A guide to reduce Under-steering.

Are you having trouble with Under-steering in the new FM8 Game?

Do you feel like Jenson Button all the time?

Well, it is normal and the under-steer in this game is super crazy. If you are on a Controller, try these 'Advanced Controller Settings', and it is very important that you use "Simulation" steering, Simulation steering in controller is very much playable unlike what the game says so ignore that. Simulation steering will also make the car more twitchy and if you have a hard time correcting the car after losing control you can go back to normal steering.

Other tips to reduce Understeer

It is very important that you must steer the car while on the racing line, you should turn on the racing line for corners only. The car tends to understeer more if you swerve from the racing line, as long as you are inside the racing line you are good to go.

Manual Shifting & Under-steer:

You might notice that when shifting down, you also get some understeer, so in order to avoid this, always downshift first before making a turn

Advanced Controller Settings

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If it is still understeering (and many will) bring the front ARB down a couple notches and the back up a couple notches until it turns in right. If it is already slide-y on exit then just bring down the front.

If it's Front WD you need to bring the Diff down and max (or at least heavily prioritize) front tire width. If it's RWD you want to increase front tire width and get closer to square (or keep the existing tire width ratio if you are adding power... if you put a ton of power on it naturally you need rear tire but too much rear tire = massive understeer you need to compensate for. If it's rear/mid engine you can bring the anti-dive/squat down a few clicks for more grip and less glidy-ness on entry/exit.

Test your car on Nurburg or Mid-Ohio to make sure it can get around the tight low speed 'undeersteer tests' on those tracks.

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In previous Forza's not having sim steering decreased your turn-in somewhat but I believe this is very minimal if a thing at all in FM8...

You just have to tune the understeer out. Most cars IRL are understeer-y from the dealer to prevent mid life crisis buyers from wreaking them around a pole as they leave the lot. I own a fucking (old ass) Corvette and it is understeer-y.

You should be using a tuning calculator after upgrading a car enough to disturb it's weight/front balance. If you slap a big turbo on or do an engine/drive swap or a ton of chassis weight redux it's pretty much mandatory if you ever want the car to handle right again.

[necrogoatlord]

The understeer during braking is there if you have automatic clutch enabled. Basically when you downshift the game blips the throttle for you and that temporarily straightens out the car. Its almost nonexistent with race gearbox as it should be but it is there on slower shifting cars.

[Nepkit]

Yokai , You shouldn't be braking at 100%. You should apply the brake gently and at most you should apply 85% of brake power. Anything over 85% increases the chance of wheel lock.

[Yokai]

Thanks Hamilton

I agree with the deadzone settings needing to be changed on the controller, but man the "simulation steering" is merciless

Btw Forza is the only racing game I play with a controller, and I cannot corner like at all if I don't have the ABS on, how do people corner without it? The wheels just lock

[AGD | Shellstrop]

Interesting, thanks xd