This. I actually just used one of his tunes for one of the 911's for the Porsche Cup menu book. I was having a hard time winning with how much I had to hold the car's hand (although far from as bad as many other RWD cars). As soon as I stuck a tune on, I won easily, but it wasn't as thrilling, although it wasn't exactly dull either. The 996 was overall a good experience, but still has the same RWD issues.
Oh, you will find them, most of them are denizens of the official forum who came to white knight, not just physics, but how it wasn't SMS's fault how the game was marketed, but the potential audience not getting it.
You know what mate, 100 pages in and you dead set may have nailed it.
Hmm... has anyone fussed with the steering setting in the controller setup? It runs from -2 to +7. From what I glean in the few mentions of it, it smooths the controller input towards the lower values. I believe this applies to wheel controllers too because it's available, at least for my G29.
I hope this discussion continues. The physics will likely change a few times, which will lead to even more debates. Which I do like to read, as some of it is helpful in racing.
It does nothing. It says in the manual it is for wireless controllers only. Some claim it makes a difference, but I ran a few laps at -2 vs +7 and it felt absolutely no different.
My post wasn't in defence of the physics of the game. There are much more qualified people around here who can talk on accuracy of the game physics.
It is, as evidenced by this thread. There isn't a black and white answer to the physics other than does it equal real life yes/no? But no game does. Not even the best F1 simulators the all the top teams are running are 1 to 1 with real world physics.
Yeah, the first year. Missed out narrowly on the 2nd year and committed to Ferrari for the Manufacturers championship which brought me a lot of joy, although not much success
Because while this is good advice in general, the handling model is still incredibly flawed, and everything you just said doesn't apply. I'm a fast A driver, and there are still cars that are flat out bad. They are terrible to drive in game when this isn't true in real life. The R8 GR3 is in the same boat, loosing traction at 150+, being incredibly unstable in corner entry, and even worse back on throttle. Not realistic in any way. All because of the model.
oh I thought I was only supposed to swing back and forth with hand over hand steering and stomping on the pedal
I don’t think our or my skill level has anything to do do with my Statement.
Define realism.
Not true for me at least.
I like some things about GT Sport, the physics needed a little more work and the penalty system always sucked but right now it's almost more fun to play than GT7. The problem with GT7 physics is they're too unpredictable for cars that especially IRL should be predictable.
I can agree AC got some things right and is still fun to play today with the mod support being simply massive and active to this day, where it goes horribly wrong is the default setups on all the cars. Without tuning, most are just bad. Then there's the weak aerodynamic model, far from realism there but does the job I suppose. I won't mention the tyre model all that much since that's a problem with every single sim on the market, as usual.
Yes, same here. I'm using the controller. I realised I had to be very smooth, otherwise the car spins out and is impossible to recover. I managed to get a 3:16,9.
In some ways, GT Sport is a lot more fun to play than 7. Not more realistic, but it feels grand to be in command of a racing machine and doing pretty much what you want with it.
Could we collectively for a change...talk about the the things PD got right with the physics? Even those that have voiced their disdain should have found something positive by now?
I wonder what kind of effect it would have if they just took the GTS throttle curve and reversed it.
