![]() What I find is that if you feel you will understeer off the track you can steer the car back by downshifting and stepping on the throttle. Under steer can be very frustrating in that car in corners where you need to be fast like the Curva Parabolica in Monza. I am driving with the Thrustmaster RGT FFB Pro with clutch in the Pro difficulty settings and using the clutch. I can only comment on racing with the Lotus Cortina since that is the car I have driven besides the Cooper. Gonna try some setups nning default likekly is not helping.ĭon't give up on GTL to easy, RSColonel. With GTL it seems like when I realize the understeer it's already way too late to fix. In other titles I might come in too fast, then correct when the understeer sets in (which usually is gradualy, visible, easy to spot). Still not sure what to make of the cornering. I'm curious, on modern cars with paddle (Audi R8 LMS) should I also need to drop throttle on upshifts? I wonder how much of my habits are 'sim light' from Shift, and how much of the different behaviour is from the age of the cars in GTL. I'd suggest taking the Lotus Cortina or the Elan to practice the new principles and avoid the Mustangs, Corvettes and the Shelbys as they are quite difficult to get to turn and very prone to go straight ahead. In the vintage car you also encourage mild four wheel drifts since the slip angles on old style tires were huge and very drivable. If I should try to describe the difference between racing a modern car and a cintage car, I'd say that in the modern car you manage the understeer to be fast and in the vintage car you completely avoid understeer if you want to be fast. I shudder when I remember back to my first days with GPL and how long it took me to really understand how slow and precise you had to be when lining up for the corners. It is much more a challenge to learn how to drive old beasts like the cars of GT Legends or Grand Prix Legends because you have to develop a mechanical appreciation of why the car does this or that. That is Motorsport the Playstation way in my opinion. ![]() The electronic then takes care of everything in relation with the gear change. Modern LMS Audis I know for a fact carry electronic aids designed to let the driver keep his foot planted on the gas. The feel you get through that helps you figure out what the car is doing. I do think you'd benefit a lot from a FFB wheel. If you had to let up and gas it again, there wouldn't be much benefit over an H shifter. I've always assumed that there's no point in letting off the gas, since the whole point is that they're so incredibly fast to shift, doing so in tenths of a second. I'm bad about abusing transmissions downshifting and it bites me every time in GTL. Shift slower, blip the gas and don't be too fast to downshift-when you only have 3-4 gears, you've got to more more careful than when you've got 6. Once committed to a turn, it's hard to correct if you didn't set it up right since you're throwing the weight around so much on the old suspension. GTL does a great job of modeling the physics of these older cars and their suspensions. I have to do one or the other for a while. It's hard for me to go from Shift to sims like this. Is this just a matter of realism catching up with me? Same for downshifts, do I need to apply some throttle?ģ) How do pitstops work? Haven't figured that out yet. I guess if I had a clutch and H Shifter it would feel more familiar than with the paddles. I think shifting without easing off the throttle are bad habits from "sim lights" but it still feels unnatural going off the pedal at every shift. I guess not having a FFB wheel makes it hard.Ģ) When shifting from First into Second I spin out. No feeling at all on how much on the edge I am. ![]() In GTL I basically approach the corner, everything under control, then slow down to what I guess is "decent" and off I fly. But the Shift cars, starting to drift going sideways slightly, the sound, the visuals give a much clearer idea how fast I can go or can't. It's not a question of Shift having much more grip. In NFS Shift with some mods, I can not go faster trough the bends at Spa than in GTL. But I have a bit of trouble with some basics.ġ) The cars seem to horrible understeer, without warning. I'm starting to like that title, despite the slightly dated visuals. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |