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.