Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20191221124642/@comment-28169398-20191221161058

Physics and car dynamics have not been changed. Period.

Why? Because it would completely nullify all of the TSM data and FM has only done that in a few extreme cases, such as with the McLAREN F1 GTR. There they actually retired an entire series as a result in order to make the change.

Also, anecdotes are almost never proof of anything. I can do a lap that I think is the best I can do, and then the next lap I go a full second faster and then try again and can't get within a second of the first lap. That doesn't prove anything about the game. It only says that I probably lack the consistency to put exactly the same lap in every single time.

AI has changed. And Assists are AI related.

The game always encourages you to drive without assists. Why? because they are not reliable and not perfect. BA High brakes way too early. BA Low brakes too late and compromises exit speed. SA High slavishly tries to keep you on the spline of the track. TC is a complete speed killer.

So if you want to say that Assists have changed in 8.0, that may be the case and it could affect your performance if you are an assists driver, but for those of us who don't use assists, we aren't seeing changes in car performance for an undamaged car.

Degradation from damage during a race is a whole other matter. There, it looks like it is creating a big loss of top speed as you accumulate more damage. If you use the cracked windscreen as an indicator, I will lose about 7kph on the first Le Mans straight in the Nismo... It wasn't that much before unless you really "wrecked" the car.