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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2014 23:46:57 GMT
I bought it because of its style, the same reason I bought my Tornado and Picador. I already have a Dominator, so if I only cared about performance I'd have skipped the Blade entirely. Yeah well its ugly so I didn't buy it for looks. Then why'd you get it?
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Post by Trowa on Aug 1, 2014 23:53:40 GMT
Yeah well its ugly so I didn't buy it for looks. Then why'd you get it? Bc CrazyMan2626267 convinced me it was better on dirt but idc if hes right or wrong anymore. Car is ugly and its awful for clean racing. That car has ruined more muscle races than I care to count.
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Post by axdsilva on Aug 2, 2014 0:03:24 GMT
Then those drivers suck it's hndling is great, I just think that front raised suspension is stupid otherwise I'd probably get it
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 0:13:55 GMT
Bc CrazyMan2626267 convinced me it was better on dirt but idc if hes right or wrong anymore. Car is ugly and its awful for clean racing. That car has ruined more muscle races than I care to count. Perhaps its the racer that's the problem and not the car. After all, a good craftsman doesn't blame his tools. Edit: I meant that as the other racers were bad. Didn't mean to call you out Trowa.
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Post by Trowa on Aug 2, 2014 0:19:37 GMT
Bc CrazyMan2626267 convinced me it was better on dirt but idc if hes right or wrong anymore. Car is ugly and its awful for clean racing. That car has ruined more muscle races than I care to count. Perhaps its the racer that's the problem and not the car. After all, a good craftsman doesn't blame his tools. Nope, its not me. its the cars inability to turn going through corners. essentially making inside passes impossible without pitting other drivers. Ive been on the receiving end and witnessed this happen from a distance so many times its dumb. I only bought the car to try out on dirt. The dominator is better in every single way except speed off the line but that isnt a factor except the very start of a race. Blade just sucks and is the root of all evil in muscle races. Plain and simple and again its ugly as sin.
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Post by vxwk on Aug 2, 2014 0:33:35 GMT
Yeah I sold my Blade for a Dominator, I would give reasons why, but I think they may have already been discussed
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 0:51:08 GMT
Perhaps its the racer that's the problem and not the car. After all, a good craftsman doesn't blame his tools. Nope, its not me. its the cars inability to turn going through corners. essentially making inside passes impossible without pitting other drivers. Ive been on the receiving end and witnessed this happen from a distance so many times its dumb. I only bought the car to try out on dirt. The dominator is better in every single way except speed off the line but that isnt a factor except the very start of a race. Blade just sucks and is the root of all evil in muscle races. Plain and simple and again its ugly as sin. Acceleration actually affects the car's performance coming out of every single corner, so unless we're talking about highway races, the speed off the line the Blade experiences is actually quite useful. As far as the car being "the root of all evil in muscle races," the same can be said for the Zentorno, the Elegy and the Exemplar in their respective classes. I am confident the previously mentioned cars are all responsible for the majority of crashes in their classes during races, but I, unlike you in regards to the Blade, don't blame the car itself and instead choose to blame the person operating it. Sure, the Blade has understeer, but to blame the Blade itself for hitting you in a race is to negate all responsibility its driver wields. At the end of the day, your opponent raced a car with understeer and braked too late, so blame him and not the vehicle he is driving, otherwise you are simply excusing your loss on the fact that the other person chose a different car than you did.
