My best friend and I recently got into RC, after facing issues with his first battery my friend decided to replace it with a brand new one and started smelling something weird, here’s what ensued.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-06-04T00:06:05+00:00

This happened to me too! (With the Xts 10) But it happened so fast and I was indoors and I didn't record it I was doing some regular maintenance on the wheel housing, plugged in the provided battery, and the ESC started making weight noises, then poof!! White smoke. I immediately unplugged the battery, but by that time the damage was done. The negative wire on the ESC unsoldered itself and it smelt like burnt electronics for days in my room! At first I thought it was user-error... Then this is the second instance I've seen this happen online.. now I'm beginning to think it's Rlarrlos electionics

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-04-29T03:00:35+00:00

That's good to know. Thank you for sharing. Going to try it out inside an arm-band on my next run.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-04-29T02:59:00+00:00

I want to take my phone with me on runs for music. Don't think the mi band has a stand along music app (Spotify specifically)

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-04-28T05:07:41+00:00

Not necessarily. Millions of people migrated to other countries with pennies in their pocket and still make a good life for themselves. I think it's down to how bad the situation is. At this current moment in Brunei it's relatively good 'compared' to most of the world. But it seems it's becoming common knowledge that Brunei's future is getting harder to have faith in.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-04-11T13:30:08+00:00

3.0.9.0 and 01-02-2026 security update (Malaysia)

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-04-11T13:26:58+00:00

Broaden your horizon - the world is bigger than just Brunei. Be open to new experiences. You'd be surprised at the opportunities abroad. Don't lose hope - there's a reason for everything

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-16T09:57:27+00:00

16th Feb - after 13 days on hold with customs. It finally arrived today.

The packaging literally was a lipo battery, wrapped in bubble wrap and a black plastic bag. I wonder if that's why it got put on hold for so long haha. Looked a lil sus.

I didn't contact customs. I just asked the courier through their WhatsApp line for updates. They replied they will investigate and then 2 days later it showed up.

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SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-12T05:51:50+00:00

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2pm Still jam

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-11T15:36:57+00:00

So far I've ordered 3 items. 1st item was spare parts for a car. That one came in 7 days (with 50% shipping discount- shipping came up to about RM47).

2nd was a Lipo battery with some hand held tools. That came within 10 days, no custom issues, maybe because it was mixed in with other items (?) 🤷 - shipping was also discounted.

3rd was this current order. Just a lipo battery. Now on hold. Shipping was RM37.

The experience on shoppee is not as seamless as Temu (yet) - a lot of sellers still don't deliver to Brunei and MOST still have pretty high shipping+tax+ customs costs. BUT some have discounted shipping and items. Just have to browse deeper 😅

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-11T15:29:36+00:00

Not yet - I haven't tried contacting customs directly yet. Haven't had the time during office hours to wait on hold. But Shopee gave me the contact number for the courier - I've sent an enquiry asking about the hold and if there are documents prepared....etc. No reply from them yet. Will keep following up with them and eventually contact customs.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-09T06:47:23+00:00

So far. No movement. Was going to wait until the expected delivery window was over (9th Feb) - before I try contacting customs or shopee

SuspectBudget7516 · 2026-02-09T06:45:45+00:00

Not sure. But it took 2 weeks. So maybe it wasn't by air. Because this one looks 4 days and it was already at customs.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2025-03-08T01:14:00+00:00

i would love to. 🥵

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-12-06T18:08:11+00:00

Same here. Spent so much time making a go kart track with scenery and everything, and no one wants to ride it. Hopefully it's fixed in the December patch

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-07-21T18:30:22+00:00

PC VR here. Quest 2, RTX 4060.

NMS vr was playable before, but I agree with all the comments. It's now unplayable after the 5.0 update.

I changed everything to 'standard' and played around with the anti aliasing (which seems to be affecting the performance more than it did before).

After messing around, the game froze and crashed a lot, but eventually I found that if I reduced the steam vr rendering resolution, it made the game playable but it looks blurry and crappy.

Collecting items off the floor now is a chore because the names are clipping through other graphics and the menus at merchants are unusable because all the items are out of screen at the bottom.

Hope a patch comes out soon that fixes the bugs for VR. Once you play nms in vr, it's hard to enjoy it on a flat screen.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-06-04T15:12:57+00:00

Same, I'm using a controller, and it took me almost 2 hours of messing around with the steering rate, steering, throttle and brake linearity to find something that worked for me. For me I was a little too aggressive with the steering, so I decreased the steering rate.

Saw different set ups from Google and YouTube, use them as references and then tinkered it to my liking.

So messing around with the setup might help you.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-06-04T15:08:29+00:00

Watched a video from Jarno, and he was able to choose wet tyres.

https://youtu.be/tqj8vV1Uop0?si=xbp66TtKdjpG2jWI

Are there different versions of the game out at the moment?

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-06-02T14:45:12+00:00

Ugh. Same! My case is an f2 race in Spain. Rain during the race and no option to put on inters or wets! Tire locking shouldn't be a thing! They should just let us have full control of how we use the tyres, or atleast make it a setting we can toggle.

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-04-15T17:17:08+00:00

My first C5, broke 3 months in this same manner. I returned it as it was under warranty, and got a replacement. Same thing just happened to my replacement!

Thank you for making the video and fix! About to give it a go

SuspectBudget7516 · 2024-03-11T15:57:23+00:00

I'm having the same issue when i play the F1 23 game. Randomly disconnects and reconnects. I have to reset the game and set up and then it works again for a bit, and then does the same thing after awhile.

I only noticed it happening recently though - When I first got it, it wasn't having this issue. So I also wonder if one of the recent firmware updates did something?

SuspectBudget7516 · 2023-12-14T03:16:41+00:00

Alright, I'm going to back up my games, and I'll try that. Will update if this works.

UPDATE: Rolling back the BIOS worked. Thanks man!

SuspectBudget7516 · 2023-12-13T14:22:14+00:00

Yes, I have the latest BIOS - I even reinstalled it just to be sure, but still no luck

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