big changes in kerb boosting, advanced flags etc.

[fryday]

hi all,

 

since its important for racers and it has been completey under the radar for me, I have to split this information from broughy:

 

 

[Pedinhuh]

I see no big changes here besides the off-road wheels nerf on only a handful of cars introduced in the Casino DLC and onwards.

 

Regarding the anti-boost flag, that's what this game needed to have applied to ALL vehicles since long ago, but it seems that R* is either incapable, uncaring or just incompetent to go back to the config file of all cars and apply the anti-boost flag.

 

As such, the anti-boost flags will remain as they currently are, only applied to the Open Wheel racecars and will play no part in the rest of the game at all, having no effect on racing in GTA as whole because Open wheel races are entirely forgotten by playerbase, since the payouts X time spent are crap on those.

 

TL;DR: Meh, this will have next to no effect in this game at all.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Pedinhuh

[Marciliojunior01]

4 hours ago, Pedinhuh said:

 

Regarding the anti-boost flag, that's what this game needed to have applied to ALL vehicles since long ago, but it seems that R* is either incapable, uncaring or just incompetent to get to back to the config file of all cars and apply the anti-boost flag.

 

Is not that simple, cars that already have any sort of advanced flag would require to have their files excluded and rewritten, since only one set of flags work (you might argue, just take the binary values for activating certain flags and put in the set, but probably the guy doing it will forget to add all previous flags correctly, since there are so many cars with them at this point). And we have no idea how this flag would interact with the others, having a boost cap and a engine rev cap at the same might not work really well. Someone like gaffa would have to test this. If someone has already made this test, i am really interested to hear how it affeced cars like the taipan or dominator GTX. 

A change like this would also shake the meta for races considerably, since cars like the itali GTO and RSX are as fast as they are because of curb boosting, and we know rockstar is not a fan of meta changing.