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Post by omoroca on Jul 23, 2023 14:33:18 GMT
Today I did a little different test. As I don't own the Jesko Absolut, I was only able to drive it in the Lamborghini Huracán EVO Spyder Special Event on the Metal Garden track. The cars I had compete against the Koenigsegg are the absolute Top 3 cars I own. For proper comparison, I drove them on Metal Garden as Quick Solo Race in Classic mode. Spoiler alert! There's absolutely nothing like the Jesko Absolut. And I'm not sponsored by Greedloft, just in case you're assuming that. In order to decrease the difficulty level, I omitted the glitch at the end of the track, so I have more constant results and thus a better comparison. The 90° curve was already hard enough for this old man. Here's the results: Rank: 1864
Specialty: best car ever Lap times:no boosters | full boosters | 01:00:306 | 01:00:713 | 01:05:219 | 00:57:980 | 01:00:356 | 00:58:656 | 00:59:811 | 00:57:732 | 01:00:075 | 00:58:260 |
Bottom line: What can I say! There's nothing better. The nitro efficiency feels a little worse than the Battista's, the drift is a little worse than the Faraday's, and the acc is a little slower than the Centenario's. But the Jesko Absolut is the absolutely best total package there currently is in A8. It has superior performance by itself already, but then it feels so good to drive that you gain confidence and achieve even better lap times. Superman feeling! Great stuff! Pininfarina Battista
Rank: 1862
Specialty: nitro Lap times:no boosters | full boosters | 01:01:065 | 00:58:062 | 01:00:719 | 00:58:739 | 01:01:742 | 00:57:749 | 01:05:042 | 00:58:293 | 01:01:131 | 01:04:118 |
Bottom line: Without boosters, this car had a huge disadvantage on this track against the lower-ranked Faraday. Due to the inferior acc, it was difficult to wreck opponents at the start in order to refill the nitro. And due to the inferior drift, it was difficult to get the 90° curve right. But with full boosters, this car really shines. Aside from one race with a crash, the boostered results are very constant and very good, not much worse than the Koenigsegg. So this remains my favorite car among the ones I own. Faraday Future FFZERO1
Rank: 1861
Specialty: drift Lap times:no boosters | full boosters | 01:00:867 | 00:58:425 | 01:07:094 | 00:58:689 | 01:00:603 | 00:59:052 | 01:01:593 | 00:59:052 | 01:03:111 | 00:57:419 |
Bottom line: This car is basically easier to drive than the Battista. But if you want to achieve really good lap times, then you have to push it to its limits, where it can be an untamable beast sometimes. So it was possible to achieve the best laptime of this whole review, but only if everything fits. That's why I only managed to achieve this outstanding lap time once, and all the others were clearly worse. So if you want constantly good performance, the Faraday is not such a good bet as the Battista. But it's the best car in rank 1861, I would definitely say. And surprisingly close to the Battista, which I hadn't expected. Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4
Rank: 1861
Specialty: acc Lap times:no boosters | full boosters | 01:03:766 | 01:04:768 | 01:02:699 | 01:00:417 | 01:01:395 | 01:01:209 | 01:02:699 | 01:01:930 | 01:01:263 | 00:57:914 |
Bottom line: I was already a bit tired when I did the boostered races with the Lambo. I basically only had one good stint, and in that, it was quite awesome. But without boosters, this car is absolutely not great. It does feel quick while driving it, but the lap times speak a different language. With full boosters and being in a good mood, you can achieve great things with this car. And it looks good, too. So it's an absolute must-have car for every A8 player.
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Post by Ronan🌻 on Jul 23, 2023 15:45:43 GMT
The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut had the third-best nitro efficiency in Class S upon its debut, worse than the Devel Sixteen Prototype and Dodge Tomahawk (both of which are heavily handicapped with terrible handling+drifting), but better than everything else e.g. Lamborghini Centenario, Pininfarina Battista, Bugatti Divo, etc.
