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30.09.2023Tell us your deepest hottakes and sub.
Crystal Starr
20.09.2023AMS2: "This will be the best racing sim of 2019"
17peteclarke
20.09.2023I drive gt3 championships purely because they're overrated, or at least arguably so. overrated – a lot of people and very competitive, any time of day
Eh+ SimRacing
19.09.2023Thrustmaster partners with Lovense! 🤣
Their name already sounds like a s*x toy company.
Ryan the Afroraptor
19.09.2023For the force feedback, tire model and race quality (not quantity) on offer, iRacing is extremely overpriced. When I look at their populated servers, I think of all the people that overpay at the shittiest ice cream shop in town just because it's open 24/7.
j n
19.09.2023wait… i don't get it, why wouldn't I use my wheel? I literally bought it instead of a car because my worthless ass can't afford to drive thanks to legislated poverty, my wheel gives me a sense of freedom I simply am not allowed to have because I failed at life.
DEDE Ren
19.09.2023i like the comment on poeple must leave their ego behind and drive slower class.
Happend so many time in my local karting tracks where 13hp karts are availiable,they pick the fastest kart and they are slower than a good pilot can be in a 9hp kart.
Ethan Dean
19.09.2023People who bitch about FOV, use of alternate camera angles etc are invariably chronically-online losers who'd do well to put the PC down for a sec and touch some grass. It's beyond my comprehension how some people get so worked up about how others choose to enjoy a game.
And I have well over a decade of enjoying my sims in cockpit cam, with the best FOV my single monitor setup allows, and VR when I feel like it as well. I just don't ram it down others' throats as if it's ruining my own enjoyment, because that would be fucking weird.
Fernando Cárdenas
19.09.2023Haha. Millennial and Gen -Z racing simulators… As a Gen Xer I just play GTR 2. Because this has GT2 (GT class; Vipers, Storms, S7R etc), GT3; (NGT/ G2 class; P996 RSR, F360 GTC, M3 GTR, Toledo GT) and GT4; (Elise S, Z3-M, P996 Cup, Vertigo). Simples.
Seriously though, todays GT3 (real world and sim) is extremely boring and filled with driving assists. Bring back the 'ole 6 speed manual stick shifter and three pedals and try using that in a racing situation with braking deep into a corner. Enough with the button pushing already!
Georgie Mackay
19.09.2023You can race just as hard in BeamNG as you can in iRacing you're just scared
d b
19.09.2023Hot Take
Sim snobs
Play what you like, because you enjoy it
JD Walker
19.09.2023I'm one of the guys who ragged on GT3.
The sad irony is it's one of two cars on iRacing I have any pace with 🤣
JellyFish Mcgee
19.09.2023that’s a ridiculous concept… that practice should be limited in any way… if somebody can apply more practice time and get more hours in, just like any sport they will be better. if you don’t like it that people are faster then you because they have put more hours in then you’ve clearly missed the basic fundamentals of any sport achievement.
blingclean br
15.09.2023PC 1 felt better than PC2
Athanasios Giannakis
15.09.2023Hey nice shirt 😛
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15.09.2023Traffic servers in AC aren't sim racing. It's just bunch of shitty mods with stolen models and absolutely horrible physics
Ron Knox
15.09.2023As of July, 2023 the ADAC 24 hours of the Nurburgring (Nordschleiffe) for 2024 will be part of the SRO Intercontinental GT Challenge so yes it should be in ACC for 2024.
To your other points I have always been a fan of RaceRoom. The physics are decent, the cars are very affordable and look and feel great. Yes there are flaws and limitations but as you can see everyone has sims they love, like or hate. I can give you 5 loves and 5 hates about every major sim ove rthe past 20 years as I've owned them all and I include the often much maligned simcades (I hate that term btw).
As for GT3? the cars are in the Fanatec Asia, America, Europe and Great Britain series. They are also in the DTM, ADAC GT Masters, International GT Open, IMSA Weathertech Series and many, many national series around the globe and soon to be part of WEC. Sooo how can you NOT have GT3 racing when it is in every major and minor series outside of open wheel and touring cars.
Snail
15.09.2023I like GT3 more than anything, and at this point i think some people look down at GT drivers, like "its not real racing" or "assists do all the job"
Ww Jnz
15.09.2023Raceroom needs more US players.
Athan Notoudas
15.09.2023Just as it’s true what someone said that sim racing has lost much of its joy from the tryharders it’s also true that it’s lost much if its joy because of all the whiners
And an extra one
All sims should have a safety rating and servers should focus more on whether someone is a clean driver because as it stands a lot of goodish drivers have terrible races because of others ramming them
WRXPATRICK1
15.09.2023PC2 was my favorite sim! For some reason, my shiternet started disconnecting me from every lobby. I then had to switch to iRacing because it was the only game that won't boot me out of every lobby.
