Personalised Handling
Personalised Handling Style
How your car looks is just one piece of the puzzle and owning a beautiful car means nothing if driving it becomes the most unpleasant of tasks. Of course, handling is such a subjective area that no two people are the same, with tastes and preferences varying wildly.
Describing handling of any car is always a difficult task as so much of it comes through the feedback you feel in the controller and again, personal preference comes into play.
It’s for this reason that in Need for Speed you will have access to a dedicated suite of handling options, allowing you customize the handling of your ride to exactly how you like it.
Want something that slides into a corner with ease? Simple enough, just switch it towards drift and you’re good to go. Perhaps you’re more inclined to drive with your tires firmly planted on the road. If so, grip is likely where you’ll find that sweet spot.
Need for Speed has a long history that spans over twenty years and an almost equal number of titles, so creating a handling system that felt right for everyone was one of the biggest tasks we would undertake.
We did this by splitting the handling into two sections. Those that prefer the handling of older Need for Speed titles will likely find themselves leaning towards a grip setup and for players that enjoy the handling of more recent Need for Speed games, a drift setup will have you feeling at home. Or perhaps you’ll enjoy a setting somewhere in the middle, the choice, as always, is down to you.
For those wanting a quick and easy way of setting their handling style it’s as easy as moving a master slider left (towards drift) to right (towards grip).
Any player that wants to dive deeper into their handling setup can do so with ease. A number of options are available, allowing you to drill down and get your ride handling exactly how you like it.
Front and Rear Tire Pressure
Changing tire pressure is a way to fine-tune the grip relationships between front and rear. Whether adding more grip to the front or less grip to the rear it will result in a car that initiates drift more easily. Likewise removing grip from the front or adding grip to the rear will result in a car that is less likely to lose its back end when turning.
Steer Response
A fast steer response enables more reactive, twitchier steering suited to drift. A slower steer response is steadier and more controlled.
Steer Range
A wider steer range makes it easier to maintain a deep drift. A narrow steer range produces less lateral slip making it less likely.
Braking Drift Assist
Braking Drift Assist ON increases the possibility to initiate a braking drift. Turning this OFF decreases the possibility to initiate a braking drift.
Drift Stability Assist
Drifting Stability Assist makes maintaining & controlling drifts easier. Turning this OFF disables stability controls when drifting. Proceed with caution!
Launch Control
Launch Control enables stability controls when taking off, reducing fish tailing & wheel spin.
Differential
A locked differential will mean the left and right wheels consistently spin at the same rate. This results in more wheel spin and therefore encourages drifting.
Downforce
Downforce enhances traction at high speeds, encouraging stability when cornering.
Brake Strength
Strong brakes lock the wheels earlier producing slip which can encourage drifting.
Brake Bias
Adjusting the brake bias increases weight transference when braking. When this is moved towards the front it can destabilise the car more easily transitioning into a drift.
Tire Traction
Equipping tires with less/more traction will result in the vehicle transitioning into drift more/less easily when steering.
Handbrake Strength
A strong handbrake makes it easier to turn 180 degrees. A weaker handbrake can be used for drift initiation with less loss of speed & potentially a method for chaining drifts.
Spring Stiffness
Spring Stiffness can be used to tune the squat and dive behaviour of the vehicle. This is its forwards/backwards suspension movement.
Sway Bars
Sway Bars can be used to tune the amount of body roll the vehicle produces. This is its left/right suspension movement.
Nitrous
Tuning towards Power will make the nitrous more powerful, but its duration is decreased. Increasing Duration will make the nitrous less powerful, but it lasts longer.
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