Anyone play with anything more than cosmetic damage switched on?

[Joey Two Bastards]

Tried it recently but you don't really get an indication of how broken or worn anything is.

[the bat kite]

I think that is a good setting to keep on all the time, except..... A couple of those especially punishing and long high profile media attended races (for the big money paydays!), taking you across the huge Mexico map; those track conditions can lead to your speed and braking increasingly failing you along the way. Usually it's close to the finish line that you lose your podium place to car failures, and the AI just start rolling past your stricken car.

When you lose places on longer races to that setting's mysterious ways I start to think it isn't such a good thing after all. If there was a better visual damage model, that'd help - help you see how trashed you are at such and such a point. I crash into the AI on purpose. Rear-engine cars ought to be all that I race :D

Some tracks are a problem. I'd rather not turn the full damage setting on and off depending on the tracks. I don't want to abandon a race after being in it a long time because the car won't get up to speed anymore.

The volcano tracks that are long and curvy and steeply inclined, or instead are wildly bouncy w/insane suicidal drops off cliffs make the full damage setting not such a good thing - not then and there.

On those marathon courses where there are numerous frame-bending, sheet metal-rippling, window shattering impacts [those] can cost you the race if set to full damage.

[Joey Two Bastards]

Thanks - those were my thoughts too, there's a lot of collateral damage that can happen in even a short race. Wouldn't be so bad if in AI races if the AI had the damage model too I guess. But no way would I have it set like that online, so many times people slam you into walls, ram you, etc... whether on purpose or by accident, a broken car is a broken car.

[Swarmfly]

I certainly would consider doing so had the feature as a whole was more fleshed-out and also applied to AI opponents.

[Sherlok]

You can see the current state of your car at the telemetry screen (default T on the keyboard), just cycle to the last tab.

Having the damage enabled just a handicap in this game because AI doesn't subject to it and online no one is using it.

For instance, in the long road races even if you doesn't crash, your tires will worn out, so at the end your car would be driving like it's on the ice.