When you feel your rear becomes unstable with a RWD car, don't be afraid to release the throttle (partial) until you're back in control, control over throttle. So often I race people that feel like they HAVE to win the race in the first corner, they race over their abilities and going to make a mistake, I just sit behind, relax and wait for it. An other point, always relax as much as possible, too much muscle tension and you lose the ability for small adjustments, having less control over your car (if you're not in control over your own body, how do you expect to be in control over a car).
As an extension to the push up on the left stick idea, on motorcycle games that lean more realistically, pull down when braking, and push up when accelerating. This shifts the riders weight, either keeping the bike’s front tire planted during acceleration or keeping the rear tire planted during braking. It even make it easier to ease in and out of the corner because you can run the stick along the side that you’re turning on to lean in a bit, then a lot, then a bit again and now you’re in the forward lean position.
Ah that’s great! Thanks for the nice comment, I do feel this video deserves more views but those who have seen it seem to like it so maybe it’ll pick up one day :)
Genuinely the best generalized/layman tutorial for racing games. Everything's straight to the point while giving enough details to fully grasp the concepts. I saw this video initially around a few months ago and I legminitely had a noticeable improvement across the board with racing. It even gave me newfound appreciation of how simracing and simcade games work, and made me even more competitive despite not having a proper steering wheel and pedal setup for simracing games. The gamepad trick is a game changer and helped me truly understand how much faster smooth driving is. Even outside that, the simple way in explaining racing line with 'out-in-out' and such really gave me a new perspective on how to attack any corner and keep up the pace. Next time I meet someone struggling with racing games, this is the video I'll refer to!
Just started getting into some racing games myself (FH5, Wreckfest, etc. - definitely on the arcadey side of things, but still) and this is some of the best advice I've seen. Everything else in terms of beginner guides for individual games seems to assume a baseline level of knowledge I simply didn't have (how to approach turns properly, when to brake vs. when to accelerate, that kind of thing) and this not only delivered all of that, but did so in a really compact and easy to process way. Couldn't ask for better.
As a kid (and even today lol) I was constantly running into other people's cars. Racing like this seems much more fun and I will give racing games another shot soon. Good video!
Just decided to try out racing games with the Steam sale, and having heard good things about Forza Horizon 4, but even as a manual driver in real life I'm completely at a loss as to "how to drive" in a game. These tips all feel super useful, so thank you for the great video!
Ah that's great! These should help with that. Luckily, Forza Horizon 4 is quite forgiving so you should have a good time while learning. Great looking game too. Very best of luck!
Thank you! I've been playing dirt 5 and have been struggling. Never played a racing game before so its been a bit of a learning curve. I was surprised how few of tutorial there were and basically most weren't helpful.
The holding the stick forward is a good one i will be using it from now on if your just flicking the stick its hard to get the fine movement thumbs up another good one is remove the deadstick zones from your controller in the settings it helps make your small movements more precise
To add to the "Brakes" section..... i see people over using the brake when a fast release is quicker. This will come with time and practice........ great video, thank you :)
Good vid man! I've been racing video games since, jeez.. I'm almost embarrassed to say... I go back to Pole Position on ATARI and arcades. Anywho, this is the most advice for driving games I've seen. Keep up the great work man. 👍
i always held the stick up as a kid, but my older brother told me that was wrong so i unlearned it. clearly my child instincts were steering me right. the lesson i should have learned is to never listen to my older brother. maybe he was just trying to stop me from getting good enough to beat him. anyway, thanks for the tips!
As a beamng drive player I can confirm that it’s very important to know how to crash. Also it’s important to not get your car damaged too much when crashing.
The stick pressing forward tip is truly a game changer. Do you have any tips about playing on manual? I've been thinking about learning that driving style.
Yes, certainly! Gear up just before the needle hits the red, and gear down when braking. Listen to the engine note and find where the power band is. You can see the power band by starting in 3rd gear and watching at what point on the revs the car starts to accelerate properly. Always keep the needle in that zone by changing gears up or down and you'll make up loads of time. Good luck!
@@CatGoneCrazy, thanks for the advise I played Dirt 2.0 yesterday on manual and it was a nightmare but at least it felt like I was learning something new. I now it's a pretty difficult game but heck that's how I became a CS:GO player as well back in the day. I love a challenge.
