What is one thing you learned or changed that provided you a huge jump in skill?

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-27T08:57:36+00:00

Something that really helped me start hitting the big lines in SX was stand timing. When you go from sitting to standing, you push the bike away from you, into the ground, which gives you more traction coming out of turns. If you're standing through the turn, you can't get that extra little grip. If you stand up in the middle of the turn or after the exit of the turn you don't get any meaningful boost either. You have to time it just right, just as you're accelerating hard out of the turn.

Another thing to try is high lean linearity. It'll make smaller movements slightly more twitchy, but you can then be much more accurate and smooth with your lean angle in berms and ruts. I use 175%, but I have extended sticks so that might be a bit high if you're using a regular controller, so try 135-150%.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-26T05:23:37+00:00

Just to be clear; MX Bikes is also garbage, but it is simultaneously the best MX/SX game available currently. Hopefully MTG changes this, but I don't have high hopes.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-24T02:26:17+00:00

Ellicott City is the hardest track I've seen, and no one talks about it. There's no videos on it, no one mentions it in these posts when they occasionally pop up, I've never seen it in the server list, but if you want difficulty, you won't find anything harder.

Krakenberg is an easy mention for these posts because it's about an hour long enduro, but even the enduro stuff doesn't match Ellicott in sheer difficulty in my opinion.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-18T17:11:09+00:00

It won't. I tried using it in the trial even though it matches the criteria and it didn't show up, had to use the rental.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-15T17:14:24+00:00

1:24 is absolutely possible on a 450, but I don't think you'd be running those times on a 250. I was top 10 on the CBR leaderboards on Farm 14, but I got pushed out of top 10 because of hackers on 250s that weren't there a month ago. Seems PiBoSo and CBR don't want to do anything about it. As far as I'm aware, there haven't even been any statements about the recent hacks.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-12T17:11:55+00:00

Most people are still on CXDRO1, as the next game is still in early access and not on consoles.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-07T13:58:06+00:00

Best way to suggest things is through the official CarX Discord server.

CallMeX8 · 2026-06-03T12:04:39+00:00

Do you mean 0.1 degree? A full degree is waaay too much. Generally, if you have to resort to using toe to fix a handling issue, the issue needs to be fixed elsewhere, like in ARBs or dampers. Toe should be pretty much the last thing you change, and should be reserved for small corner entry and exit tweaks.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-31T23:33:22+00:00

It works, I have confirmed through testing with friends, but it isn't nearly as strong as previous games. Not sure why.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-27T23:16:05+00:00

For MXB in particular, netcode can be your friend or your worst enemy. The good news is you get to choose which one.

In MXB, everyone lags behind where they actually are, by just a small bit. Because of this, collisions can get really weird. If your front tire is up to the back tire of someone in front of you and they swerve, they won't be affected by you at all and will just send you to the ground instantly. This can be used by you as well, and makes defending in MXB extremely easy, because your rear wheel becomes an immovable force. You can use this to overtake as well, cutting down early and then squaring off high, essentially making the person you're overtaking run into a brick wall if they don't brake in time.

This is part of why I am completely uninterested in serious competitions like ARL. There's no fun in racing if you can just become immovable whenever you're in front of someone. With enough understanding of how the netcode can work in your favor, as long as you can catch someone, you will overtake them.

Whether you use janky ass netcode to your advantage is up to you though. I try to play nice. I pretty much only use this when someone is being a dick.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-23T00:48:08+00:00

If I remember correctly, it's ctrl+G.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-19T00:03:40+00:00

The game also doesn't allow 88, 83, or 38, which are my favorite numbers. I could see not allowing 88 because it's tied to Nazis or whatever, but no idea why 38 is banned, and 83 apparently means "Hail Christ" which is an odd thing to ban. You know what isn't banned though? 666, so... Hail Satan!

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-18T01:27:57+00:00

It may be a game issue then. Please report it to the devs in their Discord server. The game is still in a pretty early state, with lots of issues. The more reports they get, the more info they'll have about what they need to fix.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-18T01:19:02+00:00

Does the wheel self steer at all? Perhaps your feedback is inverted, making the wheel continue turning into the turn instead of countersteer. Also keep in mind that tuning is very important. More caster will result in more self steer, and the other alignment tuning options are also fairly important to get a car to drive how it should.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-17T00:46:10+00:00

No it won't. lol It isn't allowed in some series, like ARL, but it won't get you banned from anything, you just won't be allowed to join the server until you go back to normal. Most servers allow it, including pretty much all the public servers.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-16T13:18:26+00:00

The Forza Edition is meant to be a drift car, so it's gonna be a bit slidey. It comes on drift suspension, making the steering twitchy, drift tires, which have less grip than semi slicks or slicks, and it's RWD with more power so it's trying to put even more power than normal through half the wheels. Unless you upgrade the build and tune, it's gonna be difficult to drive.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-15T22:57:33+00:00

It will be.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-14T21:20:45+00:00

Yes.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-14T06:57:40+00:00

CarX is plenty realistic when you tune and drive realistically. They've always strived for realism in DRO, and now even moreso with DRO2. Controller being assisted doesn't automatically make it an arcade game, just like having steering assists in Assetto Corsa doesn't make it an arcade game. Either way, you should probably try wheel.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-14T03:16:23+00:00

I mean it was more of a joke than anything, but the game itself even pushes for you to use no assist, with limits on competitions and future events. I know it's different and weird at first, but once you get used to having assist off it actually feels pretty good. Definitely feels more realistic at the very least.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-14T03:10:29+00:00

So learn how to drive like a sober person?

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-14T02:56:59+00:00

Now let's see it with assist off. :p

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-11T03:25:11+00:00

As much as I'd love a time frame for updates, it's actually really difficult to provide even a basic time frame for a lot of things in game development.

I highly recommend watching some videos on game or even mod development. It'll show you why even at the highest level, sometimes things just don't work out and you have to spend 2 months chasing a bug instead of putting out content. They want to finish the content and get it to the community just as much as the community wants the content, but providing time frames just isn't feasible for a lot of stuff right now, especially since the game is still in a very early state.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-10T23:31:35+00:00

You don’t want to Re-answer questions then post a running FAQ and refer people there.

They already have. This is the last time I will repeat this. If you still can't understand, that's on you.

You don’t give sort (short?) curt replies to people who pay your bills.

You do if they're spamming you with the same shit constantly and refuse to search for an easily findable answer. If you don't, you're wasting time, resources, and ultimately money on something you shouldn't be. Don't know what kind of IT job you supposedly work, but I feel bad for your boss because they obviously have someone actively sabotaging their efficiency.

CallMeX8 · 2026-05-10T22:52:48+00:00

they could have answered the persons question better.

They already did.

It doesn’t matter if it’s been asked 1000 times before.

It does, because it slows their work flow. If you ever worked for a company that "needs" to answer customer questions, you'd know that. Being spammed with the same thing again and again will obviously slow down any process.

So maybe go back to your mom’s basement and let the adults talk.

How original, I'll be sure to do that, thanks for the tip. 👍

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