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Will the Improved Tyre Model affect the AI too or, if not the whole model, any kind of simulation as close as possible to the player's behavior? Thanks 🙂
@cm_caseyringley the franchise often felt relatively muted when it came to wheel FFB on excessive slip angles, both front and rear. The feedback is ungodly great and informative on a controller, but not nearly as much on a wheel.
Any changes on the front? Will we be to rely more on FFB to catch slides or audio will keep on being the major player here?
@mariohomoh wrote:
@cm_caseyringley the franchise often felt relatively muted when it came to wheel FFB on excessive slip angles, both front and rear. The feedback is ungodly great and informative on a controller, but not nearly as much on a wheel.
Any changes on the front? Will we be to rely more on FFB to catch slides or audio will keep on being the major player here?
This is an area where the new suspension kinematics have helped a lot, IMO. Now that we're moving the front wheels around the correct steering geometry*, the front tyre loads change in the right way as you move through a corner. A pleasant knock-on effect of modeling this more correctly is that the FFB response in slides and with countersteer seems to happen more naturally in a way that should help you catch moments of power oversteer on corner exits. At least I'm feeling it is more natural to make those little corrections and keep the car right on the edge of grip now...eager to hear if the rest of you find the same thing.
* What this means, in practice, is that the steer axis inclination and caster angle move the outside wheel upward and the inside wheel downward. This does a lot to the dynamic wheel loading which could, and has, filled many chapters of books on vehicle dynamics. tl;dr version is that it tends to increase turn-in while adding some stable understeer when winding off steering in corner exits or when countersteering.
