GeneRally Rookie Championship 16 - Race 1 Recap

GeneRally Rookie Championship is back with its 16th season, with new tracks, and still the same FR/13 car. Different than the last season, this season has many teams competing for the title. Teams in this season are much greater in number than the previous seasons which most of them are privateers (No passion to run a team, perhaps???). Opening this season’s GRC is Trigger Park by AleksiNir.

Bottom right sweeper is making me RAGE. -Haruna Say

This track is pretty, well, let’s say “challenging” due to the fierceness of the penultimate corner. I wonder where Death Ruse had been... But well, we’re talking about GRC, right? So no time to talking crap about the hardest CA rival of the Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 right now. Speaking of the “Season Opener”, we have 21 racers driving for this first race, which is the biggest in GRC since 1st event of 13th season in October 2009.

Best Drivers Arise!

Well, Europeans rules GeneRally, hence the best position they’ve got. Just look at the first race results! After a long battle, nico wins the race with a speed of 103 kmh (How I could reach that speed?). At the first lap, there was a fierce 5-way battle. The fight continues as nico, Calders and Haruna Say are fighting for the first place. Not only that, Quiklis and mizzamar are fighting too. You can see the action at the picture strip below:


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For me, it’s not a great outcome.

"Goh-dang-it, another out-of-top 10-place..." -Rendy

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Unfortunately, yet again I placed below Top 10 which is sad because you feel that you've expected yourself to be one of the top 10 racer, but it turns out false. I finished 14th, 0.97 seconds behind medal89 and 0.22 seconds ahead Red. And since I’m on the Silver class (Means I’m no longer in the Bronze class, the class I’ve been since my first GRC until the previous season), I can’t hide this God-awful shame.

However, I’ve been involved in the battles against Santana 2.0 and Ginseng for position. In the end, it was me who got pwned by Ginseng, followed by Medal89. Once again, it is not a good result, but I don’t surprised at all because I made mistakes and bad trajectories. Oh my Lanta!

Teammate got sucked

Horrible track, horrible race, just horrible. -resir014

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Racing Van Java, an Indonesian GRC team consisting of me, ChargerSRT8 and resir014 competes in this prestigious event. ChargerSRT8 had been active on GRC competitions since the RSC era, and resir014 comes from RaceDepartment.org and was a leader of the Race Department team of GRC. But unfortunately we’re out of luck. Let’s face it, ChargerSRT8 didn’t race in this first event and he said (via Facebook chat) that he might be racing for the second race after he is done with his “Otaku” thing. Meanwhile, resir014 had pulled out his great skills, but he’s last (Ever since he was on the RD GRC team, he wasn’t that slow). Again, I have to say “What a Dreckitude” to this outcome.

We need some more training in order to achieve best results on Xavelot, the second track of the season.

Well, sadly I have to conclude this blog. While I conclude this, check out The Secret to Go Fast thread on gene-rally.com, it is where you can find the guide for beginners to go as fast as the professionals. Once again, thanks for reading!

~REGARDS

Al Dasein, Raina & Krista, and New TXRD 2 Career

It's Emperor Slasher again! I was "resting" this blog for awhile but now I wake it up again and I'm bringing you my latest blog: Al Dasein, Raina & Krista, and New TXRD 2 Career. Three of them are all my interest of 3 different interests :D.

First up, Al Dasein.


"Don't expect to race with AIs because the AI Line is so DRECKITUDE."

This is my second track after the CrossRace, my first legit track to be released in gene-rally.com. In the Al Dasein Track, the track embodies "Middle East" track mixed with "Arabia" feel. The cliffs reminds us to the ones seen on Age of Empires II, only this time it's not square-ish.

But still, there's several things that should be improved. Like:

- The surroundings are very empty (Usually middle-east oil sheik's build big facilities to their tracks.)
- Only two stands
- Drecky AI Line
- Roofs on the stands
- A parking area
- Alley of palms around one of paths to claim it ''major path'' with importance like a boulevard
- Place net 3-5 on few places around track
- Club building near pits
- More zooming
- And some others. (Source: Ivo Porc and Quiklis)

But well, it's no surprise for me, because I don't have much experiences on GR trackmaking, and I only drive GRCs :p.

