Talk:Research & Development/Porsche 911 GT3 RS/@comment-31544835-20170704111534

Test 49. Let's talk about it, shall we?

Dubai, flawless race, finish first. Sub goals: 5 knockdowns for 5 QC, 1,000m drift distance for 5 QC. Total QC needed: 65!

My tuning 5555 2222, triple boosted.

Let's start there. There is absolutely no reason to triple boost. Maybe don't boost at all. Because there's no time limit, all boosters do is make you faster at crashing. Not crashing being, of course, the main difficulty with this test. Did I not say yet that this is an easy effing test? Especially with a game plan.

My game plan: I said no need for boosters, but I'd at least do a nitro starter to catch and knockdown five cars right off the bat. A tuning kit will make this easier, so I'd recommend 'double boost' strats to play it safe.

Knockdown 5 cars while watching for traffic going in both directions (careful, you can wreck on traffic going in the same direction as you) Drift healthily when confused by what you see on the screen, there's plenty of flying debris and wrecking vehicles to troll you. Nitro when you're confident there's a clear path ahead. Try and knockdown racers from their sides please.

Boost past the crazy, after knockdowns achieved. Fly straight, until the big turn. Take the outer low road. There's light traffic there but also usually one or two QCs, and lots of good drifting time.

Bob and weave under the overpass and around curves and ramps (please don't touch ramps. Ramps on this track are just a mean trick.) Look for up coming QCs. Drift when you need to, but don't let that angry mob of racers catch up to you or they'll clip you into a wall easy. Especially when they meet up with you when those two paths converge.

You should be close to passing the 1,000 meter drift distance now.

When you come up to that second fork at that body of water, take the left. It's the shorter path, but a less obvious turn. It's better than heading straight and going around the right side of that body of water. This left turn also has a good amount of QCs that you don't wanna miss. This path also keeps you ahead of that death mob that wants to wreck you.

Drift n nitro your way around dem turns, watching for lightweight traffic.

ONCE YOU'RE ON THIS SHORTER PATH YOU COULLD LITERALLY DRIFT THE ENTIRE REST OF THE TEST!! I'm serious. I did this successfully three times! Make sure that death-car mob doesn't catch up to you at the end of that body of water and you're golden. In general, drifting lowers your chances of wrecking by a lot. I've run into head on traffic while drifting and been okay. I mean, I don't recommend it. But the point is, drifting can be your savior if used smartly, even dumbly I guess.

DON'T try and do that hard left last minute and crash into the directional arrow sign like I did once. Go straight into the tunnel aquarium, maybe pick up that QC before you enter, if it happens to be there. Once you've exited that tunnel, you're on your way to lap 2!

On your second lap take opposite routes from your first lap to pick up remaining QC. So.. on that big turn, stay left for that higher ground. Go "right" (straight really) around the body of water (traffic should be lighter than if you went this way the first time. Look for QCs while expert drifting), stay straight as you leave that body of water (don't turn into the tunnel aquarium again. Why would you do that?!)

And that's it. Easy peasy lemon squeaky. Squeaky lemons being those whiny cars complaining about not being able to knock you down bruh!

Could you do it other ways? Yes. But this way is super easy. Expect 17-20 QCs per run.

Honesty: I did fail this test a lot (three times!) because of momentary lapses in sanity, where I deviated from said game plan. So whether it's this game plan, or a different game plan, just have a freakin' game plan! And for god sakes stick to it! It'll be one of the easier test on this long tired a$$ R&D. You're welcome.

Namaste 🙏