Civetta Scintilla

Wow, is it placebo or the car gets better every minor update? The gts corse is sensational on the track!

I found one minor thing that slightly bugs me.
Mid engined cars are renowned for their great forward visibility. In scintilla the steering wheel and the scuttle obstruct the view quite a bit. making it harder to sense the speed and hit apexes. On crests you sometimes can’t see the road ahead of you.

The obvious solution would be to raise a virtual seat. However this way most of the top warning lights get covered by the rim.

Is it possible to tilt the steering wheel upward a bit? If it was 2 centimeters higher the issue would be nonexistent.
Or at least could there be a possibility to adjust it ourselves?

 

That's a shame.
But on the other hand, given the fact that instability is a frequent matter in game development and there's no other known way to make them lighter, it still is totally fine.

 

Wait, how exactly?
I'll admit, I don't know much about how this game works internally, but please explain to me how making the brakes lighter would cause instability issues, because it really doesn't seems like it should.

 

While i don't know the cause or how it works basically the more stiff the beams are, the more weight the nodes need to have. At one point you just can't go lower without having the structure too soft or having the structure be unstable.

 

Alright. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining it.

 

That's weird actually because I know that the Drift mode disconnects the front axle, at least in all the other cars (Bastion and modern ETKs) it's programmed.

 

Drift mode in the Scintilla sends power to the front axle during a drift, but cuts power once you've spun

 

i was in the RWD version in that clip not the AWD one

 

Yeah, just read your post more carefully. So the Drift mode is programmed differently for RWD and AWD applications.

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Gotta check it out for myself.

 

A minor suggestion, can we have more removable interior parts than we actually have on "race"? I doubt race cars use alcantara everywhere. I do understand that body is probably not using double sided texture and roof simply covered by interior top. But still, would be cool to go a lil more hardcore, cheers

 

Noticed a slight misspelling issue in the Spyder-related body parts, being written with "I" instead of "Y" in the parts selector.

• Spider Body
• Spider Rear Glass
• Spider Left Door and Spider Left Door Glass parts (Lightweight Spider Left, Spider Left and Spider Left Rolled Down)
• Spider Right Door and Spider Right Door Glass parts (Lightweight Spider Right, Spider Right and Spider Right Rolled Down)
• Spider Rear Body and Cut Spider Rear Body
• Spider Tailgate and Cut Spider Tailgate

 

i think both ways are valid

 

Both are valid, yes, but since the open top version of the Scintilla is called the "Spyder", then it would be appropriate for the related body parts to be spelled the same way.

 

In the future maybe for a remaster there can be an option where the doors open regularly or like a Lamborghini's

 

My man you talking about a remaster the car ain’t even been in the game for 3 months

 

Exactly. The car is simply too fresh for serious overhauling!
With that said though, I only think of eight minute details in need of correction and/or inclusion (with the differential situation not being one of them, I looked it up and figured it out).

1. The GTs and GTx variants not having the 9000rpm Sport ECU while their description boxes clearly say they have "a higher revving engine" than the GT, with the 8600rpm Stock ECU. This can get solved in a future update, whether this is a Major or a Minor one.
2. When you spawn the GTs/GTs Spyder/GTs Polizia variants, the owl logo on the double-5-spoke Civetta Scintilla wheels doesn't line up in parallel with the ground but it's offset to ~45°. No other BeamNG wheel does this and it too can get solved in a future update.
3. The Spyder body not featuring a dome light, like the Hardtop body does. It could simply have it installed above the parcel shelf lying behind the seats (just like in the Hardtop body only a bit further back since the rear panel gaps/seams of the removable roof panels get in the way). It certainly must be solved in the remastering of the car because it's a matter of depicted realism. But we have plenty of time until then.
4. The Rear Reflectors/Marker Lights of the GTs Corse variant being mounted in a way that they are nearly impossible to be seen from the side because they're covered by the protruding vertical carbon fiber end lips of the Performance Rear Bumper. This bumper still has plenty of room behind the rear arches and the end lips don't get in the way from the inside of it, so it definitely can have the rear Reflectors/Marker Lights mounted at the same spot as the normal Rear Bumper with no problem at all (the picture I'll post shows this issue). The remastering of the vehicle has to solve this too.
5. Some minute misspellings of the Spyder body parts and some misnamings of the front fender parts, related to the sides they're on. These can be solved in a future update.
6. Plus a "Front Center Undertray Panel" has to be modelled for covering the gap created on the floor and in the front end of the car when the Frunk Liner is absent. Even an air duct in the style of the GTT one in the Bolide could be created as an alternative to the Frunk Liner, for cooling the brakes down and filling in the front end gap.
7. The Scintilla (and the Bolide, for that matter) could get its own tailored luggage set, specially designed to fit into the Frunk and in the parcel shelf behind the seats. Such an accessory is a very characteristic choice for this kind of car.
8. The existing Blue, Red and Yellow Brake Caliper options are a first and look amazing but, for more variety, Black, Gold and Silver Brake Caliper options would also be nice for someone looking for a classier and more discreet colour combo/contrast.

 

I know how long it's been in the game I'm just saying some ideas for the devs for when they wanna remaster it in 2 or 3 years.

 

I think the Scintilla was made at a point in the game's life where it probably won't need a remaster for a long time, and you should remember that all of the stuff that has been getting remasters has been in the game for 5-8 years, rather than 2-3. They've had minor updates in the past, but needed upgrading to the modern vehicle creation standards.