A Bowl Full of Problems

[James Hodge]

So I went on a search for some cool new tracks to try out, and found this one called Cereal Bowl.

I load it up and think "Wow, that's come crazy banking. Will probably make for some very interesting racing."

I'm sure it would, if I could A. Get my car to move more than 5 feet before randomly flipping over and if B. the other cars in the field didn't drop from the 100 feet in the sky.

Observe.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4nVoSF-d8Q]YouTube - A "Cereal Bowl" Full Of Problems[/ame]

Probably one of the funnier things I've seen in the game in a while. The first time I tried it, the timing of the audio, especially the "Gentlemen, start your engines!" was hilarious. I am wondering, though, what the heck is wrong with this track that makes it do that?

 

[labontefanboy]

Wow that's funny. I know some tracks that only do that on arcade. I think if you try to do a race at Talladega Hump or Michigan Volcano (sorry don't have links) they fall from the sky or they randomly jump up 200 feet in midair and repeatedly do that before the pace laps start.

 

[John Poole III]

That has never happen to me before. And its only for test sessions obly tryriding the wall then turn left its hilarious

 

[K.Chuck]

that was awesome. idk what to tell you about that. was good for a laugh though thanks

 

[James Hodge]

Yeah, I've never had a track act like that for me before either. I'm in Simulation mode, too.

 

[AdamS]

lmao!!

 

[James Hodge]

If you watch carefully at the very end, you can see the Pace Car (an orange speck int he distance) go flying from left to right. :lol:

 

[labontefanboy]

Wow lol I was wondering what that was!

 

[James Hodge]

I also forgot to point out that the reason the video ends so abruptly is because the game then crashes to the desktop.

 

[labontefanboy]

Wow, what's it gonna do next, send a virus through your system? No, it won't do that but it is annoying to have tracks crash the game. It happens to me alot.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I just laughed SO f*ing hard that my dog simply just walked away in disgust. I seriously laughed. Thank you so much for that.

 

[Finishline]

Is it possibly your fps? I saw you had frames under 20.

 

[James Hodge]

I don't think low FPS would have an effect. I usually run about 75-50, but I had some other stuff running when I recorded this video. Fraps is pretty taxing on the system, anyway. Long story short, I think there's a lot more going on than low frames.

 

[Finishline]

Oh, well then I have no idea lol

 

[Shift]

I've seen this happen before on certain tracks....what I'll usually do is switch between arcade and simulation...which usually does the trick.

I really don't know why it happens, but it is rather comical

 

[Harry Nurpplez]

pfft...silly humans i've only experienced this myself about a hundred times lol.

What we see in the video that TBT posted is nothing trust me lol. I've watched this kind of thing go on for the whole lenght of a ten minute practice session...because I made them heh. I've seen cars go backwards up-side-down 20-30 ft above the race track leaving skidmarks in mid-air behind them at 5,000(not a typo!) mph. I have watched the replays and seen cars reach 6/7 digit speeds for slit seconds at a time. Its very easy to create/get rid of on every track. If anyone would like to know I could show them though its been a year since i've done it.

Though to quote the readme that comes with it.

AI: no (No longer working on them)
Mod support: no (Not in the Beta)

...

Known Bugs: AI will jump in the pits & not leave thier stalls. If the grip is
adjusted to prevent this the game will crash to desktop when the AI first enter
the track.

But it does include four total track ini files. The original and the copy. The pace 2 and pace works ini files. One of those two actually got the ai to somewhat race for me but I forget which.

 

[James Hodge]

I've tried all of the track.ini files included, as well as trying Arcade mode...no dice.

 

[Markfan]

Say, can you post it? The site it was on is dead and I want to try this for myself. lol

 

[James Hodge]

Looks like it's still up here: Cereal Bowl

 

[truexfan81]

i have raced on that track b4, they used to use it on the higrip wreckers server, they have special setups that make it work (online only). also they make modifications to the track.ini file like altitude, grip, weather, etc.


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