a short, short review of the R34per, perhaps to be expanded upon later as more information becomes apparent.
recently i shed my time honored self limitation of using only Sport tires in gt4. The reason i used to do this is because i love street cars, and in arcade you couldn't use race tires on a street tire car.
or could you?
Due to a recently discovered bug in the game a friend and i found, we now have whatever r type tires we want, most of the time, on any sort of car. we can't explain it, cannot find info on it, but we have it. this opened the door to many intense races and many many cars of higher power levels that were previously useless tire shredders on s-tires in multiplayer.
For the first time, this inspired me to come back to gtp years after an angry egress, and try MFT, my former superior adversary in garage thread tuning, and try some of their r-tire cars.
The first to hit the ground was the R34PER, a near 1000hp monster from one of the most popular marques to ever come from Japan.
Here's where Leo and Grey might have an issue, the tune calls for R3's, and usually in 1p mode i would use those tires, however, we do 2 Lap races in multiplayer, so i step up to R4's to maximize grip and still have something left for the last few turns of the race, so perhaps my estimation of the car is off a bit.
i will expand this part of my review in particular later on but im going to break it down into some very basic parts that i look at then move from there.
The car was mainly driven at Midfield, for reference.
Acceleration- Spectacular, it has 911hp and an advanced awd system, on the straight, there are few street cars that could even stay in sight. 9/10.
i will say, i thought at a glance that the gearing was rudimentary, perhaps simplified for an online posting? but i haven't taken a hard look at it yet.
Deceleration- Great, the car doesn't give up much here, however it's a heavy car with smallish tires for the class of car it's in. it has an oversteer tendancy on the brakes, which is useful in awd. i'd give the brakes a 8/10(for the class of car, not mft's work)
Turning-so much could be said here, driven by the book the cars ONLY weakness in the turn i feel, is that it doesn't stick quite enough on the throttle while turning, perhaps it's my personal style? or the near quadruple digit all wheel power? i prefer the car to grip and turn it's hardest at full throttle a'la amuse R1's, but that's a grossly different car. i wouldnt say it has an understeer tendancy, i'd say it's too neutral while exiting a turn.
NOW, driven NOT by the book, i.e when a turn doesn't go to plan and you have to use tricks to find a new line, the car is quite nimble and stable.
other notes- the car has a front toe setting of 2, personally i don't like toe, it's a big trade off in tire wear for what you get grip wise, i can either drive the car softer to conserve front tires for the second lap, or i can turn the toe down and drive a lil harder. my personal choice after many laps of having to drive softly was to turn the toe down to 1, it reduced front tire wear significantly, but then i consider myself a late braker as well so it may be a driving style issue and not a tune issue, in fact i'd say for sure it's more my thumb then their tune.
mft i don't have a car i'd like tuned this time, well i do, but rather, id like to talk to you regarding the difference in my tuning logic vs yours, i was rather shocked at some of the settings and yet they work, yet so do mine, in an effort to grow in my abilities i have some questions as to why you do what you do, how would you like to proceed?