By now I'm quite comfortable with the DS4 and confident in my settings. On average from car to car, the game is actually barely as challenging as Enthusia.I did buy The Crew upon your previous recommendation. 👍 I got a pretty nice deal on it via the PS Store on Black Friday. Dirt Rally and/or SLRE are also on my list.
Welp, I got around to trying the Lancer Evo VI -- which is a ton of fun, even in its hilariously doughy default tune -- which boldly highlighted the physics engine's weakness with high slip angles. Momentum can just evaporate away and the engine bogs down when it should have power to create wheelspin. I had spun RWD cars to an arresting halt in low-speed drifts already, but it didn't stick out quite so much until I took the Evo to the Mojave skidpad in a pouring rainstorm for some experimental AWD donuts.
I knew SMS had evolved this engine out of ISI code, and I'm still impressed by how well it handles. Interestingly, for AWD drifting, setting the center differential to 100% viscous lock seems to help mitigate the quirk, as if a difference in wheel speed between axles is what bleeds the car's inertia. I'm going to experiment more with that.
@Mike_grpA @Sick Cylinder -- I already have a Logitech G25, and limited interest in fiddling with the GIMX solution, much less eleventy bajillion FFB options.
PCARS2 may convince me to make more of an effort to try it out with a wheel. The full experience of the proposed touge discipline with a wheel would be hard to ignore.
I did buy The Crew upon your previous recommendation. 👍 I got a pretty nice deal on it via the PS Store on Black Friday. Dirt Rally and/or SLRE are also on my list.
Their strengths are almost opposite of each other. Enthusia lacks many details and variables that PCARS simulates, and PCARS has crisp handling with more calculations per second, but EPR's fundamental handling dynamics are closer to spot-on even if they're a little "fuzzy". I think EPR's street tire model is better than PCARS, while PCARS' race tire model is better than EPR. PCARS seems to have superior suspension modelling, but EPR is better at simulating weight distribution. EPR simulates automatic transmissions, but PCARS offers a better clutch simulation and EPR cheats a bit with built-in ABS on all cars of any vintage.
GT5 had some great single-player endurance racing. Watching the online stuff for GT6 is pretty fun too.
Fixed for you. I've always said that PCars is the best racing experience one can get on console, if PCars had mod support it would be even better imo.
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Same for me! Although the physics are nice, Assetto Corsa lacked the immersion to keep my attention. Glad to be back on track with pCARS!
You can't safely floor it in that car until 4th gear!
Sounds to me like you are flooring the brake and/or downshifting way too early. Assuming you have turned off driver aids, the key will be in modulating your inputs: brake pedal generally won't need more than 60% in most cars, and it helps to blip the throttle on downshifts to avoid unbalancing the car. GT6 doesn't need that.
I'm impressed by the AI too. I'm around halfway done with Endurance GT in career mode in my Audi R8 GT3, and I've been in the middle of some very clean passes from LMP -> GT3 -> GT4 to GT4 -> GT3 -> LMP. I've never before had such a great experience navigating crowded AI traffic; the first corner of a race and a few specific corners on various tracks can get messy, but otherwise it's fun to be in the center of the action. It's a little too easy to bully them around, but they also tend to commit to their line on tricky corners whether you're in the way or not, so it goes both ways.
My next career race is the 24h of Le Mans (in the WEC, not the invitational), though I think I'll make it the 2.4h of Le Mans.
