Weather Radar..

jrbabbitt · Mar 25, 2022

I'm currently grinding away in three World GT Championship and I know it rains in the second lap at Le Sarthe. Why is the weather radar useless, you will not set anything on the radar until you are actually in the downpour on track, no warning, no clouds in the radar before it rains on you, why does it not work?

xMAXIx79 · Mar 25, 2022

This is probably due to the extremely high time lapse in the race if I'm not mistaken.

Erebus_9 · Mar 25, 2022

Been a while since I did that race so can't really remember how sudden the rain was, but my weather radar has worked in other races. I saw the rain rolling in towards the track in the Porsches at the Nordscheife.

Were you zoomed out all the way? By default it's zoomed in which is really dumb for a weather radar...

jrbabbitt · Mar 25, 2022

Erebus_9
Were you zoomed out all the way? By default it's zoomed in which is really dumb for a weather radar...

Not max zoom but 2 clicks out from there....

Erebus_9 · Mar 25, 2022

jrbabbitt
Not max zoom but 2 clicks out from there....

Try doing max zoom, it's got a radius of 150 miles I think. You need that much with how quickly the weather moves - they've maxed out the time progression multiplier in offline races, and that affects the speed of weather as well.

Islaygaz · Mar 25, 2022

jrbabbitt
I'm currently grinding away in three World GT Championship and I know it rains in the second lap at Le Sarthe. Why is the weather radar useless, you will not set anything on the radar until you are actually in the downpour on track, no warning, no clouds in the radar before it rains on you, why does it not work?

Rain isn’t guaranteed. I’ve done that championship 3 times and have only had rain once at LeMans (technically twice, but the second time it was light so slicks were still ok). If I’m on a track with weather I always use the weather radar at its furthest setting and normally the rain coming in that would require a change to inters is pretty obvious! Are you on PS4 or 5? Not sure if that would make a difference though, but I’m on PS5 and think the weather radar is pretty good!

jrbabbitt · Mar 25, 2022

Islaygaz
Are you on PS4 or 5? Not sure if that would make a difference thoug

On a PS4 slim...

Erebus_9 · Mar 28, 2022

jrbabbitt
On a PS4 slim...

Same here, and it seems fine to me. The main issue is really how quickly the weather moves, you'll see it a little way away but with how long a lap of Le Mans is, you won't make it back to the pits before it starts raining.

vticoupe · Mar 28, 2022

That’s also my grinding championship, and I can confirm rain isn’t guaranteed. It also happened to me that there were a few drops at spa, but then it went back to sunshine.