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Even though I'd say I'm decent at racing games since I've been playing them a lot since childhood this video still taught me and made me remember a lot of the important details, great underrated video!
Pro tip. When you are about to go into the corner of the track, steer into the corner stay LOW!! it will hold your speed until you exit the corner into you each the stair part of the track when your speed shots up and get more speed until you are about to reach the corner of the track slow down! But not to a compete stop.
Been playing a long time and I have never thought of that turning trick with the left stick. I feel like an idiot 😂 as it seems so obvious. Thanks for this tip, I will try it.
Pretty useful tips, and a very nice selection of games used for examples. Thanks for this. Maybe games should be using your idea for analog steering as an option to "simulate" a car wheel, so you should be able to use up to 270 degrees of movement with the analog stick. That eliminates the problem of being limited to 180º and pressing "down" by accident, although it is indeed tiresome to keep "up" in the stick the entire time.
Protocultor Some games let you steer about 270 degrees using more like 8pm and 4pm as the extremes, notably F1 World Grand Prix on Dreamcast. Trouble is, the last few degrees grip too hard so it’s almost like cheating. But the idea’s good. I get used to pushing up so I do it automatically as I approach a corner these days. Thanks for the nice comment :)
damn you just put a bright spotlight on all my issues ive been having in every racing game, i got back to sega gt 2002 for the first time in years, playing it to LEARN to git gud for the first time, and now i'm 100% confident i'm going to tear up this game lol. Thank you!!
You know, I think GT 3 is one of the all-time best racing games ever made, but I don't enjoy GT4. Weird, huh? But I did get a copy recently so I should give it another proper go :)
6:26 Ooh after not using a controller for 15 years since my SNES this is gonna take some time to learn. Also the pushing forward on the stick, although after 10 hours in Forza I'm slowly getting used to it
As a semi competent NFS franchise player. The first one came naturally to me. I just refused to brake and one drift into the walls and align it so its like the walls are turning for me as i aggressively accelerate. Works for me, albeit not really sexy
I think the first Need For Speed Underground, in particular, was built for players who just hold accelerate. A lot of the series’ games around that time have very shallow turns and forgiving barriers. But I don’t know why they felt the need to do that when just 5 years previously everybody had loved Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo and Sega Rally, which all have ultra-punishing barriers. Those games sold so many copies, but I suppose NFS probably ended up selling even more. It’s all about money in the end.
Can someone please tell me the name of the game where they show the green car with the Xbox logo, I'm thinking it's Forza motorsport, please let me know. Thank you!
@@CatGoneCrazy thank you so much my friend, forza motorsport 8 looks like it's going to be amazing! Here is the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST, take care may GOD please bless you and lead you to HIM.The Bad News- You are naturally born with a sinful nature and have broken at least one of the law (10 commandments) at least once in your life (Example: a lie) (James 2-10 says if you break one of these laws, its the same as breaking them all), so because of this you're on your way to hell already, everyone is (Romans 3-23) The Gospel (Good News): JESUS, Who is GOD in the flesh, came into the world and died for us, to free us from the curse of the law (10 commandments) and ressurected on the third day so that whosoever BELIEVES in HIM will not perish but have everlasting life! GOD said this! GOD cannot lie (Titus 1-2, Hebrews 6-18) we can lie because we are sinners. JESUS saved us already (Colossians 2 13-14) Just BELIEVE and TRUST in HIM! HIM ALONE, anyone who gives you another Gospel, whether an angel or one of us, let him be accursed, like it says in (Galatians 1 6-9) JESUS ALONE! Not religion, Trust in HIM and you will receive the GIFT of THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD HIMSELF! JESUS said "Repent ye and BELIEVE the GOSPEL" (Mark 1-15). AMEN!
i kinda need help with the 3rd option, to push the stick up. some old ps2 and pa3 games have a massive deadzone in the centre region of the joystick, and then the sensitivity is weird and can’t be changed. how would u apply this?? examples: tokyo xtreme racer drift 2, gran turismo 4,5,6, initial d special stage etc… and it’s not a problem with my controller because i have 3 and they all work perfectly fine in assecor and gt sports
I'm really sorry, but I don't have experience of what you're talking about. The two main benefits of pushing forwards on the stick are to increases sensitivity and to eliminate the deadzone because it's always registering that it's off-centre. Sorry I can't help further.