It is possible that the Jesko Absolut was "shadow nerfed" in the nitro efficiency department at some point in the past few months. I was one of the people who complained that it was too overpowered. Originally, the Jesko Absolut had almost no weaknesses and many strengths.
The Jesko Absolut only lacks launch acceleration (partially; better than Bolide and Jesko but worse than Centenario and Chiron SS300+) and recovery acceleration (worse than Battista, Vayanne, Faraday, Ultima, C_Two, etc.).
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Post by omoroca on Jul 23, 2023 22:17:32 GMT
The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut had the third-best nitro efficiency in Class S upon its debut, worse than the Devel Sixteen Prototype and Dodge Tomahawk (both of which are heavily handicapped with terrible handling+drifting), but better than everything else e.g. Lamborghini Centenario, Pininfarina Battista, Bugatti Divo, etc. It is possible that the Jesko Absolut was "shadow nerfed" in the nitro efficiency department at some point in the past few months. I was one of the people who complained that it was too overpowered. Originally, the Jesko Absolut had almost no weaknesses and many strengths. The Jesko Absolut only lacks launch acceleration (partially; better than Bolide and Jesko but worse than Centenario and Chiron SS300+) and recovery acceleration (worse than Battista, Vayanne, Faraday, Ultima, C_Two, etc.). I don't have any numbers. The nitro efficiency only felt a little worse than the Battista's. But maybe I'm biased bc I like the Battmobile so much!
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Post by naagon on Jul 24, 2023 14:56:57 GMT
Fandom states the Absolut nitro efficiency as 7 /10 /12.5 Lamborghini Centenario handicapped by low raw-speed ( 443.4 ) so it needs boosters more than other cars specially Dbl Tank, thanks to its handling it isn't total failure Of my 14 proed S cars only Twatara & Mazzanti has lower raw speed
In the acc department Cent does 6,240 to crash, PinBatt 6,256
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Post by omoroca on Oct 15, 2023 15:10:23 GMT
Two of the cars from this review also appear in my self-made Auto-Quartett:
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Post by naagon on Oct 27, 2023 16:05:33 GMT
It is surprising that Jesko Abso doesn't have better times unboosted given its high rawspeed
When I do QSR unboosted to check before Gauntlet Arash is generally a sec faster than most others and Jesko Abso does have better handling so.........
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Post by omoroca on Oct 27, 2023 18:31:07 GMT
It is surprising that Jesko Abso doesn't have better times unboosted given its high rawspeed When I do QSR unboosted to check before Gauntlet Arash is generally a sec faster than most others and Jesko Abso does have better handling so......... No, it's not surprising. The game mode I played was with computer-controlled opponents, so I was able to wreck them at the start to gain nitro. And after that, it's easy to keep your car on nitro start-to-finish on Metal Garden. For cars with good nitro efficiency like Battista, I could even make intensive use of triple-tapping and still stay on nitro the whole time.
So the Absolut's raw top speed advantage was none in this case. And I think that's representative for the everyday practice in A8, as for the most part, you use full boosters and stay on nitro the whole race, at least in S class.
