Question about breaking

[Maj.Woody]

In stock configuration these cars seem to lock their breaks when breaking abruptly. I believe its the front breaks that are locking. I am currently using cheap potentiometerors for pedals but I believe this may be a break bias issue. What do you guys think?

[lewiswood20585]

Brakes are very powerful. I use 75 kg of max force in my high end pedals. If I use 50 kg its to easy to lock.

Just use ABS man.

[rob_every05]

Braking in this game is the single most ridiculous thing about it, no other game has this issue, for me a huge bug that will never be fixed.

[Aysedasi]

As things stand now, for me, there is nothing to fix. Brakes are easy to balance.

[Ziltoid TV]

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

As things stand now, for me, there is nothing to fix. Brakes are easy to balance.

I agree, making changes and adjustments to these things are part of racing.

[barbato.alessandro]

I don't have any big problems either, even though I'm not a great driver, you have to balance the braking well and know how to dose the pedal.

[[Yamete!>_<] Mr Tom]

Hello - I used to have this problem but I believe they patched the game and it has improved over the months. That said, I do find it easier in this game to lock up than in others. There are a few things you can try:

In controller calibration, reduce brake sensitivity.

In car setup, reduce pedal force and/or move brake bias to the front. Give you an example, I was driving the Alpine last week, I think pedal force was set to 92% on default setup but I reduced it to about 82% and felt like I could brake a lot harder.

[lewiswood20585]

If you learn to deal with it then you will improve your braking.

[DC2Dixon]

Braking can be difficult but it feels great to me. Don't have issues with locking up and I increase brake pressure in most cars over what is default and can still manage to not lockup. Nothing to fix as far as I can tell.

You can increase brake balance to the rear to help with front locking yes. It depends on how much you can deal with but further back reduces front locking but make sure you don't lock rear up. Front locking you just run wide but lock rear and you will likely spin instantly. Find most cars I use 50-52 balance and find it feels good.

[lewiswood20585]

Tips:

1. In cars without ABS. Dont trailbrake too much, brake mostly in straight line and dont hold 100 percent pressure. You need to trail off straight away, as downforce is reduced the ability to lock brakes increases. Dont use ACC like braking, where you hold 100 percent the whole way. Look at hyper car with brake input, they are just finishing brake release as they turn in.
2. Dont jump on the brake pedal so that you get 100 percent straight away, squeeze pedal in and use more of a incline angle as it would look on telemetry. That is for GT cars. Hypercars you can hit hard and be faster on brakes, but be quick to trail off as if you hold the pedal at max input you can lock easy.
3. Try later apex, rather than braking right into apex and turning in earlier. This will help you come of brakes more. High down-force cars especially need later apex. Not a V shaped line like you would in GT car.
4. As DC2Dixon said, use 50-52 brake balance, but move brake balance migration forward in Hypercars. Like 2 percent.

[Shoestring]

Also try to stiffen front springs and raise the front ride height a bit, along with the previous suggestions of lowering the max force by 10 or so clicks down, whatever it is already set at, maybe more, lower the brake sensitivity and the brake bias (I move mine more towards to the rear vs the front, which seems to work for me, but have to find what works for you)

[Aysedasi]

It's strange though. I was a strong advocate of moving the brake bias rearwards, but in the last couple of weeks I've been starting races/stints at 52/48 and have been improving my times all over the place.... ;-)

[Shoestring]

Originally posted by Aysedasi:

It's strange though. I was a strong advocate of moving the brake bias rearwards, but in the last couple of weeks I've been starting races/stints at 52/48 and have been improving my times all over the place.... ;-)

Okay, well dang it, now I am going to have to give that a shot tonight! :) Tomorrow I will either curse you or thank you, haha!

[Makan]

Originally posted by lewiswood20585:

Tips:

1. In cars without ABS. Dont trailbrake too much, brake mostly in straight line and dont hold 100 percent pressure. You need to trail off straight away, as downforce is reduced the ability to lock brakes increases. Dont use ACC like braking, where you hold 100 percent the whole way. Look at hyper car with brake input, they are just finishing brake release as they turn in.
2. Dont jump on the brake pedal so that you get 100 percent straight away, squeeze pedal in and use more of a incline angle as it would look on telemetry. That is for GT cars. Hypercars you can hit hard and be faster on brakes, but be quick to trail off as if you hold the pedal at max input you can lock easy.
3. Try later apex, rather than braking right into apex and turning in earlier. This will help you come of brakes more. High down-force cars especially need later apex. Not a V shaped line like you would in GT car.
4. As DC2Dixon said, use 50-52 brake balance, but move brake balance migration forward in Hypercars. Like 2 percent.

Very nice tips.
Thank you

[Federcio2]

Originally posted by rob_every05:

Braking in this game is the single most ridiculous thing about it, no other game has this issue, for me a huge bug that will never be fixed.

It's not here the problem. Braking in this way is correct and realistic.
Any "simulator" (arcade) that allow you to brake 100-0 every time, is not realistic.
Even in a GT3 with ABS you never get to 100% (Kèvin Estre feedback). And not even in an F1.

A habit that other games force on you does not mean it is correct.

[BRT Cobra]

do you mean braking? or game breaking?