Apart from that, i like driving in Gt6 more than in 5. Can't really pinpoint why, that's the problem
I used my go to cars ( the yellowbird and the F40 in stock form ) in both sims at suzuka for comparisons. The RUF is easier in GT6. Her ass feels less snappy on corner entry and exit. The F40 has more general understeer in GT6, but can bite harder when you play too much with the trottle mid turn to help her rotate.
Alright, I thought I'd try both games back to back(haven't touched 5 since 6 was released) before finishing a comparison on the driving, but here are some more general impressions after 60+ hours with the new game:
-Everything that happens after the grip lets go is a substantial improvement. On the player's end a lot more delicacy is required. The days where I could just snap to opposite lock out of slow corners and hold it there until the ship righted, then continue as before are gone. Steering corrections now have to be a lot more minute and accurate because the pendulum effect of over correcting will absolutely bite you. By the same token standing on the throttle and steering your way out of a slide is almost obsolete on all but the slowest cars, I actually spun a number of times on some easy corners before this became clear. I think a lot of it comes down to the tire model, temperature especially. It used to be that I noticed the tires turning red on the display, the only real consequence being tire wear down the line. Now, if you lay down rubber and leave smoke behind in a corner you better be damn careful coming out of it, those tires don't behave at all similarly to how they did on the way in.
-Turn in seems to be busier. I don't remember thinking about lift off over steer once while playing GT5. Plan of attack was to get off the brakes and glide along to the apex. There's more finagling and settling the car now, not a a ton more, but appreciable on a number of cars. I don't want to make it sound like everything in GT5 was so nimble and adroit that you clipped the apex unless you put on the brakes too late or turned in too early. There were whole adventures of understeer, some enough to make you never touch a car after all of half a lap of driving. GT6 just seems more multidimensional, I don't know.
- Downforce at high speed? I'm going by the huge downforce on the DeltaWing and such, or car slalom at 250+ in the Veyron for the "Like The Wind". This probably needs to be tuned to be more noticeable, but it's there. The steering is suppose to feel a lot heavier at speed and it delivers more than GT5 did, even if the effect is blunted.
-I thought improved suspension would be a lot more apparent than it has been. Visually it absolutely is, but as a tangible effect on how the car behaves? I don't know. Does the corkscrew at Laguna Seca seem so formidable now because the suspension loads, then goes light, then bottoms out again in the span of like a second? Nope. Does the roll of a Trans Am play a role in how you drive it versus a BMW GT3 car, no. Certainly they're worlds apart, but not necessarily because of how flat one car corners. Looks and visual ques(at least in bumper cam) is where that stuff matters.
Now, for the back to back comparison done in a C6 Z06 Vette at Nurburgring GP:
-First thing to notice is the huge and way exaggerated nosedive in GT5 when you step on the brakes. Holy shit it's bad. And, of course, when you let off and initially turn in it has the visual impression of the car being snapped and tugged into the corner because the road is no longer taking up most of the screen.
-Trail braking seems a lot easier in GT6's Corvette. Can't really say why, I don't have to consciously make the decision, it just works.
-That thing about corner exits and over correcting oversteer? The well mannered car on that track makes telling the 2 games apart really hard in that department. It does snap to a opposite lock degree of yaw quicker and it won't balk at correcting any oversteer with maximal steering input(as far as the DS3 goes), but there's not a lot between the 2. I suspect if the track was Laguna Seca things would be different.
The rest looked pretty damn close. There it is, some really anecdotal evidence. I would love a proper interview, postmortem if you want to call it that, about what's going on under the hood.
