Driving Aids or No?

[3-Wheel Drive]

So how do you race and drive, with aids, without, or a mix? I tend to use them for newer cars that would have them, as well as some very high powered cars (The Speed 12 is almost undrivable without max traction control), and try to omit aids on older cars that wouldn't have them IRL.

If you use one but not the other, you can just vote yes/depends

 

[RenesisEvo]

Need to add the option "TCS only, ASM off" - thats how I drive mostly. Occasionally I turn of traction control too.

 

[Vonie]

I almost never use any aids.
Except when I'm using an LMP on standard tires to pwn road cars in some race.

 

[Dave A]

So how do you race and drive, with aids, without, or a mix? I tend to use them for newer cars that would have them, as well as some very high powered cars (The Speed 12 is almost undrivable without max traction control), and try to omit aids on older cars that wouldn't have them IRL.

If you use one but not the other, you can just vote yes/depends

For me it depends on the car, but I never have it higher than 3 or 4, and that includes for the Speed 12 on N3's. Anything more than that becomes too much of a hinderance imo. And I never, ever, ever use ASM, it's a cornerng killer, it doesn't benefit you one bit.

 

[Praetorian]

the poll needs more choices

I never use ASM, and only occasionally use a tick or 2 (on rare occasion 3) of TCS on the really high powered cars

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

Yes, I realize I should have done more choices, but I don't know how to edit polls (if you even can).

 

[psonefreak]

I turn the ASM off.. totally.. every car... and I turn the TCS way down too. Usually I do it like:

FR = 2 TCS
FF = 3 TCS
MR = 2 TCS
4WD = 1 TCS

the only reason I even keep ANY TCS on is to get rid of wheel spin. Other than that I don't need it.

 

[TurboRegal]

I turn everything off, unless I'm driving a car like a Speed 12 that spins all the time, or a lemans style car, like the minolta. It find it way more fun with them off personally..

 

[<_Spike_>]

Never use ASM, rarely use TCS (F1 cars...bout it)

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I usually only turn the driving aids off for road cars only. All my race cars have the driving aids on.

 

[Jedi2016]

Depends on the car. If the car doesn't have them in real life, I won't play with them in the game.

Unless a car is totally undrivable without them, and there's only a handful of cars like that in the game.

 

[KiwiBoy]

i usually try to drive some tail-happy cars without Aids to train my control on the accelerator, i learned that it does help you achieve better launches in the beginning of the races. but i still cant be as good as TCS cause they do control wheel spin very well.

 

[Blake]

Never. If the car is too hard to drive without them, I feel that I need to improve, not the car.

 

[Appie]

i hate ASM and i only use TCS on high powered cars or the F1 car

 

[Tedehur]

I never use ASM, but I set TCS to 1 or 2 when the power exceeds 300hp on an FF car or exceeds 500hp on a car with another drivetrain.

 

[Gabkicks]

only times i can think of that i used tcs or asm are for long endurances with fwd cars. other than that i can pace myself enough not to kill off tires. assists just make me slower

 

[Mt. Lynx]

Depends on the car. ASM is only used on the F1 car (made me faster somehow), And TCS is rarely higher than 2. Most roadcars get no aids whatsoever. And if I know for sure that a car doesn&#180;t have any aids IRL, I don&#180;t use them in the game either.

 

[red70mach1]

Only use TCS on my cars.

 

[crimson_menace]

I only use TCS. ASM is garbage, and I only use TCS for excessive wheelspin.

 

[FocusFast]

All my cars:

ASM Oversteer: 1
ASM Understeer: 10
TCS: 5

 

[Jedi2016]

Speaking of which, how many cars in real life have ASM? I know a lot of high-powered cars have traction control.

 

[torque998]

On some of my lower-end cars (12-200 hp), I have aids off completely. On every other car, I have ASM off and TCS set to 1.

 

[un_peacekeeper]

the poll needs more choices

I never use ASM, and only occasionally use a tick or 2 (on rare occasion 3) of TCS on the really high powered cars

same here 👍

 

[un_peacekeeper]

Speaking of which, how many cars in real life have ASM? I know a lot of high-powered cars have traction control.

Audi and Mercedes call it the ESP - Electronic Stability Program.
Volvo calls it DSC - Dynamic Stability Control.
etc. etc.
They control the power to the wheels when they sense over/understeer.


-crap, sry, didn't realize this was the same thread lol and didn't edit.

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

I think when my poll closes and this thread dies I'll redo it with a more in-depth poll. What do y'all think?

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

TCS at 1, if at all, and ASM is turned off.
If drifting in GT4 has taught me anything, its that Aids suck.
<---I do not have aids.

 

[un_peacekeeper]

I think when my poll closes and this thread dies I'll redo it with a more in-depth poll. What do y'all think?

When this topic dies, the topic would be done to death, and will not require another.

 

[kennythebomb]

As soon as I win/buy a car, I turn off all aids.

However you cannot argue with laptimes.

In the case of drag racing, sometimes you just need some TCS. I have found that for high powered rear-wheel drive cars, ~6 or 7 works best.

In the case of circuit hot laps.... I almost never, ever use them; but in the Muscle: Unlimited series I am driving a '69 Vette... and with ASM on 2/2 I was a full second faster on Tokyo than I was on 0/0. TCS stayed at 0, of course. One could argue that if I properly set up my suspension, than the use of ASM is negated. However, I now believe that when used in small amounts on the right car, it can help. Otherwise, it is a nuisance that impedes my input.

 

[ferrari_chris]

Never. If the car is too hard to drive without them, I feel that I need to improve, not the car.

👍

I never use ASM or TCS. I just drive better.

TCS turned on is no fun, and the ASM is . I drive the Speed 12 with no TCS, I just use 1/4 throttle right through to fifth gear.

There's faster cars out there anyway...

 

[Hapul]

using no TCS or ASM is hard at first, but once I acustomised my lap times were consistently faster