The problem is a keyboard is (usually) just on or off, so there's no easy way to steer slightly or apply the throttle progressively. You really do need to get a pad, you could surely get a cheap second hand pad if money is an issue? Or is it just that you love keyboard input after all that time playing the ZX Spectrum? I mean, I loved that too, but pads are the way to go if you can't get a wheel.
@@CatGoneCrazy Yea I get that. Forget steering, lack of analogy input for acceleration even messes up the start of my races in nfs mw(which im playing atm) every single time. I do love keyboards but no I've just never seriously got into racing, it's always been a casual thing for me. Until recently that is. Now I desperately want a controller but it's not that high on my priority list atm. I'm a budget gamer running an old 2nd gen i3 office pc so rn my main priority is to get an ssd.. Yes I still use a hard drive lmao. But yea, hopefully I'll be able to get a gamepad around this december. There was this cheap logitech one that I was eyeing F310? seems decent so Imma go with that. But yea, till then I gotta make do with my keyboard :)
Rock N Racing Off Rod DX :) It’s very simplistic and unbalanced but I do enjoy it. Lovely turning feel if you hold both the accelerator and brake as you corner.
I hadn’t considered that… though there is a sim rig in it. But it doesn’t matter how you control it for most of these points; it’s about being better at getting the car around the track :)
With traction control that’s OK but you’re still losing potential acceleration through the engine limiting power. Much better to keep full traction and do it carefully. But I admit that’s far less fun :)
step one : spend 13 years racing with keyboard cuz you can't afford anything else step two : switch to wheel racing and find out that keyboard racing is the ultimate form of throttle control training( full throttle or nothing) step two and half : also find out that you don't brake as much since in keyboard its full lock or no brake which caused you learn how to brake using tire traction to slow down and taking optimal cornering lane and speed . step three : profit
![Are you making these MISTAKES when braking [Sim Racing]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fonXd097vks/mqdefault.jpg)
![Are you making these MISTAKES when braking [Sim Racing]](/img/tr.png)
When you feel your rear becomes unstable with a RWD car, don't be afraid to release the throttle (partial) until you're back in control, control over throttle. So often I race people that feel like they HAVE to win the race in the first corner, they race over their abilities and going to make a mistake, I just sit behind, relax and wait for it. An other point, always relax as much as possible, too much muscle tension and you lose the ability for small adjustments, having less control over your car (if you're not in control over your own body, how do you expect to be in control over a car).
As an extension to the push up on the left stick idea, on motorcycle games that lean more realistically, pull down when braking, and push up when accelerating. This shifts the riders weight, either keeping the bike’s front tire planted during acceleration or keeping the rear tire planted during braking. It even make it easier to ease in and out of the corner because you can run the stick along the side that you’re turning on to lean in a bit, then a lot, then a bit again and now you’re in the forward lean position.
One of the best on this subject.
This was a great video, and the tip about pressing up on the control stick to help control your steering has helped me massively.
Ah that’s great! Thanks for the nice comment, I do feel this video deserves more views but those who have seen it seem to like it so maybe it’ll pick up one day :)
Genuinely the best generalized/layman tutorial for racing games. Everything's straight to the point while giving enough details to fully grasp the concepts. I saw this video initially around a few months ago and I legminitely had a noticeable improvement across the board with racing. It even gave me newfound appreciation of how simracing and simcade games work, and made me even more competitive despite not having a proper steering wheel and pedal setup for simracing games.
The gamepad trick is a game changer and helped me truly understand how much faster smooth driving is. Even outside that, the simple way in explaining racing line with 'out-in-out' and such really gave me a new perspective on how to attack any corner and keep up the pace.
Next time I meet someone struggling with racing games, this is the video I'll refer to!
That is so cool! Thanks so much for coming back to write this :) Enjoy your racing, there are so many great racing games to enjoy.
This video should have a lot more views. Thank you man!
