Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20171012153420/@comment-28169398-20171013163538

84.24.8.99 wrote: Amrosa wrote: 84.24.8.99 wrote: Why would you put steering sensitivity on 0?! I see no benefit in that at all.

I keep it on average (=5), and race with all assists off, without any problems (and at a level well above average).

On a phone that is. I use an iPhone SE which is probably the smallest current phone.

I think the better a person gets at this game the lower the sensitivity they start to use. It is because they are nailing the braking points so they are not going into curves hot, which means they are hitting the apex and not having to over steer to keep the car on track.

The lower you can get the sensitivity, the less twitchy the car becomes, the more you can stay on the racing line. Obvioulsy there are exceptions like Hong Kong and Porsche Dynamic, but the lower the sensitivity you can drive with, the tendency seems to be the better the lap time.... Not trying to be harsh, but that makes no sense at all.

With a higher sensitivity you have more control. With that comes more room for error.

Hence you have to be better to race with a higher steering sensitivity.

With a smaller device, comparable to a smaller steering wheel in a real car, you also have more control. So to even that out one might want to use a slightly lower steering sensitivity setting.

However, I stand by my original statement that putting the sensitivity on 0 is overdoing it, because like SM Racer mentioned, you have to tilt the phone way too much to get through sharp corners.

ZimFrank runs sensitivity at 0... seems to work for him.

And it does make sense. Racing line is what makes up all the time differences. Higher sensitivity allows you to make bigger corrections, which masks mistakes in line.

With Sensitivity at 0, if you turn in too early, you will be pointing at an angle above the racing line, usually off the track, to late, and you are going to run off of the track and have to increase your turn radius to get you back on line, which makes you have to have a few corrections to track on the line again.

With high sensitivity, you can be too early on your turn in and you can over steer onto the race line, but you will lose speed from 1) braking to soon, 2) losing the back end, even slightly and inducing a skid. Turn in too late and you can steer back onto the line, but you will likely induce a slide and lose a lot of time.

With the lowest sensitivity, you actually need to run the most precise line around the track that you can. With high sensitivity, you will mask the mistakes and not realize where you are messing up corners. Everyone thinks Speed Junkie (Jan)'s brake points are so early because he is so much faster, but that isn't the case. He is faster because he is braking earlier, because that puts him on the proper line for exit from the corner and he can be aggressive with the throttle out of the turn because he isn't going to be above the line or have to wrestle the car back onto the line and skid.