Your opinion on Racing Softs?

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Joined a Nordschleife room yesterday and took my Nissan R92cp with default tuning around the ring on sports hards, no assists or abs. Soooo FUN.
 
mikeonthebike
Joined a Nordschleife room yesterday and took my Nissan R92cp with default tuning around the ring on sports hards, no assists or abs. Soooo FUN.
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Shouldn't this be in the meme thread with a photo of Chuck Norris?
 
Spagetti69
Shouldn't this be in the meme thread with a photo of Chuck Norris?
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Hahaha I laughed SOOOO hard when I read that, great post!!

Wasn't easy but was a lot of fun, it had to be DRIVEN. I was just watching some real life in car videos of that car on youtube and I'll have to say it was really close, and I was glad to see it was a clutched shift car instead of sequential. I was driving the same way on my g27.

The real car burns off at almost any speed if you don't tame your throttle, and the gt5 version on Sports hards was the same way needing major throttle control to avoid blowing the tires off and ending up backwards at 150mph/ 240kmh give or take a few kmh
 
Lol. As long as you had fun mate.
Trying to match the tires to real world grip levels and no aids is where the fun is had.

I don't knock anyone who uses aids. If they gain enjoyment from a product they paid for then good luck to all.
 
I'm not too fond of them but I use them when I need to be competitive in a race or keep up with drivers in Free Runs. I tend to favor Sport Hard and below.
 
If I'm "grinding" to make cash or win cars, I may put them on. But anymore, I like a little slip available on the back of the car so I can generate a 4 wheel drift.
 
Hmmm... I got no problems whatsoever with this tire, that beign said for ultimate realism you wouldn't go any higher than Sport Softs on a street car maybe Racing Hard on some exceptional hyper cars.
The racing tire range belong on Race/Track dedicated cars wich we don't have many of. Racing hards for everything up to Super GT 500/GT3/GT2 cars anything higher than that the Racing Softs fit the bill perfectly, but then again you have the ridiculous tire wear situation...
In my opinion PD needs to revise their tire model or plainly build a new one that makes sense from scratch!
 
Jav
Hmmm... I got no problems whatsoever with this tire, that beign said for ultimate realism you wouldn't go any higher than Sport Softs on a street car maybe Racing Hard on some exceptional hyper cars.
The racing tire range belong on Race/Track dedicated cars wich we don't have many of. Racing hards for everything up to Super GT 500/GT3/GT2 cars anything higher than that the Racing Softs fit the bill perfectly, but then again you have the ridiculous tire wear situation...
In my opinion PD needs to revise their tire model or plainly build a new one that makes sense from scratch!
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ridiculous grip comes with ridiculous wear, and that's applicable to every Racing tire of the game.
 
Hate them they just have to much grip for my taste . plus the Ai never uses them anyway .. . they make it to easy and boring for you to win

i never usually go above racing hards ..
 
Never used to have an 'opinion' on these tyres only that, if I was struggling to win an A-spec race and there were no tyre restrictions, I ocassionally gave up and bought a set to give me the advantage.

However, I have recently started playing online.

I joined a room simply called '500pp or less' which was being run by this guy who constantly drove a silver S2000 with bright green wheels.

Great, a challenge for my PP500 car - the RUF RGT or my recently acquired Lotus Esprit 350 :)

However, after setting a lap-time which got me onto the 3rd place spot it soon became obvious that drivers around me had a significant advantage in everything but a straight line.

It totally ruins the game. My RGT was fine-tuned to run on Sports Hard tires specifically for most seasonal events, so when getting overtaken by the likes of a BMW 330i or a Honda S2000 I was a bit miffed.

Thing that bugs me, though, is that the other people in that lobby will have gone away thinking, "yes, I am a brilliant driver. I totally destroyed that RUF"

humph.
 
I think attaching them makes almost any car boring to drive, but then again if I'm struggling in an event I have no problems with using them.

When I first got the game I didn't even know that different tyres existed, so when I first found them I used them at every chance.

For the next GT game I hope PD make an entirely new tyre model, something that keeps all cars fun to drive.
 
If people want to use them, that is ok for me, it only spoils your own fun....But what i do not understand is that people come to claim it would be 'unrealistic'. Well i hate to 'pop' your bubble, but there are more things in GT5 wich are not realistic, and when i see people driving (or racing) online, that is not realistic either.....

It is the player himself who decides how 'realistic' his experience would be, just by not using them, you have created a different inviroment...

It is not because my Porshe is able to make 250km/hr, i have to drive it at that speed all the time....

