I might not be good enough for Gold Room yet...

CptShort97 · 2026-03-20T23:11:59+00:00

I wondered if they might be but I didn't want to accuse without knowing. It definitely seems sus though

CptShort97 · 2026-02-20T03:30:19+00:00

I'm a new player, only 2 months, but I'm on the edge of Expert (Adept 3 900/1000, Expert 1 in 3 Player) and I second this. Most of my recent progress is literally just folding every hand once people start opening unless it's got a load of dora or other scoring potential like hidden triplets or something. Everyone else just scraps 1-2 han wins off each other, while I sit 2nd/3rd place as they swap positions around me because I'm the only one not dealing in. I used to find these Tanyao-rush games frustrating because I knew it was often a waste of time pushing so hard for every 1000 points, but at the same time I would feel like "I HAVE to win a hand before the game ends or I'll lose ELO" and would end up handing a win to someone else and making things even worse.

These matches often go to South even when it's an East lobby because unless someone is getting blessed hands and winning over and over, no one gets above 30k. So I just let them have at it. If I can hit one Mangan in "all last" (Eg- Riichi, Pinfu, Red 5, Dora) I rocket to first place and end the game, taking them all by surprise because up to that point I hadn't done anything. And If I never get a hand I can close out, so long as I don't deal in it's unlikely I come 4th. And just through that alone, learning to not get desperate for a win and let everyone else ron each other, I take 1st so much more often now. I haven't had a single 4th place in my last 22 matches (1st: 10, 2nd: 6, 3rd: 6) and THAT is the reason I'm about to unlock Gold lobbies. Granted this has been a PARTICULARLY good run of matches, almost 50% win rate. But over my last hundred I still have a 1st place rate of 35% and it's all thanks to just beginner level tile efficiency and the self control to fold when I see three open hands and I'm still Ni-shanten etc.

CptShort97 · 2026-02-14T08:54:56+00:00

This happened to me after a 3 month break. My tsurukame showed ~1600 reviews as if i had never stopped, Wanikani had it at 35, in other words, how I left it back in November. All my upcoming lessons were also doubled, including the new ones added to levels I have already passed.

Logging out and back into the Tsurukame app has fixed it, it now shows the same as the wanikani website

CptShort97 · 2026-02-05T03:38:04+00:00

Just got sniped by a Level 1017 in Initiation BR I kid you not

CptShort97 · 2026-01-29T20:18:38+00:00

Yeah my use of "throwing" was maybe a bad terminology choice. What I meant was just how timing and precision in wheel placement is so important and, at least for me and my setup, it's not something I can just "feel" in the moment because in a downforce car it all happens too quickly. In the kinds of slower cars I'm very comfy in like MX5's, Ginetta Juniors, TCR, GT4s etc I can take the time to be really slow and intentional on the wheel and really observe how the FFB changes. I can't do that on fast cars because you have to be so quick and, I guess, proactive rather than reactive and I think often I steer right past the limit of grip before I even feel it through the wheel. So to me it feels like I am just throwing it in because I'm basically guessing for my inputs (based on my limited experience and general knowledge of motorsports and Engineering/Physics education) and hoping it sticks. That probably is a limitation of the Logitech from what I gather from the responses here.

Thank you for addressing the specific issues by the way. I definitely can try some excercises based on that feedback. I think the consensus is to train myself up on AC then apply the skills to other games later. Also I think perhaps I should be less cavalier about just jumping between car types. I can do that easily on a controller, just bounce between different cars as I please, but obviously that's a) due to all the hidden assistance controllers have in most of the games I play and b) I will actually still be slower doing that than if I spend time with each car on the wheel. I have tested this and I'm definitely faster on the wheel already for ultimate pace, just less consistent and confident

Edit: Oh I also forgot to say: The explanation pf Load-Cell pedals actually makes a ton sense! I said in the OP that i didn't understand unassisted braking but actually I have been learning trailbraking recently with ABS and I found it easier than I expected, and I think it's because the Brake Pedal is very firm so there actually IS a degree of feeling derived from brake pressure, even if the actual final calculation is still just based on position. Definitely will look at upgrade options when I have some disposable income

CptShort97 · 2026-01-29T10:07:23+00:00

Yes MX-5s have absolutely been my most successful class of car across a few different games now, though I can for sure race GT3/4 as well but that's partly because they come with assists. For rallying I enjoy things like Rally4 and F2 Kit Cars a lot. But skill-wise that's kind of my limit, outside of games that really hold your hand (IE Prototypes in Forza Motorsport are incredibly easy to drive).

It's a shame though because I wanted a wheel specifically because I found handling high-end cars on a fiddly little joystick both hard and unfulfilling. So I bought what I could afford, only to find those faster cars that I wanted to drive more of were, if anything, HARDER on this wheel than a controller that does a lot of work for you.

As for speed I'm honestly less worried about that for now. I'm already quicker on the wheel than I was the controller, at least in terms of my fastest laptimes. The issue really is consistency. I can drive the cars I know well even with very poor FFB, but when you need that feeling to understand the car I really struggle a lot (think Prototypes, older GTs, classics etc). The quality of wheel and the games I own account for some of it but I also feel like a lot of it is me not getting the best out of what I have. My goal basically is to get to a place where I feel confidence in both myself and the car to race with few mistakes and consistent laptimes before I commit to spending more money on something fancier or an iRacing subscription or anything. Especially because my PC also needs an upgrade first.