JCChaconJr
15.09.2023About iRacing… Sure, the physics aren't the ABSOLUTE best, but the level of immersion and realism varies from car to car (I think the newer ones tend to do it better – maybe because the older ones don't get that many updates once they start getting dated in favor of others?), and in the end, everyone is dealing with the same physics, so it's STILL makes for very competitive driving.
About driving in the lower class multi-class car vs. the the higher class car… The point is valid, however as a counterpoint, when you are driving, would you rather spend 80% of your driving time looking in your rear-view mirror? I'm sure people who drove the Ford Mustang in multi-class back when it ran with the Daytona prototypes and Corvette C6.R GT1's can relate to this comment. It is literally comparable to being forced to drive 40MPH in the 2nd from left-most lane on the highway with everyone else around you doing 80.
About GT3… I wouldn't call it "boring" or "overrated" per se – Heck, a lot of the old mods my friends and I ran back in the EA Sports F1 days were IMSA mods, where we mostly ran the GT class cars… However, I do understand the criticism, because it's everywhere these days… ACC, rFactor 2, iRacing… I can understand that it becomes hard to stand out, because it literally becomes a driving competition – and believe me, I personally don't like it when I realize that I'm not as good a driver as I thought I was, lol. Anyway, I do think that people should run the small Formula class cars. STAR Mazda wa always popular and super fun in the early days of iRacing; Although I haven't driven them, the lower Formula cars (and the new Super Formula) look fun!
About difficult vs. realistic… Difficult is difficult, realistic is realistic. That being said, a sim doesn't have to be difficult to be realistic, and vice-versa. That being said, don't expect a "realistic" F1 sim to be easy… Looking at you, Formula Alpha 2023 Mod!
Now for my own Hot Takes: The original rFactor was awesome for its time, but not many of you want to admit it! Perhaps the fact that ISI let it grow a little long in the tooth before rF2 was announced made it a bit stale, but my opinion stands… I enjoyed MANY hours with it.
People respected each other more in iRacing circa 2013-17.
Krah Magah
15.09.2023I absolutely hate GT racing lol. Both in the Sims and IRL.
Stelcio
14.09.2023My takes, hot or not:
iRacing – excellent mutliplayer game, mediocre sim. People tend to fixate over physics so much, but in the end it's iRacing's gameplay, not physics, that makes it the most popular racing sim on the market. Max Verstappen said Assetto Corsa is the best, and yet he spends most of his time in iRacing. ACC is second only because LFM provides a complex gameplay system for it. Overall, racing sims should focus less on physics and more on gameplay. They're realistic racing games at their core, not professional products for real life race preparation.
Esports – yes, it's a detriment for the community, mainly because it causes the issue above. Esports are becoming the focus group for racing sim developers, even though they're merely a fraction of the community, not representative of its needs. Gameplay is hurting in result, because esports crowd will organize stuff on their own anyway. Regular players are left with barebones experience, overpriced iRacing or GT3-focused LFM.
GT3 – they provide close racing for a wide spectrum of drivers, but so do other classes. I believe it's more beneficial for your skill development to stick with entry level single-seaters than to drive GT3s. But I also believe the huge appeal of GT3s are big brands, beautiful silhouettes and tons of horsepower, and that's its actual advantage over Formula 3 for example.
Athan Notoudas
14.09.2023And another hot take (and I’m not just saying this to gain favoritism or for whatever reason): Your channel is criminally underrated and should be way more popular considering the quality of your work and the interesting subjects you discuss about
Stickdeath1980
14.09.2023Everyone started on a simcade game yet they love calling out people for playing Simcades even though thats where "most of us" started…
Andrew N
14.09.2023iRacing physics is bad. Still feels like Nascar 2003.. and when you see some crashes, you notice really easy the flawed physics.
some bloke
14.09.2023I like GT3 cars are cool and I think we'll really miss them when they're gone but I do agree they're not as good to drive as they are to look at
Skoda La Skoda
14.09.2023its about the quality of the competition… physics and all the other stuff is over rated… this is why gt3 is popular but crap at the same time
Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan
14.09.2023Iracing should allow different cameras (hood, roof, chaseswingman) like every other "sim"
Suellio Almeida
14.09.2023DREAM THEATER SHIRT ❤️
Simlife101
14.09.2023Resetting IR having to keep driving with clowns. No thanks