Oversteer vs Understeer: Which One Do You Prefer?

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Oversteer vs Understeer

  • Oversteer

    Votes: 388 85.3%

  • Understeer

    Votes: 67 14.7%
  • Total voters
    455
I like oversteer. Like it when the car slides out then you have to put it back on track and still be in front and let the cars in back in smoke LOL.. I can't drift though.. Hmm!
 
It depends.

In a deep race, I would MUCH rather have Understeer, as Oversteer very often has me flinging about, wasting time. With Understeer, it's just a small nudge on the gates, turn hard, and away we go.
 
Ferrari_1996
Don't the front tires lock up because ABS is off? And I) agree, seems like a braking problem, nothing to do with understeer (or atleast that's what I think anyway)

Do you prefer understeer or oversteer? Tell me which one you prefer and why. Also, have you voted?
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Haven't voted as i don't really prefer either. :)
I dislike the feeling that the car is doing less or more than what i intended with my steering input. Tells me that i have failed at some point. :dunce:
My methodology for tuning when i can bother (Why can't we save multiple setups?) is to first drive the car stock, then try to tune it to understeer and after that to go over. Rince and repeat to get closer to that neutral handling i'm looking for.
 
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Understeer is simply frustrating, no matter what you're doing, and if you're any good at driving, I think oversteer is safer. As for my preference, neutral, with slight oversteer. Beautiful handling with that little extra kick when I want to have some fun.
 
Rykon Zero
Understeer is simply frustrating, no matter what you're doing, and if you're any good at driving, I think oversteer is safer. As for my preference, neutral, with slight oversteer. Beautiful handling with that little extra kick when I want to have some fun.
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It absolutely is more frustrating, I don't know how many people know what quarter-midgets are (sprint cars/midgets but quarter sized hence quartermidgets but it's for kids, basically gokarts with rollcages but there's a class called AA (alcohol A) that's basically a lawnmower on... Well... Alcohol and the thing vibrated so bad that the front end actually buzzed it's way into massive understeer for the first 10 laps before the tires heated up but it was the most fun i ever had in one after those first 10 laps because keeping the car out of the wall was basically art in the form of throttle control, but it turned out to a blast, since then i have tried to keep my cars on a looser side (oversteer), because of an old saying i have been told many times looser is faster (obviously not too loose, but it beats riding the corners on two wheels "biking" lap after lap), I could honestly go on for pages about crazy things i did in quarter-midgets (thats a real kids racing car, that's not to be taken offensively, www.quartermidgets.org)
 
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Oversteer= Drifting:)
Also, I have a Camaro that understeers like:censored:and I got penalties on a race because I understeered off the track.
 
LR-MR-Cole
now I wonder which one more people would prefer. Wow thats an obvious question. I hate the feel of understeer
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There are still people who prefer understeer, just because me and you prefer oversteer doesn't mean the whole world will prefer oversteer. Maybe it's obvious that MORE people will prefer oversteer but for some people it won't be obvious that oversteer is the favoured option (because if you like something you can sometimes find it hard to understand why other people don't don't like that thing). Everybody in the world is different, which is why these polls exist, because different people will vote for different things. And that's what makes polls interesting. Yes, this poll isn't a very interesting one because oversteer is just killing the poll but hopefully there will be some more understeer preferring people out there that will come into this thread, vote for understeer and then say why they like understeer.

Ok I'm out....

Peace.
 
Like I said, I don't think anyone actually wants a car that plows. They simply prefer a car that doesn't oversteer, and would take a tight car over a super loose one because it's more manageable and consistent.

It's becomes an even harder question to answer though, because the same car can exhibit both characteristics depending on how it's driven.
 
It depends on how im playing and what im playing with
say if im driving on the nurb for fun, even with a wheel i like oversteer, but not like crazy d1 car oversteer. more like the natural enjoyable oversteer from stock supercars like maserati granturismo, f458s etc.

when i racing, which i only do with a wheel now, i prefer cars like the SLS from the amg academy challenge. cars like that oversteer only if you really put down the gas and understeers a reasonable amount

BTW i noticed alot of people were seeing understeer as something you litterallly have to stop your car for in the middle of a turn. i think that with proper early braking and following a good, smooth driving line, understeer can be a fun challenge to avoid, the same way oversteer is fun to provoke
 
Over-steer. I feel like I have more input with the cars handling, and I can adjust it easier to get through corners. RWD suits me more generally.
 
