I skimmed over the OP, noticed he only uses RH and RS tires and 'knows how to set a car up'.
I figured he must be wrong.
Ive tried the sports and comfort tyres too. When I 'build' a car I tend to spec it with the parts it would realistically have, and that includes the tyres. What I meant by that comment is that if im trying to give the car more grip, instead of adjusting the suspension I just add stickier race tyres because the suspension physics don't always seem to work as they should.
As far as the inaccuracy comments go I don't understand why you all don't seem to care. All of the information is easily and openly available all over the internet. Could they not be bothered or something? They even have licensing from the manufacturers. They could have just asked them. There's no excuse for it. Ive noticed recently that some of the suspension setups that the cars come with as standard are significantly wrong. That must mean that the physics or some of the car data is so wrong that when you input a cars standard settings it drives like a dog, so they must have change them to suit. Surely that's not right?
As for the F40, no I haven't driven one and chances are I never will. But I know enough about cars to know that they don't handle like that in real life. Ive spent the last 15 years of my life religiously reading car magazines and quite often the F40 gets brought out as its such an iconic car. Now many of these road testers I trust, especially the ones at Evo magazine and Autocar. These aren't your usual Whatcar??? road testers, who are more interested in how big the boot is and then complain that the ride is too bumpy, many of them own several cars like this and they are real genuine car enthusiasts. F40 road tests tend to have the words 'sublime', 'well balanced', 'grippy' and 'fun' in them. Not 'undriveable' and 'catastrophic oversteer at all times'.
Ive been playing racing games since I can ever remember including GT1 and ridge racer and all that stuff. Not once have I ever felt it a necessity to purchase a steering wheel. I don't see why that should have to change because everyone else thinks I should have to. I have played on them yes, and I agree they are undoubtedly better, but I don't think they should be necessary. It is a game after all.
Im still playing the game and still enjoying it. But if no one points out the mistakes then the game developers will just churn out another big fat turd for everyone to blindly worship and there will be no more progression. The game just feels like an update of GT4 to me and in the modern world of simulation games that's just not good enough, no matter how good GT4 was when it first came out.
