@jtw : It should! see answer to "askoff"
@viper : Live for Speed isn't meant as easy to drive arcade game. It is meant as simulation as close to reality as possible.
You won't find a single tyre in the whole world mounted on a street car or usual race car, which doesn't drop off at acceleration if spinned massivly. Perhabs there are some special tyres for drag racing, which isn't really a race series LFS really aims for.
For people which have difficulties with controlled starts, there could be a traction control for every car in the game.
@Woz
That's perfectly right. I always criticize the lag of feedback and I bet you won't even find a feedback like IRL for the next 10 years.
But as I said it is possible to feel that difference in Gran Turismo 4 or all the ISI games without really more feedback than LFS.
GT4 even has got less feedback ...
You can control it just by looking at the revs. I don't say that you will find the perfect point exactly always. But you should be able to find a much better point than full throttle all the time
@askoff :
There are many ways to look at it.
1. Physics ... its no question that a tyre with a small difference between tarmac and tyre rotation will be able to transfer more force. Rubber needs some difference. No question about that. But to much difference is definitly counterproductive ...
2. Races on TV. As said above nobody pulls of with full throttle. If it would be possible to design tyres like in LFS they would have done that in formula 1 and there would be no need for a launch control or careful starting.
Ever seen any kind of race on TV? There are always much more differences than in a start in LFS between experienced people.
3. 1/4 mile events IRL. Ask them. Watch them. No one will pull off with full throttle, because hard spinning wheels are bad.
4. Ask a real racing driver. Watch for example "Fifth gear". In the race between BMW M3 and Audi RS4 they did a drag race and described the difficulty. Jason Plato and Tiff Needle talked about it.
In the BMW M3 you can't go full throttle, because the tyres will spin. And thats bad!
In the Audi RS4 traction is no real problem, but you can't go full throttle also, because the clutch starts to slip then.
And in the real race Jason Plato in the M3 had to much throttle. He shouted angrily "baaah, wheelspin." and you could really see a huge difference. BMW M3 started pretty bad in comparison to the runs before that ...
5. Try it for real. I did it in my car. My tyres will be changed next week and I just wanted to test out how full throttle would be. More to see just one time, if the tyres smoke. And they do
But you'll also notice that it is very slow with much wheel spin. At least in car with enough power (mine has 150 bhp on FWD)
Its cheaper to test it on a wet road, although it is slightly different. You will move very very very slow with full throttle
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