Ferrari_1996
What are your reasons? And you are the first person that has meantioned prefering understeering. Why is this? I hate understeer.
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I agree with understeer...it is easy to countersteer with a pad but it is deadly difficult to turn the wheel opposite lock quickly...i cannot countersteer with my g27 quickly
 
iamsupernasty
Like I said, I don't think anyone actually wants a car that plows. They simply prefer a car that doesn't oversteer, and would take a tight car over a super loose one because it's more manageable and consistent.

It's becomes an even harder question to answer though, because the same car can exhibit both characteristics depending on how it's driven.
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Actually a tight car is worse because after all it is harder to turn and wears you out faster (in real racing) and depending on how tight it is it can begin to "bike" and eventually go over (i have seen it happen manny times)and is much less predictable or you can end up in the wall, also you can create a weird tight-loose condition where you enter the corner very tight but you are over correcting so much that the car snaps loose.
With a loose car things are a little more predictable because you will have a little more time to react, the worse that can happen is you get hit head on, but with the proper clutch and brake control you can minimize the chances
 
Ferrari_1996
Good for you :). Oversteer is awesome, especially if you can correct it with just the right amount of countersteer.
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Once you can do that, you can adjust to make it stick better
 
F1 cars are set up to over-steer at the limit, as when it is controlled it allows for faster cornering.

You want a little bit of over-steer during trail braking to the apex to get the car round, and then neutral-slightly loose on exit so you can exit the corner with good acceleration without losing rear traction.
 
georgiebest
F1 cars are set up to over-steer at the limit, as when it is controlled it allows for faster cornering.

You want a little bit of over-steer during trail braking to the apex to get the car round, and then neutral-slightly loose on exit so you can exit the corner with good acceleration without losing rear traction.
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So I'm assuming you've voted for oversteer. And yes, you need good acceleration on the exit of the corner because to get a fast lap time it's slow in, fast out.

EDIT: Also, an understeering car may not let you kiss the apex.
 
Yes I voted Oversteer, but if you are at the point where you have to do major counter-steering corrections, you are not benefiting from it.

The more the tyres spin and slide, the slow you go.

It's a good feeling when you tune a car to your preference perfectly however, and you feel the car whip around the corner when it is at the limit.

Am I the only one that doesn't find counter-steering fun? I mean when I am purposely drifting in a drift trial it is fun to do, but it just feels like I am going so slow if i'm racing hot laps. IMO the most satisfying thing in this game is when you turn in perfect with only slight over steer, clip the perfect apex completely neutral, before unwinding the steering lock and feeding in the throttle to accelerate out with only the tiniest hint of under steer causing you to drift wide.
 
georgiebest
Yes I voted Oversteer, but if you are at the point where you have to do major counter-steering corrections, you are not benefiting from it.

The more the tyres spin and slide, the slow you go.

It's a good feeling when you tune a car to your preference perfectly however, and you feel the car whip around the corner when it is at the limit.

Am I the only one that doesn't find counter-steering fun? I mean when I am purposely drifting in a drift trial it is fun to do, but it just feels like I am going so slow if i'm racing hot laps. IMO the most satisfying thing in this game is when you turn in perfect with only slight over steer, clip the perfect apex completely neutral, before unwinding the steering lock and feeding in the throttle to accelerate out with only the tiniest hint of under steer causing you to drift wide.
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Obviously counter-steering is not good when doing hot laps. And I'd rather not have to counter-steer when doing hot laps. But if you are not doing hot laps, do you like counter-steering? I do. Obviously not too much but I like my cars to be lively. The RUF Yellowbird is a good example. And yes, I love accelerating out of the corner with the tiniest hint of understeer causing you to drift wide. As long as my car doesn't go off the track. I had to do this when pushing the GT-R to the limit. When trying to get the Official Record trophy on the Nürburgring. When slowing down for the some of corners I had the accelerator and the brake on. I don't think I just had the brake on for some of the corners. BTW, have you got the official record trophy? If so, what was your time? And are you a DS3 user or a wheel user?
 

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