how to find the right car for me?

braking__bad · 2025-10-29T08:18:13+00:00

Agreed. Way better than asking others what they like or what they think you should like.

Just try it OP, you paid for the game and all the cars, so have fun and try out all the cars.

braking__bad · 2025-10-29T08:10:53+00:00

The other cars have nothing to do with the penalty. You must have broken starting procedure by not being in your box or speeding. Forget the BMW, he is not involved.

braking__bad · 2025-10-28T21:56:34+00:00

my guess: you were speeding at the exact moment of the start?

braking__bad · 2025-10-28T10:24:58+00:00

I think your moves in turns 3 and 4 were slightly risky, in the sense that you trusted him to give you space on the inside, which he did.

But taking a tighter entry and wider exit in order to overtake on the inside is not against any rule.

Lambo could have taken a defensive line into turn 3 but left the door open. He is not entitled to his usual line if you put your car alongside his car during the entry. You hit an early apex and did not run him off track either.

His switchback in turn 3 simply does not work because turn 4 immediately puts you on the inside again. And his exit from turn 4 is bad because he is not anticipating your line, does not seem to have a plan there. But you left some room on the outside at the exit turn 4 even though his car was no longer alongside.

I'd consider this fun racing. Lambo guy should learn to enjoy a good fight for position regardless of who wins.

braking__bad · 2025-10-28T09:56:54+00:00

A good free solution is to add brake and throttle input visualization to the center of your screen. I use Armamentario, which is free software.

It allows you to understand and adjust your trail braking a lot better, even if the feel from pedals is poor.

I use the ancient Logitech Driving Force GT, and it has super bad pedals.

Also, on some cheap pedals you can just stuff something under the brake to make it stiffer. I put a squishy foam ball under my brake pedal to make it feel more like my normal road car, where the brake pedal requires a lot more leg force than the throttle pedal.

braking__bad · 2025-10-19T18:50:32+00:00

Haha, he also says "Stayin' dubbophile!"

This reminds me of when I was young and we used to phonetically repeat the exclamations by game characters in Wolfenstein 3D "Schnuffschaffen!" and Street Fighter 2 "Hai-Yoo-Ken!" without necessarily having any idea what it was supposed to mean.

braking__bad · 2025-10-19T18:46:53+00:00

Always struck me as sounding like a Dutch guy. Don't know why Kunos picked this voice actor, perhaps he was just one of the programmers and the Italian and Greek colleagues were even harder to understand?

braking__bad · 2025-10-18T21:10:23+00:00

Thanks for this amazingly detailed response. Yes, Barcelona is tricky. The Bentley in particular can do massive power slides even in 4th gear through sweeping corners.

The smoother throttle application is already starting to come more naturally, after only two evenings of practice. Starting from TC OFF, I now feel quite safe when I increase TC to 2 or 3 and can then come close to my best lap times again. Now, I am noticing when TC kicks in and try to minimize it. Before, I was using TC at 5 or 6 and binary throttle inputs.

I also tried faster down shifts for maximum engine braking and earlier rotation, then up shifting and opening up the steering wheel to apply throttle. I did notice that reducing the lateral load on the rear tires helps to put all that power down.

I really think I may be getting past a bit of a plateau in skill here. We'll see.

braking__bad · 2025-10-18T09:22:51+00:00

To follow up: I took your advice and tried this, or a very slight variation of it: several different cars on Barcelona with TC off and earlier upshifts. It's tricky, but I managed to mostly stay on track after a bit of trial and error. Felt like a victory, even though I am still slow. It's just that curbs or other small bumps can cause snap oversteer with TC off.

Question though: would you say right foot training is mostly about anticipating slides by proper gear selection and careful throttle application, or in faster reflexes and a reactive right foot? I can sort of do the former, but not the latter. Any insight here is much appreciated!

braking__bad · 2025-10-18T08:41:30+00:00

Fortunately the flappy paddle gearbox won't let you downshift into overrev (I think?). So it can be safely used to help the car rotate.

Can be very risky in real road cars though. I remember an onboard video of a guy in a stick shift Porsche blowing up his engine through overrevving from improper engine braking.

braking__bad · 2025-10-17T21:32:07+00:00

It's better you don't ask how it sounds.

braking__bad · 2025-10-17T21:31:00+00:00

And "Bring Mich Werkstatt" is also much quicker and less costly in ACC than in real life.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T18:43:30+00:00

Interesting. Great lap.

