Kinda of a daft one this, but it’s one that I’ve had time to think about and I figure I put it here.
Now we all know GT6 had Nitrous as an (expensive) option for the majority of road cars, but a bottle of nitrous seems out of place in a race car (unless you’re the Whittington brothers of course.
).
But after seeing this option in PC3, I said to myself, Instead of Nos, how about a
Universal Hybrid System?
It can be applied to the majority of Road and Race Cars for a good chunk of change, can be adjusted to a preferred style and can be removed as easily as any other parts.
For cars that are factory Hybrids (Honda Fit hybrid and Porsche 919 for example) they don’t get the option, but the option is instead replaced by an option to upgrade to more powerful electric motors.
The Hybrid system can be tweaked like Nos for more power at the cost of less duration, but it also includes the option of how you want it to recharge and if you want to, the option to manually deploy the boost when you want it.
Something like this..
• Hybrid Boost 50% < lowest power but longer discharge time, 100% Default setting, 150% Highest power but shortest discharge time.
• Battery Recharge style -
Traditional which means recharge occurs under braking and coasting.
Unconventional which includes recharge under throttle after hybrid system disengages at high speed like the 919 does, but that’s balanced out by sapping a little power from the engine to recharge the batteries until fully recharged or system re-engages.
Alternative balancing option is to reduce the amount of energy recovery from braking and coasting compared to Traditional.
• Hybrid Boost Deployment -
Automatic, engages like it does at full throttle till shutoff speed is reached or the battery’s depleted.
Manual, the player has full control on when and where hybrid boost is deployed.
Now originally I considered adding the option of which axle to send the hybrid boost to, but that’s just asking to break the game imo.
So for simplicity’s sake it goes to the wheels which are driven for that car it’s installed, which means FF cars may struggle with it.
But like Nos, it can be outlawed in lobby settings so non hybrid or factory hybrids can race like normal and obviously, it’s outlawed from Sport Mode events.
Now of course if Nos AND the Universal Hybrid System are combined(And I would allow it so.
) Then the less restrictive lobby’s are gonna have some rockets and meme machines.
Let me know what you think, fitting or rather too ambitious?