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Apr 1

• Overdrijf
  Stunts won't start! Something about a time since launch date override!
• Ryoma
  @Overdrijf ...the same for me today. I change the date of my computer and a New car appears..... The Eye Fish Looks like the Warrior from Need For Speed.
• GTAManRCR
  I experienced some problems when racing. Text disappeared after finishing the race, it looked weird

Apr 2

• Ryoma
  End of fishing.
• Duplode
  Entering the final week for both ZCT260 and CCC Round 2 -- https://ccc.mystunts.net/ ! Fly away on the wings of powergear! And if you need a breather in between them, there's a Melange ride at the new R4K track -- https://www.raceforkicks.com/index.php?page=race&race=2023-04
• Friker
  Make space on the podium, please! At least for now.
  1:32.43
• Duplode
  Excellent, @Friker! I wanna see PG laps!
• Friker
  Heh.. I have a problem - I drove a valid lap. Rewound to 0:00 and played. A bug happened and the car in the replay have not finished. Rewound a few seconds - the car appeared at a "correct" position (at which I was during riding) and the replay finished correctly. Is it valid? Also when I Load Replay the same thing happens..
• Duplode
  @Friker The current rule (it was changed after an incident at ZCT232) is that the replay is valid if it appears complete after loading *from the Options menu* (that is, if you load and immediately rewind 1.05 s you will see the car crossing the finish tile as expected). If it doesn't, you'll have to "fix" the instability, most likely by doing a little RH tweak around the point the replay diverges.

Apr 3

• Friker
  Thanks for the response. I guess my replay is valid then (after loading from Options menu the car is correctly behind the finish line, at -01.00s a center of the car is crossing the finish line - btw - I just found that crossing of a center of a car is counting as finishing..). But I will try to get another try before deadline.
• Marco
  Wow my friends, I red about the NO-RH Stunts project. This sounds great and i would be super great to me if it could be possible to remove also the "turn to left super grip". I m using 4d sports driving instead of Stunts for this reason but in 4d sports driving there are other bugs like the problem of the 10 minutes track limit.
• GTAManRCR
  @Marco I told you multiple times, the 10 minutes track limit is in Stunts 1.1
• Friker
  @GTAMan15 I don't want to offend you but.. are you sure you are not a CTG's ghost? @Marco What is "turn to left super grip"? I hope even after a successful NoRH Stunts project there is a place for RH competitions where you can win with a replay which is incorrectly played by the game engine itself.
• GTAManRCR
  I'm not a ghost
• GTAManRCR
  @Friker the term "turn to left super grip" means that in Stunts 1.1, there is a bug called left corner bias, because it's easier to turn to the left than to the right. It's not present in Stunts 1.0, and 4-D Sports: Driving
• Friker
  Sooo... left turns are faster than right turns? I've never noticed.. My turning ability sucks both ways.
• Ryoma
  Some changes for the gear box
• GTAManRCR
  Is it a new dashboard? Looks amazing
• GTAManRCR
  Similar to the McLaren Honda MP4/4 but however it looks better than the previous one
• Ryoma
  @GTAMan15 Only the gearbox display was changed.
• Duplode
  Hi @Marco! Finding what causes left corner bias will require a deep dig into the code, but I feel that, with enough persistence, we'll someday be able to make an alternate version that removed it fro mthe BB 1991 physics.
• GTAManRCR
  Then some day we'll have a version of Stunts which combines the advantages of 1.0 and 1.1 but eliminating the disadvantages? Like in 1.0, you can drive past 10 minutes to even 25, you don't have an advantage cornering left, and opponents drive better In 1.1, you can't penetrate through tunnel roof, calculates faster, RH is also faster
• Duplode
  @GTAMan That's a long way ahead, but yeah, part of the long-term vision goes along those lines The current stage of Restunts allows mostly small tweaks to the code, and rewriting entire parts of it for bigger changes isn't really feasible yet, but that might change In The Future (TM)

Apr 4

• afullo
  Just a note for the new racers coming from outside Europe: the homepage states that the race will end on 2023-04-08, 23:59 CET (UTC+1), but in fact it will end at 23:59 CEST (UTC+2). If your country does not follow the European daylight saving time schedule, please note the difference; in particular, if your clocks did not change during the past month, you will have to submit your replays at most one hour earlier).

