Large Offroaders have buggy suspension

[gameboy3800]

a lot of the most extreme offroad vehicles such as dune buggies and trophy trucks have extremely broken suspension in a variety of ways:

1. big landings cause huge slow-downs
2. big landings cause the vehicle to be speared off into random directions
3. takeoffs and bump rebounds are unpredictable
4. suspension becomes stiffer than it should and stays fully extended at high speeds.

its true that not all vehicles will perform perfect from the factory, so you can try to tune it out. the problem with trying to tune these vehicles is that:

1. increasing rebound damping too high causes the suspension to stay collapsed on hard landings
2. increasing bump damping too high makes the vehicles suspension basically no longer animate, making the truck look like a matchbox car, and it handles awful just skimming across the ground instead of the heft of the big offroad vehicle keeping it planted.

these are supposed to be highlight vehicles of this game, but instead every single one of them can be beaten by a f450’s road truck factory suspension for handling, jump landing, and predictability.

trucks like the #11 ford rockstar truck are particularly egregious because even bone stock it feels legitimately broken and bugged from the factory tune just sending you off in random directions or doing frontflips on landings that the 20+in of suspension travel should soak up easily. and if you try to tune it out, its suspension just collapses and its a total mess.

im not saying to make the #11 an op meta vehicle, i just wish these ‘extreme offroad’ trucks werent so misrepresented and glitchy feeling.

the worst part is, in previous games these kinds of vehicles were a dream to drive. maybe a little heavy or down on power for their starting class but still great for handling any terrain and the toughest jumps. so i’m not sure why it went so backwards for fh5.

that’s all for now. fh5’s not getting any more major updates so the chances anyone even sees this post is like basically 0. but in the offchance these issues are ironed out in an upcoming recycled playlist, then happy days indeed.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[gameboy3800]

for the #11 in particular i have found that having your rebound and bump dampings at 6.0 is alright for cross country racing and big jumps, and 4.0 is good for rally racing and bump stability. makes it actually controllable for those kinds of races. it does mean you need separate tunes for each kind of racing but its better than nothing.

the 6.0 setting does still lose speed on landings but it no longer stays collapsed or spears you in random directions too badly. the 4.0 setting is legitimately good to drive on rally events but just cannot do cc at all, having all the aforementioned random landing behavior and really bad slowdowns from before.