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fourpegs's avatar
fourpegs
2 years ago

Sliding on tarmac

Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:Xbox Series X
Summarize your bug No matter what I do with settings and tunings, cars (all 4WD and RWD cars especially) will not slide naturally around a corner on tarmac. Especially hairpins and using the handbrake. The car either slides briefly and then ‘sticks’ to the road, or spins out entirely. I can powerslide my little MX5 around corners pretty easily in real life, I should be able to do this in a Rally2 in WRC!
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try and powerslide around any sharp corner on any dry tarmac stage.
What happens when the bug occurs? The car slides briefly and the sticks, stopping the slide and making the whole experience feel very clunky and awkward.
What do you expect to see? A patch to make weight transfer, handbrake and wheelspin enable controlled power slides on tarmac

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Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:Xbox Series X
Summarize your bug No matter what I do with settings and tunings, cars will not slide naturally around a corner on tarmac. Especially hairpins and using the handbrake. The car either slides briefly and then ‘sticks’ to the road, or spins out entirely. I can powerslide my little MX5 around corners pretty easily in real life, I should be able to do this in a Rally2 in WRC!
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try and powerslide around any sharp corner on any dry tarmac stage.
What happens when the bug occurs? The car slides briefly and the sticks, stopping the slide and making the whole experience feel very clunky and awkward.
What do you expect to see? Weight transfer, handbrake and wheelspin enabling controlled power slides on tarmac.

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8 Replies

  • mistrelwood's avatar
    mistrelwood
    2 years ago

    This is definitely an issue with the current physics model. It kind of seems as if there were a strong traction control enabled even if it's set to zero, since the cars do feel lacking in power as the "sticking" or grabbing happens, even though the lost tire grip while sliding should easily enable the powerful cars to spin the tires on full throttle at medium to high revs.

  • JG-skinny-racer's avatar
    JG-skinny-racer
    2 years ago

    The "snap-back" does feel a little unnatural. 

    Sliding grip is too high. I think they made the handling too much suitable for controller users

  • Tukkeuma's avatar
    Tukkeuma
    2 years ago

    Agreed. I just compared this to another sims and right now the tarmac grip level feel more like F1 with full downforce effect. Front wheels grip like crazy without any understeer, and like you said, natural drifting is almost non-existent. RWD cars are undriveable even at gravel because rear end looses traction so suddenly.

    Physics need fixing to make the game realistic experience.

  • JPKaitainen's avatar
    JPKaitainen
    2 years ago

    Has anyone tried putting toe-in to maximum on both axels on alignment settings? I'm not sure, but I think it helps a little bit.


    And are you anyone else using a Thrustmasters wheel? Just trying to figure out if it's just forcefeedback issue with TM.


    All and all, there is something badly wrong with physics and especially on tarmac.

  • Find_Colour's avatar
    Find_Colour
    Rising Traveler
    2 years ago

    I have this issue too on PC; slow speed tarmac driving is almost impossible and deeply unenjoyable because there is just no progressive slip on tarmac at present.  It is impossible to feel where understeer or oversteer is in hairpins without going massively beyond the limit, meaning one just has to pootle around under it.  One of the Croatian stages full of hairpins is really dull because of this; it is just impossible to get any rhythm.

  • Rcollomb's avatar
    Rcollomb
    2 years ago

    It seems that there is to much longitudinal grip, it's was the same for the Dirt serie: if you touch the throttle once the car is set in the corner, sliding, the grip cut the slide and the car go straight in the middle of the corner instead of extending the slide. It's worse with RC1 car as the rear differential seems to never lock completely, what ever the setup you do : one wheel spin and the car stays stuck in the meddle of the airpin. It's so frustrating!!! And the same apply for gravel in a different way as the cars has way to much traction and you don't have to fight to much with the throttle to get out of an hair pin. I wonder why they implemented a traction control assistance...

  • fl0wf1r3's avatar
    fl0wf1r3
    2 years ago

    I was wondering as well, central Europe wit default setup and the car is glued to the road, same in Japan, no sliding at all even no sounds from the tires

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