Friend thinks BeamNG is unrealistic

Deleted member 509752 · Apr 8, 2023

Agent_Y said: ↑

That's just a bad damage model (not everyone will agree that it's bad but it's definitely nowhere near close to BeamNG)
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I'd really don't like the damage model on those GTA V vehicles.

GTA IV had better crash physics and it was almost close to BeamNG but that was before BeamNG.

GTA SA and the older GTA games didn't had any deformation at all, All it is that if you hit the car at a wall for an example, it's only the bumpers/doors/trunks/fenders/hoods of the car that gets damaged

SmokeyDokey · Apr 9, 2023

Touhoulover28 said: ↑

I'd really don't like the damage model on those GTA V vehicles.
GTA IV had better crash physics and it was almost close to BeamNG but that was before BeamNG.

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That's nowhere near BeamNG, or even the game that released BEFORE GTA IV (released 2008), Rigs of Rods (released 2005). It's alright for a game that isn't focused of vehicle damage physics though, but can't even be compared to RoR/ BeamNG.

Agent_Y · Apr 9, 2023

crashmaster said: ↑

i will NOT recommend you to buy yourself a race car, just to let your friend kill himself, but what your friend needs to learn is physics.

ive had to have this conversation with a few people who had the same idea of beamng, that it was not realistic at all.
i pressed on, asked why they think its unrealistic?
one of the most famous replies is, the game is too slippery...

well buddy, try taking a sharp corner at 200km/h in real life and let me know how far the car keeps on tumbling.

in this game, you miss a lot of the feeling of speed, you go 200km/h but since its a video game, you are looking at a 2d screen without any g forces.
you do not understand the sense of speed until its too late, and everything slides because you are going 200+

the other complain ive seen a lot... beamng is too wiggly, too soft. to jelly feeling?
while beamng is NOT perfect no, go look at pro dragsters launching in real life and tell me you dont see anything flex and bend like if it was made of jelly.
everything flexes in real life, its just not as drastic and noticeable.

i think ive read a thread from YEARS ago that some dude physically calculated the grip of objects in beamng to calculate its physics accuracies. and i think it was something around the 70-80% physically accurate to real life physics behaviors. i need to dig and try to find that thread. (i found it: https://www.beamng.com/threads/physics-demonstrations-in-beamng.34620/ )
considering this is from 2017 im sure physics have improved since then as well

considering this is a public game, and not some complex closed behind business door software that we rarely see. (that costs thousands to license)
i personally feel like beamng is the best "real life physics simulator" software available to the general public.
you simply wont get a better physics game then beamng.

most people just dont have a big enough understanding of physics to realize what beamng does, and how well it does it.
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Another old thread that shows the accuracy of the game's physics simulation really well: https://www.beamng.com/threads/beamng-science.28426/

ghost_cauli · Apr 9, 2023

SmokeyDokey said: ↑

That's nowhere near BeamNG, or even the game that released BEFORE GTA IV (released 2008), Rigs of Rods (released 2005). It's alright for a game that isn't focused of vehicle damage physics though, but can't even be compared to RoR/ BeamNG.
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We can go further, SLRR released in 2003 was damn close to how soft-body physics work in BeamNG with a much simpler model.

G-Farce · Apr 14, 2023

Jackets64 said: ↑

Yep this is absolutely because manufacturers don’t want completely mangled cars to mess with their brand reputation. BeamNG doesn’t have that issue because all of it’s cars are fake and don’t have real brands attached to them.
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I wonder how Project Cars and various other racing games got around that then, using real cars, for real damage, the damage is great in those games but not the latest forza

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