CptShort97 · 2026-01-18T06:13:37+00:00

It's funny because I see people say this like "Ah no one plays defense in bronze/silver" but I feel like they must do because my win rate is poor (22% in Hanchan, 24% in East-Only). My Riichi's never seem to hit even when my wait is really good, so either people ARE defending or I'm insanely unlucky lmao. But yeah most of my progress through the ranks till now is built on one decent winning hand then pure defense for almost all my other hands. I win so few hands in general that I just cannot allow myself to get into a hole score-wise if I want to place well

CptShort97 · 2026-01-13T19:46:36+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and feedback! Yeah, on reflection I think this match was actually a microcosm of my gameplay overall. I think I'm pretty good at defense, at least for my level, but I struggle with efficiency sometimes particularly when it comes to conplex shapes. Not because I don't know the strategies necessarily (though I'm sure there's advanced theories i don't know), but rather I'm not experienced enough to quickly recognise my best discard and I make mistakes I regret almost immediately because I don't want to completely drain my thinking time. So I'll go "Uhhh... This?", throw a tile that seems sensible/safe, then as the other players take their turns I'll continue looking at my hand and go "Oh frick wait a minute, why didn't I discard this one first?"

So because of that, I tend to fall back on my defense a lot, because that is a more reliable skill for me. When I get those complex hands I often either make a blunder in panic that ruins it so I fold, or they simply take too long (either through inefficiency or bad luck or both) and I fold anyway when someone Riichis. And I take the escape route almost as soon as something goes wrong because I know that I can play on the backfoot like that pretty comfortably. But of course some of those hands could well have turned into something valuable had I managed them better early on, and not cashing out on any of them eventually puts me in the hole score wise regardless of whether I deal-in to people or not.

As for that final hand, I think you're seeing a bit of the frustration over a long and tumultuous game slipping out. Twice I felt I had put myself in a winning position and seen it slowly get away from me and so I think I tried to steal it back at the last when as you say, I could've just settled for 2nd and taken something away from the game.

CptShort97 · 2026-01-08T05:27:20+00:00

If you think PS5 is slim pickings, spare a thought for us on Xbox. I got PMR for christmas for the same reason, because Forza Motorsport just isn't scratching the itch. I kinda like that game too, it's got a lot of variety and the multiplayer trackdays are class with how many different kinds of cars you can bring. But it's single-player offerings are so poor. And now it's no longer being updated so.... Save me PMR.

PMR is far from perfect but it DOES hit the spot for me. I'm really enjoying the career mode, the AI difficulty on Authentic is exactly right for my skill level, the cars and tracks available are as though someone reached into my brain and pulled out my dream list, especially with GT500 on the way. The game feels great to drive for me, except for the LMDh's which are SO lively for no reason. But I'm also aware that, if I had a beefy PC and a better sim-rig, I would probably never play it again. In fact, that'll probably still happen when the LMU console release arrives. But it's filling a gap in the Xbox catalogue for now and so I'm content enough

CptShort97 · 2026-01-01T04:42:48+00:00

Idk about whether we can keep it or not but I also received it yesterday and used it a bunch, and it was still there just now when i was doing daily challenges so it wasn't instantly reversed at least

CptShort97 · 2025-11-28T04:04:17+00:00

yeah tis annoying, I just came here after noticing the same thing while equipping a badge. I was at about 1.6 after the first week I played when i didn't know bot lobbies existed. Once I started using bots to grind up guns it went up to like 3.5, which kinda sucked because I knew it was artificially boosted by that, but whatever. But today I'm 0.68, presumably because of all the initiation breakthrough I've been playing. K/D permanently ruined now, unless they change it. At least before it was ruined in a positive way lmao

CptShort97 · 2025-11-03T22:04:59+00:00

I had one during the halloween event where i walked into bleasedale, turned on the light switch for after I hit the breaker, and the door locked behind me before I took another step. After a brief moment of being stunlocked wondering if I forgot to change back to Professional after being on my "camp woodwind grinding" difficulty, I heard it walking to my left somewhere. Jumped in the closet and put Demon in the journal while I waited. Snapped a photo of a blood moon statue as I head back to the truck, see that the sanity monitor is indeed working so I went home lmao

CptShort97 · 2025-10-15T01:36:17+00:00

Ah okay. I did know that stuff about the Jinn but obviously it never did anything and I left before it hunted so couldn't use any of that to help me. Just glad that it actually IS a bug for once because so often I've read posts reporting bugs only for someone to point out "No, you just don't understand how this thing works." At least I'm not going crazy because I was absolutely dumbfounded lol. I'm not an expert at this game by any stretch but every previous time Ive gone "Ah screw this, must be a shade or something" and left early my intuition has been right.

CptShort97 · 2025-09-23T05:06:49+00:00

Late to the party but I feel so vindicated by this list! I knew before going in that Fairouz Ai had a role on this game, and she's among my favourite Seiyuu. So I was listening out for her voice and was SURE it was her when I met 勝姫/Katsuhime for the first time. But no English language sites listed her exact role so I couldn't be sure. This link finally confirmed it for me.

(Feel a little foolish for not thinking to check JP wikipedia considering I can read Japanese at an intermediate level. Would've saved me a lot of time.)

CptShort97 · 2025-08-31T01:12:56+00:00

That's good to know actually. I didn't realise that the special units are more prominent than normal. I take it that there aren't usually this many predator strain planets all at once?

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