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Post by Trowa on Aug 2, 2014 0:56:47 GMT
Nope, its not me. its the cars inability to turn going through corners. essentially making inside passes impossible without pitting other drivers. Ive been on the receiving end and witnessed this happen from a distance so many times its dumb. I only bought the car to try out on dirt. The dominator is better in every single way except speed off the line but that isnt a factor except the very start of a race. Blade just sucks and is the root of all evil in muscle races. Plain and simple and again its ugly as sin. Acceleration actually affects the car's performance coming out of every single corner, so unless we're talking about highway races, the speed off the line the Blade experiences is actually quite useful. As far as the car being "the root of all evil in muscle races," the same can be said for the Zentorno, the Elegy and the Exemplar in their respective classes. I am confident the previously mentioned cars are all responsible for the majority of crashes in their classes during races, but I, unlike you in regards to the Blade, don't blame the car itself and instead choose to blame the person operating it. Sure, the Blade has understeer, but to blame the Blade itself for hitting you in a race is to negate all responsibility its driver wields. At the end of the day, your opponent raced a car with understeer and braked too late, so blame him and not the vehicle he is driving, otherwise you are simply excusing your loss on the fact that the other person chose a different car than you did. I think everything you said is incorrect but I digress. The blade sucks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2014 1:07:55 GMT
Acceleration actually affects the car's performance coming out of every single corner, so unless we're talking about highway races, the speed off the line the Blade experiences is actually quite useful. As far as the car being "the root of all evil in muscle races," the same can be said for the Zentorno, the Elegy and the Exemplar in their respective classes. I am confident the previously mentioned cars are all responsible for the majority of crashes in their classes during races, but I, unlike you in regards to the Blade, don't blame the car itself and instead choose to blame the person operating it. Sure, the Blade has understeer, but to blame the Blade itself for hitting you in a race is to negate all responsibility its driver wields. At the end of the day, your opponent raced a car with understeer and braked too late, so blame him and not the vehicle he is driving, otherwise you are simply excusing your loss on the fact that the other person chose a different car than you did. I think everything you said is incorrect but I digress. The blade sucks. Mind if I hear why I'm incorrect? I hate to word that question so condescendingly, but I am genuinely interested in seeing the viewpoint you have on this topic.
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Post by axdsilva on Aug 2, 2014 1:09:56 GMT
I think it's driving style that's causing the disagreements here rather than the car, I mean it's hardly the cars fault when there are two deeply rooted sides about how it drives.
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Post by Jon on Aug 3, 2014 6:59:21 GMT
In my experience trying out several different muscle cars, I kept the Blade because it was faster than the Gauntlet. I had the Ruiner for a while but it couldn't hold up against other racers in a pack. Whenever I would try to pass someone a slight tap would send me off the road.
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Post by Trowa on Aug 3, 2014 7:44:52 GMT
Nope, its not me. its the cars inability to turn going through corners. essentially making inside passes impossible without pitting other drivers. Ive been on the receiving end and witnessed this happen from a distance so many times its dumb. I only bought the car to try out on dirt. The dominator is better in every single way except speed off the line but that isnt a factor except the very start of a race. Blade just sucks and is the root of all evil in muscle races. Plain and simple and again its ugly as sin. Acceleration actually affects the car's performance coming out of every single corner, so unless we're talking about highway races, the speed off the line the Blade experiences is actually quite useful.As far as the car being "the root of all evil in muscle races," the same can be said for the Zentorno, the Elegy and the Exemplar in their respective classes. I am confident the previously mentioned cars are all responsible for the majority of crashes in their classes during races, but I, unlike you in regards to the Blade, don't blame the car itself and instead choose to blame the person operating it. Sure, the Blade has understeer, but to blame the Blade itself for hitting you in a race is to negate all responsibility its driver wields. At the end of the day, your opponent raced a car with understeer and braked too late, so blame him and not the vehicle he is driving, otherwise you are simply excusing your loss on the fact that the other person chose a different car than you did. While this is true the blade only has an advantage in first and second gear. After that the dominator pulls away, take corners cleanly and the Dom is better. Consecutive corner tracks (which generally are awful for muscles and people dont use Muscles on them) are a different story but even in a hairpin the Dom is better bc of its turning radius. Obviously this is the case because those are the only cars anyone uses in those classes with the exception of the Massacro on long straight tracks and the exemplar is now replaced by the Zion or the Felon.
Understeer is an understatement. Only bc of its grip does the car not spin out and as a result the car is able to take ungodly lines that take up the entire road CAUSING ACCIDENTS. The blade is simply unable to pass a Dom cleanly because their race lines intersect. The dominator thrives on straight line speed and carrying that speed through the corners means taking straighter lines or you oversteer. The Blade thrives on hogging the entire road and as a result it results in accidents. Accidents that dont happen nearly as often when people used just Dominators.
