Since this a perennial point of discussion around here, and if you remember, Elliot Skeer was highly critical of the NTMv5 on the MX5.
Apparently he has reapproved it as of yesterday's build.
If you are wondering what he said, and have no iRacing account?
Posted Jul 23, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC · edited
I did some practice and a race with the car last night, and damn, it's now one of my favorites. It's amazing! A blast to drive around the track and most of the race we were bumper-to-bumper racing. We were able to bang doors a few times without spinning out, it's amazing that iRacing didn't cover the upgrade of this car more. You wouldn't know it was better unless you actually drove it.
The new sounds are fantastic as well. Blipping sounds amazing both inside and outside of the car. The painted rims make the car look much more realistic as well.
10/10, superb job, iRacing. I'm impressed.
Sweet I'll have to try it out tonight. I just couldn't get that car nailed down on lime rock.
Christ how many years did it take them?
6-9 months? I don't remember when the MX5 was put on NTM5. But Skeer's assessment was NTM1-2 was very good, NTM3-4 was amazing, first builds of NTM5 were not good (or inaccurate to his real car if you prefer to read it that way, it certainly wasn't utterly broken/undrivable like the FW31 on NTM4). Now its good again and real life setups can be used.
The Williams was at its worst in 4? Typical when it's the only time I gave it a try.
The Williams was so bad in NTMv4 (especially on the build after NTMv5 was first put out on the L49) that the top 3 drivers (Huttu being one of them) sat out WCS races prompting an emergency update to put NTMv5 tyres on it midseason.
That makes me feel happy that it wasn't just me lacking something in terms of settings or whatnot every time i tried to drive it. Will have to give it a go again sometime.
"If you are wondering what he said, and have no iRacing account?" and dont have access to photobucket at work. Imgur pls :)
http://i.imgur.com/IIUHufc.gif
EDIT: Probably the most bizarre thing to get downvoted over *quizzical look
EDIT2: If you are wondering, the gif was literally what was first posted by Skeer