I’d rather be able to change them up during the race to evaluate their effect. After all, they buffed the bonus for Drivatar difficulty.
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As far as assists, I will use the braking line. As far as the car setup, I do not use assists. I do not want/need the game to drive the car for me. No point in playing the game if the game does the driving.
If your just scratching the top 1000, 3 second off the pace sound about right in a normal lobby.
Race line: Brake line
Abs: off
Steering: Normal steering
STM: off
TCS: used as needed
I doubt assist is the edge your looking for. Proper techniques , learn tracks better, better tune/builds for the track.
I’m very interested in this thread. I am learning to race with a wheel and the next step for me is turn off ABS STM and TCS. I am concerned about all of these as on a controller they made things very tricky. First time with TCS off last night and wow, I could not believe the difference in pure speed and handling, but then oh so easy to lose it if you don’t keep the power on coming out of s turn or if not fully straightened up coming into a turn. What is best to turn off first, and are the effects of these that great when using a wheel?
Great, I’ll start there. Another thing with this, which concerns me, is how easy it is to lose control when bumped when playing with a wheel. I imagine turning off STM will make this worse. I think I have some long hours of practice coming up (not that that’s a bad thing) …
STM first.
You need to learn to control the car before you can learn to push it to the limits.
The assists effects are the same as on a controller.
Braking line
Normal Steering
No TCS
No Stability
No ABS
No FA
Manual w/ clutch
TCS is enabled on cars only if I can’t drive them. A 700hp stock tire car in C class, no traction. A 600hp indy car, traction.
Rain rarely effect the necessity for me to need to have TCS. It may be faster, but I don’t think in the lower classes you need it. Just let the car spin a bit under acceleration and it will be quite fast. TCS will actually slow the acceleration down when tires are slipping, so you might losing straight away speed for easier control. TCS may help me on 1-2 corners on a 10 corner track in lower classes in the rain, but the rest of the track can be managed through a very slight drift angle which will ultimately be faster on some tracks.
I only use normal steering. Using a controller (Xbox Elite, on PC). Since I’ve learned to drive with no assists I refuse to turn them back on. I’ve never used lines, they’re ugly and I feel more realistic learning a track and judging braking distances etc for myself. I’m not fast at all, top 1-3% most of the time on regular LB, anywhere between 1-10 seconds behind top depending on track/car combo, but I’d rather be last on the hardcore Leaderboard, as long as I’m on it at all. I know I could find time using assists and lines in certain situations but I’m too stubborn to.
It’s been said here already, but I find that any car that’s so powerful that I can’t control it I’m more comfortable with 0% accel set on the diff than with traction control turned on.
I usually run with everything off except the brake line. Even that I want to turn off, but in hoppers it usually results in me getting punted off the track when I slow too much because it’s the third track in 20 minutes and I can’t remember my marks from the last time I used that car on that track. If I was running the same track over and over again in the same car I wouldn’t need it.
Simple staying off the gas when the rear of the car is unload will help.