8 Things You All Secretly Do When Playing Racing Games
Whether it’s by crashing or simply clipping a kerb, rolling your car isn’t all that common in racing games but when it happens, you definitely don’t want to own up to it. It happens, you’ve just got to flip the car back over and get back to racing. And keep it quiet.
Guilty. We’ve all bragged about how good we’ve been racing and our rapid progression up the order, but left out the fact that the difficulty is on one of the lowest settings. The AI are going so slowly, even a toddler could drive around them. But we still seem happy with a win, regardless.
3. Lapping the track backwards
We’ve all done this when we’ve got a bit bored of the game, or – as the commenter did – lapped the Daytona oval backwards in a Zonda R on Gran Turismo 6 to get the lap count up.
This one is SO TRUE. When a game glitches on you or does something weird, which could or could not impact your race result, it’s only fair to compensate and make up some time by doing a little corner cutting, right?
On open world games like Forza Horizon 3 and GTA V, sometimes we like to drive around like we actually live there. You know, stop at the traffic lights, find a house and park there. Well, I do anyway…
6. Damage to cosmetic
We love racing games but hate damaging our cars by mistake, especially if it’s so bad you can barely keep driving. So, naturally, setting damage to cosmetic solves that problem. But we hate to admit that’s the option we go for.
When you want to hit the brakes late for a corner but go a bit too far, there’s only one thing for it – use the cars ahead of you to slow down. This is particularly helpful if you’ve got the damage on cosmetic…
8. Do your own commentary
This one is especially relevant with F1 games, when you want to hear what your race would be like with commentary. So, you do it yourself and commentate, either out loud or in your head. We’ve all done this at some point.
Let us know if you secretly do any of these in the comments and be sure to check out the original post right here.
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Trying to get out of the map…
In Forza I turn damage completely off. I just feel guilty driving around a million dollar hypercar with a shattered windshield, missing bumper, and 200+ dents.
you know, in DiRT Rally, i struggle NOT to flip my car at least once per rally. but somehow im able to drive out of it
Honestly i don’t drive with damage on because seem to do a lot of damage to the cars when i do drive, but seriously? i always drive at max difficulty (and retry the race for hours until i win), i always drive with no assists (besides constantly restarting when i lose and tell everyone that i am just learning the track), and i only manage to roll my car in rally games (following that i restart and do the stage properly)
Lets be honest, if you are the person that if a race isn’t going your way you restart right?
Lol this is SO accurate. I don’t play F1 games but ive announced the races to myself while playing NASCAR. If you try 2 to use the other cars to take corners on online mode people get mad at you
i put the other cars in lmp1 cars and get in one of the big trucks and drive backwards on a fast small track
I used to do this when playing Indy 500:
This post relates a lot to myself
in some games you can ram into a car that is in the middle of the corner that you didnt slow down for to make them pile up and you can pull a mile ahead
How about pressing the trigger button harder to try and go faster (it won’t happen but I still do it regardless)
I still do that aswell or pushing the analouge stick forward hoping to go faster
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