Driver's view preference!

[Tryshard]

I use hood view. I understand why people think the in-car view is more realistic. But in my experience in driving real cars in competition the hood view is more realistic. When you are driving competitively your focus is on the road and basically your peripheral vision is suppressed, thus the need for bright shift lights. When driving you only focus on what you need to go fast and if you need to look at stuff inside the car you are not driving fast.

[TeknoBug]

I'm a long time sim racer, it's the most immersive experience to be in cockpit view and have the correct field of view settings for it all to work.

[stburr91]

Originally posted by Tryshard:

I use hood view. I understand why people think the in-car view is more realistic. But in my experience in driving real cars in competition the hood view is more realistic. When you are driving competitively your focus is on the road and basically your peripheral vision is suppressed, thus the need for bright shift lights. When driving you only focus on what you need to go fast and if you need to look at stuff inside the car you are not driving fast.

Well, there is no wrong view to use in a video game, use whatever view you like, but don't tell us sitting on a hood driving the car is more "realistic'.

[karik_FIN_134]

Hood = can see front corners of the car clearly

In car head/helmet = can't see front corners at all in more modern cars

Makes a huge difference on narrow roads when u see front corners and can place the car so u get most inside lines without hitting stuff.
In-car view u most likely leave enough room as a precaution and automatically lose time with sub-optimal lines in corners or etc narrow areas.

[Paradox1126]

if you're not in cockpit view. YOU'RE WRONG!

[[RXS] da| reeZe ^.-]

in my opinion for esports and the last tenth of a second the hood view is the best view.
It gives so most feeling (for a video game) about the car-wide and also how the car reacts.
Most third person views lag behind with the view and make it harder to calculate the behavior.
But for most realistic/immersiv experience i mostly still drive in cockpit view.
So i would say, it is a personal preference.

*EDIT*: Also for flatscreens the sense of speed is in hood-view way better then in cockpit. Inside Cockpit it mostly feels slower then you be.

[mattshep69]

For me cockpit view only makes sense in VR. With a pancake game, cockpit view is too restrictive, cutting down what I can see, as I cant move or turn my head slightly to see what I need to see (like I would in real life driving) such as the apex of the corner or the offside of the car, so judging gaps is more difficult. Each to their own though. For these reasons I use bonnet cam as like the OP it provides a similar experience to what I see of the road, when I drive a real car.

[Tracker_168]

I use the dash view. Helmet view is the usual preference but this game's seat adjust is too limited to get it where I want it to be. And as a result, its a bit immersion breaking. Bonnet view is too unrealistic. Yeah, you can see the corners better but not realistic. Dashview I think is a reasonable compromise but not perfect either.

[Slate]

I always used the cockpit or dash, now it's strictly dash with a rally 1 car or any car that has the banner on top of the windshield. I find myself struggling to see well when approaching severe crests or hills etc.

[mattshep69]

Originally posted by Slate:

I always used the cockpit or dash, now it's strictly dash with a rally 1 car or any car that has the banner on top of the windshield. I find myself struggling to see well when approaching severe crests or hills etc.

or when the bonnet starts lifting after a crash LOL

[VeeDubz]

For me it has to be dash view.. I prefer head cam but after pushing for the DR2.0 if in doubt.. flatout achievement's, i found myself able to concentrate better (I use no OSD either so seeing the rev counter and gear displays is nice if/when i need them). Also newer car windshields are super long and I’m sure they have scanned them to scale yet head cam makes me feel like I’m sat in the back seats!

What i do find odd is i prefer LHD vehicles when i only ever drive RHD IRL :)

[stburr91]

Originally posted by Slate:

I always used the cockpit or dash, now it's strictly dash with a rally 1 car or any car that has the banner on top of the windshield. I find myself struggling to see well when approaching severe crests or hills etc.

Yes, but I hate that the dash takes up 45% of the screen, and you can move the camera.

[Cruisix]

For now. Hood until VR, then back to the inside of the car!

[ryzu]

I use a rig. and, generally speaking, always use cockpit with as accurate FoV as I can obtain, for every sim - except rally games where I use hood view. The cockpit view in this game (and DR 2.0) is terrible. The dash view is passable but the glass effects don't do it for me and the warped, incorrectly positioned roof pillars kill immersion anyway. Setting the right FoV in cockpit can be very immersive in other racers, but personally i have no time for gatekeepers of sim racing who act like there is only one way and everything else is wrong - its a game man - get over yourself. Drive how it suits you.

[Attackmack]

I want to use the dashcam but the view are so inhibited on some cars, and no options to adjust the view as you can the other cameras...
I also can adjust to the cars with steering on the right side, wish there was an option and not forced.

I do dashcam on the cars it fits, the rest I go with Hood.
I hope we get the above mentioned options but I doubt it, game is really fun but overall a very halfbaked product. You can almost tell they plan to release these games yearly so quality goes first.

[Tryshard]

I guess we can all agree to disagree!