New F class Forza Car and Livery

Mucking around in Forza last nite made a surprisingly good tune on a 2003 Focus. It goes to show I have no idea what the relevance of the number ratings for acceleration and speed are, cause this car was heaps lower in that regard to my Eclipse but it races almost a good second faster on some tracks.

I reckon this is the most fun, f-class car i've raced so far.

Forza 3 : turning laps in F class

Had a few races in F class on the weekend in the new Redfrog branded Eclipse...

Got to race against a few good racers like fellow aussie HX Dude.

Forza F class

Been racing a bit of F Class in multiplayer lately. Surprisely its a lot more competive than say A class with it being a lot more difficult to tune up a competive car. I must say though its much more of a challenge and you really have to drive the wheels off your car to get a podium place. The down side though is that its definitely not what you'd call a friendly class with quite a lot of abuse flying, complaints happening and then there's also a large selection of rammers, however, if you can find a good lobby with some like minded drivers then its an awesome experience. I was lucky enough to race with some good people last nite.

Redfrog Racing desktop

Did up this Forza 3 Redfrog racing desktop wallpaper for anybody that was interested. It is ridiculous how much I love this game and what you can do with it:)

Forza 3 session last nite

Had a fantastic session of Forza3 last nite.

Scotty Canuck (http://www.canuckistan.org/) set up a private party of five of us and we raced a great selection of tracks and classes. The racing was high quality and very clean. There was the occasion racing incident crash but they just added to some hilarious fun - including a four car tangle on resumption of one of our safety car incidents.

Redfrog Murcielago

Debuted the new Redfrog murcielago livery online last nite and had some pretty good racing. Put down my best A-class time on the Mugello circuit with a 1.56.

Finding now that i can't even bring myself to race the non damage modes, which is a pity because A-class is the only category with an expert mode. Would be cool to see maybe B-class and r3 done in expert as well. C'mon Turn 10, it's xmas! Grant me my wish :)

Forza 3 - New DLC

Was excited to download the latest DLC car pack for Forza the other day. Two additions in particular were ones that I was excited about: The R35 GTR Skyline and the 2010 model Audi A4.
Have already converted a really useful class C racer out of the A4 and done a custom livery for it.

Forza 3 Photo Finish!

Racing last nite with fellow Forza 3 friends Scotty Canuck, WoundedWOWfan and a few other cameos from outside of our usual racing fraternity. Had some awesome racing. One race in particular that stood out was a race on the New York Circuit. Both Scotty and myself took S5's with custom liveries. The race was neck and neck fro the duration with Scotty and myself jostling for the lead. In the end it came down to a photo finish (we could only tell the winner from the timing results) but Scotty's V10 powerplant got him across the line a hundreth of a second before me. Sensational racing fun!!!

Forza on the weekend

Raced a bit of R3 class and A class expert in multiplayer on the weekend and I am really now subscribing to the philosophy that if you can avoid the carnage and mayhem then you don't need the fastest car to place well in the race.

I raced and R34 Mine's skyline in R3 and even tho it was totally outclassed in speed by all the ferrari's in the races, i still managed to stay fairly competitive due to avoiding all the crashes that they got involved with. Of course i still occasionally got rammed off the track but for the most part i remained competitive.

This philosphy is even more appropriate when racing A class expert (which for my mind is the best multiplayer racing on the servers) as if you can avoid the carnage then any speed disadvantage you had is quickly removed by simulation damage starting to take its toll on the other cars. This lesson is most appropriate when navigating the Amalfi Coast course. Sometimes its better to hang back out of the turn one shennanigans and then navigate your way through the carnage.

Forza 3 Redfrog Audi TT

Another session on Forza last nite and another car livery design. I'm beginning to think I spend more time with the livery editor than actually racing. Really liking playing around at the moment with black markings around the headlamps on my livery designs. Did up this Audi TT last nite. Definitely have a thing for Audi's at the moment... they just look really cool in their latest generation. Its tragic but i really love the lights bling that you see on the latest model 4s, 5s and R8s. Completely unecessary but it looks so cool - I kinda wish the models in the game had this same bling.

Mines R34 G.O.W livery by Peanut TN

Got some nice comments on my livery designs over the weekend from a few people and even did a custom livery exchange with Peanut TN. He did me up this Jelly Muffin personalised version of his insane Gears of War livery. Looks absolutely amazing.

I highly recommend everyone to go check out his Forza Storefront. He has some wicked designs and vinyls!

Team Redfrog V8 supercar

Designed up the livery last nite for the Team Redfrog FG Falcon V8 Supercar. Even gave it the FPV style racoon style effect under the front lights. Gave the car a test run last night but she was still a bit twitchy, so have been working on the tuning setup to make her a bit more competitive on track.

The different side of Forza multiplayer

Took to the multiplayer circuits last nite to race some R3 class. Its a lot more challenging to drive but requires a little bit more restraint with the throttle, which can lend itsself to a bit of mayhem sometimes.

What I did experience tho last nite was some of the less than savoury aspects of the multiplayer community. The example i speak of happened on the Laguna Seca circuit after some usual turn 1 mayhem. I myself managed to avoid the carnage but others were not so lucky.

One guy after being shunted off by another player proceeded to verbally abuse this guy over the headset for a good 2-3 laps continuously, and when I say the language was pretty ordinary I'm severely understating it.

Folks, there are kids that play this game! They don't need to be hearing that sort of stuff. Yes, we all like clean racing, and nobody likes to be shunted off because somebody else didn't brake, but seriously, these things happen. Express your intial displeasure and then move on. It is after all a game, so lets have some fun and not take it too far.

Forza 3 on the weekend

A real mixed bag of racing on Forza 3 on the weekend. Some real good groups of good clean racers, and then some other groups who think the only pedal is the accelerator and there is no need to brake for corners. Sigh...arcade style racers have a lot to answer for :)

Pulled the RS4 out of the virtual garage and did a few tuning mods and applied a new Redfrog Gen 02 livery to it. With the tune it has a bit more pace and acceleration with a bit better turn in, but it rides a little bit more slippery than the R8 and S5. Definitely a fun drive.

Took a few shots from a Sunset Pennisula race that had some cool crashes, that I was mostly lucky enough to avoid. Most of these were just racing incidents tho and should not be attributed to the arcade style drivers I mentioned above :)