Re: Shouldn't assists be slower?
Hey @TigerAlen410
Screenshots from the frame the brake input pops up. Emoji hands always pointing to the white line for reference.
T10, opening up the flying lap:
T1:
T3 (or T2, depending on your faith):
T4:
@ScarDuck14 and @TotosHeadphones right on the money. By the way, a few paragraphs I wrote sometime ago in a different forum regarding the racing line assist:
The racing line can help you learn your way around a new track, as long as you apply a proper learning methodology to it. Actively look for braking markers, turn in points, and actively training yourself to look ahead in the distance. The usual good stuff you'd be doing if you were to learn a track without the RL assist.
Once you learn a track though, keeping the race line on sort of inevitably and involuntarily make you slower.
When you have it on, even though you're putting the effort to drive despite it, you instinctively register the cues to brake (red line) and to get on the throttle again (green line). And that will mess you up when you're racing.
As in, even if you know how to control the car and even if you've developed a feel for the FFB, once you're on the outside lane to, say, defend a position and are totally on top of the proper inputs to do so cleanly, just subconsciously registering that red/green line can make you instantly override your good judgement and respond to those cues again.
And that's assuming the programmed racing line actually uses the full width of the track. As you can see from the screenshots above, it definitely does not. The racing line assist will rarely, if ever, be the fastest way around the track. Its sole purpose is to give you cues for the general track markers, just that.
Now back to the general point, there's this unhealthy and misplaced obsession with assists and setups in the general F1 community. It's like fuming over VAR execution in the Premier League when all you do is play on the Sunday league with your buddies. This is not a dig at you @TigerAlen410 mind you, just a general comment on how off the mark these discussions can get. Worrying about the hundreds to a couple tenths, tops, that elite players can get using assists while the average joe could gain two full blown seconds just by working on the fundamentals of good driving.
I genuinely feel this franchise is not worth your time if you're looking into simracing or being competitive. This is a simcade title. The game is glaringly exploitable, the general player base largely uneducated. EA F1 should not be taken more seriously than calling up a couple pals and having a FIFA showdown on the weekend.
This is a pastime. There are copious amount of joy and satisfaction to get out of this franchise and other proper simracing titles, as long as you know what you're in for. Wasting energy on ABS or TC like these players do all the while not being able to turn in two laps in the same 0.2s to save their lives is thoroughly misguided – and unjust to ourselves.
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