There’s a few cars I’ve been wanting to level up for awhile but with no useful/interesting career modes to do and not wanting to just do Rivals I stumbled onto an idea.
In Test Drive mode it advances the time relatively quickly so I set the time of day to Sunrise, weather to Partly Cloudy or Variable, and set off around the Nordschleife.
I know the particular presentation of the ring can be divisive, especially with things like the lighting installations and paraphernalia, but I absolutely love it.
Watching the lighting change gradually, the sunrise, sunset, the shadowing, the lights go on/off, the fog and onset or disipation of rain is just marvellous. I love the look at night, especially with a little bit or rain or fog to make it look cold and a little erie.
I just lost myself enjoying the drive, admiring the graphical presentation of what obviously results from a lot of hard work to produce this effect.
I do wish the headlights had proper high beams though. It is impossible to drive without the driving line assist when it’s dark and raining as you can’t see so much of what is coming and I’d love to turn the line off.
Check this out, if you drive at night there is this oval shape on the screen. Once you noticed it you can’t unsee it. Since I noticed it I HATE to drive at night.
There are some good things about the times of day on the Nord like the way when the Sun is setting and how certain parts of the track are hidden from the Sun leading you into as shadowy cold section then racing back out into the light.
I like setting the time to custom 5:45pm and going for a drive, or late afternoon with 12x on 2 laps.
Also the way the the godrays come down through the clouds and project onto certain parts of the track or surroundings
I usually play with the time set to IRL time and let it run at 1x speed. This way it feels the most natural, but the ingame Nordschleife is taking place in early spring. So the sunset is pretty early already. When it’s getting dark outside and ingame I usually set it back to something in the afternoon or morning. It sucks to drive at night because of the fantasy decorations and the oval shape on the screen.
Yeah man, pretty much dislike racing opponents, and the Nordschleife…done countless laps time attacking it. Was so PO’d when FM 2023 released without it, but now I’m addicted to setting out at 6:40 am, variable weather in something underpowered and fun, and just sliding from apex to apex, half blind, half using The Force hahaha!
The problem with “variable weather” is, it always rains in one half and not in the other one. That is not “variable”. That is rain half of the time and nothing else.
Somebody suggested live weather, wow I really like that idea. I also like the idea of real time.
Can anyone point out which (corner names) curbs have been updated in 9.0?
I’m no expert of the Nordschleife and just did a few laps and couldn’t tell what was new.
I gotta say, I never understood the revere of the Ring before, in fact in FM6/7 I absolutely despised having to drive there.
But now, I absolutely love driving it. As much as things like the excess of trees and artificial lighting upaet the purists, to a newcomer loke myself I absolutely love the rendering of this track.
The thick, unkempt forest with flowery bushes occasionally bursting out, the colourful graffiti on the track and track barriers, the spectators with their campervans and campfires etc etc etc.
Putting in so many laps of the place now it is such an enjoyable environment to drive in.