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Post by Ronan🌻 on Jan 3, 2024 7:04:41 GMT
I feel like your "specialty" category is not very precise. Here are the specialties of each car: - Jesko Absolut: (1) extreme RTS, (2) extreme nitro efficiency, (3) good total speed, acceleration, handling, and drifting | no major weaknesses
- Battista: (1) excellent speed recovery, (2) good acceleration, drifting, and nitro efficiency | at the cost of below-average handling
- FFZERO1: (1) excellent speed recovery, (2) good acceleration, handling, and drifting | at the cost of below-average nitro efficiency
- Centenario: (1) good acceleration, handling, drifting, and nitro efficiency | no major weaknesses
EDIT - Here are some other specialties of other specific cars in class S: - Chiron SS300+: (1) extreme acceleration, (2) extreme RTS, (3) above-average nitro efficiency | at the cost of bad handling and drifting
- Centodieci: (1) extreme acceleration, (2) good nitro efficiency | at the cost of bad handling and drifting
- Artura: (1) extreme acceleration, (2) good handling, (3) decent nitro efficiency (?) | at the cost of below-average drifting
- Sian: (1) good acceleration and handling, (2) above-average nitro efficiency | at the cost of below-average drifting
- Vayanne: (1) excellent speed recovery, (2) good acceleration and nitro efficiency (?) | at the cost of bad handling and drifting
- Jesko: (1) extreme RTS, (2) good total speed, handling, and drifting, (3) decent nitro efficiency | at the cost of average acceleration
- Bolide: (1) extreme RTS, (2) good handling, (3) decent acceleration and nitro efficiency | at the cost of below-average drifting
- Venom: (1) excellent speed recovery, (2) extreme RTS | at the cost of average acceleration (?) and bad handling, drifting, and nitro efficiency
- Ultima RS: (1) good speed recovery, (2) good acceleration, handling, and drifting, (3) decent nitro efficiency | no major weaknesses
- One:1: (1) high RTS, (2) good handling and drifting, (3) decent acceleration and nitro efficiency | no major weaknesses (note: level 3 NE is worse than level 2 NE, so perfect nitro is usually preferred)
- Divo: (1) good acceleration, drifting, and nitro efficiency | at the cost of below-average handling
- AF10: (1) extreme RTS, (2) decent handling and nitro efficiency | at the cost of below-average acceleration, bad drifting
- Senna: (1) excellent handling and drifting, (2) above-average nitro efficiency, (3) decent acceleration | no major weaknesses
- Agera RS: (1) excellent handling and drifting, (2) above-average RTS, (3) decent acceleration | at the cost of bad nitro efficiency
- 600LT: (1) excellent handling and drifting, (2) decent nitro efficiency and acceleration | no major weaknesses
- MP4-31: (1) alien handling, (2) decent acceleration and drifting | at the cost of bad nitro efficiency
- Devel: (1) extreme acceleration, (2) extreme RTS, (3) extreme nitro efficiency | at the cost of horrendous handling and drifting
Essentially, the Jesko Absolut is the most well-rounded car in the entire game, with excellent performance in most areas. The two main downsides of the Jesko Absolut are: (1) it doesn't have the best possible speed recovery, and (2) it doesn't have the best possible acceleration. Also, the Jesko Absolut's handling and drifting could be better, but they are still decent as is. Even despite these downsides, the Jesko Absolut is clearly still a specialist in two areas, namely RTS and nitro efficiency, where it outcompetes most of the other cars in Class S, often by a huge margin. Its nitro efficiency is easily the best among normal Class S cars (i.e. excluding the Dodge Tomahawk and Devel Sixteen Prototype), which is combined with extremely high RTS. At the same time, the Jesko Absolut has the best total top speed among Class S cars (but admittedly, the margin is very tiny). So, you just can't lose with this car. The Centenario is perhaps the second-most well-rounded car in the entire game. It has excellent performance in most areas, but unlike the Jesko Absolut, it does not possess the RTS advantage. Furthermore, the Jesko Absolut actually possesses better nitro efficiency than the Centenario as well, not to mention a slightly higher total top speed. So, the Jesko Absolut has a lot of advantages over the Centenario. With that being said, the Centenario still has better acceleration, handling, and drifting than the Jesko Absolut, but only by relatively small margins. The Battista and the FFZERO1 are both specialists in speed recovery, and each one of them possesses one major downside. The Battista has below-average handling (but not the worst possible), whereas the FFZERO1 has below-average nitro efficiency (but not the worst possible). Meanwhile, both of these two cars do not possess the RTS advantage of the Jesko Absolut (and others). Even though the Battista and FFZERO1 are both specialists, they also function as generalists at the same time, since their overall performance is still good enough (without focusing on the specialty) that they can perform effectively in most situations.
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