Shift gears quicker when in manual

[segagtsucks]

Hi i was mucking around a while a go and i wokrsd out it you quickly press the shift up and handbrake buttons together, you shift up faster and on turbo cars the boost does not loose pressure, as if it were an auto box. Try it! p.s. DO NOT DO IT IF SHIFTING DOWN, OR IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE THROTTLE

 

[Greycap]

That makes sense to an extent, the handbrake disengages the clutch and thus allows the revs to shoot right up to the redline, but I would expect them to come back down as soon as the clutch is engaged again - unless GT4 is wise enough to simulate clutch slipping that would enable them to be matcked in a smoother way. I may have to try this out.

- R -

 

[Barracuda]

But wouldn't you just lose speed also. It is obvious that e-brake would make the revs very high but you also have the issue of your rear wheels stopping.

I don't think this is a good thing to do at all. Even if it did work, it would really affect your cars performance over a longer period of time.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

I actually started doing this in GT3 sort of. Instead of instantly shifting up, I would press the hand brake (my L2 button) and then shift up (R1) instead of doing both at the same time. I was trying to simulate the engine truly disengaging in my Ford GT40 cuz I got ahead of the pack in an enduro and started to get bored. '

Funny thing was...you have to get this combo just right (L2-R1) in certain cars (like the GT40) otherwise it actually does feel like your clutch is slipping!

In GT4, it seems useless to try and simulate this. As soon as you touch the handbrake, the drive wheels immediately lock up as Greycap said.

 

[Audi Quat Man]

sounds like a fun thing to toy around with at the speed ring, but i would never do it in battle

 

[michael15]

Here is proof that i't's way faster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZVZHT2PsY

 

[TuneRVisioN]

You should try it with a Peugeot 905 Race Car.

 

[slowman]

Not to drag up an old thread... but what I do is lift off the throttle for a very short moment when I shift. It is almost simultaneous with the gear shift button press. I also tap the gas when I downshift and it slows the car down faster as well.

 

[Sureboss]

I never lift off the throttle, I'll have to do some tinkering tonight with the different styles.

 

[Driving Park]

I'm going to try this!

:-)

 

[superberkut]

Well, this is interesting. But a FGT is not a good thing to use when it can bite back.

I'll try it anyways. Is this yet another unexplored horizon in GT?

 

[nitrorustler41]

i do this all the time never started a thread though. it is quite often that you find yourself not getting the buttons together. it's tough at first. since my handbrake is r1 and my up shift is r2, i try to hit both with the same finger. sometimes i miss, and it gets all messed up and stuff.

 

[slowman]

It's not that the car seems to shift faster when you let the throttle off... it's just that the power seems to come on harder and a little more fully when it completes the shift.

I don't generally do this so much with race cars, usually more on street cars that aren't equipped with Flywheel 3 and Clutch 3.

 

[Dark Elite]

This feeling of the power coming back on harder and more fully is (I'm fairly sure, anyway) false, I'm afraid - as GT4 automatically cuts the throttle when shifting up a gear anyway, you're not helping the engine by letting off yourself. I think the impression of getting more power coming back on is because the throttle was closed more and for longer, and so the car has started to decelerate more, and is leaning forwards more: so when you open the throttle again, it seems to accelerate harder, when in fact all it's doing is getting back to where it was before - just with a greater difference than if you'd kept the throttle open.

I hope that makes sense, and I hope it's right as well, but it certainly seems logical to me.

DE

 

[AOS-]

an M5 has 7 gears?

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Yep. 7 speed semi-automatic.

 

[slowman]

When I look at the speedometer in-game when I do this, it doesn't drop. I think the best way would probably be to use the analyzer. Another way would be to do a drag race with say... an STi with the TCS at ten, starting out with the gas floored. Then shift normally one run and lift off the gas momentarily for the other.

 

[SolidSnake15]

Notice in the video the nitrous is rapidly going down.

 

[Rykon Zero]

Okay, here is my review in the Peugeot 905 race car.
I started off in the 905, with the stage 4 turbo. I did a lap around the test track, not admiring the slow shifting. I stopped before the finish line, to do a drag race. I followed the instructions above, and was amazed that it shifted decades quicker. It works.
Myth Confirmed.

 

[nitrorustler41]

yeah i also tried it on my 905, without the turbo upgrade, and not surprisngly, it made it way way way better. you just have to time it right.

 

[Vejita88]

im with u slowman, thts wht ive always done.

 

[Tornado]

I can confirm. I took a Peugoet 905 with a stage 4 turbo and very wide gears. Doing what was mentioned above knocked nearly half a second off the 0-400m time.
It was rather difficult to do consistently, though.