Apr 5

• Ryoma
  The 641 is updated
• GTAManRCR
  The racecar competition with 4D Sports Driving (February the 25th of 1991)

Apr 6

• Ryoma
  
• Ryoma
  Prost 1990 vs Prost 1993
• Daniel3D
  Some things can be changed though. That is why next week we will have a tryout contest (separate from ZakStunts) with " STUNTS - NoRH " !!! Stay tuned. More information on this race later. Check out the forum posts about the STUNTS version here.. STUNTS - NoRH
• GTAManRCR
  So at ZakStunts we'll have NoRH? Please don't change the RH rule to the site, but use this version at Race for Kicks and other NoRH competitions
• Duplode
  @GTAMan15 Don't worry, such a change is not on the cards -- ZakStunts is staying as an RH competition. To me (and to most people here, I believe) RH and NoRH are, so to speak, two different disciplines within the same sport, both equally valid.
• GTAManRCR
  @Ryoma I've noticed, the Fiat 1000tipla has Corvette ZR-1 dashboard
• Ryoma
  @GTAMan yes the basic is the corvette C7. But the dashbo6is very hard si I préfèred use the dashboard of the c4
• Overdrijf
  @GTAMan This shoutbox just happens to be the most convenient place for announcements you want all drivers to read.
• GTAManRCR
  @Overdrijf Of course, the shoutbox is the best place to write everything

Apr 7

• Ryoma
  For the fw15 maybe more easy
• Ryoma
  
• GTAManRCR
  This dash seems better than the previous one

Apr 8

• Stan 286XT
  Good ester-EGGS this mount too bad!!!!!!! Forza Silvio!!!!!!!!!!!Ce la puoi fare!!!!!! VIntage game are whit you!!!!!!!
  3:07.22 A
• Overdrijf
  Locked in. I always like powergear driving more than I think I'm going to like it.
• CTG
  Okay, winning replay is in. Cheers!
• Friker
  Winning time is ...?
• Overdrijf
  Good, Argammon was getting too cocky, we can use some CTG this season. ;p As for the winning time... putting my bet on 1:51.95 driven.
• Friker
  I think there is a line involving penalty seconds which is still faster with proper execution. I would like to see Renato Biker on this one. And I expect something spectacular from top guys.
• Friker
  Btw, today I will not stay until midnight so congrats in advance. This was a pretty interesting map. And none of my last replays are playable from start so rewind them a little when they screw up.
• dreadnaut
  @Friker Do you have a replay that works? Since a couple of years ago, replays that don't reproduce correctly are invalid
• dreadnaut
  I also won't be around for the finish time, sorry!
• Duplode
  @dreadnaut I was writing a message to you about that, as this is partly my fault: On April 2, I told Friker that to test the replays it was enough to load from the Options menu, rewind 1.05 s and see if it crosses the line, because that was how I thought it was supposed to work. Can we please, *please* relax the rule so that test is enough? I'm not asking just to paper over my mix-up. The connected slides in the final sector make instabilities there very hard to fix (I have tested that). We're risking a bloodbath by sticking to the strictest interpretation.
• Overdrijf
  I am all for counting any replay that can be played in any way as valid. I don't think anyone can play the game on purpose in such a way that they get crash but get a faster finish in the replay because of it. Then again I am one of the causes for the rule, so maybe I shouldn't advocate against it too hard.
• Ryoma
  If understand, all replay could be no valid and we could see the first victory of stan286xt ?
• Overdrijf
  Not that extreme, but this talk does make me want to upload a backup replay just in case.
  1:33.05
• dreadnaut
  The test was meant to be simple for everyone to check: load the replay, press play, if the replay reaches the finish line then it's valid. Seems like I've missed the messages a few days ago though, and that's on me. Headache though—literal, not the situation—so let's look at this tomorrow. Rules should make things clear, not cause pain.

