LFS really does help your driving?

[[TC-R] Luke]

(2014-09-19 18:24)Chuck Wrote:  Well, the text says "My first time drifting ever", not "my first driving ever". So he had some actual driving experience after all. And it can't simulate G forces to the player. You sit in your comfy desk chair pressing the brake not feeling a thing, but try that with an actual car. You will suddenly become aware of what G forces actually are.

I wasn't quite relating it to his first time driving, but the control to sustain a drift I would imagine requires a large amount of car control. Thus helping his driving and understanding on how cars behave thus gaining experience

I am fully aware of the G forces that you can experience, simply Go-karting can tell you that one but in a car it's a hole new world, just sitting in a passengers seat of a decently performance car can make you aware of the factors or it had for me anyways, smelling the breaks, feel of the suspension on the corners etc.

(2014-09-19 18:31)BoyPower Wrote:  LFS has really helped me with my real life driving, but now for some reason I've gotten worse on LFS, worse than I've been in a while. (But that's also because I'm using mouse/wheel depending on where I am, which doesn't help).

I recall Paul telling me all about this when he began his driving lessons last year. He had to completely stop playing LFS to be able to pass his test due to the habbits. And then coming back to be driving almost "too sensibly" for a racing game aha.