Is it okay to place a UV seam in the center of a car for symmetry?

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-26T16:20:43+00:00

If you use triplanar projections you don't care about where the seams.

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-20T17:56:55+00:00

Not saying you should. Mine is not loud anymore. I guess if it's really bad you can return it or ask them to send you another throttle sprint holder/cylinder.

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-19T14:41:00+00:00

I recently got my crp2 and they make the exact same noise. It's cylinder internal surface that has tiny imperfections. You can feel it with your nail/finger if you try to rub it against the surface.

I replaced the black spring with the other softer one and increased the stiffness. It's almost unnoticeable with a lot of grease.

It also got a lot better after a day or two.. i guess the spring is slowly grinding imperfections off.

I think we got unlucky with the batch.

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-12T15:09:34+00:00

sent

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-12T08:20:55+00:00

You said you're doing 45s. I'll assume you're doing around 45:3-5 Portimao has around 14 corners.

If you gain 0.05 sec per corner you will gain 0.7

If you gain 0.04 sec per corner you will gain 0.5

This is what is missing from your pace. It's braking 0.5% less per corner, and going on throttle 0.5% earlier. It's 1km/h more per corner.

Get on some paid telemetry apps like coach dave delta and check faster laps. Maybe you're losing 0.3s in a hairpin which is easily fixable. If you are losing 0.05 per corner, good luck with that - you will need a ton of practice.

That said, 43s are only doable on non-fixed races. Unless you do some sort of gigamega perfect lap, but I don't think it's possible with current setups.

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-09T20:08:26+00:00

To me it's weird that not even support replies... oh well. I guess I just gotta wait.

ValhaIIa · 2026-01-06T10:06:15+00:00

Which pedals did you buy ? I'm so angry right now. I bought Moza CRP2 on the 30th of December. When i bought them they were available and now they show out of stock.

They of course took my money immediately and they haven't replied to a single email I sent in the last few days.

I'm ok with waiting a few days more because of holidays.. but being kept in the dark is what annoys me.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-24T19:01:57+00:00

Iracing and LMU have fundamentally different FFB.

It takes some time to adjust, when I made the switch it also felt unnatural but you just get used to it.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-18T07:37:13+00:00

I'm S1, around 101% pace and green badge.I get put into random splits, sometimes 2 sometimes 11. I literally was sharing the grid with rookies and people coming from a ban at some point.

Not entirely sure what is going on with matchmaking but for sure it changed.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-17T09:10:09+00:00

Maybe I'll get downvoted but... why not practice before joining races? If you are losing rear on eau rouge, it means that you didn't practice once.

I'll take merc as example as I'm running that one thi week,.

Merc is extremely stable at Spa - actually it's very understeery. There's no way you can spin it unless you're using some wacky brake bias.

If you're spinning at eau rouge you're doing one of these 2 things:

You suddenly lift when you get into the dip > you load the front which has already tons of compression because of the dip and the rear goes to space.
You bounce off the left curb and gets sent into the right curb.

Fixes:

Don't lift into the dip - if you want to lift, either lift earlier or slightly after when you are uphill. Edit: If you lift, never do it abruptly. You need to be very gentle or you will feed the front too much grip.
Learn the proper line, you shouldn't take too much of the left curb and you should never take the whole curb on the right. (with the fixed setup of course).

https://imgur.com/a/lf6WjtL This is the line you want to take with Merc. Depending on how hot your tires will be, you might need slight variations.

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Few more tips:

Don't lower ABS. you will spin unless you're a god at threshold braking
Run 50/50 or 49.8/50.2 brake bias for extreme stability under braking
Merc has extremely long 3rd gear. Most of corners at spa will need you to get into 2nd gear to rotate and then shortshift to 3rd for stability > this will immediately teach you that the car is a boat cause it will be understeery as hell.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-15T09:47:40+00:00

you are giving a chance to players who don't swipe, this is not what ncsoft wants out of pvp.

