10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

You may think you’re the best racing game player in the world. But chances are, you’ve done at least a few of these things a couple of times and never owned up to them
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I mean, we’ve all done that before, right? Lag is the perfect excuse if something goes wrong. It can, quite literally, cover up all of your mistakes. But the key is to not use it as an excuse too often, otherwise you’ll be found out. Not that I know that myself, I heard it from a friend…

2. Purposely crash someone off who’s annoying you

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

There’s sometimes that person in online lobbies who really gets on your nerves, whether they’re talking WAY too loudly in their microphone, they forced you wide earlier in the race or constantly blocking you. Sometimes, revenge is the only option. And of course, you can always blame it on the lag afterwards.

“I didn’t even touch you on my screen.”

3. Cut the corner, but claim it’s lag

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

Occasionally we may get a bit too eager when turning into a corner and cut it a little bit. Sometimes we’ll get away with it, other times, maybe not. And if your friend manages to spot it, you can always say you “didn’t see it” on your screen.

4. Brag about your lap time but leave out the assists you used

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

No one has to know if you had the racing line on, or have traction control on the medium setting. That’s not important. What is important, though, is the fact you beat their lap times. That’s all that matters.

5. Say you scored a better result than you actually did

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

Ninth place doesn’t sound that great, but top eight makes it seem a little more successful, right? We’ve all lied about our finishing result once…or maybe that’s just me.

6. Rage quit

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

We get properly invested in these racing games, so when it doesn’t go your way, you’ll probably get a bit annoyed. And if it keeps on happening, chances are you’ll either quit, or throw your controller out of the window. One or the other.

7. Use a cheat code

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

We’ve all had a little browse around to see what can make our lives easier when it comes to gaming. Some racing games won’t have cheat codes, but others certainly do…

8. Research the easiest way to complete the game

10 Things We All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games

It doesn’t take long to track down tips and tricks for racing games. I mean, I’ve heard it doesn’t take long. I wouldn’t know, of course.

Some laps are good. Some laps are bad. And others are only good because there were a few cheeky corner cuts involved.

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If it’s the difference between winning and losing, it’s a risk you are willing to take.

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Comments

Anonymous

i always handbrake turn across the finish like

11/20/2016 - 14:44 |
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Anonymous

It don’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning’s winning.

Dominic Toretto

11/20/2016 - 15:08 |
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Anonymous

When I was little, I used to wait for the cars to come back around the track so I was “in first”

11/20/2016 - 18:06 |
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Pumpkinz

Lag, the only thing that is in every video game yet people still can’t deal with it correctly. cough cough modern warfare remastered cough cough

11/20/2016 - 19:45 |
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Sir Potato

me playing dirt 3
crashes into all the trees does all the flips
barely survives
Navigator - Just a bump nothing to worry about

11/20/2016 - 21:29 |
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Jordan 5

#4 is why I like Forza. They have all the assists posted next to your lap times. Even better to see that when you have a 870 S1 Class RWD car with no assists, and you smoking AWD’s will full assists at the max for the tier.

11/20/2016 - 22:43 |
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JohnnyB

There was a time I was so mad that I sabotaged my friend’s car on Gran Turismo 4 adding extra ballast weight when we were time battling with different cars!
He was racing this Toyota Caldina GT-4 that I hated so much and could never beat.
Since Turbo and 4WD is apparently cheating for a Natural Aspiration, RWD enthusiast like me I decided he could do with 200kg extra ballast since he chose the Station Wagon of all glorious GT-4s… :P

11/21/2016 - 00:42 |
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Rick Hendrix

Luuk_885 vural die urste

11/21/2016 - 11:59 |
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Joa wat heej zet

11/21/2016 - 12:07 |
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Aaron 1

Or if you’re playing in a local lobby against drivertars and blame your loss against the stupid computer drivers

11/21/2016 - 13:10 |
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Anonymous

Using a OP car

11/21/2016 - 21:44 |
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