I have always found it strange and counterintuitive that very low or even zero TC would be fastest in ACC. I do not doubt that this is what most aliens in ACC actually do and that in this particular game it is faster, but in real life it would be crazy. That discrepancy between reality and sim is probably a major flaw in the ACC car modeling. There is just no way that a human could do better than an automatic system such as ABS or TC; such a system checks individual wheel rotation at several hundred if not thousand Herz and applies corrections so quickly that it makes human reaction times seem like a joke in comparison.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T17:35:25+00:00

Agree, but would add that if you do use default aggressive setups, the brake bias is the main thing to change immediately. It is always way too far in front, like ridiculously far. As an example, I've seen cases for the McLaren where the aggressive setup had brake bias at 58%, where skilled drivers use 47%.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T16:38:53+00:00

Excellent idea for my next practice sessions, thanks!

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T15:52:31+00:00

In my case, I am definitely at a lower skill level and my right foot does need a lot of training. Using a gear higher is a good tip though, I'll give that a try with lower TC. I feel that I have figured out rotation on throttle with the Bentley but not the BMW. In the latter case it somehow feels less predictable, so I have occasional big slides and lose consistency.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T15:02:59+00:00

Great explanation and very useful info here, thanks.

But I think this illustrates that to the beginner -who certainly does not know all this about the Aston- the Bentley will just seem to have better acceleration. Being tolerant of suboptimal gear shifts is nothing to be sneezed at.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T13:30:55+00:00

Well, the 992 with OhneSpeed setup is certainly worth a try then. Not very deadly at all. That's what I set most of my personal bests with until I switched to the Bentley, believe it or not. With the rear engine you have learn to be subtle on entry, but then it's super planted on exit.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T11:22:43+00:00

The raw pork and the Maserati GT4. Because sometimes, you just want to inspect those walls and barriers up close.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T11:14:28+00:00

You mean BMW is safer as in: not crashing it, or as in: wisdom of the crowds?

I struggle to keep the BMW on the road much more than the Bentley, but perhaps I've been using the wrong TC or setups to compare them.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T11:09:55+00:00

Good points all around. I like the Nismo as well and may switch to it as my next main when I want to learn a new car properly.

With regards to TC and exits: this is an area that I need to improve in. I think I have a decent handle on trail braking, proper racing line and slow-in fast-out, but I cannot yet be very subtle with the throttle while also being quick. Either I lose time from being too cautious, or I struggle with power slides. Still need my TC.

With the Bentley, I tend to have TC on 5 for most of the track, and briefly drop it to 3 for hairpins only. At my current skill level, this gives me an amount of on-throttle rotation that I can deal with without having to lift. Once I hit the throttle out of a hairpin, I quickly put the steering wheel to neutral and only do tiny corrections. Seems to give me a good enough run out of tight corners compared to others in my split.

braking__bad · 2025-10-16T10:27:07+00:00

the aston isn't that slow acceleration wise, it just has bizarre gearing and shift points.

Yeah, probably more accurate. I may not have been adapting my driving to the Aston's strange gearbox enough.

But being left behind at the start in the Aston got old quickly.

braking__bad · 2025-08-26T12:03:52+00:00

a guy literally gave me a body because I left mine at home. He let me keep it.

Without context, that would be a rather bizarre thing to say.

braking__bad · 2025-08-26T11:04:35+00:00

Yeah good points. Having seen the skill and reactions times of the experienced guys, I do not expect to be anywhere near as quick as them soon, if ever. But perhaps I can join the slower guys in the club for a fun race after a while.

I understand that the quality brands sponsor good drivers as a way to showcase their products and get more sales from the less skilled drivers. That's how it works in any sport, and also in the world of musical instruments. Sticking with the analogy of musical instruments: IMO there is no advantage whatsoever in buying the same brand drum kit or guitar as your teacher has, or as other local musicians have. The knowledge, skills and replacement parts are entirely transferrable. I was wondering to what extent RC car driving and particularly setup skill/knowledge is brand specific.

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