HomeEdit Messages & Buddies My World RankingWR Table My GamesJoin Public GameJoin Mid SeasonPrivate GamesInterested TeamsUpload Helmet [ List All Documents ] Alright, so a few people seem to have trouble working out what changes to make for weather, so rather then leaving you completely lost, I thought I'd give you my input on how to meddle around with settings. Before Reading on, here are a few things to note:
Now to the guide, as you probably know, the engineers report is the best place to start when it comes to wet weather, if it's going to rain at some point over the weekend, you can bet there will be some additional information that gives you a rough indication on how to set up for it. Important Tip - If you have practiced or warmed up in wet weather and need to change to dry, you need to do the opposite of what the engineer says. For instance, if he says to minus x amount off the gearbox, you need to add x amount to the sliders instead, because of course, you are set up for wet and not dry conditions. Let's start with an example, you've practiced, qualified and warmed up in bone dry conditions, you have spot on values for everything, but it's forecast to be wet and slippery, and now all that work seems to be ruined, you can't get the wet values in dry weather, so it's up to our trusty engineer to guide you, he tells you that if it's storm conditions (the wettest of wet), you need to change the conditions like so: Wings Front +20 Back +30 Suspension Front +24 Back +16 Anti Roll Bar Front -16 Back -28 Etc... (There's no need to do all the work for you) So we now know what to change it to if it's a storm, and we know the forecast, and it's not a storm, so how do we judge what values we should set? Well like I said at the start, this will probably not give you exact values, but in testing when I've used it, it's given 95+ setups, maybe I'm lucky, maybe not, but hey, this is just my guide, no one says you have to follow it. From reading the advanced startup guide, we know there are 12 weather types in the game, Bone Dry of course being the lowest, Storm being the biggest... Using this as a rough guide (and remembering this is just a game not real life), we can deduct there are 12 values we have to fit, with Bone Dry meaning there needs to be no changes. So here is where my estimates come from:  Bone Dry = 0% Wet Factor Greasy = 9% Wet Factor Moist= 18% Wet Factor Drizzle = 27% Wet Factor Light Rain = 36% Wet Factor Rain = 45% Wet Factor Wet and Slippery = 54% Wet Factor Steady Rain = 63% Wet Factor Heavy Rain = 72% Wet Factor Treacherous Rain = 81% Wet Factor Monsoon = 90% Wet Factor Storm = 100% Wet FactorAs you can tell, they are rough estimates based on an even factor between each part of weather, but they are purely estimates, they probably won't get a definate spot on, but good enough to get you close to a perfect setup (Who knows, if you make a slight change to one or two values it may get you even closer). Alright, so what do those percentages mean? Well to answer that, let's go back to our Engineers Report... Wings Front +20 (If 20 is 100%, we need to find what percentage wet and slippery is, which in this case is 54%, so what is 54% of our value?) So the sum is as follows 20 / 100 = 0.2 (that is 1%) 0.2 * 54 = 10.8 (this is 54% of 20, so we'll round to 11 so we have a whole number) So with this, we now can say that we should roughly add 11 to our bone dry setup to get a decent result for this weather. Following the same logic, you should be able to see how the rest of the values were found. Wings Back +16.2 (round to 16) Suspension Front +12.96 (round to 13) Back +8.64 (round to 9) Anti Roll Bar Front -8.64 (round to 9) Back -15.12 (round to 15) etc... So there you have it, with different weather, just substitute the value given. (remember these are estimates, so play around with it a little bit if you want, it's part of the learning process, and you can probably hone down on more accurate values that way) Hopefully this will help some new players come to grips a little better with the weather. Also, I know I'm not the only person to use this system, I figured it out for myself but also realised a team mate of mine was using the same logic, and I'm pretty sure other players are as well. I wrote this guide to help those who are totally lost when it comes to changing values for changing weather, here's hoping it'll make BatRacer games even more competitive. Good Luck! Links: Hayden's Guide to setting Tyre Sliders and the Wrong Tyre Slider Jerry's Expanded Help Guide Document created by William Prigg. Last updated 9 Jun 2006. | |||
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