Apr 9

• Duplode
  Quiet replays revealed! Please note these are provisional results, still pending validation.
• Alan Rotoi
  The live races video from 2023 so far!
• Friker
  Btw - I am completely fine with the fact that my last replays are not valid if you say so. Even if it changes placements and Duplode told me otherwise. Unfortunately I could not produce any valid replays from that line - they've all went out-of-sync in various places after jump. Still, I would like to know why is that - I though that rewinding and playing forward are using the same simulation procedure - apparently not.
• Overdrijf
  Last time it also happened in a powergear race. There was a jump, where you had to just miss a bridge that was in the way, and on replay I and I think someone else hit the bridge and crashed. I have no idea why it happens, but if I had to guesv (or wanted to guess, as the case may be) it might have to do with how sometimes in powergear your top speed can be 255 mph. There is something particularly unreliable about the driving in PG. Doing a lot of RH also may not help. Maybe restarting driving from just the wrong frame does something?
• Friker
  No, it does not. I think - in my case - "the wrong frame" is somewhere within the section 1:38:50 - 1:46:10. Or a bit after that. After the third turn (at 1:46:10) I needed a pretty tight turning which is not possible without RH (for me). I guess there is somewhere some kind of rotation which is causing some kind of overflowing and when replaying it behaves differently than when rewinding. I tried more ways of entering and exiting the third turn - every one of them produced "invalid" replay.
• Overdrijf
  Also, we did some congratulating in the chat yesterday, but this race was good enough to do it again: congratulations @Argammon for a supreme victory with a ten second gap, even after telegraphing the trick he was using, absolutely champion style. Congratulations @Friker for what is turning into a good and consistent comeback, even if it may or may not trabslate into championship points. Congratulations @Erik_Barros for taking the newbie league by 30 seconds (!). For the record, my time when I told you you could beat me was something like a 2:07 driven, and even with how well my evening redrive went (I eveb gained almost a second back on Duplode in the last third, I had a good time yesterday) it got pretty close. And congratulations @Ryoma for a very, very sharp time on what I presume (haven't watched any replays yet) is a partial PG lap (as in: troubles with the tricky end section). Finally congratulations for the whole silent replay @top_12 squad. Those are all good results, and all potential top 5 or something in a more quiet month, even if I didn't congratulate you by name because I'm not in the least surprised by how good your results are.
• Overdrijf
  @Friker: your run might have been screwed up a bit earlier. Sometimes when you get a magic carpet you can redrive from shortly before it, do things a little different and still get the same magic carpet. Something like that might be going on. Although I have to admit, the entire run up to a corner is a long time to carry such a calculation error bug thing along without seeing it.
• Friker
  Also, because of the bug is present only during playback and not rewinding I only notice it after finishing a run which is pretty annoying with RH. :-/
• Friker
  I am ok with my previous time if that is an agreement. Ok, that's enough from myself. Congrats to all of you who tried PG, congrats to @Argammon for pulling out that 270 elevated turn shortcut. I am happy to see all of things for which I do not hava energy/time/skill implemented across runs.
• Overdrijf
  Your previous time would actually give the same points, if that one is valid the exercise might be slightly academic in this case.
• Ryoma
  Thanks @Overdrijf I don't find pleasant this kind of race...but the last sector was very cool without powergear!!!
• Argammon
  Thanks for the great race everyone, really enjoyed it. This is my first zakstunts win since Zct60!
• Duplode
  Congratulations @Argammon for a record-breaking win with an extraordinary replay! Good job everyone, for all of the good racing. It makes me happy to see a GTO race being this competitive
• Duplode
