Is gt racing popular?

Right now when I see a street car server it is either all cars together i.e. Fiat vs McLaren, or single make. I think having clear classes and good balancing within the class would help.
But I think beasts like F40 s3 will never be popular.
Hopefully a gt4 class will fulfill the needs of us people who like to drive the street cars. They should be heavier and have less downforce.

 

I hear you, I to like to race the road and track day cars more than the pure bred race cars justbfor the feel of them!

 

Or they make the physics for GT3's (and E's) better. So its actually possible to spin a Z4 (I find that hard) and you got a better feel of the 1,2 tons of car you actually move.
While I think its still not as bad as the highly prasied corvette c6r.

Edit: They announced refined physics for 1.0, so maybe the GT's get a bit "meatier".

 

While not actually classification, cars in the game are tagged in the selection menu with things like "Turbo" "Supercar" "Compact" "Trackday", etc. I think those tags are pretty accurate to use for combos.

 

I just find high downforce cars like GT and open wheelers rather boring to drive. They don't have anywhere near as much "feel" as the road cars. I need the cars in AC to be as close to P&G3 style as possible!

 

I prefer the wobbly cars myself (Lotus 49 will soon have the most mileage in my AC garage), but I also enjoy the other extreme (Exos S1) because it's more of a technical drive that demands laser-like precision. GT cars fall somewhere in the middle which I personally find quite boring.

 

I like most of the cars (hate Bimmers except M3 E30) and even if under threat of death I couldn´t possibly decide on 1 car .

Street cars give me the feel and out-of-control crazyness when going bonkers with em, GT´s demand a tender but quick hand to get speedy and the open wheelers are some good ways of having some "how-quick-can-i-think-and-react" training and do some "minimizing necessary driving inputs" and the always necessary "blink and you´re dead" training we all love so much ... so I want, love and need them all, undivided and equally loved

It´s all still cars ... like them for what they are, not what they "should be" .

 

"Blink and you're dead" racing is certainly not what I am looking for.

 

Now now, let's try to keep it objective as can be peeople.
Wobblyness and lack of downforce =/= feel. Subjectively you might like wobbly cars more than tight ones and that is fine, it is a preference.
All openwheelers have plenty of delicious feel, very different feel too. Very different approach to racing in all of them. Objectively speaking.

I have to admit this despite not really liking open wheelers myself for various reasons. All subjective.

 

Maybe AC doesn't transport this feel from highdownforce-cars in a for some satifying degree. Overall we don't know what the devs think themeselves about the physics etc. in detail and where they are planing to improve it, so it may change.
I don't like openwheelers and so cant speak about them, but I think the C6R was a letdown regaring "feel" in comparsion to the Kunos cars, felt kinda weightless and floaty, while being as heavy as other GT's. But the cars from Kunos cars, could in theory improved,too.
And the "its perfect just like it is"-train usually moves sooner or later, if updates/another sim appears.

 

Could you suggest sims/the sim, where the GT's are more exciting and the most exciting to drive? Would like to try them.
I have zero real experience and didn'T play much sims, besides im driving with a pad, but compared to the streetcars and some racecars the GT's feel kinda light and blant for me and kinda floaty, so I have far less feeling what the car/tires do.

 

Do you always find that many servers? Im having issues finding servers with people playing, at least more then 4-5 that are filled. Do I need to open some specific ports for AC?

 

Rfactor 2 has the best gt cars imo while ac has the best roadcars.

 

I had no idea that rf2 even had licensed GT cars.

 

Yeah, I also don#t understand which cars Hany means here except the Corvette and the Nissan^^

 

I forgot about those...guess I need to reinstall rf2 one of these days

 

Probably he mean those and maybe the URD-mod or other mods. I had read a few times that they are better in RF2 then AC.

Anyway maybe its possible make the GT's in AC "better" with a setup, sadly thats something I have no clue about, besides some changes in aero and tirepressure.

 

gtr, corvette, 370z, clio and megane. lets put it like this; race cars in rf2 feel more real than in ac. default setup is not great in these cars but when u put some time and make a decent setup, the cars will shine.

also urd guys in rf2 are 10x better than in ac.

 

The URD cars in RF2 are some of the best cars ive EVER driven. I own all URD's stuff and always will as they are creating some of the best stuff for both sims. But the cars feel so imdividual in RF2, they have big "personalities" And Imho the sounds sound better to.

I also think that RF2 has better race cars, AC has better road cars.

 

What would people prefering GTs from other sims suggest to improve them in AC? Or is there a thread for that?
Im aware of the high downforce, but they feel somehow much lighter then they are.
In streetcars I got a better feeling for weight and that I roll on tires, instead of a more floaty feeling in the GT's.