Talking Sims With Nils Naujoks | Professionalism in ESports
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Today's episode of Talking Sims features Nils Naujoks, Redbull Esports & G2 Team Manager, and Esport competitor. We're discussing proffessionalism in Sim Racing ESports, driving at the limit and how driver coaching is playing a big role in sim racing as well as the real world right now.
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Thanks a lot for having me! Really enjoyed sharing my insights and talking to someone who knows his stuff.
Any time! It was my pleasure dude. It's an episode I've wanted to make for a long time after various conversations we've had at events over the last couple of years - with recent events, the timing felt right :)
Which games do you coach for?
Awesome that you covered Nils.
He's definitely one of the few greatest which been around before simracing was in the focus.
Nils is always great at cutting right to the point on these matters too :)
Thank you Chris, great interview. Enjoyed it a lot.
By the way, great channel, just found it, wondering why I did not find earlier.
Best greetings from Germany
Chris
Great interview! I love hearing from people like Nils, that can offer insight into sim racing esports from the driving side as well as the business side. Looking forward to your coaching session video with him.
Two of my favorite guys. 👍🏾
Well I'm a bit envious about the up to speed immediately, but I can relate to it in flight simming.
Been playing combat sims since 1998 with a few breaks, and while certain skills suffer from extended breaks, like gunnery and the ability to judge an enemy's energy state, certain basic skills don't go away.
If you plonk me in a 109 (Bf109 my favourite WW2 fighter) I know what to do with it, how to fly it, how to land it, what to do and what not do. To a limited extent I will also how to fight with it, if it is an enemy that I fought a lot before. I will not be 100% Efficiency and might make mistakes but it's decent. And most importantly I know how to fly it without wrecking the engine, which is quite easy with the old warbirds! Operate it with the wrong settings, like high rpm+high ATA(Manifold Pressure in Atmospheres) and you can wreck that engine in 5 minutes.
You can also plonk me in an aircraft I have never flown and I have a reasonably good chance of being able to take off, fly and land it successfully........even without having read the manual...........as long as it's turned on, and all the systems are running. I will not be able to fight with it.........safe for maybe using the gun......if I find the switches to arm and select it..........but certain skills are there. After a long time you can kinda "feel" and judge what is happening based on how the aircraft reacts........though imho that is easier on non-FBW (Fly By Wire) aircraft.
Sounds similar to the driving part in the sim, the combat part which suffers, is a bit like the race craft, if you haven't done it for a while, I need a bit of time to get back into the ins and outs of racing. Same with air combat, although quite often it's more about learning about the aircraft in question and the systems, if it's a modern aircraft.
Warbirds? Well you can go cockpit hopping quite easily in comparison, as with racecars the systems are rather simple (in comparison to modern fighters) and it's mostly about how well you drive/fly.
I guess you're a lot closer to the limit right away with a race-car, so the difficulties are exposed right away. I flew RC aircraft on and off for for a while, and the basics stayed, but the scary stuff, like landing, was always a lot more nervous after an extended break!
@@ChrisHaye Yub landing is scary, especially with RC aircraft I imagine where mistakes are quite expensive.* And landings used to be my weakspot as well, especially in the old IL-2s as the landing behaviour was "scripted". Which in short means that if your aircraft is at a certain speed, with a certain angle of attack or pitch angle you will take off, instead of simulating the lift from the wings to determine if you take off or not.
Which could lead to the feared kangaroo landings! ;) (Also known as the Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday.....-Landings.)
Noticed that difference in the new IL-2s immediately as well as in Falcon BMS and CS when they changed the flight models to take out the "scripted" landings. Suddenly it was much easier to land....even though it was more realistic. ;) Did help though that in Falcon BMS the landing gear of the Viper was changed to a more realistic strength.
As for being on the limit agreed on that, there is a reason why we tend to take a refresher/Work-up in flight simming before actuallly going back into virtual combat after an extended break.........our peers would eat us alive! ;)
Interesting side note on getting information via listening to the engine rpm. I can Confirm that in both sim genres, in flight sims you tend to hear what is going on by simply listening to the egines in Warbirds, as in a dive the rpm will rise and being able to listen to that and know how it should sound allows you to react faster.
You know without looking if the engine is running right, or if you run the risk of overspeeding it, or if something like the oil cooler is damaged.
And the more time you can spend with your eyes outside the cockpit, the better.
In Simracing as well, just as he says you notice wheelslip by a change in how the RPM sounds that is too fast. Ironically the same goes for wheelslip in a steam loco, when you hear the exhaust beat going to fast, when it changes too much. You can almost drive it by ear if you know it well enough. Seems to be a universal trend among sims. ;)
Shows why good Sound design is so important, and I agree with him, changing between games is sometimes really hard due to the changes in sound design. Pcars 1 and 2 are a perfect example, same series, but the tires at the limit sound completely different.
Thank you so much to expand the horizon for me, personally. You guys are the best community I come across. I am SO lucky!
Nice video man you really do deserve more subs for the time you put into your videos
Thanks, I appreciate that! Onwards and upwards!
Thanks for this conversation Chris and Nils. You discussed some sensitive and important issues with grace and poise. This could have easily turned into a cynical diatribe. Instead is was a sensitive and open minded conversation between people who really care about the sport. I have only been sim racing for barely a year and half. This was practical, educational, and entertaining. Thanks again!
Great interview Chris. Really insightful stuff from Nils.
Woooah such a nice video. ty for the insights
Very interesting and great to watch, I always follow Nils along his livestreams when competing in ACC as I am hard at work to get better and improve myself. It is very difficult and not as easy as some of the prodrivers out there make it look like, which is why I dedicate my channel to all of us sim racing beginners out there!
Love your talking sims content, they make for excellent podcasts thanks mate. 👍
About the iR 911 cup car... i am driving the car this season for the sole reason to improving and smoothing out my inputs and technique. I think its a fantastic car to teach you to not overdrive... iracing makes the tires ice if you overdrive it, or the car will simply rotate around its axis... still, its fun when you get it right!
One word ‘ scary ‘! And Me naively thinking that sim racing was just about experiencing driving great cars when you couldn’t afford it. I am really not sure about all this rush professionalism with esport when surely team, sponsors and drivers try to redefine a well rehearsed sport which is ruled and limited with real life consequences to something which is nearly entirely limited and defined by the very basic way each game, sim, or every other name you will give it, is! Just a question for anyone out there: what will be the impact of sim racing onto real motorsport? And I mean by this, what is the meaning of competing for the sake of competing in a virtual world where there is no limits to the rules or the reality of the game, sport., challenge or whatever you want to call it?... The answer which comes far too often now is... money.
Nils 🐐
der Dumeklemmer. I think you guys should talk. My personal opinion...
Some really interesting points around the potential commericial side of of sim racing, thanks
Excellent interview and what a lot of insight from a propa Pro
Nils Naujoks is no 'jokes'. Freakin fast. Saw him at Monza Esports. Gap between him and u keeps getting more and more. 29:38 He still remembers 'Amir Housenni' 😂. Oh boy. Can't wait to see them together again.
Yeah. Can't wait. :x