, even though there is a specific time trial mode, the leaderboard will post times for online races, offline championships, career mode, etc. So in other words, if you run an online race at Monza a get a good time from a draft, then that is the time you will have posted to the leaderboard.

I know most may not be interested in hotlapping, but I am trying to give myself a reason to play this game.

I am open to suggestions for car and track for week 1, we could start today and go to midnight next Sun. to post your times. I will track the results and we could have some kind of season champion after we have gone through all the tracks. I would want it to be all assists off, but I am open to suggestions there as well.

Sorry to threadjack Zeppo.

mixdj1 · Post by **mixdj1** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:17 pm

Don, sorry the patch didn't solve your connection issues. But I would definitely be interensted in a hotlap competition.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:59 pm

Cant say for sure...Maybe. I might be back in the penalty box after two straight hockey nights.

johnvon314 · Post by **johnvon314** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:43 pm

I might be able to do the time trials as well.

John

vader29 · Post by **vader29** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:34 pm

I should be able to make it. I have cars unlocked from all but the last two classes.

mixdj1 · Post by **mixdj1** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:32 am

Sorry for bailing after the first race. I actually fell asleep in my chair waiting for the next race to start. Getting old sucks!

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:17 am

mixdj1 wrote:Sorry for bailing after the first race. I actually fell asleep in my chair waiting for the next race to start. Getting old sucks!

...I can relate...Thats happened to me...

We raced a few...Nothing new to report. It was fun , I still suck and its still a great game.

Gangrel · Post by **Gangrel** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:54 am

Has the patch removed the need to unlock classes to race them online?

I'm so far behind you guys that I think I'd be stuff with the GT cars..... I'm not even sure if I've unlocked the Formula BMW's yet...!!!!

That's something that holds me back from racing with you guys.

(ya ya, yer saying get off my ass and race more career mode)

I could do that too, but i'm lazy!

DChaps · Post by **DChaps** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:30 pm

No, you still need to unlock the classes in career. In fact, after the patch I lost my career save and I have had to start over. I don't think the patch caused it, but the bug that existed that allowed this to happen still does.

Gangrel wrote:Has the patch removed the need to unlock classes to race them online?

I'm so far behind you guys that I think I'd be stuff with the GT cars..... I'm not even sure if I've unlocked the Formula BMW's yet...!!!!

That's something that holds me back from racing with you guys.

(ya ya, yer saying get off my ass and race more career mode)

I could do that too, but i'm lazy!

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:33 pm

Don, you have the patience of a flock of saints.

Take care,
PK