Boost - Do you use it online or no?

[DGXR]

Ummm... what is boost?

Boost is a setting that slows the cars at the front and/or speeds up the cars at the rear. May be one or the other, or both, I'm not really sure. The effect is that -- as long as everyone is a decent driver -- nobody gets too far ahead or too far behind. It artificially allows slower drivers to catch faster drivers.

I couldn't agree more. When I used to race online, I avoided rooms with boost just for that very reason. It allows lesser skilled drivers to be up front with the more skilled drivers. Inevitably, it would always be one of those lesser skilled drivers that had no buissiness being up front in the first place that would cause a big ass pile up, ruining everybody's race.

Obviously I also avoid rooms with boost. On a positive note, at least the online lobby list shows which rooms are using boost so you can see before entering!

 

[CodeRedR51]

I voted for low boost, because I was in a PP room without boost where a guy kept pulling away from the others and we went back to the lobby before I even finished. IN SECOND PLACE.

When I inherited the room, I set boost to low and slipstream to strong and *boom!* all the top 3 finished within 0.7s. How EPIC is that? 💡


~GT5Power

You do know the last post in this thread was from March 2011, right?

 

[Doodle]

I perfer no boost but sometimes if I'm bored I won't mind low boost.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

You do know the last post in this thread was from March 2011, right?

And your point is......

 

[dr_slump]

I hate boost, in break in rooms it's alright though.

 

[CodeRedR51]

And your point is......

Dead thread was dead.

 

[Tornado]

I played in a boost room one afternoon, and it was fun to give it a go once, but it honestly... just wasn't really a race There was a good 10-12 people in the room at all times (some would leave and someone would come in), but three of the people (including myself) were far and away better drivers than everyone else. But very rarely did any of us win because, like CargoRat says above, the races often just turned into obstacle courses. The backmarkers would use their huge runs the boost gave them and combine it with the draft to get absolutely massive speed increases and blow by you. Then they would get to any complex corner and they would go all over the track, taking you out of the picture and allowing people who were just slow enough to avoid all of that nonsense but not slow enough to get the big speed increases to win. And we even did a couple rally races, and they were just a total mess. The good drivers would take off and wouldn't be seen again, but then the game would get mad at how much of a lead that was built up and start giving the people who went around the track basically by hitting every wall bigger and bigger speed increases.


Then you had the people who spent the entire race sandbagging. They could probably match you in a regular room because they were pretty good, but they hung back until the last lap or so when they could exploit the boost to their fullest and you couldn't do anything about it. There was always at least two of those types in that room, and they would both put the hammer down at about the same time so at least one of them could get by you.






I'm not knocking the concept, because I know why it is there and I know games where it adds to the experience. But GT5 just isn't balanced for it.

 

[Jahgee]

I use it for my X1 Jump Track races (Which BTW I need to do one, expect a Spot Race this spring) and for Dirty NASCAR, but for realistic races I keep it off.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

Dead thread was dead.

So. Is there some sort of unwritten rule that I'm not aware of that states you can't revive a thread? If he would have created a new thread then you would have thrown the search button at him.

 

[thelvynau]

I have seen alot of people revive threads to add thier 2c worth I dont mind as a few are from before my time.

 

[J91patriz]

Boost rigorously off, I haven't even tried but it goes against the principles of a fun and fair race. I say fun because it is way better to have a close race against someone who is fast rather than someone who keeps the pace because of boost.

 

[Toyzri]

Boost and driving aids do not promote a person to practice their driving skills.