Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20161102200910/@comment-26388545-20161104045359

RandyMc wrote: I know a lot of new players are using assists. Its great until you learn the game. But I remember way back when I first got to pro/am I found I couldn't progress anymore with assists on. TC will slow you down, but the worst thing is brake assist. High brake assist will completely spoil a race, and low brake assist, well seriously, what is it good for? You still have to manually brake, and if you do that, why have it at all? Hey Randy. For me with low brakes there were only 2 places in an entire Le Mans lap that I had to manually brake (with TC on). On every track there is a section or a corner that I had to brake. Otherwise I could just focus on my line and drive. If you don't drive the games preferred line, it fights you a lot. The downside is when you WANT to drive a different line!

It's also way less draining, so I can race a lot longer. I couldn't imagine doing my 18 hour Le Mans double fame weekend any other way. As my above post shows, I have adjusted to most assists off at Le Mans now. Still don't want to do 18 hours that way!

On some tracks any brakes made you slow, even before the update. The short Nurburgring circuit was the most notable. Porsche tracks, especially the bus stop sections come to mind. I'm switching to less and less assists on those tracks. I agree when people say it's not real racing until you turn off assists, but I still like them at times.