S38 WINTER // DRY SEASON PREVIEW

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Trial is El Descenso c/o @TheGillesMuller

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Photo challenge location:

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oddball rally

any ideas on the criteria for this category?!

stock A class are all FE cars:
Corvette '53 FE
Exocet OR FE
Ford Coupe FE
#24 M-B Truck FE
Meyers Manx FE
Morris Minor FE
Fairlady Z FE

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I hate this category.

stock eligible:

upgrade eligible:

I don’t think any of the S1 FE will downclass to A. best bet is Tachyon 4-speed glitch tune for offline.

Jordan Camaro would be eligible if they added it to the category, but that would make too much sense

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For the trial, basically set the filter to Pickups, Sport Utility, Unlimited Offroad and maybe a handful of Rally Monsters, then sort by country. thats 59 total cars, probably 50 of which are eligible and viable at A800.

I’ll probably use Rivian SUV or Jeep Trailcat with the giant tires.

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Probably be the roughest Trial in a while this on Descenso, count yourself lucky if you don’t end up with teammates who just fly off to the right on that gentle left halfway down the hill.

I won’t be doing a test this week as this course is practically impossible to do consistent runs on given how random the landings off the big jumps can be particularly the first one, but the best choices are mostly obvious here, I’ll list them here from the top 100 of the leaderboard…

Scout
Chevrolet ZR2
RAM Power Wagon
Either of the Rivians
Bronco '75
Baja BS? (Surprising but there is one at #88 and it’s legit)

I have the quickest time with a ‘car’ per se on the board with a '68 Mustang I like to use in CC, the tune/tunes (depending on the course) I use are from someone called Atelieze who I would highly recommend people check out for this Trial, you can find them at #14 on Descenso’s board to get to their hub, truckloads of options available and I’ve no doubt they’ll all be very good.

While a CC Trial is a nice change from the norm this is an awful track to choose though, the one and only criticism I ever have of FH5’s physics is landing off big jumps and a good run on Descenso is reliant on 2 of them.

Honestly for the race itself I’d suggest braking before the 1st big jump so you guarantee landing in the water instead of risking bouncing off to the left if you go for the grass, it’s slower but at least guaranteed not to ruin your race.

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yeah this landing starts to get tricky in A class, better to slow down if you’re not familiar

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The Oddball Rally SC is very straightforward, DeLorean with either KapienPL or Fenrir3268’s tunes for it (if co-op’ing) only maybe the Datsun 510 could trouble it but never driven the car full stop so can’t say for certain on that.

Forget the Fairlady FE completely as it can’t stay in A800 with an AWD swap.

Although if anyone wants to honour the Oddball part of the restriction Zip has a fun Dirt tune available for the Morgan.

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My vote is for the Datsun, will try the Delorean as well. Kinda related, a couple of questions for you alone :face_with_hand_over_mouth: I gather you drive automatic, do you have anything on y/tube re your driving, don’t get me wrong, not doubting you at all, just trying to improve my own abilities, due to old age my reactions etc are not what they used to be :joy: :+1:

I would say Delorean or Datsun. something normal.

DeLorean is “normal”?!

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Trailcat is a solid choice for this. Been a while since I went down the big hill in a class. Will play around with a few. Probably won’t top xclass time.

One thing to watch out for if you’re right behind ai at the start. They like to reverse into you so best to steer a little bit at the start if your behind them.

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left lane El deacenso start is horrible, drivatar just sits there

won’t beat x-class, but it’s really fun with the max front and rear tire profile and width. might be the most tire on any car in the game

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I was going to put the Trailcat in that little list until I seen the top 100 time with it was from our favourite cheater, must have fancied 2 minutes away from his usual Nomad lol.

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I don’t record much sorry pauly, looked on my TrueAchievements and the clips I did have have disappeared on there too, shared one in the Rivals group a long time ago and that’s gone as well when I just tried looking for it.

The main things in my opinion for someone wanting to improve is just gaining course knowledge and feel for the car/tune you’re driving.

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no aero really makes it second tier

Yeah, I’ve found that out re tuning and driving in game, thanks for looking though, appreciated :+1:

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well, there’s the monster truck which we can use, strictly speaking

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