Agreed
Oh yeah 🙂
I agree, very informative
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Just started getting into some racing games myself (FH5, Wreckfest, etc. - definitely on the arcadey side of things, but still) and this is some of the best advice I've seen. Everything else in terms of beginner guides for individual games seems to assume a baseline level of knowledge I simply didn't have (how to approach turns properly, when to brake vs. when to accelerate, that kind of thing) and this not only delivered all of that, but did so in a really compact and easy to process way. Couldn't ask for better.
Great tips man!
I was never good at racing games, I feel like giving it a go after watching these tips!
Go for it! They can be so much fun :)
As a kid (and even today lol) I was constantly running into other people's cars. Racing like this seems much more fun and I will give racing games another shot soon. Good video!
Just decided to try out racing games with the Steam sale, and having heard good things about Forza Horizon 4, but even as a manual driver in real life I'm completely at a loss as to "how to drive" in a game. These tips all feel super useful, so thank you for the great video!
Ah that's great! These should help with that. Luckily, Forza Horizon 4 is quite forgiving so you should have a good time while learning. Great looking game too. Very best of luck!
That joystick tip seems simple but has enormous impact. Cornering too. Great video, dude; thanks!
Ah that's awesome - really glad to have helped!
Thank you! I've been playing dirt 5 and have been struggling. Never played a racing game before so its been a bit of a learning curve. I was surprised how few of tutorial there were and basically most weren't helpful.
The holding the stick forward is a good one i will be using it from now on if your just flicking the stick its hard to get the fine movement thumbs up another good one is remove the deadstick zones from your controller in the settings it helps make your small movements more precise
To add to the "Brakes" section..... i see people over using the brake when a fast release is quicker. This will come with time and practice........ great video, thank you :)
Thank you! I'm 10x better at racing games after this video!
The pushing forward tip was like words of enlightenment. That will definitely come in handy with Gran Turismo 4.
It works very well with Gran Turismo games! Best of luck with it :)
3:49 🤯 WOW! SO SMART…This is a huge breakthrough for me. This is a GAME CHANGER!
🏎️Thank youuu!!!!
Good vid man! I've been racing video games since, jeez.. I'm almost embarrassed to say... I go back to Pole Position on ATARI and arcades. Anywho, this is the most advice for driving games I've seen. Keep up the great work man. 👍
Thank you. This was massively helpful.
i always held the stick up as a kid, but my older brother told me that was wrong so i unlearned it. clearly my child instincts were steering me right. the lesson i should have learned is to never listen to my older brother. maybe he was just trying to stop me from getting good enough to beat him.
anyway, thanks for the tips!
Haha I think you've hit the nail on the head there ;)
As a beamng drive player I can confirm that it’s very important to know how to crash. Also it’s important to not get your car damaged too much when crashing.
Best video. All beginners should watch it.
This is unironically a good tutorial for actual arcade racing games
Ohhhh Gran Turismo 3 a-spec... good game
I using this advice to play NFS Prostreet...,thank you so much for the video!!!
The stick pressing forward tip is truly a game changer. Do you have any tips about playing on manual? I've been thinking about learning that driving style.
Yes, certainly! Gear up just before the needle hits the red, and gear down when braking. Listen to the engine note and find where the power band is. You can see the power band by starting in 3rd gear and watching at what point on the revs the car starts to accelerate properly. Always keep the needle in that zone by changing gears up or down and you'll make up loads of time. Good luck!
@@CatGoneCrazy, thanks for the advise I played Dirt 2.0 yesterday on manual and it was a nightmare but at least it felt like I was learning something new. I now it's a pretty difficult game but heck that's how I became a CS:GO player as well back in the day. I love a challenge.
Even though I'd say I'm decent at racing games since I've been playing them a lot since childhood this video still taught me and made me remember a lot of the important details, great underrated video!
Pro tip. When you are about to go into the corner of the track, steer into the corner stay LOW!! it will hold your speed until you exit the corner into you each the stair part of the track when your speed shots up and get more speed until you are about to reach the corner of the track slow down! But not to a compete stop.
Been playing a long time and I have never thought of that turning trick with the left stick.
I feel like an idiot 😂 as it seems so obvious.
Thanks for this tip, I will try it.
Why did it take over 20 years and may lost races for me to look for this info?
