shut up and sit down
welcome back Dakar fans we are on stage
eight Uyuni I hope I'm saying
that right and we are still trying to
recover from our penalties we took on
stage five where we had an hour and half
speeding penalties I think I'm still an
hour and a half out of the lead of the
rally so trying to make back some time
here we'll see how it goes
starting seventh on the stage yeah from
what I remember in past Dakars is I
don't think they have it this year here
but this this region of Uyuni was they
were famous for their salt flats I mean
they have this huge salt flat that they
raced on a couple years I think one of
the years though and it might have been
the last time they did this it had
rained just like it's doing here and the
salt flats you know had a lot of water
and a lot of bikes got ruined
maybe not ruined but a lot of people had
electrical problems with all the water
just being kicked up I mean I mean this
salt flat that they're on is miles long
and they're just blitzing this thing so
it just you know a lot of people have
problems I think after that year they
kind of uh they didn't do that again
so I'm lost right now I can't fight this
dang waypoint for some reason I am off
a little bit so I'm just trying to find
it
there we go I think I found that track
all right so I want to talk about my Dakar
2019 wish list and what I like to see in
the next edition of this game the first
thing I'd like to see is improved
physics we all know the bikes the cars
the physics just are not good at all in
this game so that's the number one
priority get some improved physics in
this so we can actually you know have
some fun actually driving or riding
these things the vehicles other than the
only good thing about this game is the
navigation portion which a lot of us
Dakar fans enjoy but you can't have a
car racing game a bike racing game where
the physics are just terrible so I mean
I've overlooked that for this game just
because the navigations fun the
environments are huge but man let's go
let's get some better ones number two on
my list is better AI behavior like I
mentioned in many of my videos you get
up next to the AI they just pull over
and again what I think the developers
are doing is making it so you cannot
follow those AI to get you know if
you're lost you can't follow them they
follow each other all the time in the
Dakar let's let's do it it's let's do
some better AI behavior will they'll
race to the end don't make mistakes you
can follow them let's do that number
three yeah I want to make a custom
character and I want to ride this race
as myself it's cool if I can write as a
Ricky Brabec or Toby Price all these
you know Pro and the legend riders but
yeah one or I want to give me a chance
at this race you know maybe that'd be
cool
all right my number four is what I'm
calling technical stages so this game is
based off a 1/32 scale so it's not a
one-to-one thing in what's the time you
know the environment is good but what
I'd like to see is you know in each one
of these stages in the real world
there's probably some really technical
portions which are iconic to each stage
let's reproduce those at a one-to-one
scale even if there are a few miles each
you know five miles so it takes a
certain amount of time and they're
difficult to get through but maybe have
them you know like if it's sort of
canyon it's gonna be through a canyon
you just can't you know it's got to be a
more detailed environment that's what
I'd like to see at one-to-one scale
better technical challenges let's let's
do that that'd be so awesome I think and
would lend a lot to the you'll mix it up
a little bit in this game other than
just following all these Waypoint you
wouldn't have to follow the waypoints in
these technical sections because there
would really only be one way through
them but you would have to be able to do
that yeah so that's my top four right
now I know there's probably lots more
that you guys won't let me know in the
comments what you guys think and let's
try to but let's let's hope that they
can make some improvements for the next
game all right so we finished the first
half of this special and then we're
going on to part two of this marathon
stage we are still in eighth place gonna
make up really much time it seems like
and thank goodness we have not really
hit any speed zones in this whole stage
yet god those are the my bane so for all
the rivers that I've followed in this
stage it doesn't seem like a good idea
to do it in the rain with the chance of
flash floods and if you remember I don't
know if I think in past years they've
actually had to cancel stages because of
all the up flash flooding yeah so let's
fast forward a little bit there's a lot
of miles most of us just going on these
roads and riverbeds it is a fun stage
but I don't think you guys want to see
55 minutes of this get the idea I like
it but man I don't know if I could watch
it if I've made a video of somebody just
doing the stage in real time
yeah so let's talk about I looked up
today how much it actually costs for the
entry fee to do the Dakar 2020 you
can still sign up if you're interested I
think July 13 there's something like
that is the is the deadline to sign up
for the 2020 Dakar in Saudi Arabia
so for the price the regular entry fee
for bikes and quads is sixteen thousand
five hundred euros there are some
discounts if you're a legend or a
competitor and experienced competitor so
if you've done it for ten years or at
least two years they'll give you a
little bit of discount there's also some
discounts for if you doing with a
co-driver or taking somebody under your
wing I think a new competitor I mean
some communication bonuses if you set up
Facebook social media you have at least
