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realMisterJes's avatar
4 years ago
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Reduced Safety Car vs. Standard vs. Increased?

What in the world is the difference. I haven’t been able to find any information on the Internet about the difference between safety car reduced, safety car standard, safety car increased. Does anybody know what it does to the game? Does it change the frequency or threshold for a virtual safety car versus a regular safety car? Like would it be that instead of getting a regular safety car when you said it to reduced it will only give you a virtual safety car? I have no clue, and I really really want to know. Are there like quantitative values also that we can see? I’d really like to know.

  • BarryBL's avatar
    BarryBL
    4 years ago

    To confirm here, it changes the threshold of active track compromises needed to trigger a VSC/SC in-game, not the amount of times it can happen.

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  • Yeah though instead I’m thinking how it affects thresholds for vsc vs safety car. Does anyone know?

  • Cpayne32's avatar
    Cpayne32
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @realMisterJes I believe that it increases or decreases the number that can happen. On 50% races I’ve seen max 1 on reduced, 2/3 on standard (mostly 2) and 3/4 on increased which is for full safety cars. As for VSC I’ve rarely seen one so can’t confidently comment
  • BarryBL's avatar
    BarryBL
    Icon for Codemasters Team rankCodemasters Team
    4 years ago

    To confirm here, it changes the threshold of active track compromises needed to trigger a VSC/SC in-game, not the amount of times it can happen.

  • Thanks Barry, are there like a numeric thresholds that community can refer to? Or is it all developer gibberish that we wouldn’t be able to understand?

  • I played 5 GP with 50% distance in driver's career, SC/VSC deployed never occurred in Increased option.

     Thresholds or incidents should be increased a bit more.

  • AEF251's avatar
    AEF251
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    So reduced and 50% races I have had it deployed twice in maybe 30 races. First when a car in Monaco was blocking the road and the second when 2 cars went out on the same lap. Otherwise it has not deployed for me.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @AEF251 After patch 1.05 or 6. Even the though the ai are still aggressive I find they miraculously miss eachother far more than they did. And when I watch ai wheel to wheel with eachother they make some physics defying moves to avoid eachother. Before the patch they had some awesomely fun multi car shunts where I would see a two or three safety cars in every other race. Now only time I see a safety car is when i I causing the shunts

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