why is the driving so bad

[Batsassin]

worse than watch dogs!

edit: this game is just not very good, horrible gameplay mechanics, terrible controls, bad port, definitely not a game you should buy.

edit 2: this game is growing on me, it takes time to get used to it. it's fun but has some flaws

[Yatagan]

Do you play with mouse and keyboard? The driving is horrible on keyboard because they used analog driving instead of digital. When you turn the wheel with a/d it slowly ramps up to a maximum turn angle, instead of instantly snapping. This results in delayed control and while it's more "realistic" its significantly harder to control. I wish they'd give us a setting for digital driving, like how most other games do keyboard. (GTA, etc.)

[Mysterion]

Change title to: Why are the controls so bad

[Batsassin]

Originally posted by Yatagan:

Do you play with mouse and keyboard? The driving is horrible on keyboard because they used analog driving instead of digital. When you turn the wheel with a/d it slowly ramps up to a maximum turn angle, instead of instantly snapping. This results in delayed control and while it's more "realistic" its significantly harder to control. I wish they'd give us a setting for digital driving, like how most other games do keyboard. (GTA, etc.)

controller

Originally posted by Mysterion:

Change title to: Why are the controls so bad

truer words have not been spoken. this game was bound to flop

[zott283z]

THE PICK UP TRUCKS R SLOW THE SOLDIERS ACT DUMB NOT GOOD

[Manish]

This might just be me, but I feel that civilian cars drive badly, but military land vehicles drive alright.

[Dark Malgus]

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[Clemente II]

Supposedly they hired new developers from a previous racing game but the controls don't really feel that different from the last game

[Foster]

Even with the best car in the game, the duo (AKA the Formula 1 car,) driving challenges are a nightmare. There's one that is literally impossible because for no reason sometimes when you try to hit one of the several WAY too sharp turns it'll gain sentience for a second and attempt to kill you in a car crash making you lose like 5-10 seconds and of course that last gear to max it.
And that's not even taking into account the fact there's one last bullcrap sharp turn that has a 0.01% chance that you'll make it without crashing into the grassy area next to it turning the F1 car's handling and speed into nothing and of course making you waste those last precious couple of seconds that you have to get the 5th gear.

Needless to say the car handling is utter trash.
And that's only one driving challenge, there's another with a jump aimed at a gas station and a CLIFF EDGE with the road of course being another sharp turn.

[Albert Solberg]

I wish the driving was like it is in GTA V.

[bigbenisdaman]

You're so close to the back of every vehicle its impossible to drive in this game. Not sure why they put a fixed camera in this game.....

[Dateline NBC]

EDGY

[Foster]

Originally posted by bigbenisdaman:

You're so close to the back of every vehicle its impossible to drive in this game. Not sure why they put a fixed camera in this game.....

There's an option to turn that off, actually.

In any case other people were correct, the driving is 100x better when you use a controller.
Personally this is the only thing so far that seems console port-like to me, otherwise I'm enjoying the game perfectly fine with no real gripes. I play for explosions, the grappling hook and wingsuit flying and that's exactly what I get. I just wish the beacon limit wasn't freaking tied to car upgrades (and of course the driving with keyboard and mouse didn't suck,) that's non-sensical.

[Toothbrush Cheapwood]

who cares !! YOU CAN FLY DUDE !!!

[Foster]

Originally posted by Streven:

Sounds to me like you're not real familiar with general concepts concerning traction and braking. The driving controls and physics in this game are really pretty awesome. But they do require you to drive with some discipline and develop some skill.

The keyboard and mouse driving is just awful. With a controller it's actually rather good, but as mentioned by some people before the reason why there's a change is because the keyboard and mouse use analog steering for no reason in particular.
There's nothing based on skill when sometimes when you try to turn it turns exactly like you want it to, sometimes when you try to turn it spins out and sometimes when you try to turn it goes farther than you actually held the key for and so you slam into a wall and waste 5 seconds backing up.

My point still stands that keyboard and mouse driving needs tweaking. As in it needs to be digital control instead of analog. With analog steering it makes cars into boats, tanks into bigger boats, and boats into boats without steering wheels.

[Diggity D]

Driving is only ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on bikes.