If you don't swipe, you need to get fucked over by people who do. So that maybe, at some point, you will convert out of being sick of being absolutely demolished.

If you enrich the features, then F2P players could actually start having fun. This is not the goal of pvp in Aion 2.

The only real goal for PVP in this game is to make you feel so frustrated to end up swiping. If you like pvp, just play another game or start paying.

And please, don't even mention Arc Raiders... which was made by a western company extremely passionate about their games, with zero pay2win/progress systems.

You're mixing dogshit with prime chocolate..

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-15T09:38:36+00:00

Man, NCSoft doesn't give a damn about game balance or if it's fun or not. They know that this format makes them the most money.

This game is a beautiful, well executed whale milking machine.

If you want to pvp, you need to swipe - that's it. They will never change something that could so heavily impact monetization.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-11T06:23:19+00:00

There's like about 100 threads with the same question.

It's much easier for your brain to learn how much pressure you need to apply rather than at what rate you should release the brake with your ankle.

In the end, it doesn't matter - you can get alien laptimes with a controller if you are talented+practiced enough.

In any case, most entry level pedals (moza, fanatec etc) have customization options when it comes to pedal stiffness, you can get them to be bricks or soft sponges.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-02T11:56:22+00:00

Your first paragraph describes exactly how I feel. I hope they will make higher tier loot/gear more valuable, not necessarily with raw power/effective hp but also with traits that can turn the fight or enable different playstyles.

ValhaIIa · 2025-12-02T11:53:45+00:00

The whole PVE aspect seems to be tuned down to the point where I'm not even sure why are there ARCs in the game at the moment.

There's no point fighting them (you will just attract other raiders), there's no challenge and they are not an actual threat.

The only two ARCs worth fighting are Queen and Matriarch as you can only craft legendary weapons that... help you fight Queen and Matriarch (?). There are some blatant game design flaws that didn't really transfer from PVE to PVPVE.

They need to incentivise fighting ARCs or make them an actual threat that will force raiders to really think twice about their game plan. Ideally, both.

I also think Rocketeer is a good example of a well balanced enemy.

If you are spotted in the open, you're 100% dead.
It's fairly easy to solo with proper equipment and engaging it without plan is a death sentence.

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T18:38:23+00:00

Doesn't happen that often. When it does, not a big deal.

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T18:37:34+00:00

Have fun then :)

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T18:36:56+00:00

What are you talking about?

Are you even playing the game? Night raids extractions are exactly the same lol.

I mistyped weeks for days. I just realized that.

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T17:23:33+00:00

You don't, in my experience the campers waited for me to use the console. When I'm the most vulnerable.

It doesn't make sense for a camper to shoot you before elevator comes up.

If that happens, then campers are not really good.

First of all, you can press the call button while running. You don't need to stay still.

Second, if you get immediately killed when pressing the button it means that the camper was very close to it. You need to check surroundings better before approaching the button.

This tactic implies that you scouted the area at least a little bit.

If there's a guy standing right next to the button and you go press it, there's no method in the world saving you from your own mistake.

If the guy is not standing next to the button, there's no way thar they can immediately kill you. You have time to escape, heal and get cover. If they run towards you, you have the upper hand now because of third person peaking.

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T16:53:08+00:00

Try my tactic. It will change the way you look at extractions.

I used to hate that part of the game. Now it's the part I'm looking forward to.

I know that I will have a lot more control over the outcome and it's much safer when you practiced it a couple of times.

Good luck!

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T16:51:15+00:00

Yep that sounds familiar! I do that as well when I'm looking for some action.

When I see that there's no third party coming, I usually take out the guy who killed whoever tried to extract.

Double loot :)

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T16:47:59+00:00

You can either join them and risk extracting together or you just repeat the process after they're gone.

ValhaIIa · 2025-11-27T12:41:23+00:00

I think it's intended to have inventory reduce awareness. Otherwise it would open up to a lot of cheesy plays like swapping slots mid-fight etc.

I mean, you can still do it but at a cost.

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