Brake pressures are generally 90-110. Lower seems to decrease braking distance. I personally use the tip of my finger to help me out as I’ve went from wheel to controller.
Basically take the crease of your finger and pull the end of your finger slightly past and over the trigger. When you brake the tip of your finger should touch the plastic on the inside of the trigger acting as a sort of stop or gauge on how to brake. I never thought about it, just do it. You can the roll your finger for the last 5% or so of braking to get more pressure.
It’s basically throttle control on the brakes.
Again with throttle control, just in reverse. You should use the lifting of the throttle to get the car to hold it’s line. It’s not an on/off switch. You really shouldn’t lift in sweepers all the way and if you do it needs to be one that is relatively flat like the big sweeper after the first chicane at Catalunya.
I’m lost to what you mean here?
Brake earlier. The worst thing someone can do, and we are all guilty of it, is to go barreling into a corner out of control. Brake earlier than you need to and push the limits of the car from conservative to aggressive not aggressive to conservative.
I went down the Class B leader board on Alps-Festival and found a BRZ at 145, with a 1:52 & watched the replay …
The lines were pretty much the same as mine. I did see 2 corners where the turn-in gear changes were different
Throttle control (feathering & balanced ) and turn-ins (pre-loaded turns & the trail braking) were the same on identical turns almost all the way around the track for both of us. only theirs was MucH faster…
The major difference was the gearing. They seemed to always be higher in the rpm range throughout whereas I was always accelerating out of the apex at a lower rpm, hence… catching up
… I’m running the '08 M3 and a 370Z right now so I think I am going to try to tune those to where I can get down to at least 1:55
I loaded a '08 BMW M3 tuning from a top-tuner and followed exactly what the faster BRZ did, only with a heavier car the drag on the engine was noticeable during acceleration… 1:57.396 after 4 laps…
TG. :: by geared down I meant geared for speed and not acceleration… so it is slower through the gears.
To your first paragraph the answer lye’s within the problem. 601 races isn’t much and a “handful of top 1,000 times”, which can be ran in absolute stock cars by most who you are comparing your times to. It is evident that at this stage you still a long way off with your driving first and foremost and most likely your tuning too. That doesn’t dismiss the fact that some tunes you tried haven’t worked or "lived up to your expectations. Everyone has a bad tune or two.
~brakes over-pressured- Brakes are a bit more touchy in FM5 than in previous iterations. I still lock up from time to time. Takes a while getting use to it, plus if you are pushing the car harder you are prone to make more mistakes.
~too much turn-in, causing oversteer on sweeps… FAST is Loose, again your driving probably just isn’t there yet.
~geared down so I was getting passed even on the shortest of straights- I assume you mean the gearing is short and you can’t reach a speed required on a given track? As Dust said the tune your using may not be meant for that track. I agree that tracks should be mentioned and will not download a tune if a track isn’t listed. Long time beef of mine.
~deceleration too low, not slowing the car down, in turn, with over-pressured brakes causing sliding in to turns- may have just missed the braking zone. Some times just a few feet make the difference between success and the wall.
601 races is only official races. I spend a majority of my time tuning my cars and run many practice laps before I put them on the track to compete. I am trying to run with the unbeatable setting through career mode. Without a high performing car, Gold is out of the question, much less a victory…
TGW, I don’t have any of your tunes, I may have seen them, I don’t remember. I have every race entered into a spreadsheet with every car on every track at every class and it lists the tune I used. (anal-retentive much?) Something I picked up during FM4 when I started racing online because I could never remember what car to use on what track when the lobby popped up what track we were going to run on. Add in restrictions (FWD, car family, year, etc, etc) and I would never be able to chose the correct car in time…
anywho… tunes are what they are… I’ll use them to my best ability and see if I can put more times in the Top 500, which is my goal right now. I see a Thrustmaster TX in my future soon…
It sounds to me OP is you struggle to drive other peoples tunes that are suited to their driving skill and style. A top driver adapts his driving style to the tune. I can always match or beat the times advertised in the tuning marketplace, but if I don’t adapt my driving style to match the tune I will be way off what’s advertised. I’ve tried all the PTG tuned cars in their catalogue as I’m part of their team, and their are some amazing tuners in the TM, lee, TN Eagle, reaper, worm, roadrunner, Mattp, to name a few. The tunes are not the major problem, it’s your driving skill and the lack of adapting your driving style to the tune.
What assists do you use? Do you use a controller or steering wheel? Do you use normal or sim steering?
The top drivers on this game are super fast. To get a top 10 time on most leaderboards, you need to have a amazing car build and tune capable of making it close, then you need to drive perfectly, one little mistake on one corner and you can lose seconds and not make it up the whole lap,
If you need some pointers I’m happy to help, just PM me or send an FR to GR33KSNIP3R I might be able to help you after I talk with you
Good day, i m one of the PTG team tuner, and what Jameskalli91 just mentionned to you is quite the truth. If you have the chance to get some advice from him you should get them.
As for the tunes not meant for you, i would like to add that all tuners in the TM have different approach on tuning and different styles. The best tune that you will get to work for you is the tune that you ll create to fit your driving style the most. As Greek mentionned, a fast driver will adapt his driving to the car he drives. I have tuned a bunch of different cars lately, all open source on a thread here on the TM, that Mr. Greek here will drive between 2 to 4 seconds faster than me. You will also notice that most of them doesn t feel all the same. I adapt my tuning to get the most out of the car.
