I wonder why there were no physics tweaks in the February update. The changes introduced in January made some cars behave really odd during cornering. With those changes many cars underwent a rather violent tendency to suddenly oversteer during cornering. It’s like they go from understeer to oversteer in an instant that almost sends them spiralling around their own axis. The strangest part is that it seems to affect many front-engined cars, as this trait is typically associated with MR or RR drivetrains.
Ever since the “new physics” in July 2024 it feels like PD has been fumbling to find a sweet spot for the physics. First car suspensions got weird, but that slowly got addressed over multiple subsequent updates. There’s still decent room for improvement in this area though. Then with the January 2025 update cars started to feel more stable under braking, but weight transfer got exaggerated overall. For example, a bone stock Mazda Roadster (ND) on sports hard tyres is a nightmare to drive through hairpins and tight turns with the most recent physics tweaks from January, but in reality the ND Roadster is celebrated for being easy and stable. That’s just one example.
One gets left with the impression that PD takes these physics adjustments too lightly. Global physics tweaks must affect different cars in different ways, right? The values originally assigned to each car were likely chosen to pair well with the global physics engine at the time. Then they tweak the global physics, and numerical values assigned to each car get thrown off course. The result is that some cars that once felt great suddenly start to misbehave, because PD seemingly doesn’t care to test every car when they come up with global physics changes. They appear to be chasing their own tail here. The irony is nothing needed fixing before July 2024, which was when cars started to jump into space as a result of the “new physics”. Their attempts to fix that then brought new problems to the table. They should never have touched the physics in the first place. Save that stuff for GT8 development.
Ever since the “new physics” in July 2024 it feels like PD has been fumbling to find a sweet spot for the physics. First car suspensions got weird, but that slowly got addressed over multiple subsequent updates. There’s still decent room for improvement in this area though. Then with the January 2025 update cars started to feel more stable under braking, but weight transfer got exaggerated overall. For example, a bone stock Mazda Roadster (ND) on sports hard tyres is a nightmare to drive through hairpins and tight turns with the most recent physics tweaks from January, but in reality the ND Roadster is celebrated for being easy and stable. That’s just one example.
One gets left with the impression that PD takes these physics adjustments too lightly. Global physics tweaks must affect different cars in different ways, right? The values originally assigned to each car were likely chosen to pair well with the global physics engine at the time. Then they tweak the global physics, and numerical values assigned to each car get thrown off course. The result is that some cars that once felt great suddenly start to misbehave, because PD seemingly doesn’t care to test every car when they come up with global physics changes. They appear to be chasing their own tail here. The irony is nothing needed fixing before July 2024, which was when cars started to jump into space as a result of the “new physics”. Their attempts to fix that then brought new problems to the table. They should never have touched the physics in the first place. Save that stuff for GT8 development.
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