Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-208.91.114.4-20180428022626

I normally play tilt B, sensitivity 7, with all assists off (though I have certainly used them at times in the past). I'm using a relatively small phone (Samsung G7), which I assume is a handicap relative to most people.

My impression from what I read here is that the assists "only slow you down" and that they are merely doing things that you could be doing with the controller. However, I decided to turn on steering assists today based on a recommendation for improving my WTT time on Laguna Seca, and I was surprised at what a huge immediate difference it made... I was able to regularly beat my ghost by at least half a second going into turn 6 (the corner I always screw up).

The first thing I observe is ironically that steering assists make you skid more easily. I guess the AI is turning before I'm ready to do it, because I'm skidding all over the place in the first U turn.

However, in the next several gentler turns after that, I find that I'm able to take the corners much faster than I could do without the steering assists. I have no idea why.

And where I really notice the difference (ironically) is in the braking. When I brake with steering assists on, if I also shake the phone back and forth, I can get much improved braking power. This is where most of my improved lap time is coming from. I can brake at the same spot (overhead flags), but really accelerate quickly out of turn 5 using this technique, which gains at least .3s relative to my previous line.

So what's going on internally with steering assist. It seems to me like it's doing stuff that was physically impossible by just tilting the controller. Or am I imagining things? 