Begginer's Settings

[stix45]

Does anyone use settings like Driving Line,Skid Recovery,Traction control
others?

 

[Shoe67]

Yes. It depends on the driver though. Some like them some don't. Try and play with them, and find what you like. However, using skid recovery force is generally frowned upon.

 

[gtnoobie]

Yes. Realism aside, it's a game after all.

 

[IceMan PJN]

Does anyone use settings like Driving Line,Skid Recovery,Traction control
others?

Yes, novices do. As players improve and they want to get better and/or find more of a challenge they will turn them off. It's especially ideal to turn off unrealistic ones like the magic race line and skid recovery, but stuff like traction control exist in the real world, although not on every vehicle. Formula One cars, for example, could have all sorts of driver aids, but they aren't allowed to have any so they don't even have stuff that you get on most road cars like anti-lock brakes.

 

[stix45]

I use driving line,and skid recovery for mainly cars that have a high
chance of sliding out or a hard track such as Nurburgring.

 

[praiano63]

SRF is a plague in GT5. Try to drive without ,use some traction control if you want till you learn to drive fast without anything ,only ABS 1.
SRF is very unfair and with it you'll just be faster than the others. Most of the good racing rooms online select the "NO SRF" option because with it ON there is no challenge at all.
PD must take this option out urgently.

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[Jason]

Traction control is fine in my opinion. I do not use Skid recovery though.

 

[GranTurismo916]

For me:
Everything off, except for ABS 1.

I don't this SRF helps, I have never used it. It will make the car feel "arcadey". Traction Ctrl and driving line are ok though.

 

[careface]

Driving line never (people actually use it?)
TCS always off (unless the real life car has it with no option to toggle)
ABS always 1 (when I get a wheel it will be treated like TCS)

Everything else off. Play Ridge Racer if you want driving band-aids

 

[Morgoth_666]

Lots of people use lots of different assist settings. It's helpful for novices sometimes to use the various aids, but people who are pretty confident sometimes use them too, especially if they don't play constantly. Most regulars seem to not like using anything except ABS and active steering. The general opinion is that all the others ultimately slow you down, active steering is more of a preference thing from what I've read.

The driving line is useful for people who aren't used to finding a proper line around a track, and some people use it to get a general idea of an unfamiliar track. It doesn't usually show you the best line however and the braking points tend to be very early, so turning it off as soon as you feel you can is probably recommended.

SRF is a whole other issue as it changes the way you lose grip when you push too hard. It effectively creates a separate physics model and allows much faster lap times. Not only is it often considered "cheap" because it makes you faster, it may also cause problems with adapting to a very different driving style depending on whether it is on or off. It reminds me a little of the "tire sim" option in F1 2010 which made for some very confusing online rooms, as it was almost like two different games within one. I don't think SRF is quite that severe, but as it is not at all grounded in reality it's frowned upon by a lot of people.

Just don't let anybody tell you what the "correct" way of doing it is. I drive with no aids because I find it more enjoyable. Most people at least use ABS. Whatever works for you is fine, just be aware that when joining online rooms some things may be prohibited.

 

[GTracer98]

ABS, traction control aren't begginer's assists

 

[NCRthree]

There's nothing wrong with being a begineer.

 

[Chrunch Houston]

SRF is like crack.
A friend of mine (that used to host before the Great PSN Blackout of 2011) got me hooked on it. “Just try it”, he would say. So one night I did, and I have never looked back.
Now I’ll be the first to admit I have never been a purest. In my world racing soft tires are street legal.
As mentioned before it is more arcadey, but I think it’s more fun.
I even tune my cars with a little oversteer. They turn better and I know the SRF will keep the back end from sliding out.
In the rooms I host, most people use it and we have a blast. Anyone that joins my room knows I have no problem with aids. See my signature below.

 

[careface]

Awful.

 

[stix45]

Traction control is fine in my opinion. I do not use Skid recovery though.

I'm trying to get rid of my habit of using SRF but im just too
used to it i guess.

 

[mrkevans]

Srf should be dropped by pd in gt6, its a ridiculous beginners aid that has no place in a game like gt5. All aids off except abs at 1 is the way to play this game, I except traction control (it only slows you down anyway) but the rest of the aids are for noobs. I also find rooms allowing aids like srf are full of rammers and cheats, usually hosted by somebody that thinks there the best driver in the game! Err.... No if you were any good you wouldn't be using srf!

 

[Dean]

I use TCS, when cruising, along with ABS. I only use the SRF in the rally-events, if it's available.

