As long as they are class restricted (meaning no one has an off road) , and no one has super sudden AI grip or rubber band, all is on level, I am fine with it.
Likewise, I love racing with only SUVs on the street, but of course it’s no fun if a Lambo pulls up.
Yeah i’m wondering the same, given that a tiny bump can send you flying into the trees when doing offroad events in a supercar, the whole thing is just purely based on luck. And you cant see that tiny bump anyways, so skills wont help in this case.
Or as already mentioned, give us at least an option to switch to a proper car before the race starts.
Pretty stupid design decision imho, especially in online mode
Been there, done that. I Swear every time I take a hypercar offroad, there’s that 1 tiny little bump you can’t even see that if you just happen to nudge you go flying 100 feet in the air.
to let you play around to see what if. it would be far to expensive to do it in real life even if you were rich enough to afford the cars. in real life in phoenix you often see a 4wd truck without a speck of dust on it come to a complete stop and creep over speed bumps. its what the vehicle was built to do. you think people like that are gonna off road in a street car in real life? its a game, they are letting you play. you dont need an arcade game for real life, you have a front door for that. you need games for stuff you cant do in real life.
It’s that same thing with having rare classics or track day cars in the rain. Most of the cars are open top. Could you imagine a Cobra 427 getting caught in the rain in real life. You can forget about them doing it on purpose.
That’s the beauty of video gaming - being able to do what might not otherwise be done in real life. You lot really seem to be intent on finding ways to take the fun out of games.
I agree, I wish there were ways to have the top up in the convertibles, it’s not taking the fun away, it’s just that when we’re in a video game driving a high end car like a cobra which we will never do in real life, we want it to be as real as possible, because video games are as close as we’ll get to driving one.
The way I deal with it is by having one car for each category set aside for those offroad races. For the classic muscle cars(which are unbearable when driving offroad)I use a dodge dart or cuda for road races but I use a 70’s camaro converted to AWD for the offroad events. It’s saved me LOTS of frustration.
For off road, I run and set the race differential at 14% and 8%. I 'll take that 14% down to 12% if it a crazy fast car.
I find it works for me and keeps the rear wheels from spinning so much.
I will also run the race tranny and shorten the throws, you need to drop the final drive to get your top end back though.
It feels less like a sled on ice if you can cruise in 4-6 gears and you can get a nice cut on the check points without sliding past them (plus some tune on the suspension helps with bite).
Screaming along in 3rd seems there is too much wheel spin and I’m sliding past check-points and corners.
FYI: that Lambo 4wd is a freeking beast, so fast.
Like I said, works for me, may not for others.
Cheers
Oh- and yes I agree, no reason to run a Hyper car on the dirt, fun… but I would rather have more off-road races for my stable of killer rigs and rally cars.
Hear, hear. What’s better than being able to drive a virtual representation of a vehicle I would never have the chance to drive in real life? The ability to drive that vehicle in a way that I would never have the chance to drive it if I did, in fact, have the chance to drive it.
You do realise you can build or tune your hypercar to do better off road? You don’t need to leave stiff springs and a 0.6 inch ride height. Have one road tune and one dirt tune, or settle or one somewhere in the middle.
My real life car could go off-road and some of the things we can do in Horizon, but I would never do it. In a video game, I can - yay me.