Any insights you have for BeamNG would be greatly appreciated! What would you like to see next?

beamng's physics is just light years ahead of any other sim! and the proper tire physics is not even done yet!

I fell down the BeamNG rabbit hole too and I’m still stuck in it atm 😂 I’ll probably be coming in and out for a while. This sim has taken way too many hours from me, but I’ve honestly enjoyed every minute of it. I kinda look at BeamNG like getting a brand new car and slowly building it around your own driving style, experience, and taste. Every week I feel like I learn something new about how the sim works. I think that whole journey of figuring it out for yourself is honestly one of the most fun parts. It definitely was for me. Looking forward to seeing how your build progresses!

If you love tinkering with suspension geometry thisis a great game and very satisfying. The default setups usually have some vices and it takes some trial and error to tune out. There is still the 2% times when a sudden traction change surprises me but I am no expert.

BeamNG's soft body physics means it's got the best suspension simulation, period. There's no contest on that. The tires do need work, but that's exactly what the developers are working on at the moment. There are some mods that improve the tire physics if you search the official repository so I would recommend experimenting with those if you want tire wear and heat simulation.

I gotta say, I'm shocked you have only 304 subscribers. your quality is so high that i genuinely thought i was watching a youtuber of atleast 150k subscribers. Good job, plus nice job at getting me subscribed ;)

Welcome! 😅😅 I also have thousands of hours on assetto and even more on BNG. My advice is tune your own car. Parts customization changes the handling just as much as tuning suspension, down to weight, tyre size, wheel offset engine choice etc. Most online drifters have their own setups and depending on how well they setup their cars, they vary greatly in speed and grip levels, not just skill level, unlike assetto... And the vanilla cars are perfectly fine to get to know and tune. The mod cars can be a hit of miss, but some are actually just as good. Have fun, I look forward to seeing how you progress with your car setups :) P.s the BX is my fav

ive been playing Beamng for 10 years and i have 17k hours logged on it and yet i still struggle to maintain a long drift

Hell yeah, I've been playing Assetto Corsa, GT and Forza but since trying BeamNG I didn't start any of those since

oh wait until you open the parts menu :D this is what ive always wanted from a car game, to be able to set up anything i want :D

Hi, ive got tips for you since you're new to BeamnNG!

-First thing you should do is mess around in freeroam, then when you get the hang of it, go explore all the maps, try all the vehicles/thingamabobs or try the scenarios, you can try the career more but its still WIP and theres not much to do there yet.

-If you want to mod your game you should use the repository as mods on the internet are mostly low quality/dangerous (there are some gems tho). Even if the model looks good, the car may be badly coded and crashes won't be realistic. You should get the gravil vertex mod, it pretty much has a version for every motorsports that exists and more! (105 versions)

-If you want to modify your vehicle, go on the pause menu>vehicle>vehicle config. This will show you all the parts you can change/remove on your car, for fine tuning go to the next page, and for paint next page again.

-You'll notice that the tires don't have feel to them, you have no idea when they're about to loose traction which makes it hard to drift, this is because the devs are still working on a way to simulate tire physics, don't worry it will come soon!

-For max realism, i would suggest going to option>gameplay>general and setting the default ignition state to "ignition : off" and checking out the driving asistants settings.

-Unlike other games, you can't change from manual to automatic at will, if your car has an automatic transmission, thats it. You must spawn the manual version of the car instead, or you could change the transmission in the parts selector, but if you do that you have to change the center console manually aswell.

-Using your mouse you can interact with some parts of you vehicle, like doors, ignition, lights and more, interactible buttons will be highlighted in a green cube. If you want to open the hood you first have to release the hood latch!!! Some trucks have 2 of them!

-I know you mostly drift but you should really take a look at all the other stuff like offroading, trucking, rallying and the new wheel loader and dumptruck. No matter if it not your style, these are so well simulated that you'll like it even if you're not into trucking!

-If you're doing racing/city driving, the AI is still very dumb, its not the priority of the devs rn but it will come.

-This game doesn't just simulate body physics, the suspension, steering and other parts of the car are actual levers connected to parts of the car, not just some code that tells the car what to do. The ABS and other electronic system's code are taken from actual cars, the hydraulic struts's fluid holding your hatchback open are actually simulated, and so are the ones on wheel loaders and trucks, gas in you car has physics and weight, meaning less gas means you're lighter, useful for drag racing! Theres an incredible amount of things that are simulated in this, and the game keeps getting updates with new content and physics every 4/5 months since 2013! If you want to know everything thats simulated in this, you'll have to check all the previous changelogs because theres so much! Also please try the Bruckell Nine, its really cool.

Great Video! I need to get down on some beam.

Welcome to Beamng world sir! Your content is high-quality. You've gained a new subscriber!
Your car is quite similar to mine.
I using a bx too, but i have little tuning. I using 240bx with a 2.0 engine, gtz stock turbo and sport ecu. Also drift steering and welded diff!

I have over 5k hours just on asseto corsa for drifting and gt3 and all sorts of other sutff snd ive heard so many poeple say sim drifting or and other racing games can help improve on real life driving and people i know will tell me it wont help me but watching you drive explain and drive in game and seeing some clips of you drifting in real life gives me true hope! great video

beamng deserves all the attention it gets, sure there r more popular sims out there but not as intrinsic and in depth as beamng and since its coming to the ps5 i hope it gets into other peoples eyes

You could try kagoni’s tyre simulation mod if you’d like.

I haven’t personally tried the mod because I don’t have a wheel set, however I watched a YouTube video about it recently.

BeamNG doesn’t have a detailed tyre model and the mod adds tyre tread, temperature and pressure based behaviour to compensate this. In addition it models contact patch dynamics.

youve 100% seen sim racing samurai........

Lets goo, can’t wait to finally experience a proper sim on the PS5. I’ve been drifting for years on GT7 on my wheel and I need something new. I’m also a truck driver IRL so that’s going to be fun to on BeamNG

There's also drift versions of cars which are way better for drifting then theres drag configs for speed and acceleration

Also so your aware, the Developers are working on better tire physics. Its in progress, but won't be out for a while. I wonder what drifitng will be after that update...