Let's talk about the rain 1.6

The video is 5 minutes long, at what parts exactly is there any standing water ? I will test it again myself, i drove the track in "Storm" weather earlier and there was no puddles at all.

Okay so i did my own further testing and found multiple puddles at modern Hockenheim !
And you know what ? They all behave like they are just a fake texture and have zero effect on any car i tested them with. So the puddles do actually exist off track, but they are just fake ?

 

Because it has nothing to do with aquaplaning, but rather with parameters that deviate from the physical laws governing dry roads.

Rain is almost entirely an optical illusion. It's a highly simplified representation to make it work, just like the solution for puddles.

More romantic than predictable.

 

Just two laps... If you watch the first lap, in big straight, when I pass over a puddle with throtlle you can HEAR the car loosing traction... Not to mention in the end of first lap going to grass and in end of second going to the barrier because of the fake textures... Lol!

Traction Control does wonders! Try a formula car!

Acquaplaining is easy to simulate for practical purposes: you lost almost ALL grip.

Rain in racing games (ALL games rendering) are an optical illusion that make grip = grip -x.

No need to over complicate! Lol!

 

Try telling that to the AI.

The player's physics already differ from the AI's on dry roads; what happens with absolutely no grip?

The game has to work, and sometimes you trade one bad thing for another if it turns out to be the lesser of two evils.