[PS4] The Los Santos 24hr

Played your race. Liked how ambitious you were with it. Making long races is a real pain.
+ Good mixed race. Not one-dimensional and good prop placement. Your CP placement in the mountains (where I've had problems before) is generally really good but slightly sparse IMO.
- Because of it's size there's not enough CP's all the time. There's times when I had to look at the map to be totally sure where I was going. I think you've ran out of CP's so it's hard to suggest what you can do to change this. Also some of your CP's are slightly too far away from the apex of the corner. It's possible to hit to apex but miss your CP. Finally your CP placement is a bit inconsistent. Some are before the corner, some at the corner but away from the apex and some at the apex. It's enough to mean that I was never certain where the turn was exactly.
+- I think the race has the potential to be really good. My only suggestion to gain a few CP's is to make the city section of your race slightly smaller by staying north of the freeway, for example. This would allow you to CP the mountain section a bit more. Also maybe a different name? 24 hrs in GTA time is about 45 mins. I'm not saying called it the Los Santos 4hr (or whatever it works out as) but I'm a bit of a perfectionist about that kind of thing. (I'm sure there's more things I could be called lol)

Hope that advice is of some use and isn't too harsh. Reading it back it sounds like I'm ripping it to shreds when I really quite liked it. I can believe the race took a while to create. It's easy to get lost in the creator as you try and map out a course.

ive updated it, with a few tweaks. mostly to do with checkpoint consistencies. and made a prop heavy corner much clearer.


rsg.ms/918690d

you made 2 points

1- the blind corner between 52 and 53.

i dont have anymore checkpoints to add but if i was to change it on your advice do you think maybe bring 53 slightly closer to 52 on the earlier bend? thought id ask your opinion as i think it might be more important where it is. and racing is about familiarising yourself with a track so i can handle 1 blind corner after having raced the course once. i think its even quite predictable so im of the opinion its not a necessity but if you prefer then others might too who arent familiar but i think the only option would be like i said above. let me know what you think.

2- CP 49.

i agree. it wasnt obvious to me coz the checkpoint indicates the direction pretty clearly but youre right it could be missed. ive ran out of props so ill budge the checkpoint.

it hasnt let me access creator for a couple of days but im in contact with rockstar support to get me back in. soon as i can ill make the change/s.

and thanks again for the feedback. its a better race because of it   

thefroc Great track, Definitely my favorite to run around in and roast randoms.

when i try to load it up it gives me the message 'failed to download as there is invalid data'. rockstar got back to me with an email as long as my arm. its full of instuctions talking about NAT types, ports to have open and powercycles??? i have no idea what its on about, ill have a crack at it but im not confident!!!

my internet has been disconnecting itself every now and again over the past week, maybe its something to do with that and will just pass? i dont know but whatever i do ill leave a post on this thread.

okaaaaay, so you were right about rockstar support agrajag. complete waste of time. So i had to recreate it. and ive just finished it now. f'in rockstar!!!

this is the new link. ive edited all the above links too so noone goes on the old one anymore.

rsg.ms/918690d

the new one has a couple of improvements too.

thanks and enjoy!

Hi again, sorry I didn't review the race as quick as I said but better late than never. Illness, bookmark problem and other exciting things but here goes:

+ First congrats on the re-creation - it's a million times better than the first version and is propped and CP'd near perfectly. I'm keeping it bookmarked as good long lap races are few and far between. I think the routes different? Anyway it plays a lot better, CP's are used a lot better and it just feels crisper and more finished.
+- Don't know if it's just my bad driving but I think CP 12 could be moved later - it's currently on a kink which I hit continually flying me into the alleyway straight ahead.
- CP 41 needs 2 arrows as it's a tight corner which follows (i.e. move CP 42 and 41 until you get a 2 arrow chevron for CP 41)
- CP 44 can go as it leaves zero reaction time for CP 45. If you do this CP 45 can be moved to the right-hand side of the road towards the apex (and maybe prop to force cars to the right side of the road?).
- I think there could do with being a extra CP before 53. There's a slightly tight corner where it's easy to carry on straight especially as the rest of the track is so well CP'd.
- CP 61 is unnecessary I think.

Clearly having your track effectively deleted spurred you on to create something better as I'm really a fan of it now.