I have a theory

[Mr Tomato]

First and foremost, if you are a fan of GTA Vs driving and think it's perfect, either leave now, read on and use the brain you might have and learn or just don't comment.

 

So I've noticed a few more people getting into driving with slidey cars active, this is a good thing.

 

1. Most importantly the cars are faster with this cheat activated (no more speed cap)

 

2. They handle a lot more like real cars, yeah you might disagree but seriously once you get the hang of it, you'll notice that you can carry pace through corners (if you take them at the right speed and line) that is much more reflective of reality and not mario cart.

 

3. The cop chases are actual chases, not just getting rammed and spun by cops with some magical speed boost, you now can out run cops, when they do ram you, it's most likely that with some practice and some throttle steering and braking work you will be able to avoid spinning out and just have a sketchy moment which I find really fun

 

4. It over all feels like a much too refined system to just be a strange physics altering cheat for a bit of fun, it actually makes the cars bearable to drive and feel like they have some actual presence in the environment.

 

The theory is, that this is how it was meant to be, this is what devs wanted, it's amazing and I think they did a great job, then one day some suit wearing prick tried to drive and decided that because he couldn't manage it that no one else could and that they had to make it more user *couch* pleb *cough* friendly and a whole lot of other suits agreed, so the devs were left with no choice but to introduce something to make this suit guy happy, but without completely abandoning their handling, which ended up being this overly predictable feeling bull crap we call Vs driving.

 

Now that the cars were so slow and controlled they needed to change how the transmission worked so that by 12ph all the gears had been heard, so they scrapped their good model from five and replaced it with a model that makes sound that doesn't even match the speed..

 

Anyways all half asleep speculation but I honestly think slidey cars is a kinda finished version of what we were supposed to get!

Edited November 26, 2014 by Mr Tomato

[woggleman]

They made the driving the way it is because many many people complained about the driving in the previous one. I think they should just make it a pause menu option instead of a cheat and that way most people will be happy. They did greatly improve the suspension in new gen so that is taken care of.

[Mr Tomato]

Yeah but they ruined how the transmission works and the sounds are horrible