Board Thread:GTW Weekly Downshifts/@comment-294719-20130804172412

Hi all, and welcome to yet another downshift which takes its name from an awesome but obscure song! (Seriously, there seems to be a pattern developing here; I might have to change it up next week. :D)

So there's quite a lot to go over this week, and not much time in which to cover it. As I've mentioned in the previous Downshift, I'm currently in the process of moving; in fact, I'm writing right now from my laptop at a Starbuck's in my destination city (I might get a mocha, in fact, because that coffee sure does smell good...). The process is going relatively smoothly, apart from the fact that I have no internet back home as yet and my PS3 has apparently decided that it would be fun to not output an HDMI signal to my TV, although that might be more a problem with the cable than the PlayStation itself.

Also, You'll notice in the activity feed on the main page that I've obnce again been very active around the wiki today. That's because we're currently testing an awesome new skin in preparation for the GT6 release coming up this holiday season. I've been busy adding links to it on the main page, creating a page that links to versions of the Stylish extension for Firefox and Chrome, and a few other things. (By the way, if you download it, don't forget to stop by here and tell us what you think of it!)

Here's a picture of a 'Vette for no apparent reason. :D

Anyway! Enough about that. Just the other day (and by "the other day," I mean last week, the day before I left) I decided to have a few races at Daytona Superspeedway in Red Bulls, and with damage off, so that the racing would be even more frantic. We all know how crazy NASCAR racing at Daytona can be, right? Well, imagine that, but 100mph faster, and with cars that are much twitchier and more sensitive to steering input, AND with AI which always races as if it's the last lap and their tails are on fire (at least on superspeedways). Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Because of the fact that the cars are so freaking reactive, most races had at least one major spill. Once, a guy in a silver X2010 decided that it would be incredibly productive and safe to jerk the steering wheel quickly to the right and then hook a left (called a "Scandinavian Flick," a technique frequently used by rally drivers to upset the car's balance and provide and provide a better entry angle for hairpin turns). He ended up skidding into the infield at 300mph, hitting an access road and flying for a few hundred feet before landing just in time to avoid hitting the inside wall. Another time, a guy did the same thing going into Turn 1 and wound up collecting four cars in the ensuing accident (including me, unfortunately).

But that's not the craziest thing that happened. No kidding, in one race I wound up in a tie. That's right, the race was a dead heat between me and a guy who had snuck up the inside during the run to the finish. And the thing was, the game ranked me second! On looking at it from Photo Mode, I saw that as the cars crossed the line, I was clearly ahead. If my PlayStation decides to work again, I'll make sure to try to upload a replay for you guys so you can see it. 