Time Trial Mode

Hi Guys, congrats to the new forum!

eagerly wating for the implementation of the time trial mode, could you please lay out your plans and the approx timeframe? make us change the time of day, too!

 

Thanks Renato, ghosts would be awesome. but why force us to race at a time that is the most uninteresting (aesthetically speaking)? could you guys please re-consider this - personally speaking, racing at midday is rather boring...

 

if you let me race against my own best time (when starting a new session) I'm not forced to use the time trial mode but as this is not possible at the moment - maybe there is a way to feed the delta plugin with a former best (sector) time?

 

Im quite interested in that feature in particular...

 

Will there be some kind of short-cut / track limits detection? I like time trial modes and leaderboards but they can often be exploited.

 

I believe the question is can we still post times to the leaderboard in other game modes?

 

Does changing time of day affect the conditions in AMS currently?

 

I fancy, and look forward to a ghost lap system
Will the used driving assists be registered (and in sight) in the hotlap lists?

 

not really, that's why the answer from Renato doesn't make sense to me, too

 

Well I can live with the rules that it has to all be the same for registering times but it'd be great if you could change things like time of day so that you don't get bored of an identical looking track.

It also wouldn't be a bad idea to have two categories of timing, purely homologated times through Time Trial and then all the other times like in races so you can see how fast you can go with a draft or if you're just screwing around and you happen to post your best ever time its not lost because you're in qualifying instead of time trial.

 

Would be great to have fixed setups to, so it's all about drivers hands and nobody can blame setups or not understanding how to setup the car blablabla.

All fixed would be good for me to see who really is the fastest in the exactly same conditions.

 

I disagree on fixed set ups. Part of the skill of driving is knowing how to get the car to do what you want. If you know what you want it to do and there's a button to make it do it better and you can't press it because John Q Spinsalot gets cranky when he can't post a competitive time that rather guts the ideal of the timing system. It also means that people are at the mercy of the set ups that the devs create which may be totally unsuitable to their style.

If people want to experience pure parity driving skill with no car sense involved then they have plenty of cars on the roster to choose from that are basically spec and have almost no set up options. However I would think it could be easily catered to if they categorized the times, so people who're on default set up can filter that and see how they stack up against default set up. Maybe that's the best compromise, you still get to compete without ruining anyone else's party.

 

I haven't played Forza in years but they used to have an option in Time Trial mode to make your set-up available to other people from the leaderboard if you wanted. The other thing that would be good would be being able to view the replay for other peoples TT laps as it is a good way to learn.

 

Ability to optionally share setup would be excellent. Also like the default setup flag/filter idea.

 

Interesting argument. I can respect the detail of that position.