Excuse me Im blaming it on the cars inability to turn without hogging the road and punting people off it. As a matter of fact I dont even get wrecked anymore because I know to wait for a straight to own that shit car on and I also know that I can just bide my time and wait for the Blades to accidently pit each other because the car wont turn and allow for an inside pass. You go ahead and love the car but you are a detriment to everyone else on the road in it and that goes for anyone using it. The car can turnout some great lap times IN SPACE but try and use some racecraft and the car is buns. Moreover the Dominator puts down better lap times on any proper muscle race and is a better car when attempting a pass. The only catch is you have to have some skill to drive it. You cant just hop in a Dominator and be a master. It takes skill to drive where the blade you can be decently fast in no matter your skill or lack there of because of its insane grip. If you can eliminate sliding in a Dominator it is king of its class hands down. The blade is more or less training wheels for Muscle races. Its a noob car imo the dominator requires more skill and has more room for error but is superior when driven properly.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2014 8:22:18 GMT
Acceleration actually affects the car's performance coming out of every single corner, so unless we're talking about highway races, the speed off the line the Blade experiences is actually quite useful.As far as the car being "the root of all evil in muscle races," the same can be said for the Zentorno, the Elegy and the Exemplar in their respective classes. I am confident the previously mentioned cars are all responsible for the majority of crashes in their classes during races, but I, unlike you in regards to the Blade, don't blame the car itself and instead choose to blame the person operating it. Sure, the Blade has understeer, but to blame the Blade itself for hitting you in a race is to negate all responsibility its driver wields. At the end of the day, your opponent raced a car with understeer and braked too late, so blame him and not the vehicle he is driving, otherwise you are simply excusing your loss on the fact that the other person chose a different car than you did. While this is true the blade only has an advantage in first and second gear. After that the dominator pulls away, take corners cleanly and the Dom is better. Consecutive corner tracks (which generally are awful for muscles and people don't use Muscles on them) are a different story but even in a hairpin the Dom is better bc of its turning radius. Obviously this is the case because those are the only cars anyone uses in those classes with the exception of the Massacro on long straight tracks and the exemplar is now replaced by the Zion or the Felon.
Understeer is an understatement. Only bc of its grip does the car not spin out and as a result the car is able to take ungodly lines that take up the entire road CAUSING ACCIDENTS. The blade is simply unable to pass a Dom cleanly because their race lines intersect. The dominator thrives on straight line speed and carrying that speed through the corners means taking straighter lines or you oversteer. The Blade thrives on hogging the entire road and as a result it results in accidents. Accidents that dont happen nearly as often when people used just Dominators.
Excuse me Im blaming it on the cars inability to turn without hogging the road and punting people off it. As a matter of fact I dont even get wrecked anymore because I know to wait for a straight to own that shit car on and I also know that I can just bide my time and wait for the Blades to accidently pit each other because the car wont turn and allow for an inside pass. You go ahead and love the car but you are a detriment to everyone else on the road in it and that goes for anyone using it. The car can turnout some great lap times IN SPACE but try and use some racecraft and the car is buns. Moreover the Dominator puts down better lap times on any proper muscle race and is a better car when attempting a pass. The only catch is you have to have some skill to drive it. You cant just hop in a Dominator and be a master. It takes skill to drive where the blade you can be decently fast in no matter your skill or lack there of because of its insane grip. If you can eliminate sliding in a Dominator it is king of its class hands down. The blade is more or less training wheels for Muscle races. Its a noob car imo the dominator requires more skill and has more room for error but is superior when driven properly. Can I see the tests for this, because I couldn't find any similar tests online.By my experience, the most common tracks for muscle cars do contain turns fairly often, so while that could be a difference in experience, the fact that their is a person to person difference should be enough to dismiss this.
That was my point. You are accusing the Blade as being the cause of the most crashes in its class, and I was implying that was true because it is the most popular car in its class much like the previously mentioned cars. I'll take what is a biased opinion for 400 Alex.
I'll admit, the Blade takes up more space and has a wider turn radius than the Dominator, but the Picador is in the same boat on both aspects, and yet you aren't complaining about that car. Again, I think this is a case of calling a car bad because it is common and often wielded by bad drivers(both points caused by it being a DLC/new car).At the end of the day, I think you lost my point somewhere along the line. I've never claimed that it is the best racing car(though it is a respectable choice), nor have I ever preferred it over the Dominator. Remember that I got it and continue to have it for looks, not performance.
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Post by parksguard on Aug 3, 2014 8:28:44 GMT
I like the look of the blade personally, I do not care for the way it handles, but I do not care for the way the rest of the muscle cars handle either. The blade is just the lesser of all the evils I suppose because it actually grips and rarely spins out for me.
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Post by parksguard on Aug 3, 2014 8:31:57 GMT
Also, this thread's text is a few colours short of a rainbow.
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