I'm doing some testing to determine the better versions of GT3 cars. First for ai, then for driving. Laguna Seca today, Sebring and Spa to be done next. First up is to compare how they perform as grid-fillers under ai control. On the left are the participating cars (yellow marker here indicates the faster cars). Creator/horsepower is in brackets in the name field. On the right are the laptimes in a 10ish lap run. No changes were made for this test specifically but some of the cars had previously been BOP'd manually (in power.lut) to bring their horsepower into the ballpark (550-600hp). Notable that the urd cars cannot be BOP'd due to encryption, rss cars can (bk cars can't). Unfortunately, AI times for the user's car are not recorded in the leaderboard although times are shown in RaceEssentials, Sidekick etc. (reported to Ilya, says he'll add that back in). User car under ai control is generally faster than the same car under regular ai control (gridfiller) by ~= 1sec. (the other URD 992 compared to mine)
Did a 2nd run (with the C8. It was fast.). FSR 296 is your grid filler winner. The 2022 M4 was faster this time. The URD 992 is sloooow.
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Takeaways so far:
- these laptimes are about 2 seconds slower than real world.
- horsepower isn't everything (duh) (as shown by urd 992 in 6th place in first run below).
- we really need an M4. The URD M4 is pokey, and can't be bop'd.
- the fsr ferrari 296 is killing the others.
- the gtp nsx is fast! Too bad it's such a boring looking car.
- confusion on "bm-" cars. Is that Bonny or Binary Motors? Or is Bonny actually Jerry Wei?
- we could use a better Audi R8 LMS evo (and/or II). The fastest R8 is the Kunos R8 LMS with only 519 hp. And faster than the fsr Evo II (576hp) by ~= 1sec.
- RSS Lexus RC F is faster than other RC Fs by about a second.
- I like RSS. They should do one of everything. (and don't start encrypting power.lut!) A 720s GT3 evo from them would be awesome.
- URD needs to un-encrypt power.lut. (please) Their 992 is pokey (fastest 992 but pokey)
- we need a mustang LMGT3.
I'm aware that aero adjustments can make a huge diff too. I don't do them yet.
Remember this was just for ai controlled cars. Next up I'll drive all the cars to determine my laptimes.
View attachment 1311514The first run.