Question about the Nexus RX

[•.Mercury.•]

I purchased the car recently and I really like it but Im not sure what the best way to tune it is. I set the differential to locked because the car seems to not be able to make any turns without it. Can anyone experienced tell me if this is right or not? When the differential is open or limited the car seems to turn to a specific angle and then keep going at that angle no matter what I do, making it very hard to control on turns. With locked I can spin it a bit more on turns making them actually possible.

[Murdoch]

Locked will make it turn less, locking it is good for holding drifts but if you go on to a track with alot of tight bends it might get abit hard, I'm not sure wich car the Nexus is now, not gotten to that one yet I guess.

Are you doing career stuff or online or what do you do? I've only done the career stuff pretty much so far, only owned the game a short while.

So I just tune it to target a certain class pretty much. I know fairly well what parts will have the best impact on performance mostly thanks to all the youtube hours spent on shows like Roadkill and the likes.... ;) I better understand what a difference a cam and valves and stuff can do, and since all parts in a game like this is meant to increase performance its not hard to see that the more expensive cam will make my car faster! ;)

[•.Mercury.•]

Originally posted by Murdoch:

Locked will make it turn less, locking it is good for holding drifts but if you go on to a track with alot of tight bends it might get abit hard, I'm not sure wich car the Nexus is now, not gotten to that one yet I guess.

Are you doing career stuff or online or what do you do? I've only done the career stuff pretty much so far, only owned the game a short while.

So I just tune it to target a certain class pretty much. I know fairly well what parts will have the best impact on performance mostly thanks to all the youtube hours spent on shows like Roadkill and the likes.... ;) I better understand what a difference a cam and valves and stuff can do, and since all parts in a game like this is meant to increase performance its not hard to see that the more expensive cam will make my car faster! ;)

Thanks for the such a detailed response. I think its the drifting that helps. The nexus without being tuned to locked CANNOT drift from my experience. It just locks at a certain angle which makes hard turns impossible. With it on locked I can drift my way through those turns and stablize the car myself. It seems like the best option for all tracks except the big stadium ovals. And just so you know the nexus is the compact B class FWD car.

[Purple44]

Are you using no assists? If using assists, may effect the drifting.

[•.Mercury.•]

Originally posted by Purple44:

Are you using no assists? If using assists, may effect the drifting.

Nope, no assists. The car simply does refuses to drift and go into turns smoothly without me tuning it. I guess thats the point of tuning but Im just wondering if others have this experience with the nexus.

[Murdoch]

The best car seem to be the Tristar in the beginning, it handles superbly and drift nicely :D My cousin started in one and he won most races easily, I started in the little SAAB 95, what ever its called.. firefly or something.. :P The little Firefly is awesome but in some races its not optimal ;)

Think the Tristar is based off a Nissan GT-R 70's or 80's, the old ones, not the fancy ones from the 90's or later :)

[•.Mercury.•]

Originally posted by Murdoch:

The best car seem to be the Tristar in the beginning, it handles superbly and drift nicely :D My cousin started in one and he won most races easily, I started in the little SAAB 95, what ever its called.. firefly or something.. :P The little Firefly is awesome but in some races its not optimal ;)
Think the Tristar is based off a Nissan GT-R 70's or 80's, the old ones, not the fancy ones from the 90's or later :)

I liked the Tristar too, very good handling. But once I unlocked a higher tier engine I put it on a Rocket and got a lot of armor on it. Now its my go-to C class car due to its high speed and almost 6 strength. It may be hard to handle it but I learned to manage that.

[Murdoch]

I have the rocket but not tried it yet :D

[Murdoch]

I would love to know why the Volvo 245 of all cars got 6 gearbox as standard lol

[Tactical Porcupine]

I use the Nexus with locked diff as well. I find that for FWD cars it helps with counteracting the ridiculous understeer you can get.

It can depend on the track; I think for tracks that are predominantly or fully offroad limited-slip (or 50/50 limited-slip and locked) might help to get the car to turn in as 100% locked does make the car a lot less responsive.



Side-question: Do different performance parts actually affect the performance in different ways? The game only shows it in terms of the BHP gained so say a part gives +3 BHP, is it proven that some parts are more beneficial even if the game says they provide the game performance boost? ((serious question. I haven't noticed a difference and I assumed since the game wasn't 100% sim that it wouldn't matter.))

[Murdoch]

Wait, the Nexus, thats the Honda Civic model? Yes, thats it right? :P Only higher rated FWD car I can think of... :)

[justintabs]

Moving brake balance can create more drift.

[Wolves]

Nexus is CRX

[Rumham]

any time anyone says anything about steering...have you changed the speed sensitivity in the controls? it makes it so the faster you go, the less sharp you can steer