Thanks, for this vid, I have have a lot of time to make up!
Pretty useful tips, and a very nice selection of games used for examples. Thanks for this.
Maybe games should be using your idea for analog steering as an option to "simulate" a car wheel, so you should be able to use up to 270 degrees of movement with the analog stick. That eliminates the problem of being limited to 180º and pressing "down" by accident, although it is indeed tiresome to keep "up" in the stick the entire time.
Protocultor Some games let you steer about 270 degrees using more like 8pm and 4pm as the extremes, notably F1 World Grand Prix on Dreamcast. Trouble is, the last few degrees grip too hard so it’s almost like cheating. But the idea’s good. I get used to pushing up so I do it automatically as I approach a corner these days. Thanks for the nice comment :)
Fun fact: some need for speed on ds use the up and down for hard steering and smooth steering
damn you just put a bright spotlight on all my issues ive been having in every racing game, i got back to sega gt 2002 for the first time in years, playing it to LEARN to git gud for the first time, and now i'm 100% confident i'm going to tear up this game lol. Thank you!!
That is so cool :D
Nice tips. I'm having an awful time with Gran Turismo 4 currently with its weird physics. Would be cool if you made a video about it some time.
You know, I think GT 3 is one of the all-time best racing games ever made, but I don't enjoy GT4. Weird, huh? But I did get a copy recently so I should give it another proper go :)
@@CatGoneCrazy Nice! I hope a video comes out of it, haha.
6:26 Ooh after not using a controller for 15 years since my SNES this is gonna take some time to learn. Also the pushing forward on the stick, although after 10 hours in Forza I'm slowly getting used to it
Thanks for the advice :)
This video is exactly what I needed
What is the best pc racing game?
ty man really help me
Good tips.
keyboard and mouse users like me are literally just watching in agony, well fuk, im gonna get a wheel
As a semi competent NFS franchise player. The first one came naturally to me. I just refused to brake and one drift into the walls and align it so its like the walls are turning for me as i aggressively accelerate. Works for me, albeit not really sexy
I think the first Need For Speed Underground, in particular, was built for players who just hold accelerate. A lot of the series’ games around that time have very shallow turns and forgiving barriers. But I don’t know why they felt the need to do that when just 5 years previously everybody had loved Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo and Sega Rally, which all have ultra-punishing barriers. Those games sold so many copies, but I suppose NFS probably ended up selling even more. It’s all about money in the end.
I’m going to nail Rocket Science after this.
By all means tell me specifically what you were hoping was going to be covered.
thank you it was very informative
What I see alot of ppl doing when they drift is they turn too much around the corner that they crash or they don't turn enough and they crash
Ya need to balance out the turning so you go round the corner without crashing
6:51 seeing this game in the video made my day
Great video, thank you!
Braking is change car to car. I think I need to memorize every cars braking zone. Right?
Thanks sir 👍
No problem :)
awesome! thank you!
Thanks for video 😁
Can someone please tell me the name of the game where they show the green car with the Xbox logo, I'm thinking it's Forza motorsport, please let me know. Thank you!
It's Forza 7, yep.
@@CatGoneCrazy thank you so much my friend, forza motorsport 8 looks like it's going to be amazing! Here is the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST, take care may GOD please bless you and lead you to HIM.The Bad News- You are naturally born with a sinful nature and have broken at least one of the law (10 commandments) at least once in your life (Example: a lie) (James 2-10 says if you break one of these laws, its the same as breaking them all), so because of this you're on your way to hell already, everyone is (Romans 3-23)
The Gospel (Good News): JESUS, Who is GOD in the flesh, came into the world and died for us, to free us from the curse of the law (10 commandments) and ressurected on the third day so that whosoever BELIEVES in HIM will not perish but have everlasting life! GOD said this! GOD cannot lie (Titus 1-2, Hebrews 6-18) we can lie because we are sinners. JESUS saved us already (Colossians 2 13-14) Just BELIEVE and TRUST in HIM! HIM ALONE, anyone who gives you another Gospel, whether an angel or one of us, let him be accursed, like it says in (Galatians 1 6-9) JESUS ALONE! Not religion, Trust in HIM and you will receive the GIFT of THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD HIMSELF! JESUS said "Repent ye and BELIEVE the GOSPEL" (Mark 1-15). AMEN!
