Tyre Wear unrealistic , ABS restriction / Instrument restriction

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I'm thrilled PD finally fixed the tire wear issues. Hard tires now out last softs making hards the obvious choice for endurance racing.
 
Padracer99
The tyre wear is realistic now for sure (2.02), ABS restriction had been introduced as well. They just have to make the instrument restriction.
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How can anyone possibly think this? The tyre wear is massively unrealistic. A road car driven neatly can't even do three laps on racing slicks before they are destroyed. How could something like a V8 supercar race in real life if tyres were this fragile? Even slightly spinning up the wheels takes huge chunks of life out of them. If GT5 tyres were real, drivers would never perform a flick turn after a spin because their tyres would not allow it, it would be faster to do a 3 point turn.

Softs in GT5 are really like extreme qualifying tyres. That can do an out lap and one flying lap before they are rubbish. If they want to add qualifying tyres then fine, but give us real racing softs also.
 
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Look what they did to the road legal tyres after a couple of laps on Tsukuba in modestly sporty cars. I didn't get this amount of wear after 5 years of everyday use and it took them only two 20 minutes stints.

I did a 4 lap test with SS and RH tyres in the 4 hours Nurburgring (Aspec) race and at equal lap times the tyres wore at the same rate.

It's not the tyres fault if a driver goes at the very limits ( and beyond) and the tyres get torn to pieces.
 
ItsHim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBGaqLQBnUM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Look what they did to the road legal tyres after a couple of laps on Tsukuba in modestly sporty cars. I didn't get this amount of wear after 5 years of everyday use and it took them only two 20 minutes stints.

I did a 4 lap test with SS and RH tyres in the 4 hours Nurburgring (Aspec) race and at equal lap times the tyres wore at the same rate.

It's not the tyres fault if a driver goes at the very limits ( and beyond) and the tyres get torn to pieces.
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And I am not talking about any of that. I am talking about racing softs. In any case do not try to pass off 40mins of racing (on a very hot track) as a few laps. Plus they were sports tyres and apart from unusual wear on one side of the tyre on one car (possibly from going off track as they suggested) the tyres were all in good condition.

Racing softs in GT5 is where the problem lays. They have the life of qualifying tyres and could never be used in real racing.
 
nasanu
In any case do not try to pass off 40mins of racing (on a very hot track) as a few laps. Plus they were sports tyres and apart from unusual wear on one side of the tyre on one car (possibly from going off track as they suggested) the tyres were all in good condition.

Racing softs in GT5 is where the problem lays. They have the life of qualifying tyres and could never be used in real racing.
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Compared to the usual life time of road legal tyres, BestMotoring did about 80 km in contrast to a couple of thousands km any tyre should last under normal circumstances. The damage reflects the suspension geometry, not some off track effects, and after a mere 80 km ´most of the tyres were not fit for road use anymore. That's assuming Japan handles things similar to Europe.

As for the (racing) tyres in GT, they seem to last about the same if driven at the same speed. That's of course the pace of the hardest compound. The most damage is done to the front by going hot into a corner, and to the rear by mashing the pedal to the metal on corner exit and accelerating as hard as one can. So oversteer or understeer tendency wear out the tyres if the driver isn't smooth, which most aren't to my experience.

Anyway, the RS should last the same as RH when driven at RH-speed, so it's the choice of the driver to either preserve the rubber or go flat out. I'm not quite sure what the dominant strategy is right now, but compared to pre 2.02 there is at least some sort of room for tyre strategy and preservation.

And that obviously add to the gameplay. Because there's always the alternative to disable tyre wear or instead of using RS turn on TCS and SRF on harder compounds, which should yield similar results to using RS anyway.
 
VBR
I think it would be a great idea to have a "All HUD Off" setting in the Regulation Settings for online races & an option restrict everyone to a certain view, for example "Cockpit View Only" for races in the wet where bumper cam users would gain an advantage by having a clearer view of the track.

This is yet another example of PD not making the most of what they've got by not adding more features & options that would be actually usefull to many.
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uh...No...If you absolutely must play without your HUD online, tape over that part of your TV screen
 

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