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S1neNomine's avatar
2 years ago

Gear ratios don't match top speeds

Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:Steam-PC
Summarize your bug Gear ratios from tuning menu don't match the actual gear's top speed on stage
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? load any stage in any wrc car
What happens when the bug occurs? the gears go longer than what they should according to their ratio
What do you expect to see? having ratios and speed to match

Hi

While modifying the car setup, I wanted to accurately modify the gear ratios, and by using a website to visualize the top speed of each gear with modified ratios, I noticed the value returned by the website didn't match what I actually have in the game. So I used another website but got the same result.

On the top left corner of the "website calculation" screenshot joint to this post, you will have the actual ratios. I had to invert them from the game. I use the ratios from the default asphalt setup for the WRC cars as seen in the 2nd screenshot named "in-game ratios". From the FIA regulations I found that the tyres couldn't be larger than 650 mm, which you can see in the top center part, with the diff ratio, being also the inverse of the final drive in the game. And top right corner I know from the regulations as well that the cars can't rev over 8,500 RPM.

With all that, in the graph on the lower part, you'll see the top speeds of each gear. And here is what I have on stage :

1st -> 71 kph

2nd -> 93 kph

3rd -> 120 kph

4th -> 155 kph

5th -> 197 kph

So 5th is pretty on point, and 4th rather close, but the shorter we go with the ratios, the more inaccurate they get.

Thanks already for addressing that issue.

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  • Here are the screenshots I talked about somehow they were preventing the post to be submitted

  • S1neNomine's avatar
    S1neNomine
    2 years ago

    and here is the second one, there was an issue with that file for some reason