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Marius89 found out that driving backwards is faster then driving forwards, atleast on this multilap track (TFET2 Map).

Video of his dedi 1 backwards: http://youtu.be/tcHLhWt-TfI


Shouldn't be there a limiter on the speed when driving backwards in canyon? Whats next?
I think this needs a fix because of some competitions and the dedi's also!

How about this?

Greetings
Toffe (and marius).

Please fix this ASAP before records going to be killed.
It's mostly too hard, but still. Anyway nice found!

Well, on the one hand its really cool to see such things - on the other hand it's obvious that it's going to change the whole game. Records will be beaten and now contest organizers have to make sure that everyone is driving in the correct direction >.>
Fixing this is probably not possible. If you change just one small thing to prevent backwards driving being faster (except adding a "speed limit" in the backwards gear, like in Snow), it will most likely affect normal, forward gameplay as well.
Let's just hope that people will not abuse it.

chaging now physics will even more destroy than let it that way. So Nadeo please don't change something, that will end in total crap like last time the change to the starting at stadium. Instead add something usefull like ipv6 or so

I tried a lot now, but I still didn't find a normal non-multilap track, where backwards driving is faster.

On Multilap tracks you can see, that you really gain more speed backwards, but on a normal map I loose a lot time at turning around at the start and at accelerating. The map must be built pretty prefectly to make backwards driving faster. On some maps I can come really close to the normal recs, and Zengo's current ESL map is one of the really best maps for it, so we thought at first this would be standard, but in reality not many world records on non-multilap-maps can be improved with that.

Marius89 wrote: but on a normal map I loose a lot time at turning around at the start and at accelerating. The map must be built pretty prefectly to make backwards driving faster.

+1

But we have some multi competition too in Canyon, like Nascar, f1 etc... they are just dead now!

So for me NADEO can show now, if they give a shit about the community or not IT MUST BE FIX

otherside the game is just ruined! Who can take tm2c serious, when you know that backwards drive is faster then forward ? ... me not

Agreed with majo! Perhaps a speed limit on backwards driving?
And I can't imagine why the car physics would change?

In the beginning of Canyon we had the problem with "Bursting"
This was also fixed without a change, even though this has maybe nothing to do with the car physics

I guess this can be fixed, as cool as it is. Nadeo should make spin-off mod where the canyon car physics work like driving backwards xD

I think this is hilarious. But since I don't think it will affect anything except a very small group of multilap maps (since you can't drive them backwards if they have certain types of big stunts, and if they have any turbos you'd probably lose too much speed since you're driving the track backwards) I think it would be funnier if it was left in.

laurens92 wrote:Agreed with majo! Perhaps a speed limit on backwards driving?
And I can't imagine why the car physics would change?

it would distroy lots of pf maps