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Rally Championship - New patch prevents engine failure?

rrevv

Rally Championship - New patch prevents engine failure?

by rrevv » Tue, 11 Jan 2000 04:00:00


>When
>it first gear, it moves, shifts into second, back to one, back to two, back
>to one, back to two, and continues this for AGES before proceeding into
>third and so on. Anybody else experiencing this?

Try using manual shift instead of automatic shift.

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The Phoeni

Rally Championship - New patch prevents engine failure?

by The Phoeni » Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:00:00

x:no archive: yes

In one of my first races (I don't remember if it was in Time Trial or Single
Race) in Rally Championship, I had a great time totally wrecking my car, to
the point that I had even damaged the cooling system, engine and just a few
feet from the end of the course the engine blew. Of course, I don't usually
drive like this. :-)

I patched the product and have been doing my very best to reproduce the same
major damage effects, again and again, on even the hottest of the courses,
but with no luck.

I'm able to crack, smash and break every item of the outer body work, from
the windows, to the bonnet and bumpers, but the engine hasn't been touched.
I've race some of the longest tracks backwards and forwards trying to crash
as much as possible yet STILL nothing! Even keeping the engine in first gear
at the highest rev for 6 minutes did nothing!

Am I missing something here? Is there something else I need to be doing to
increase the damage to the car?

My current ral.cfg looks as follows:

patchstickygrass=50
patchgravity=100
patchdamages=1000
patchbrakegrip=50
patchaccelgrip=100
patchslidegrip=100
patchgriptarmac=100
patchgripgravel=100
patchgripmud=100
patchgripsnow=100
patchgripgrass=100
patchmaxdrawdistance=4
framecounter=1
fizpatch=1

Also, when racing in Arcade mode, the cars seem to have a problem
accelerating. Not sure if this is to do with the patch or not though. When
it first gear, it moves, shifts into second, back to one, back to two, back
to one, back to two, and continues this for AGES before proceeding into
third and so on. Anybody else experiencing this?

I've tweaked the 'patchaccelgrip' to see if that would make any different.
It didn't.

Also, don't you find it annoying that when the car hits something like a
tree, hay barrel or small rock it suddenly STOPS! It doesn't spin, or crash.
It just stops dead.

There was something else I wanted to mention, but can't remember right now.
I'll post back later if I remember.

Best regards,

The Phoenix

The Phoeni

Rally Championship - New patch prevents engine failure?

by The Phoeni » Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:00:00

x:no archive: yes

I shouldn't have to. Automatic shifting should work just as well as manual
shifting.

It doesn't.

But when I do use manual shifting it works fine. I'd still like to sort out
the problems with the automatic transmission.

Best regards,

The Phoenix

pjgt..

Rally Championship - New patch prevents engine failure?

by pjgt.. » Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:00:00



> x:no archive: yes

> In one of my first races (I don't remember if it was in Time Trial or
> Single
> Race) in Rally Championship, I had a great time totally wrecking my
> car, to
> the point that I had even damaged the cooling system, engine and just
> a few
> feet from the end of the course the engine blew. Of course, I don't
> usually
> drive like this. :-)

> I patched the product and have been doing my very best to reproduce
> the same
> major damage effects, again and again, on even the hottest of the
> courses,
> but with no luck.

> I'm able to crack, smash and break every item of the outer body work,
> from
> the windows, to the bonnet and bumpers, but the engine hasn't been
> touched.
> I've race some of the longest tracks backwards and forwards trying to
> crash
> as much as possible yet STILL nothing! Even keeping the engine in
> first gear
> at the highest rev for 6 minutes did nothing!

> Am I missing something here? Is there something else I need to be
> doing to
> increase the damage to the car?

> My current ral.cfg looks as follows:

> patchstickygrass=50
> patchgravity=100
> patchdamages=1000
> patchbrakegrip=50
> patchaccelgrip=100
> patchslidegrip=100
> patchgriptarmac=100
> patchgripgravel=100
> patchgripmud=100
> patchgripsnow=100
> patchgripgrass=100
> patchmaxdrawdistance=4
> framecounter=1
> fizpatch=1

ISTR in the readme file with the patch, it saying something about the
parameters for the ral.cfg file are between 0 and 200? I see you have
damages set to 1000, maybe it should be in the 0 to 200 range? Try
reading the readme/help file for more info on this....

8-)

*Peter* -  http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html


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