  On the replays situation: @Friker's comments only confirm what I had said before about how hard it could get on this track. We have three out of four unstable replays among the final top 4 laps (only Argammon's lap plays 100% normally; mine plays to the end but in two different ways). I'm in favour of a moratorium: for this race at least, let all replays stand.
• GTAManRCR
  @Argammon congratulations! 200 tracks since your last win
• Argammon
  Regarding the replay issue. I know of one way how it is caused: 1) We must have a borderline case of crash/no crash together with a high speed. 2) When the car crashes, clicking on the rewind button appears to repair the car. When you then continue driving the irregularity persists. 3) Rewinding to a point good before the crash avoids the problem and is what I do. In any case, I don't have a problem with Frikers replay being counted as valid.
• Duplode
  @Argammon While that's one way it might play out, it is not the most common one. Typically, the divergence will happen several seconds before any crash (in my replay, for instance, it's no less than 8 seconds), and, since you're using RH and rewinding every now and then, the replay adjusts itself and you don't get to notice the divergence at all while you're driving. That's one of the things that makes this issue so treacherous.
• dreadnaut
  Phew, so many replays to verify 😅 Scoreboard confirmed, not changes to the rankings. Congratulations to @Argammon, @Duplode and @AlanRotoi! And @ErikBarros, @Ryoma and @Heretic in the Amateur League — impressive replays all around!
• dreadnaut
  That said, I have applied the non-replayable-replay rule to it cruel letter, and removed the quiet replays from @AlanRotoi and @Friker. As I mentioned before, even with these deletions, the rankings are not affected.
• dreadnaut
  @Kylie, @Alan, do you happen to have your track ready? @Shorty has not submitted one — he mentioned being busy in the last weeks, I should have asked earlier
• Duplode
  Even if the results haven't changed, it is unfortunate the archives won't have the best replays from Alan and Friker in this race. Sorry for having mislead you, @Friker
• dreadnaut
  I always feel bad about removing replays, so they are all saved on the forum: ZCT260 - Sheepshank Knot
• dreadnaut
  @afullo, thank you for pointing out the timezone issue. Now the correct timezone should show up automatically 🤞
• Argammon
  If nobody has a track ready we could use another retro track, perhaps from the season in which Ayrton won all 12 races. ;-)
• Overdrijf
  If you don't find someone else to do a track I can do one, that worked out pretty well last time... (A sort of base idea just popped into my head, or I have some stuff that was mostly finished for the museum project.) It would be ready in 24ish hours. But I'm also up for someone else's design or a nice retro track from a one car competition (or indeed from 2008) or something.
• Argammon
  Another idea: Let us use ZCT100 as a retro track. It is the most legendary race ever and I hate I missed it!
• Ryoma
  @Argammon oh no please...not with this stupid supermarket corksrew....
• Friker
  Ok, maybe I care a bit more than I thought. I finally looked at rules and there really is a rule that says that replays should be valid when replaying from start to finish. And I agree that that rule should be applied to ZCT260. But I would like to have a discussion about this rule - I will probably make a thread in Forum but before I ask here first - maybe you know for sure - If you would start a new drive and input exact same inputs as in a replay - do you think that result of that driving is such 1. exactly as it would play in a replay from beginning/2. exactly as last position of replay when loaded from a file? If you don't know for sure I would move discussion to Forum and make a investigation proposal/rule change proposal.
• dreadnaut
  @Friker "Unstable" replays sometimes load OK, showing the finish line, and sometimes load in their broken state. Sometimes they can be fixed by rewinding a bit, sometimes by switching camera 🤯 — Happy discuss the rule and its future in the Forum!
• Daniel3D
  Alright. As promised earlier. A real NoRH race. Check out the forum post about it: STUNTS - NoRH - Race | starts april 14th - Ends May 7th and check out the competition page at: https://ntt.mystunts.net/

