Gear changes

This is a big bug bear for me. While the sounds in general are excellent, a lot of the race cars that should have sequential/double clutch gearboxes sound awful when changing gear, up and down. On up shifts, it's like the clutch is still being used and the throttle isn't being cut, so the revs rise a bit when changing gear and it sounds like your grannies driving. It's such an immersion breaker, especially for the GT3 cars. There needs to be a clear, clean shift in gears with a nice pop added in every now and then (it works on a lot of the open wheel cars, so the capability is there). If you quickly release the throttle while changing gear you can hear how good they can sound. Down shifting also seems a little brutal, again on most GT cars.

 

I found it odd in the huayra, the sound redlines for a second when changing gear. Is it meant to ?

 

Nope, it's not. Does it in the old F1 cars too. You have to lift off the throttle to get a decent gear change. If you've got auto clutch off, that's fair enough, but I'm playing on a controller with auto clutch on.

Have a go with the La Ferrari. It sounds terrible. And that has one of the fastest changing gear boxes of any road car.

It's not with all cars though. The Corvette GT2 is how all the cars with sequential/double clutch gear boxes should work.

 

It's annoying yes. I'm finding it only happens when using paddles on a manual shift car though.


Basically lift and then shift on any car where you're using paddles and it's supposed to be a manual shift.

On a Ferrari F355 ( a real one ) it does the same thing when using the paddles unless you lift and shift.