So I go to set up a Morgan 3 Wheeler for the weekly Forzathon challenge …
… and I notice there’s an AWD drive swap available. Uhhhhhhh … Ok. I’ll bite. So I go to tune it, and here’s my question, spoken through clenched teeth:
“What’s the rear diff supposed to do?”
C’mon, people.
This also goes for the Peel P50. I’ve suppressing a rant about the Peel, and that’s part of it. I’m going to make sure I don’t check how many lateral G’s THIS 3 wheeled car pulls.
That’s not the only quirk wiith the Morgan. Trying to upgrade to a solid B class, I found that the PI will not advance past B661 even though there are several engine parts being added. Started at 86 hp and went to 200 and no change to PI rating…Charles
Did you upgrade transmission and tires? More power means nothing if gearing and tires are limited. Some vehicles need race transmission, most notable if current transmission is already the limit…mynameherecausepeepsdothatforsomereason.
I was happy to see the swap. Though I would have settled for a FWD swap (which I would like to have for many cars), which is essentially what I used it for.
3-wheeled cars in these games typically don’t have 3 wheels, they have 4. Visually, they’re pushed so close together that they appear as a single wheel, but if you inspect them on telemetry you’ll find slightly varying values (and data for 4 wheels on the screen).
The telemetry shows 4 because it’s the default setup for most cars, but on cars with 3 wheels, the two at the back on telemetry is just the “same” wheel. But that’s just the telemetry data. I can still see the 3 wheelers having a 4th wheel hidden in the 3rd as a possibility.
As mentioned, it’s obvious from the telemetry that ForzaTech doesn’t natively support three point physics, but three wheeled cars are handled with the single wheel as two virtual wheels directly side-by-side or one of them being a dummy. Some data is correlated between them, but not all.
The detailed tire temperature readings differ, suggesting both virtual wheels make contact with the ground, but one of them might be detached from the rest of the car model and not have any influence on the rest of the car physics. It’s just a separate tire remote controlled by your car, but driving around on its own…
As far as the graphics goes, it’s just rendering one of the two virtual wheels.