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Throttle Control, the driven wheels best friend.
Throttle Control, the driven wheels best friend.
Michael88Well, just get rid of the tire problems and you will be fine with that car, the Jaggy is actually a beast of a group C car, 974ps @ 894(?)kg beats most opponents on the paper & corners.👍
I wouldnt recomment you to use driving Aids because thy only add odd steering to the car or slowing it down too much, make more use of 3/4 throttle.
SirBerraI didn't even notice the weight of the car. I'll have to check that point out. I raced that car when I first got GT4 and just threw on the Stage 4 Turbo, drove it ragged and noticed it ate tires faster than competing AI cars. I never gave the car a fair shake. It probably would have been competitive with far less HP. That was my mistake which I will reflect upon. It might be a sleeper for 200 A-spec points in some races. I also didn't realize it was a Group C car. I thought it was in the same class as LMPs. Live and learn. I'm eager to retest the Jag, but I'm in the middle of Sarthe II for 200 A-specs so I won't be finished for about a week.
SavageEvilThe XJ-R9 is one of the worst Group C cars, not only is it tail happy, but it's a tire burner, it kind of beats the CLK-GTR LM for tire eater award. Being light is one thing, but it's not very stable in corners, 787B will eat this thing alive, Sauber C9; no contest, R92-same as the Sauber, heck even the LMP's smack this thing around, they all corner better. Only cars the XJ-R9 beats are the Maclaren BMW and the CLK-GTR. .
blue_sharky39The Minolta is a great car indeed - it handles, it goesBut for tyre wear, nothing beats, and I mean nothing, the Chapparal 2J.
Michael88Strange, I made the champoinship with it, and the AI also made it very well with the XJ9 at 2nd place overall, killing the 787 and the R92.The AI Jaggy didn't out-accelerate them but he was VERY fast around the corners and a killer at Tokio.
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With the right setting even the worst cars are absolutely driveable, the CLK and the Vertigo are the worst in the champoinship (AI).
However, cause you can't drive it its not the worst group C car. I still prefer the 787b over the jaguar but saying that its the worst group C car is just a fast and unfair conclusion.
Play around with the settings and you will love that car.
I dont know the problems you guys have with that thing, its just another group C car, and they handle all the same without driving aids, even the Toyota 88 Minolta is a tyre eater. 💡
SavageEvilIt's the worst Group C car period. Which of the Group C cars burns through tires as fast as the Jag, the Jag also has a case of oversteer, which other Group C car handles like that thing? Um, I would think that the 974hp XJ-R9 would beat the 681hp 787B, where's the logic in that statement. I won't love that car, I won't hate it, but it's not for me. I prefer other vehicles over it, and it's also very unpretty.
SavageEvilL4S my time is actually 5'07.629, with mistakes. All in arcade mode.
CIEN 470km/hEDIT: I am not sure what the TCS and TSM settings are, although the only settings I have changed when I bought it was the turbo and the tyres.
ScaffIn that case they will all still be at the default setting.
Go and zero both the ASM settings and personally I would do the same with TCS, but you may want to try 1 or 2 first.
It also sounds like you have all the suspension, gerbox, etc settings set at the default values and you can do a lot to help out with them. Download and print off my guides (link in my sig) if you need any help in that area.
Regards
Scaff
AutomobileI would generally assume that the more traction you get, the faster your tyres will wear out, so I can see why setting the ASM high in order to maximise grip may be hard on your tyres. However, if you have a low TCS setting and your wheels spin a lot, aren't you just burning rubber and wasting your rear tyres anyway? Has anyone tried doing a sustained burnout against a barrier and monitoring tyre wear? I would be surprised if the game didn't take this into account.
AutomobileBut doesn't Arcade Mode give you driver assists? Is Arcade Mode the conventional way for setting official lap times?![]()
SirBerraI was under the impression that more traction meant less tire wear. So I always set TCS higher. All that slipping and sliding is surely abrading the tread. I'm definitely sure GT4 tires wear more from sideway forces than forward motion. Still I'm kinda ticked when I see tires wearing like crazy on the test course. I'm a bit weak on theory and make a lot of poor assumptions.
There must be some happy TCS setting on every car that has to be found to maximize tire wear and still get decent grip. I don't think I've found that secret yet.
SavageEvilYou can disable all assists in Arcade mode, which is how I drive anyway. You just can't set them as indepth as in GT Mode. Arcade mode is much better for setting lap times. No engine wear, no oil change differentiations, and it forces you to use the car at a universal suspension setup.