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AE86 on 20 June 2009
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selnor said:
Oniichan said:
selnor said:
 


Thats actually really good attention to detail. They were probably playing with Automatic gears. Which means it would not be realistic for the driver to reach down and change gear.

Something GT5P is not accurate on. In GT5P when you have automatic gears, the driver still reaches down and changes gear!?

ah so its confirmed that the hand actually does move off the wheel to change gears when your using manual gearing instead of auto? or is that just an assumption your making?

Cause thats a pretty big thing if they are going for realism when your using inside car view.


I'm sure they will have it implemented. They are a pure sim dev after all. They have made their physics engine right up ther to compete with PC sims according to Inside sim racing.tv.

But it makes pure sense if it's auto that it isnt there. Something that always bothered me playing GT5P.

You can't be serious.

Automatic in racing games means either one of 2 things;

1. The car is actually changed to an automatic transmission in which case there is no need to reach down to shift, unless of course the transmission is tiptronic, this is usually used in low-quality arcade style racing games as it is unrealistic because most high performance cars don't have the option of being built with automatic transmissions.

OR as is the case with most realistic racing games/sims including GT5:P;

2. Every car in the game is equipped with a manual transmission (or tiptronic if the car was never built with a manual i.e McLaren SLR), turning the option to automatic makes the game do the shifting for you, but the car itself is still manual, its very easy to tell as you can clearly hear that even in automatic mode the cars are still shifting manually. They usually do this because the manual transmissions not only sounds the best but is also the better performing transmission. Most of the cars in GT5:P never had the option of being built with automatic transmissions, so this was the most realistic option. It would be stupid and highly unrealistic to put an automatic transmission in a car that was never built with one.

With all your claimed "extensive" knowledge of racing games I thought you would know this.  Besides, who the hell plays on automatic anyways?