Does bump drafting work properly in Forza 6?
And side drafting for that matter?
I don’t know what either of those terms mean but normal drafting does work; however, I think one of the updates changed the way drafting works.
For example, once you get close enough to the car in front - say 100-150 meters or so, you feel vibration in your controller and the camera starts to shake a bit. I’m not sure if that’s when the drafting kicks in or it starts before that. I’m pretty sure drafting worked a little differently before the update and I actually preferred that; as opposed to being able to draft only once you’re really close to the car.
One of the updates also introduced wind noise while viewing replays and that gets really annoying.
Speaking of, and a little off-topic, If you’ve played GT, you’ll notice how the wind noise sound effects start to cut out as you get into a car’s draft and the speed increase seems believable too.
Bump drafting is an example of tandem racing, usually employed in NASCAR. So, in essence, and in very simplistic terms, the trailing car gets a boost through drafting, also technically the front car does. But then what happens is the back car actually physically pushes the front car, thus making them both go faster.
Side drafting is where you can slow a car down, that is to the side and slightly in front of you. This is done by disturbing the air flow around the car, and causing unwanted drag.
I’m basically just wondering where Forza’s physics are up to in this regard. How accurately they recreate these effects.
No most cars will slow the rear car doing the bumping by 20+ mph including NASCARs for each tap. Even if you do it very slowly in most cars it will cost the rear car so much that you’ll actually lose the draft on the lead car. Just ran in a Daytona series last night and had 2 people think they were clear on a pass and came down into me just slightly tapping my front bumper with their rear. First one dropped me from 3rd to 8th then it happened right after again and dropped me to 11th.
Bump drafting def needs a rework for FM7
Don’t think it works, I’ve tried this a few times but every time I ended up hitting the guy in front like I was going much faster than him. It results in a huge speed loss for me and a speed boost for the other guy.
Agreed with the two guys above me. Cars really don’t like touching in this game.
drafting barely works nevermind bump drafting. Car in rear and front get pretty much same boost in drafting. bump drafting = crashing or both going slower.