Hi folks; as a newly registered member I feel proper to make some cute introduction post... I first played Stunts somewhere between late '95 and early '96, as a 7-year old kid; it probably was my second or third PC game ever. Since then, I have been racing for at least a couple months every year - there is no game with such replay value, period - , and over the years I got to slowly unveil more and more nifty tricks on this deceptive simplicity which is Stunts. So I found now a proper, if only a tad late, moment to join the community. The next logical step would be entering some competition, and indeed I intend, for now, to race Kalpen keeping a relaxed semi-amateur profile. As you will realize, I'm not a very prolific poster - I rather sit and watch people biting their heads off ;-) -, but I'll be hanging around... so, see you around, fellows.
Welcome Duplode, every new entry in this world can make good things to preserve a game really unique!
I hope you will enjoy with the races of all contests. Everyone of them has his own characteristics but each one is synonimous of high quality. And if you want to play Stunts as maybe you done when you discovered it (that is without replay handling but restarting from the beginning your race every time that you will want to improve your time or when you crashed), well, maybe you know that there's a contest which offers this possibility in a official way... ;)
See you on the scoreboards!
Welcome aboard Stunts "fellowship of the wheel" Duplode.
See you soon in the scoreboards. ;)
Quote from: Duplode on April 23, 2007, 06:09:26 AM
...and indeed I intend, for now, to race Kalpen keeping a relaxed semi-amateur profile...
Hi Duplode, welcome to the Stunts community and of course - welcome to my contest! ;D ::) 8)
Hi
welcome , I'm also new here and I entered a submission also to the kalpen competition series
cheers and enjoy
grtz from Belgium
2 new pipsqueaks! Stunts community is re-borning? Welcome!!!
Yay, welcome you two! :) May you be more active than me! ;)
Quote from: DieselJoe on April 25, 2007, 10:28:54 AM
:) May you be more active than me! ;)
May you be active, again! What about a little race at Kalpen's...? ;)
Or USC... ;)
damn the kalpen current track is luring some competitors
is there a replay by someone so i can practice some "trics"?
grtz
D,
Welcome Boussini too. I like Belgium. Did you saw the funny rent-a-wife Belgium ad and the website before it was closed ?
Quote from: boussinidamn the kalpen current track is luring some competitors
is there a replay by someone so i can practice some "trics"?
Usually, replay exchanges are made only between teammates. Or you'll be able to download the winning replay once the competition on the track is finished.
Maybe you should ask if a team would like to let you join the "teams" section ?
thanx guy's
on the wife thing , didn't notice that,
on the team thing, I'd rather try a bit on my one and be a little better before entering a team so i can't disgrace the "team"
but we'll see i'm currently practising the whole manual shifting phase etc.
but we'll see i'm currently practising the whole manual shifting phase etc.
Yay, adapting to manuals will take a while for me as well. BTW, do you guys think manual transmission advatanges are largely track-dependent (e.g. easier power gearing, etc.) or the whole automatic system sucks in general (and so one can cut off quite a number of seconds on every track)?
Manual transmission is far better: You can shift earlier, you can use downshifting as brakes, you can far, far earlier get into power gear with the Indy. No automatic driver ever got the fast times the manually racing ones had achieved. So if you want to race seriously you should switch to manual transmission. (For example I am not so eager and still love the automatic transmission but see my times at Zakstunts - uaaah, terrible :-X)
For non-powergear cars, good results can be achieved with auto gears. Victory is impossible, but a top 5 may be (it depends of the track). For powergear cars (Indy, NSX, Corvette, ...), manual gears is the only way to be competitive, except if the track is without powergear possibilities (which is quite rare).
Advantage of manual gears is to be able to change gear just before a jump even if you're not in the gear change "standard" limit. This often makes you earn speed at the landing of the jump. Also, it's also an advantage somtimes to gear down your car manually and keep accelerator on to decrease speed a little before a corner. With auto gears, you're forced to use break to make the car gear down (or to race on grass).
A little too late but... Welcome both!!!
Quote from: Paleke on April 27, 2007, 11:08:35 PM
A little too late but... Welcome both!!!
thx ;D ;)