Why are snow races so easy?

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Just won the Amateur GT Rally by almost 2 minutes. I managed to overtake at least 1 of my opponents on each trial. Fair enough I'm using a C4 Rally car, but it's well within the power limit and my lead was nowhere near that substantial in the tarmac and dirt events.

Hey, I'm not complaining. Looking forward to an easy 200k for the expert one :)
 
What car were you driving? Did you have more or less power than the Ai? Either way, if you got that far ahead, it means you've got some skill at least. Most people (myself included for awhile) complained about how hard snow races were in GT4.
 
Well, the C4 is within the limits if you don't change the oil. :-( I changed mine and now it is rated higher.

Oh dear..........
 
snow rally is indeed very easy. did it with a evo vi and was around 2 min in front of second in the 5 stages rally.

the loeb rally in chamonix on the other hand is really difficult.
Like there is a diffrent physic engine working. But i think its just the car that handles so diffrent.
 
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What car were you driving? Did you have more or less power than the Ai? Either way, if you got that far ahead, it means you've got some skill at least. Most people (myself included for awhile) complained about how hard snow races were in GT4.
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It's nowhere near as slippery as GT4.
 
I had the same experience on the snow rallies.

In one event, I actually passed all 3 other cars. I was using the new STi sedan and tuned it to exactly the power limit (345 maybe? Don't recall specifically). On the tarmac I barely squeaked out a win, not even half a second. Seems like something is wrong with the AI on snow.
 
little tip for you on tarmac.

Had problems too with my Evo VI. Lost the first two stages, was about 8 seconds behind.
Then i changed toe in front to 0.5, in the back to 0.1.
After this adjustment i finally won with 2 seconds space, because you can go way faster through these turns.
 
I find gravel rally 20x harder than Snow rally. It's really odd. even though they are supposed to have the same basic principle.
 
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I had the same experience on the snow rallies.

In one event, I actually passed all 3 other cars. I was using the new STi sedan and tuned it to exactly the power limit (345 maybe? Don't recall specifically). On the tarmac I barely squeaked out a win, not even half a second. Seems like something is wrong with the AI on snow.
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Exact same thing here using an Audi A3!
 
OkeyD
Just won the Amateur GT Rally by almost 2 minutes. I managed to overtake at least 1 of my opponents on each trial. Fair enough I'm using a C4 Rally car, but it's well within the power limit and my lead was nowhere near that substantial in the tarmac and dirt events.

Hey, I'm not complaining. Looking forward to an easy 200k for the expert one :)
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Ditto in my Delta HF Integrale, in one of them I overtook two cars! Gutted everyone else finds it easy though - I've not tried the other two races yet, I was hoping I had madskillz and was going to smoke the other two + the Loeb challenge which I failed at so poorly no so long ago :'(
 
Gravel feels the same as snow but with less finesse to me. There's nothing about it that differs aside from the fact you need less corrections and less care on the accelerator.
 
I also found the snow event easy on the hardest one forget what its called but i destroyed them all by about 8 minutes after all 8 stages, Shame the gravel is somewhat much more tricky
 
You guys forget to differ both snow track events. The races in Gran Tursimo Rally-special events are on deep snow where the races against Sebastian Loeb are on ice. So snow gives you muh more grip and you can really feel how hard it is to get the right line on Charmonix.
 
I find that the gravel levels are so hard. It's very hard to drift around corners or keep up some speed. I want to enjoy the Eidger gravel track but its so lame to almost come to a dead stop on each corner. Lame. The cornering is horrible.


Can someone help me?
 
Both gravel and snow/ice are hard challenges as I'm using cockpit view all the way. I like driving a car rather than playing a game. Therefor it was necessary to learn the track roughly first to have a chance.
As I can't find not one complaint about the severe shaking view at high speed turns in cockpit here in this big forum my question here is, am I the only one driving inside the cars?
 
Yep the snow races are very easy. I ran the Master Snow race last night in the Delta S4 prize car and even though I wrecked a couple of times and picked up a penalty here and there I was able to win every stage by 5 to 30 seconds overall I think I was about 3 minutes ahead of the second place car and in one stage I passed them all even though one of the AI drivers spun me out in a corner.

Cool races easy exp and prize money. Would be nice if the AI were a bit faster here and the races could be re-ran for money an exp.

The dirt races were a bit harder and the Tarmac somewhere in between at least for me.

My first time out on the dirt I took the Hommell out there, spun it out several times on the first race but by the end was starting to get the hang of drifting the corners in it. I had a blast driving it but failed to take the gold so I came back in my Civic and won with ease on the first try. I used the Hommel again on the tarmac and blew em away :)
 
Gonna have to agree snow rally is very easy much easier than. gt4. Even my girlfriend who has never really played gt did extremely well at chamonix while snowing and I was impressed. Gravel isn't much harder I've found myself hitting perfect drift lines making very consistent lap times with no invisible wall contact
 
OkeyD
Just won the Amateur GT Rally by almost 2 minutes. I managed to overtake at least 1 of my opponents on each trial. Fair enough I'm using a C4 Rally car, but it's well within the power limit and my lead was nowhere near that substantial in the tarmac and dirt events.

Hey, I'm not complaining. Looking forward to an easy 200k for the expert one :)
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The AI don't spin their tires in snow rally. Watch a replay after the race and watch the AI, they go really, really slowly around every corner. I rolled my car twice in one race and still won by about 30 seconds just for that stage.
 

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