1.5 Update is out!

Makes me wonder if it's just overspecialization... if you train enough on a car and then it's suddenly 2 seconds quicker, your reflexes will be telling you "this is really easy to drive" because you're doing what you learned, and the car's that much less close to the edge of grip than it used to be.

I know when I go from street cars into a Formula Abarth, it feels really easy to drive - good brakes, no trouble putting full throttle, tons of cornering grip. The difference is that as a formula car, you can apply inputs 2-3 times as fast and it's set up to respond well to that. For example FAbarth braking consists of 100% brake pedal, as fast as your foot can hit the floor. Very little waiting for weight transfer and with the amount of grip it has, you're not going to lock up tires until you lose aero load. In a road car you have to take your time and make sure that you adjust steering to compensate for where the weight's going.

Of course it's pointless to look at that and say "oh the Abarth has no simulation value, only street cars are realistic", that's not the real difference between them.

Anyway, real cars aim to be simple - the fewer unexpected behaviours they have, the safer they are to drive. From a car manufacturer point of view, the ideal car does exactly what you want every time you ask it to. Turn the wheel left, car goes left. Hold it straight, car goes straight. They'll dial out oversteer/understeer to the extent that it's possible to eliminate oversteer in a 500hp car.

 

Just received a small update - realtime app update and fix to audio. 1.5.9 (run of of numbers? )

Sorry if posted before - only just launch for first time since Sunday night.

 

10 comes after 9 you know? I think we already had version that went over 9.
Anyway, I think we're done for 1.5 so this should be the last one.

 

You can never run out of numbers - just didn't recall us going so high on a version before

 

you're right it's rare.. but in the changelog I've found one that went to 10:

1.0.10 RC

 

I remember a discussion in ea after 0.9.x has to come the full release version. You came up with 0.10

 

Buongiorno!
Any hope for Spectator mode?