02-22-2022, 12:42 PM
Sometimes I have trouble hitting the "Join" and "Join VR" buttons (I've raced on both VR and triples) and resorted to inputting the launch command. I'll remember to try refreshing the page to see if that helps me too. Michael Martin also told me that you can use your keyboard too, just hit tab on your keyboard until you get onto the Join or Join VR button and hit enter to launch, so try that if refreshing the page didn't help. One thing I have to remember and keep forgetting is that when in VR the popup after hitting Join VR appears in my VR headset only, I keep expecting it to show on my monitor and wonder what is going wrong until I realise what is happening.
I have a Lenovo Explorer WMR headset, and basically get Steam to see it as a SteamVR headset so I haven't had the issues you mentioned. And I've never made a separate shortcut for launching the game, I always open steam to do it. Perhaps the order in which you put extra parameters makes a difference? So maybe have -forceVR before the -sportsplay one? Or maybe you need to do something in that shortcut to specify that you want to launch the oculus version of the game with those parameters (or the SteamVR version if you'd rather that)?
We are using real weather for the P3 championship as the admin said, set to 13:00 of the current date of the race. One thing to note is that for SRS we are using a plugin for getting real weather data which is different to the one that is built into the game for real weather. So there could be discrepancy between what the two predict if they are getting data from different sources, which could possibly have local variances. When I made an online practice session the hour before hand, I used the in-game real weather for that day and the clock set to 13:00 both for the practice and the 1 lap race (I have to set a race so I just chose a 1 lap one, but leave before then since the SRS even t has begun). Interestingly enough I could see in the forecast that the game had decided to have cloudy weather, then some light rain followed by cloud for the practice session, but only cloudy weather for the race sessions (no rain), even though both sessions had been given the same in-game start time. So not only was it different to the SRS real weather which just had light rain, but the in-game real weather setting had a discrepancy with itself for the practice and race from the same session with the same date and time.
The real weather data that AMS2 has in-game often lines up with real life weather in my experience, but sometimes it can be a bit off especially when the real life weather is very changeable. From what I understand it doesn't update its checks for changes too frequently (so not every 5 minutes say, so if it was dry at 13:00 and then wet at 13:08, AMS2's real weather might have it dry for the next half hour or hour if the session started at 13:00). I am not 100% sure on this so take what I said with a good pinch of salt. I did look up the real world forecast afterwards again and it did show that it had light rain at the time, although it was scattered I think. So in the future I would be on your toes to expect either dry or some rain when the real world weather forecasts on the internet are expecting something like light/scattered showers.
Waiting until we are back in the lobby is correct (or when it says that you have been disconnected from the server). Sometimes though there is an issue where a person's data isn't transferred to the standings even though it was recorded. You can tell this has occurred as when you see the standing's, there will be a position missing (e.g. it may go 7th then 9th, and 8th is missing). If this is the case its fairly easy to recover, as in your case. If it happens to you in one of my championships again, don't be afraid to send me a message either here or on discord and I'll contact the admin to fix it (or just send a post in the race series discussion thread I made for the P3 championship).
The bigger issue is if you leave the server before you have been returned to the lobby (or before it says you have been disconnected from the server). In that case your results aren't recorded at all and so there won't seem to be a position missing from the standings.
Hope to see you race next week. You are champion for going with the Rocco even though it struggles compared with the MetalMoro with the turbo, especially at high altitude tracks. I thought the P3 cars were a bit more balanced, but it seems that only occurs in long distance endurance races where the MetalMoro turbo is less fuel efficient and needs more stops. Or maybe they are closer together at tight twisty tracks with short straights, like a some of the Brazilian ones. I might consider going with just a single vehicle for classes that offer more than one car next time, unless I know for sure there is a decent balance.
I have a Lenovo Explorer WMR headset, and basically get Steam to see it as a SteamVR headset so I haven't had the issues you mentioned. And I've never made a separate shortcut for launching the game, I always open steam to do it. Perhaps the order in which you put extra parameters makes a difference? So maybe have -forceVR before the -sportsplay one? Or maybe you need to do something in that shortcut to specify that you want to launch the oculus version of the game with those parameters (or the SteamVR version if you'd rather that)?
We are using real weather for the P3 championship as the admin said, set to 13:00 of the current date of the race. One thing to note is that for SRS we are using a plugin for getting real weather data which is different to the one that is built into the game for real weather. So there could be discrepancy between what the two predict if they are getting data from different sources, which could possibly have local variances. When I made an online practice session the hour before hand, I used the in-game real weather for that day and the clock set to 13:00 both for the practice and the 1 lap race (I have to set a race so I just chose a 1 lap one, but leave before then since the SRS even t has begun). Interestingly enough I could see in the forecast that the game had decided to have cloudy weather, then some light rain followed by cloud for the practice session, but only cloudy weather for the race sessions (no rain), even though both sessions had been given the same in-game start time. So not only was it different to the SRS real weather which just had light rain, but the in-game real weather setting had a discrepancy with itself for the practice and race from the same session with the same date and time.
The real weather data that AMS2 has in-game often lines up with real life weather in my experience, but sometimes it can be a bit off especially when the real life weather is very changeable. From what I understand it doesn't update its checks for changes too frequently (so not every 5 minutes say, so if it was dry at 13:00 and then wet at 13:08, AMS2's real weather might have it dry for the next half hour or hour if the session started at 13:00). I am not 100% sure on this so take what I said with a good pinch of salt. I did look up the real world forecast afterwards again and it did show that it had light rain at the time, although it was scattered I think. So in the future I would be on your toes to expect either dry or some rain when the real world weather forecasts on the internet are expecting something like light/scattered showers.
Waiting until we are back in the lobby is correct (or when it says that you have been disconnected from the server). Sometimes though there is an issue where a person's data isn't transferred to the standings even though it was recorded. You can tell this has occurred as when you see the standing's, there will be a position missing (e.g. it may go 7th then 9th, and 8th is missing). If this is the case its fairly easy to recover, as in your case. If it happens to you in one of my championships again, don't be afraid to send me a message either here or on discord and I'll contact the admin to fix it (or just send a post in the race series discussion thread I made for the P3 championship).
The bigger issue is if you leave the server before you have been returned to the lobby (or before it says you have been disconnected from the server). In that case your results aren't recorded at all and so there won't seem to be a position missing from the standings.
Hope to see you race next week. You are champion for going with the Rocco even though it struggles compared with the MetalMoro with the turbo, especially at high altitude tracks. I thought the P3 cars were a bit more balanced, but it seems that only occurs in long distance endurance races where the MetalMoro turbo is less fuel efficient and needs more stops. Or maybe they are closer together at tight twisty tracks with short straights, like a some of the Brazilian ones. I might consider going with just a single vehicle for classes that offer more than one car next time, unless I know for sure there is a decent balance.
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