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I've been driving a lot of vehicles in PR recently, trying to find out why they're not so much fun to drive and I've discovered there is a problem with steering.

The steering is way waaaaaayy too sluggish. The reactions should be made to be 3 times quicker. Now it's like setting a cement. I mean all those cars have power steering IRL.

Im not getting the point here, The vehicles control pretty good for a video game.

considering that you only control the car with a and d keys for left and right, its very hard to get a exact turn with just 2 buttons which its just for how long you hold down the button for determines how much it turns, speeding up the rate of turn would just mean that players would be over steering a hell of a lot and not being able to steer though small gaps etc.

if everyone had a steering wheel controller mounted on there desks it wouldn't be soo much of a problem but the fact is, most players do not.

Im pretty positive if you know how to, You can manually modify your controls to be very presice (alot better than in the main menu) by going into my documents/bf2/profiles/000x

x is a variable, if you only have 1 profile then its 0001

Now I'm sure you can find a way to edit this good with a tutorial and get very presice and sensitive controls. This is something you will have to do on your own

And don't worry, PB doesn't kick for modifying your controls file

Tbh I can steer pretty well now, just practise a bit. Also if the turn speed and max turn was very high, I imagine a real humvee/jeep would roll over. The vehicle physics are not ideal but learn to cope. ^_^

~ Ed

Incomplete Spork wrote:Im not getting the point here, The vehicles control pretty good for a video game.

The vehicles handle well in a straight line or long turns, but sharper turns can become annoying. Going from sharp a left turn into a right corner is really pain.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;977041']considering that you only control the car with a and d keys for left and right, its very hard to get a exact turn with just 2 buttons which its just for how long you hold down the button for determines how much it turns, speeding up the rate of turn would just mean that players would be over steering a hell of a lot and not being able to steer though small gaps etc.

if everyone had a steering wheel controller mounted on there desks it wouldn't be soo much of a problem but the fact is, most players do not.

That is actually the point. If I had a steering wheel controller, I wouldn't bother to type this suggestion. But I don't.

As I said above, the worst thing is going from a left turn straight into a right one or vice versa. You have 2 choices, you can either crash or you have to stop almost completely and wait for the wheels to steer into a proper direction and that's not real nor is it fun.

I know that quicker steering response could make an oversteering problem, but most of the vehicles in PR doesn't tend to oversteer. For example Humvee tends to understeer all the time. The only vehicle with lively rear end is the Land Rover and going sideways with it is a HUUUGEEE FUN. Would be even better with a proper steering.

However if there is a problem with oversteer (I know that big trucks shouldn't oversteer at all) or if the turning circle is unrealistically sharp , you can fix it by giving FRONT WHEELS LESS GRIP.


Most people play racing games with arrow keys without problem. If the steering sensitivity is high, you can control it by tapping the right key at the right time, everybody is familiar with that and it's certainly better than waiting for the steering wheel to turn.