Apr 10

• Daniel3D
  
• Alan Rotoi
  Hey this is a very fun track!!
  1:01.38
• Duplode
  On the replay validity issues at ZCT260, I've started a rule change proposal/request for comment thread on the forum: Unstable replays at ZakStunts
• Ryoma
  Thiers is a french town with a quarter called "the hollow of hell"....and again this stupid corkscrew.
• Overdrijf
  ...This track actually contains all the alements I wanted to do in the next pro academy episode. And it might even be a better track for them than the one I was thinking of. @Ryoma: It's not a stupid corkscrew, not in a combination like this. Think jumping, not braking.
• Overdrijf
  Mmh, not so sure it's suitable for an episode anymore... Edit: but at least we have a nice purple-blue scoreboard.
  1:06.40
• Alan Rotoi
  @overdrijf what about zct250? It also has external speedups. 😉
• Stan 286XT
  this is an indy track!!!

Apr 11

• Alan Rotoi
  We have to deal with Countach once a year but still is too much

Apr 12

• Argammon
  My first impression: I suck at driving this track. Royally!
• GTAManRCR
  I think this track will be the dream of @Friker
• Friker
  Why?
• Overdrijf
  It's the dream of anyone who likes blue or purple cars.
• Friker
  Hello from PCem NoRH.
  1:11.29

Apr 13

• Shoegazing Leo
  First
  1:34.19 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Second
  1:14.34 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Third
  1:21.86 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Fourth
  1:16.49 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  fifth
  1:12.61 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Sixth
  1:09.46 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Seventh
  1:12.94 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Eightieth
  1:11.31 A
• Shoegazing Leo
  Ninth
  1:04.26 A
• GTAManRCR
  As you @Friker prepared a replay early which would be also convenient at quiet days

Apr 14

• Daniel3D
  The race has started. The first times are in. Everyone who dares is welcome to the challenge. You can post directly to the website https://ntt.mystunts.net or post a replay on the forum, STUNTS - NoRH - Race | starts april 14th - Ends May 7th .. I'll see you at the finish line... LET'S DRIVE!!

Apr 15

• Zapper
  Ahh, got all competition cars a spin!
  1:04.32
• GTAManRCR
  Turns out, the game's worst car now became one of the best cars
• Stan 286XT
  Lts try lts try whith a 286 640kb ram fine nice track THANK you Cherry for the cronacle zct260!!!!!
• Cas
  Here I go!
  1:09.05
• Friker
  @Daniel3D Stunts NoRH looks really cool. Thanks for making this effort.

Apr 16

• Duplode
  @GTAMan Each of them should have its place in the sun (By the way, nice runs @Zapper!)
  0:50.65
• Overdrijf
  Everyone's favorite Stuntsfluencer (trademark pending) is back. I was planning to do a really big fourth episode tackling three mostly unrelated topics, but I decided to split it up into more manageable chunks. This episode: how to work around that stupid slow corkscrew up/down thing that keeps showing up in competition, and why do people keep putting that in their competition tracks anyway?
• KyLiE
  Nice video @Overdrijf!
• Cas
  Hey, that's another really good one!
• Overdrijf
  This video just got our community channel's first dislike, which I was just a little bummed about before realizing it's now our most disliked video on the most disliked track element, and I kinda really like the humor in that.
• 

  Reporting on ZCT260

  In ZCT260, ZakStunts 2023 has had another fascinating race, with plenty of activity and intriguing subplots.

  Though envisioned by Cas as a flowing IMSA track, ZCT260 had plenty of long straights and runoff in just the right amount to make it a challenging yet enjoyable powergear ride with the Ferrari GTO. With signs of how the race would develop visible from the first day, there was enough time for racers to dip their toes and then dive into PG riding. As a result, ZCT260 was the first GTO-won race in a long time in which most of the field actually stuck to the GTO, with close battles all over the scoreboard. Nice job, everyone!

  The deadline day saw Argammon emerge victorious, by following up on his fascinating laps for the GTO side scoreboards on ZCT258 and ZCT259 with an absolutely outstanding replay, flying into orbit and then landing back. In the process, he has also set a new ZakStunts record for the longest gap between race victories (two hundred, from ZCT060), and made another step forward in what has been an impressive comeback. Congratulations!

  In second place, we have seen Duplode, racing hard but ultimately powerless against Argammon's invention. Alan Rotoi has again taken the final podium step, and once more in fourth place there was Friker, on a strong comeback season of his own. Completing the top 6, we find Overdrijf, rounding off a solid performance for Cork's Crew, and Frieshansen, with a gorgeous magic carpet at the final sector. In the Amateur League, Erik Barros has taken the victory with an impressive performance (8th place overall), ahead of Ryoma and Heretic.

