Couple of my ideas, mostly visual

1. Tire smoke. Just give it opacity 50%, so it doesn't look like chemitrails.

2. Helmet reflections. They don't look good.
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3. Main issue: setup options. Here are few suggestions:


Make the screen all black (or some other color) like in AMS1, it's easier to focus. For more user friendly interface, drop those 4 digit numbers that mean very little to most players, rather ad steps (like in AMS1, that was a good game!). You can even have a visual indicator is your car on the stiff or the soft side. IMO that would help a lot to navigate and use advanced setup menu.

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I quite like the setup there is now, I can't think I'd be the only one disappointed if they dropped what is indicated here as clutter.

 

You can find your way much easier in the scale 1 -10 than in the scale 2100N/m/s - 3200N/m/s

Edit: this is clearly in the style of PC2 setup screen.

 

And that's a good thing IMO. In real life you don't set damper rates at 1-10 unless you're using run of the mill consumer (Rate adjustable) coilover suspension and not taking things too seriously.

 

I agree with @Sektor and @TekNeil so lets go for both, steps and actual rate, job done

 

@TekNeil it's good that this is not a real life but a video game, where you click with your mouse left and right.

 

I mean, if you want to talk semantics, it's a racing simulator. Not a boy racer putting coilovers on his road car simulator.

 

It's stil clicking the mouse. It wasn't well designed in PC2, it isn't here either. AMS had it solved very good.

Edit: As Gordie said, i would like to have an option.

 

That's why I suggested having both for the dampers. At least at a glance you can tell whether they're set soft or stiff, without having to change it to see what the maximum or minimum is for each car.

 

How about aero?

But lets says Reiza makes both versions, and we drive a car, and the car understeers. We go loosen rear springs or whatever. So we both click the mouse left one click. It's the same action. But i would say it's easier to remember that you went from 12 to 11, than 2400 N/m/s to 2150 N/m/s. Oh, and the visual indicator that tells you where you are in the range of that setup, that would be nice too.

 

Can we just have a selection to use the format we prefer. Clearly we'll never get everyone to agree on just one format.

 

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At the end of the day, the suggestion of adding steps/clicks isn't detracting anything from a realism perspective. It's not like the adjusters on any of these race dampers IRL are analogue, (otherwise it would be almost impossible for the engineer to know what they are set at) they are adjusted by clicks on a scale of zero to whatever the manufacturer has stipulated as per their manual, quite often 10. Hence why a lot of other sims use clicks and actual values.
While it's great to see the damper values, I doubt that adding steps/clicks alongside this information is worth this huge debate of whether it's a sim or game with such a minor additional feature.

 

its a sim, not a simple game.
Technical values should be as real as possible.
In teletubie land its cold, warm, a bit warmer, hot, very hot, burning.
nice, but please let us use exact values and units

 

I'll go even further and say that sometimes you might want steps for simplicity and ease, but if and when you may want to use an analyzer tool such as MOTEC or RST, it's way more beneficial to have the Nmm values. And another example of a good work-around is like in AC where the in-game shows steps, but if you look in CM, you can set it to Nmm and get all the values that way. So, if a SIM has the data, and it's just a matter of how they have provided a selection of display (or maybe a licensing issue possibly) they would benefit all users with a selection to display the values whatever way the user desires. If that can be done without breaking some licensing rules.

 

I'm just happy that we can now move the HUD elements around. Especially the split times and such. They were awfully hard to see with a gray background with green/red numbers on a clear sky.