i kinda need help with the 3rd option, to push the stick up. some old ps2 and pa3 games have a massive deadzone in the centre region of the joystick, and then the sensitivity is weird and can’t be changed. how would u apply this?? examples: tokyo xtreme racer drift 2, gran turismo 4,5,6, initial d special stage etc… and it’s not a problem with my controller because i have 3 and they all work perfectly fine in assecor and gt sports
I'm really sorry, but I don't have experience of what you're talking about. The two main benefits of pushing forwards on the stick are to increases sensitivity and to eliminate the deadzone because it's always registering that it's off-centre. Sorry I can't help further.
i watched this because i'm stuck at racing mission in gta
Hope it helped!
thx g
This would be a better format to use for gran turismo licences
EDIT: They actually do that, most people just don't une them recommanded tactics
wish there was a video like this for keyboard users
The problem is a keyboard is (usually) just on or off, so there's no easy way to steer slightly or apply the throttle progressively. You really do need to get a pad, you could surely get a cheap second hand pad if money is an issue? Or is it just that you love keyboard input after all that time playing the ZX Spectrum? I mean, I loved that too, but pads are the way to go if you can't get a wheel.
@@CatGoneCrazy
Yea I get that. Forget steering, lack of analogy input for acceleration even messes up the start of my races in nfs mw(which im playing atm) every single time.
I do love keyboards but no I've just never seriously got into racing, it's always been a casual thing for me. Until recently that is. Now I desperately want a controller but it's not that high on my priority list atm. I'm a budget gamer running an old 2nd gen i3 office pc so rn my main priority is to get an ssd.. Yes I still use a hard drive lmao. But yea, hopefully I'll be able to get a gamepad around this december. There was this cheap logitech one that I was eyeing F310? seems decent so Imma go with that. But yea, till then I gotta make do with my keyboard :)
how is this video not viral
Share it - get the ball rolling ;)
Tip 7: Trail braking 😊
What’s the switch game at 5:20?
Rock N Racing Off Rod DX :) It’s very simplistic and unbalanced but I do enjoy it. Lovely turning feel if you hold both the accelerator and brake as you corner.
Wow this is so gooooood
I just started to learn to drive with a controller and it's so hard. Either I turn too much or I don't turn at all. It's so frustrating
did you listen to his pressing up advice?
surprised that this is not a sim rig turorial....
I hadn’t considered that… though there is a sim rig in it. But it doesn’t matter how you control it for most of these points; it’s about being better at getting the car around the track :)
1:37 which game bro ?
i am usually aggresive on the throttle
With traction control that’s OK but you’re still losing potential acceleration through the engine limiting power. Much better to keep full traction and do it carefully. But I admit that’s far less fun :)
if you don't hit walls you go faster ;)
Unless it's Sega Rally on PSP, then hitting walls is the only way to win.
Me on a keyboard: ig i'll not get better
You need some progressive inputs! But the braking and crashing advice should still help :)
@@CatGoneCrazy thanks. nice video though learnt some good basics
Okay
Toca 2 Trouing cars Champship very hard to play
what game is that at 2:30?
Grid, not sure what one.
step one : spend 13 years racing with keyboard cuz you can't afford anything else
step two : switch to wheel racing and find out that keyboard racing is the ultimate form of throttle control training( full throttle or nothing)
step two and half : also find out that you don't brake as much since in keyboard its full lock or no brake which caused you learn how to brake using tire traction to slow down and taking optimal cornering lane and speed .
step three : profit
What's the nascar game name
Daytona USA?
Toca trouing 2 cars Champship
could i race u please
I using this advice to play nfs 2015 you know what it just doesnt work!
I think the problem is that NFS 2015 'just doesn't work' lol
@@CatGoneCrazy Yeah, Worst handling of all game combine
I challenge you
Just watch initial d
''lean how to crash''
thats not a really good tip if you are a beamng driver like me lol
Got anything for us keyboard users??
😂😇
Yep - get a pad or wheel ;)
Trust me bro just use a Xbox or PS controller if u can’t get a wheel they’re a bit more precise for racing