 

[RoadRocket77]

I only use ABS on 1, Racing line on unfamiliar tracks (customs usually), and I only have 1 car in my garage that runs better with SRF turned on... and that is my CLK touring car.

Normal everyday settings: ABS on 1, everything else: off

 

[stix45]

So what about driving line then?

 

[Shoe67]

So what about driving line then?

Everyone from beginners to pros use it. It's just a matter of preference. Also, if you are new to a track, it can really help

 

[otakukid96]

I drive with no aids because I find it more enjoyable.

This also applies to people who do use driving aids. It is a game, and point of them is fun. Why not let people have fun? Last time I checked, nobody ever died from letting others have fun on video games. In fact, here's a little story. Whenever I see a room with driving aids banned, I either bite my arm really hard I sometimes bleed or I pound my head really hard a couple times. Just think of that fact when making public rooms, that you could be causing serious harm to others.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Yes, novices do. As players improve and they want to get better and/or find more of a challenge they will turn them off. It's especially ideal to turn off unrealistic ones like the magic race line and skid recovery, but stuff like traction control exist in the real world, although not on every vehicle. Formula One cars, for example, could have all sorts of driver aids, but they aren't allowed to have any so they don't even have stuff that you get on most road cars like anti-lock brakes.

For the most part I agree. If you want to improve as a driver, leave the SRF off, because you'll just have to learn how to drive all over again if you leave it on for a while, then take it off. But if you just want to blast around the track running fast laps and don't care about getting better or racing online, have at it, it's your game, do as you wish and don't let anyone else tell you how to race.

I believe the racing line is a worthwhile aid for those trying to learn new tracks just don't get to used to it. It definitely does not represent the fastest way around a track, it's more of a suggestion, close, but not the absolute best way to get around.

 

[gamerdog6482]

I always use TCS, usually at 5, with the notable exception of 4WD cars. I find that traction control really messes up all-wheel-drive cars, so I always turn it to 0 on those.
I am never found racing without driving line on, as I can't really remember when to brake for every track at every speed. Also, I will use SRF with most cars as it is faster and faster almost always means more chance of winning. If I enter a room with TCS, ABS, SRF, or driving line banned I will quite and leave a very detailed explanation about why.

 

[Ross]

Yep, and proud of it. PD put the settings in there for us to use so why not use them?

 

[Morgoth_666]

This also applies to people who do use driving aids. It is a game, and point of them is fun. Why not let people have fun? Last time I checked, nobody ever died from letting others have fun on video games. In fact, here's a little story. Whenever I see a room with driving aids banned, I either bite my arm really hard I sometimes bleed or I pound my head really hard a couple times. Just think of that fact when making public rooms, that you could be causing serious harm to others.

I'm having trouble understanding why, out of all the posts in this thread, you chose to quote mine to make that reply to.

I started by stating that there are many people of all types who use driving aids(implying that there isn't anything at all wrong with using them). Then I gave a few thoughts about the way a couple of them work and my understanding of what opinions I tend to see from others. Finally I said that I drive the way I find most enjoyable for me and encouraged everyone else to drive in the way that they enjoy the most, while adding a reminder to check what the regulations are when joining a room online to help avoid frustrating surprises.

I see no condescending attitude in my original post, nor was any intended if it came out that way. There is certainly no suggestion that everyone should be forced to drive the way I do, online or offline.

I'm sorry if you feel that no one should be allowed to host rooms using the rules that they wish to use. My opinion is that there is plenty of space for lobbies that allow aids as well as for those that restrict one or all of them, and that joining a room and finding out that it is not the right room for you is not a terribly major problem. I see restricting aids as no different from requiring a certain type of car, prohibiting X2010s or kicking people for driving backwards and trying to hit others. I've left plenty of rooms that turned out to be not as appealing as I had hoped, for many reasons. I think we might have disagreed about this issue in the past, but I don't see what I said in this discussion(until now) that even has anything at all to do with that.

Sorry if I misunderstood the meaning of your post.

 

[otakukid96]

I'm having trouble understanding why, out of all the posts in this thread, you chose to quote mine to make that reply to.

I started by stating that there are many people of all types who use driving aids(implying that there isn't anything at all wrong with using them). Then I gave a few thoughts about the way a couple of them work and my understanding of what opinions I tend to see from others. Finally I said that I drive the way I find most enjoyable for me and encouraged everyone else to drive in the way that they enjoy the most, while adding a reminder to check what the regulations are when joining a room online to help avoid frustrating surprises.

I see no condescending attitude in my original post, nor was any intended if it came out that way. There is certainly no suggestion that everyone should be forced to drive the way I do, online or offline.

