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Oh, right! I have a few notes from last Thursday.

CUE THE CAT.

RACE NIGHT #310: LEGIT PRO LIMOS

• RACING LINES ARE FULL OF POLIO. I mean, you can use them, but just be aware of this.
• All hail the Kevin Harvick Harvick Harvick Harvick limo. So beautiful.
• Jokes aside, I had a really aggressive note here that I'm going to taper back. Yes, voice chat is still busted. No, you do not need to announce every time you can't hear somebody or start hearing somebody again. It's not important, we're all aware of the bug, and quite frankly, endlessly bitching about it is going to drive people away. Just accept it's a part of the experience, and if you're missing out on part of the experience, someone will likely relay for you. Relax.
• Limos with right front wheels that lift are amazing. Hells yes. They still can't go three-wide at the Nurburgring.
• Slowbird's Ghost Threepac pun crashed Forza for me. STOP IT, SLOWBIRD.
• In 11 hours, I'll be allowed to race. We...had some interesting bugs, needless to say.
• Wixom water and Tom Raper RVs. Michigan's a quality state.
• Race Night 1, Peace Egg 0

I need to get some more decals and details together, but the Super Series is getting closer. Trust me on that. Until then, I'll see you next Thursday for more of the same!

I'm going to give the game chat another try after this week's patch, but I'll be honest about splitting chats: I'm going to assume it'll be a hard sell. It's like when we tried to split Race Night into two separate lobbies back when there were legitimate and persistent space issues: Everyone always wants to be in the main group, not the secondary group. Granted, chat won't be as big an issue as a game lobby, but I imagine we'd run into some of the same complications.

Hopefully chat works better this week, regardless.

Oh right, I have some random notes written down from last night. Let's cue the cat.

• Vans are (thankfully) competitive! Super Series III shows serious promise from our test races last night.
• ...however, narrow street circuits like Long Beach are a bit chaotic when a huge vehicle ahead chunks it into tires and blocks the entire road.
• We'll wait until the next car pack and potential patch next Tuesday before pondering this option further, but I'm considering a "first 12 get into party chat" rule. At the very least, maybe the other 12 still in-game can have more luck talking to each other that way. ...I'm not sure if it works that way.
• "...and on your left, you'll see a Dead Beef Daddy." -Overheard on the Daytona track tour
• PS4: So much fan, it'll blow a bullet away from your skull into a nearby wall
• Fords are slow and underpowered. FACT
• Terradynes at 75% power deficit: Slooooowwww. EXCITEMENT IN RACING
• BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY, INSIDE JOB, BOYS

Hopefully everybody had fun last week. I think next week, as I continue to work on replicating buzz_clik's GB Wipeout logos into Forza 6 for the Super Series, we'll test the Elite class Abarth/A-Barth. You know, the old one. It's wild in C class. Suspension setup changes might fix that, but I've not tinkered with it enough yet to know if that's a correctable hazard.

I may have mentioned homework last week. Here's what I want from you for this week's Race Night:

Take one or both of these vans, and upgrade it to C class:

• 1983 GMC Vandura G-1500
• 2011 Ford Transit SuperSportVan

THE SUPER SERIES IS COMING. PREPARE THYSELVES.

Yep, we're going to race them. You know how we do. I've also updated the second post in this thread with a few more details on all of this Super Series stuff. Trust me, if you don't know what the Super Series is, you'll want to be a part of it. It's the best.

PROTIP: IT WILL NEVER END. You have been marked. For LIFE.

Congratulations to fisk0 and pinguino! Good luck out there in modland. You'll do just fine.

Given that party chat only works when the lobby's dwindled later in the night, we'll just have to stick with the in-game chat. It's kind of spotty, and I want to look into tinkering with my connection to see if there's any correlation in regards to chat quality, but for now there's no good option other than just putting up with it.

@dewar:A lot of accidents in large packs end up working out that way, as kind of an accordion effect when people aren't able to realize something's going on up ahead as quickly and either fail to check up or shoot a gap that isn't there. It's unfortunate, but I got caught up in quite a few of those, as well.

Nope, no clubs in Forza 6. The last Motorsport game to have them was Forza 4, and while Horizon 2 had clubs, they didn't have much of a benefit and were hot garbage to maintain.

Holy crap, what a night. I'm now locked into five hours of #DRIVECLUB for Extra-Life thanks to my big mouth.

Not as many notes this week, but cue the cat.

• Puddles at Nurburgring are both vicious and murderous. Also, apparently a rally car can't take out three fighter jets just flying over all the wet tarmac.
• Everyone gets murdered on Sebring's back straight. ...it probably didn't help that it was at night and we didn't have headlights, but I'm sure it happens all the time on that back straight anyways.
• Dethfish's van at Monza, HOLY CRAP
• PSA: If I pick a race and you don't have a car, just say so and be patient -- I can sort it out, I got this. I've dealt with that issue many times before.
• F1s are not good at Daytona. I don't care what anyone says.
• Terradynes are not good at ANYTHING. I don't care what anyone says.
• ...and yes, if my Extra-Life campaign hits $1,000 total, I will take my first step to join the Lamborghini Pizza Club for real. The rate this charity stuff is accelerating is scaring me only slightly less than Dethfish's van.

Hopefully everyone who joined us had fun this week, and I hope to see you back next week! I'll be putting together some homework before then, but it's mostly about tuning up a van for racing, either the Ford Transit or GMC Vandura. More details to follow.

BLOG POST FOR TRACE'S TERROR STREAM 2:Right here!

DONATION LINK:http://extralife.teampseg.com

I'll be streaming a bunch of scary games again for my Extra-Life stream on October 23rd to 24th! That should be another 9 pm to 9 pm EDT stream, so we'll see how it goes. I've also put up an incentive to play/stream more straight hours of #DRIVECLUB should I meet my personal donation goal. Perhaps...worse this time, even. I have ideas in which I suffer further if goals are met:

Plus, for every $500 we raise, I'll devote five hours straight to #DRIVECLUB. I'll even commit to another five hours of that wretched game if we hit $200 before October. Trust me, it's amusing to watch me be all bitter about having to play #DRIVECLUB. I don't like it.

BONUS CHALLENGE: In honor of the Lamborghini Pizza Club, if I raise $1,000 before my initial 24-hour stream is completed, I will order and eat a whole pizza during my #DRIVECLUB punishment stream.

The last time there was a European Forza Race Night, it was in Forza Motorsport 3, and it only lasted a few months or so, as it didn't end up drawing the numbers of our North American Forza Race Night.

If you or someone else wants to step up and try making a European Race Night, by all means, go for it! My work hours and general lack of Euro-friendly availability prevent me from helping with it in any way other than advice and maybe promotion, but it'd be cool to have a second and separate Forza Race Night gain traction and increase our community presence on Giant Bomb.