a thousand followers and you get in a
newspaper or TV or something like that
and if you've done the previous Meruzga rally which is part of the Dakar
series I think they'll give you some
discounts for cards and side-by-sides
regular regular price is 28 thousand
euros and for the trucks forty one
thousand four hundred euros so man
that's a fair fair chunk of change
all these guys I'm sure you know some of
them the
I mean if they're well off a lot of guys
have to pry get sponsors for an endeavor
like this I'm sure you could find people
to help you out I remember helping out
Jonah Street a few years ago I bought
one of his t-shirts I wish I still had
it I think I ruined it painting the
house or something I put it to use Jonah
thanks a lot but it was a sweet shirt
orange it was I looked through the good
but I yeah he was on short sighted I did
that to no help support him an American
rider a few years ago so that was
pretty cool so but the fees they include
your boat trips from Europe to Saudi
Arabia and back sporting rights medical
assistance your food and beverages at
the bivouacs
and rations insurance your liability
insurance for your motor vehicle along
the route the GPS distress beacon rental
IRITracks satellite tracking system
rental refueling during the stages and
at the bivouac you get registration to
the malleus motors for fee with
assistant without assistance sorry
transport of one trunk and two wheels
for bikes the advice and technical of it
experience true and something called the
eco contribution I don't know what that
is but it must be something that they
donate some money the organizers do on
their behalf of with your entry fee so
you are responsible of course for your
visa charges your refueling on all the
road sections your travel cost and
you're still a phone rental if you're
gonna do that plus you know if you're a
car team or a bike team and all your
spare parts your bike of course now I
don't I don't even know what to guess
what it costs for just running a bike
even if you're doing like the I forget
what they call it I'm just going to call
the Ironman one but
you're you're doing a solo with no
support there's a there is a class for
that those guys are crazy
but even if your bike let's say you buy
a KTM stock you know what is this what
is that sixteen to twenty thousand US
plus all the modifications are gonna do
spare parts you're probably looking with
your entry fees anywhere between fifty
seventy five thousand euros if does that
sound correct let me know if you guys
have any idea what it really costs you
run a bike in this in the DAP car I saw
him up in the mountains kind of now it's
pretty cool oh that was not good I don't
know it doesn't roll down the hill
I wonder how far it would have rolled if
I would have kept it let it go anyway
it's up in the mountains now it's pretty
fun but back to my wishlist the physics
oh so that was terminal damage there I
was not gonna withdraw because I'm gonna
finish this rally oh and it reset me
right off the track so I chose to
restart from the previous wave point I
hope it'll incur a penalty for that
and I almost hit that same rock again
that is a dangerous rock right over that
blank rest man but yeah I took I was not
gonna withdraw right now and restart
this rally from the start yeah I don't
think so but these roads and a breaking
oh the brakes on these bikes in this
game are so terrible it's like an on/off
switch there's no even though using
analog figures on my controller I just
didn't I
there's no progressiveness to it all you
just end up skidding
pretty cool portion of the stage though
may have a nice physics that I'd be so
fine looking along here
and I cannot wait oh I almost went off
the road I cannot wait for the rain to
be over I think the next day just said
it's not raining and I'm not sure if
these is my happen they're like my last
three stages have been raining I think
the last three might have been last four
nah I'm pretty sure last three I don't
know if they're replicating the real
card from from that year if you know
that it rained in 18 a lot during these
stages
I will try the cars at some point after
I'm finished with the bikes I still
gotta do the treasure hunt - hey you
guys has anybody done the treasure hunts
in this game I I have not I've only
messed around I didn't I try to find
anything I've seen a couple of videos
people with the doing the treasure hunt
it might be a good way to see different
places in the stages like I know there's
a few Easter eggs like some stadiums
with some tracks and on the different
things I feel like I found the Nazca
lines had the observation post I made a
video for that
could you imagine well I'm at mile
kilometer 480 right now I don't know how
much was on a road section but a couple
hundred miles
I mean kilometres of running these roads
man that would be it would be pretty fun
I think
and against that light the brakes suck
oh man I am stuck I got to get off this
I am not resetting because then I'll
definitely take a penalty if I restart
from the last way point in this
situation which I had to do when I was
stuck in the dunes way back on my think
stage stage 3 or 4 I need to get this
off of this I've been stuck on a rock
before and I ruined my transmission okay
here we go back up some more over hi I
avoided the reset from last way point
goodness and we are almost home
here we come out the finish line
stage eight complete if I made any of
any time on these guys no penalties
that's good so I didn't take a penalty
for that restart from the last waypoint
second overall Joan Barreda my my teammate
be me back a couple minutes
tenth overall
I am still about an hour and a half
behind Sam Sunderland hey if you guys
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