Second, let's shift the gear from GeneRally to America's Next Top Model. 2 weeks ago, the 2-hour finale takes place, and the Cycle 14 winner is Krista White. I thought Raina Hein win the cycle... :(

However, just like Takumi Fujiwara who has a lower-powered car than Ryosuke Takahashi overtake him at the Akina race thanks to his technique, Raina got her international gig. After I watched the [downloaded] ANTM finale episode, Tyra mentioned the names of the successful non-winners like Fatima, Anya, Katarzyna, Mollie Sue, etc. Raina got her Harper's Bazaar Arabia feature which is great :D.

Now, the Cycle 15 is rumored to be a "Rebirth Cycle" with a HUGE MASTER PLAN of Vogue Italia feature/cover/spread/whatever as a prize. What agency suits best? IMG? Elle? Or Anykind? Or stand still with Wilhelmina? (I think ANTM is about to match Russia's NTM's winning record of making a successful winner because as you know, Ksenia Kahnovich got successful after the show, and so does Michela Legrand from Italia's NTM 2).

Finally, I conclude this blog by shifting yet another gear, from being an ANTM Otaku to a Touge Hashiriya. Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 is the game I'm playing on PS2 right now. I decided to start all over again, since the memory card I use to save the game's progress got broken. If in the previous progress I drove an AE85 Levin, now I drive a red Silvia S13. I've installed the "Critical S-Engine Tuning" (AKP-HRM-UNI), power tuning, drive train tuning, weight reduction, and blah blah blah. Sadly I couldn't take away the turbo to become NA, because the Stage 1 category race is NA Fest.

I decided to buy a Levin 1500SR in the Used Car Lot for 600K+ CP (Exact price enknown). Although I've done the "Critical Engine Tuning" and it's an NA, it is 105PS in power and to bring in to NA Fest, it's a dreck.

Damn! I have to go right now, I posted this because today's IT subject material is making blog, and the time is running out. Goodbye guys!

New GeneRally stuffs

Hi! It's Emperor Slasher again here. Due to a lack of interest in writing blogs because of my life, I would announce you my GeneRally stuffs. Of course you can found these stuffs on GeneRally International Racers Forums :D

First up, my new car... Which is Genki Racing Project S2000 - inspired by a real-world car of the same name.

This is the first version of my car. Actually, it isn't my first car. I've made TGS Devilbat RS (Fictitious car) on RaceSimCentral forums' GeneRally section. After RSC's GR is dead, I don't care the Devilbat anymore. Also, I made TGS Sasuke ST, another fictitious car. And also, I made RidgEout Racers (Cross between Ridge Racer and Wipeout video game), but unfortunately I halted it for some reason.

However, it is too much faulty... I mean, look here:

Sorry, but that doesnt look like an s2000.
Is this your first car? For first its good. :D
Lights should have atleast 2 polies, it should be thinner and hood should be longer. (Sutinen)

And also, The Great Falcon's complex theory. I thought I've made an S2000 but not exactly look like S2000. So, I've updated the car and here's what I got:


Differences between the first version with the second version.

In the second version, the car's shape is starting to look like S2000. Some fixes also done, that includes the color change. Lorenzo stated:

I was told that GR uses chosen colour and two next colours for reflections. If you chose 169 (dark grey) game uses also 170 (grey) and 171 (dark blue). It's not everything: look at the car when it's under the water! In that case game uses also 172 (yellow). And it is yellow in the water, isn't it?

So, using 168 as the black colour in the models is IMO better than using 169.

However, there's one more flaw that I haven't notice since the first version. It is...

This car needs a diet. Too wide in my opinion. (Haruna Say)

Yep, the car is looked Plus-size which doesn't reflect S2000 at all. So I worked it to slim it down. Also, I decided to spend two polies for the headlights for the price of the rear parts' polies (Since I've used ALL vertexes, 30 to be exact).

But how this thing turned out? Will this thing is turned out to be a good one?


Differences between the second version with the latest version.

Well, that concludes the blog post for today. I will update the RENDYTuned site ASAP, since I want to put some new stuffs in it. Adios!

~REGARDS