  The recently started ZCT261 is evolving in a pretty different direction: a shorter, tighter course for sports cars, nestled in the mountains of central France. It is a design originally by Krys TOFF for his Feel The Thrill competition, which is all the more fitting for the current times, as Daniel3D's initiative picks up the torch of NoRH-first competition. However it plays out, we are set for further thrills and spectacle from newcomers, veterans and returnees, Stunts racers of all stripes.

Apr 17

• Argammon
  :/

Apr 18

• Ryoma
  When the version easyRH will arrive? A version removing the popup "continue don't continue" which causes sometimes to click on restart driving ?
• Duplode
  @Ryoma That, and putting "Re-Start Driving" at the bottom of the menu.
• Overdrijf
  That, or at least making it possible to deselect an option after pressing it if the option is not going to be selected until depress anyway. ...which is probably much harder to do than moving "re-start driving" to the bottom.
• Friker
  Putting it to the bottom is for me actually more user-friendly (press Up to restart, press Down to continue).

Apr 19

• Overdrijf
  (Error 405, post not intended.)

Apr 21

• Duplode
  Four and a half days remaining at Race For Kicks' current round! Ride through the city at https://www.raceforkicks.com/index.php?page=race&race=2023-04
  0:48.56

Apr 23

• Daniel3D
  The first No Replay Handling race will end just after ZakStunts. And It's really going better than I personally could have hoped. I rarely participate in GAR of NoRH because I crash a lot and continue driving is an automated reflex. Because that isn't possible in this version, I can race with a clear conscience and I really enjoy it. So, with two weeks to go. Come and play this amazing track by CAS. https://ntt.mystunts.net ,
• GTAManRCR
  That automatic transmission isn't that bad

Apr 24

• Ryoma
  Maybe the first victory of @GTAMan15 ?
• GTAManRCR
  I don't think. I'll maybe come up 3rd to 4th on newbie

Apr 25

• GTAManRCR
  @Duplode and @Argammon beating each other to the ground

Apr 26

• GTAManRCR
  Blue-red LTBs
• Duplode
  Claret and blue, like Aston Villa!

Apr 27

• GTAManRCR
  This is interesting. Who's the better racer? @Duplode or @Argammon ?
• Argammon
  @Duplode is better, we both have our strengths and weaknesses, but Duplode has less of the latter. So, he is the more "complete" racer. I need to pull something crazy like last month to beat him. :-)

Apr 28

• Argammon
  I checked Zakstunts yesterday evening and did not see Duplode's replay, strange. Probably has something to do with my browser cache ?!
  0:45.86
• Ryoma
  The kind of track I dislike
• GTAManRCR
  Try it with every kind of cars
• Ryoma
  I tried...but I have not enough time this month and I miss something with this track...one star for me
• GTAManRCR
  This track is fun in its way too

Apr 29

• GTAManRCR
  Wow, what was this outage?
• dreadnaut
  Something on the hosting side, who knows. It has happened in the past, and usually recovers within a few minutes. This felt longer though 🤔

Apr 30

• Overdrijf
  The question is: what if it happens on deadline day? I propose we make a rule that the deadline is extended until two hours after the site comes back up, so everyone who still has a time to post gets a really skiddy night of sleep. *evil smiley*. (Even though I'm the biggest deadline day driver of them all.)
• dreadnaut
  We'll deal with these rare situation as they come, since I feel the best solution depends on the kind of outage, when it happens, for how long... A whole day might make more sense than a few hours in certain cases.
• GTAManRCR
  It'd be best switching to a hosting site with better servers
• GTAManRCR
  Even I didn't think, I can push my lap time this far
• Argammon
  @GTAMAN15 Well done! Now if you would switch to manual gears you may eben be able to attack Frieshansen's and Friker's times.
• Erik Barros
  An impressive time @GTAMan15. It will be very difficult to reach you.
• GTAManRCR
  I still suck at manual

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