My opinion ofcourse...
 
Chris_rx7_2005
Never used to have an 'opinion' on these tyres only that, if I was struggling to win an A-spec race and there were no tyre restrictions, I ocassionally gave up and bought a set to give me the advantage.

However, I have recently started playing online.

I joined a room simply called '500pp or less' which was being run by this guy who constantly drove a silver S2000 with bright green wheels.

Great, a challenge for my PP500 car - the RUF RGT or my recently acquired Lotus Esprit 350 :)

However, after setting a lap-time which got me onto the 3rd place spot it soon became obvious that drivers around me had a significant advantage in everything but a straight line.

It totally ruins the game. My RGT was fine-tuned to run on Sports Hard tires specifically for most seasonal events, so when getting overtaken by the likes of a BMW 330i or a Honda S2000 I was a bit miffed.

Thing that bugs me, though, is that the other people in that lobby will have gone away thinking, "yes, I am a brilliant driver. I totally destroyed that RUF"

humph.
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1. Open your own room, limit tires.
2. Search for rooms limited to the tires of your choice.
3. Multi-tune your cars for different tire options. <<my preference

Get used to it because RS tires are the most common tire choice online and you can't compete without using them in a room that allows them.
 
Does it matter if you race with racing softs, just because you don't race with them that makes you a better driver.
 
I often race the FGT's on Comfort Hard-Soft, surprisingly grippy, last forever, and more fun.
 
xEnZo
Does it matter if you race with racing softs, just because you don't race with them that makes you a better driver.
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That's an opinion. RS allows for more grip, but a crap driver with RS tires is still a crap driver. Tire choice doesn't make you any more or less competent or skilled.
 
Super sticky maybe to a fault. I still use them quiet often, though occasionally I like the car to have a little give on the road surface.
 
McClarenDesign
That's an opinion. RS allows for more grip, but a crap driver with RS tires is still a crap driver. Tire choice doesn't make you any more or less competent or skilled.
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When playing online, some of the realism disappears anyway (the physics, for one). I've used RWD cars where I put Racing Mediums on the front, Racing Soft's on the back, and I STILL oversteered/spun out so easy it wasn't even funny.

Then we all did a race where everyone had to use the same car, and they had Sports Hards on (RWD cars, too). Amazing how much more stable they were, for some odd reason. I mean they were all stock, but damn if they weren't stable.
 
R1600Turbo
Everyone was talking about F1 cars and what they should use. You mentioned Racing Hard, and I showed you that in reality, Comfort Soft tires suit the car more as the person who made the video (who I know personally) matched the pole time at the same track with the same car on those tires.

Just sayin'.
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What you showed is a F1 car with grooved tires.

If a skilled F10 user could do a comparison between the real life F10 and the GT5 version on the various racing compounds, it could help somewhat. But do bare in mind the 2010 Bridgestone tires were like concrete, and due to a lack of a 2011 F1 in GT5 we cant test GT5 tires vs modern Pirelli F1 tires.

EDIT: To answer the thread, there is nothing wrong with them imo. The amount of elitism thrown around is ridiculous. You only drive the Ring in the Yellow Bird using Comfort Hards? Good for you!
Those that claim it is no fun, you are wrong, stop portraying your opinion as fact. I have had more fun with a tuned Prius on Racing Softs on tight tracks than I probably ever will with 'pro' tires on X supercar.

The only car I use Comfort Tires is the X2010 and X2011, Comfort Hards make it far less twitchy so I have an easier time controlling it, and thus get quicker and more consistent lap times.

On some sports cars I will hapily use Sport Soft, and use the other racing tires on mid ranged race cars, but I prefer RS on most.
And as was said above, a great driver is a great driver, no matter what tire he uses. A noob is still a noob, no matter the tire.
 
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Ravicale
Here is how I use tyres:

Comfort ___: Too slippy for me.
Sports hard: 150 hp and less
Sports med: 225 hp and less
Sports soft: 300 hp and less
Racing hard: 400 hp and less
racing med: 550 hp and less (many exceptions)
Racing soft: higher than 550 hp.
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I agree with this!
 
If you fit an F430 scuderia with comfort softs and can win a race without leaving a mark on the road then I'd be surprised if doing the same race with racing softs doesn't bore you to bits.

Anyone else noticed that there are more and more road tyre lobbies available the last week or two? Good times! 👍👍
 
RS = my opinion will probably get me in trouble here lol.
What really makes me laugh is when people couple RS with aids... that's like hoisting a flag saying that you can't drive. Lol. Get some self respect.
 

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