Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-66.177.205.56-20150803172112/@comment-27170954-20161004235259

For a long time i played with just low steering assists. I couldn't get over the hump to no assists...I used the excuse that with no steering assists, it was too easy to get wrecked by the smallest bump form a bot. As a result, i would have a hard time in special events where all assists were disabled.

I wanted to get to now assists for two reasons: 1) so i was not dependent on them in the special events, and 2) reading this site made me believe i coulld go faster w/o them.

Back in January I bit the bullet and made the switch. At the time my farming race was the 5-laps in acooldade open. SO, before turning off the assists I slowed my bots as much as i could (endurance target for off-line bots was below 2.0 miles). i turned off the assists and never went back.

It took about 2 months to get my lap times back close to where they were with low assists, but i don't regret it in the least. At first it was quite difficult and frustrating. Slow bots made it easy to get to the front, but driving fast was elusive. You have to rotate your device differently to turn and the brake points are different w/o assists - it takes time to change your muscle memory and you eye-hand coordination. Using the advice on this site I experimented with the steering sensitivity and found the setting that works best for me.

I've learned to setup passes better so i don't get wrecked (though i am still sort of a brute-force racer). The assists annoy me now because the car doesn't go exactly where you point it and i now find it harder to recover from the innevitable off-track excursions with any assists.

Now, there are only two places I use assists. HIGH steering in NASCAR on oval tracks (Richmond and the Daytona and Indy Speedways) and the first time through a time trial. I commonly run full assists ( high/high/on ) with an unserviced car just to collect the series completion bonuses.