rFactor 2 Kart Sim: How Realistic Is It?

After the downfall in GTS rankings and turning to Need for Speed, Super GT is looking for new games to restore his sanity and find new places were his Super GT effect can be harnessed in it's full strength.

Hello 5 years ago SuperGT viewer here

Have you tested Кart Racing Pro?

Is it made of piboso

To be honest this doesn’t feel very realistic, at least not similar to the rental karts I’ve driven and seen. I’m working on a good rental kart mod for assetto corsa, do you want to check it out when it’s out?

I've raced 125 shifter karts for 10 years I find karts in kart sims almost impossible to drive because they're so twitchy it's hard do drive them with your "finger tips" as you do in real life. I just find myself all over the curbs doing stuff that would break my teeth in real life 🤣

I wish the AI drivers were more animated. Would be cool if they leaked on turns or glanced back like in real life to see where another kart is on the track

Karting is about momentum not speed

Effffgbrg

Wasn't there a special HUD bundled with the DLC?

My neck just hurts from looking at this video

Have you tried kartkraft to compare to? I'm jumping between that and this and having a lot of trouble deciding what's more authentic

Is that how you sat in your kart?
Any chance of an update on this sim or the other kart sims?
Computers or more like graphic cards have made a big jump.
How about race settings. When I ran a kart, a race was three 10 lap heats.

Benn.

At Pfi SuperGT you need to smash the kerb under the bridge and at the penultimate corner I have been there before and I have my own kart and have won a couple of races and I have came 2nd place a lot

ayyy kent gang

I do x30

Bought this alongside with the Formula E pack but never ever used it since because everyone races ONLY GT3 and Inever found a league.

if it does not have human drs it is a shit karting game lel

Tyre pressure too low.

Rfactor2 is so awesome with oculus S

try kartkraft

kart kraft for the win

Glan y gors in Wales, amazing track in real life

I have a love hate relationship with Rfactor 2. Some days it drives a treat, the cars perform excellent, the brakes don't lock up and the car steers beautifully. But then a few days later the same car and same track with no settings changed and the car handles awful? Anyone else have this issue and know why? I've tried turning of pc and starting again but same?

Winged super Karts are available now. 450cc

It's interesting that you're fast in karts and in fact won Club 100 Elite yet always seem to have trouble acclimating to different sims. I guess it's because I went the other way and started with sims and moved to karting so I always had the ability to go back to the visual and wheel feedback-only style of driving. I guess it stands true that some people acclimate well to sims and some don't regardless of what they can do in real life with G forces at play. You definitely see a lot of people that are fast in sims and are complete garbage when they get into a real car or kart as they can't handle the G forces and can't just crash into walls until they figure it out (or cheat).

turn down the FF smoothing and u will feel more. settings settings settings

I race rotax seniors lots of fun I race at ellough park u may know it

DRIVE MAN JUST FUCKING DRIVE... I was lazy with the intro.. sorry

Who has died at GYG I’ve never heard of anyone dying there

I raced a x30 for a long time. I started out with a comer juinor kart, moved up to a yamaha junior then went to a x30 junior 2. Moved up to the unrestricted x30 then after racing shifter for 3 months the family quit karting. I had an italkart sponsorship through a local shop and was doing really well through the local series. Bunch of my freinds now race in a local spec bmw class and im nin the process of building a car, its been 9 years since i last raced...

Thats not a good sim at all. The amount of corrections you are doing (nothing to do with you) are almost punitive in relation to the real thing. I'm no way at your standard obviously but the times you oversteer..well the Kart coders needs some more work imo.

im driving x30 junior in sweden this season as a 12 year old

The problem is with the physics engine.  It's been going on for the entire life of the rfactor physics engine and the issue dates back to the first version of the physics engine from the 90s: slides are very on/off, there's a seeming lack of front grip unless the rear is oversteering, revs often want to almost instantly spike to redline during wheelspin (unless you quickly let off the gas), you can't hold and maintain wheelspin and oversteer angles especially with racecars (instead it's more of an on/off thing) unlike real life (Netkar Pro does this fantastically), and vehicles often behave like there's no inertia during oversteer so the car turns sharply to the inside of the corner during oversteer as if it's simply turning really sharply rather than the rear rotating around while the car's direction of travel keeps traveling along the same path from before the oversteer happened.It's completely wrong from real life as anyone who's raced cars at the limit or even watched racing should be able to spot within a few corners.  These issues have been buried deep in the ISI physics engine (F1 Ch 99-02, rFactor 1, GTR2, Automobilista, Project Cars, Raceroom Racing Experience) for almost 20 years now and still not resolved.

Your wheel stinks thats the real problem. Invest in a Fanatec Clubsport or a CSR Elite Wheelbase.

Hey man, amazing video, glad YT recommend it to me.
I have a question, what HUD do u use ? :)

Turn 1 of your first lap and you can already see the unrealistic nature of this physics engine. Look how much steering lock you have midcorner to exit and for how long you have it there until the kart finally brushes off it's understeer...it's like the physics and the grip and ungrip of the tires are happening in slow motion. Even cheap rental karts are more direct and "grippy" than that.

On a DD wheel the X30's feel pretty good, that is with the wheel at about 80% which on the 20NM small Mige would be peaking maybe around 16-18NM of torque, the T300 puts out about 3.5NM so would be pretty hard for that to produce that really stiff/direct feeling you get with karts in particular. IMO this Kartsim dlc is about as good as it gets, feels much better than AMS/PC2 karts or the AC mod karts.

rFactor has had karts since 2013 bro. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You can’t really get a proper feeling at all for karting, the force it puts on your body is too intense for a game to simulate

Sound like daggerwin

In this sim you have to heat up the tires, and set the road with some rubber in options (or put realroad to 10x with some cars in it, use practice or qualy for this) It gives more stability and grip to the cars, also the oversteer it's more predictable, as it is more smooth.

It looks pretty realistic when you get it locked up, the way it twitches around 👌🏼

Just watching this I can tell that it's really close to how karts feel in real life, plus the X30 sound is spot on to the real thing as it's the engine class I run

Hey man I saw the club 100 karts at whilton I was wondering if you did BUKC??

get gud

How can you say it’s not realistic when you haven’t actually driven an x30 or bothered to adjust you set or even the brakes

You look much younger than you sound!

My opinion of this is it looks nice but I think it's a bit pricey for the content it brings :)

This is certainly interesting when I heard about this sim, but I was unimpressed when they said they would use rfactor 2. Having a look at this footage the only thing I can see that makes it better than something KRP, is the tracks are far more detailed. The physics obviously being from rfactor I was wondering how a much lighter object would handle but it seems to have done a good job. Also do you think it would be possible to mod some more tracks in to this? Thanks. I kart A LOT, so that's my opinion.