I'm sorry if you feel that no one should be allowed to host rooms using the rules that they wish to use. My opinion is that there is plenty of space for lobbies that allow aids as well as for those that restrict one or all of them, and that joining a room and finding out that it is not the right room for you is not a terribly major problem. I see restricting aids as no different from requiring a certain type of car, prohibiting X2010s or kicking people for driving backwards and trying to hit others. I've left plenty of rooms that turned out to be not as appealing as I had hoped, for many reasons. I think we might have disagreed about this issue in the past, but I don't see what I said in this discussion(until now) that even has anything at all to do with that.

Sorry if I misunderstood the meaning of your post.

That wasn't aimed at you. It was just a general thing that everyone needs to realize. Other people have fun in different ways, and that the people who take video games too seriously, like those who bash people who use driving aids, shouldn't be allowed to play.

 

[roadster slick]

I got gt5 the day it came out all those moons ago and in that time I have never changed the driving aid settings. It all comes down to a matter of personal choice some play with them on some dont but more importantly we all still have fun playing the game regardless, isnt that what its supposed to be about?!

 

[watermelon punch]

Driving line never (people actually use it?)

Yeah, I sometimes put it on if I'm unfamiliar with a track, say a custom track, just to get an idea.
As Johnnypenso said, though, it's not foolproof, it's really only useful as a guide.
And I would never race with it on if for no other reason than that it's extremely distracting and takes away from the fun for me.

There's nothing wrong with being a begineer.

Is that a cross between a beginner & a buccaneer?

J/K
I read that as "buccaneer" when I first glanced at the post.

At any rate, it's true, there's nothing wrong with being a beginner. Everyone's new to something at some point. (Nobody pops out of the womb to immediately start racing games. lol)

And I think all the aids are very useful for those who 1st get the game and don't know what they're doing at first. They can start enjoying it more quickly.

When I started playing my husband's gt4, he made fun of me for liking to run the bspecs a lot, and I would watch from the bspec driver's point of view through the race. I enjoyed it (still enjoy watching bspecs & replays), and moreso I learned about what to do (and not to do lol) from watching this. At the time I knew ZERO about racing, or driving lines, or whatever. It was helpful to watch a sort of "demonstration" like that, even moreso than having someone tell me what to do.

Though I really think that the so-called "dependency" on driving aids happens because people are hell bent on going straight to super cars & race cars & such. And frankly, they often can't control them, simply because they never bothered to figure anything out. And then you have people that just race with all aids on, driving fast from one sloppy corner to the next.
If someone wants to play that way, well, that's fine too I suppose. But IMHO, they're probably missing out on even more fun to be had with gt5.
(That said, NOT EVERYONE HAS THE TIME TO BOTHER, so driving aids can be very useful for the very infrequent casual player as well.)

Really, the best way to learn tracks and learn the driving techniques is to simply start with slower cars! In slower motion, you have more time to notice the subtleties when you're starting out, and learn about what works & what doesn't.
Then just use the aids as you move to faster &/or more troublesome handling cars, as needed.

That's why the Beginners Series in Apsec starts with quite slow cars at the Autumn Ring Mini Sunday Cup. It's no coincidence.

Remember this - Senna started out his racing in a 1 HP kart !!!!

Remember that, the next time you have a knee jerk reaction to pooh pooh a low HP vehicle.

 

[Morgoth_666]

That wasn't aimed at you. It was just a general thing that everyone needs to realize. Other people have fun in different ways, and that the people who take video games too seriously, like those who bash people who use driving aids, shouldn't be allowed to play.

Ok, no offense taken and hopefully none given. I was just confused about whether I had said something I didn't mean to.

I don't understand why some people have to insult others for using different settings either, but I guess that's just the way people are. Sometimes it is good-natured, encouraging people to push themselves and maybe even find they have more fun, but sometimes it's just plain rude and for no apparent reason other than ego-stroking.

 

[stix45]

For the most part I agree. If you want to improve as a driver, leave the SRF off, because you'll just have to learn how to drive all over again if you leave it on for a while, then take it off. But if you just want to blast around the track running fast laps and don't care about getting better or racing online, have at it, it's your game, do as you wish and don't let anyone else tell you how to race.

I believe the racing line is a worthwhile aid for those trying to learn new tracks just don't get to used to it. It definitely does not represent the fastest way around a track, it's more of a suggestion, close, but not the absolute best way to get around.

I used to never use assist's accept for driving line but then once i learned about them and so pretty much after that i got hooked with them and since then i can't live without them.