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Explanation of the need for the Keyboard Changes :

The keyboard steering changes were introduced for the benefit of the Live for Speed Community - Keyboard users and Analogue users alike. They are meant to promote better competition and online racing and the LFS developers believe that these changes will achieve this.

Problems with the old system that the changes are designed to tackle :

Because of the extreme, accurate, predictive steering help, the keyboard system automatically corrected skids for the user, in a sense before they even happened, so efficiently that a rear wheel drive car could be kept at full throttle even when a driving wheel was on the grass. This is not possible in real life or in Live for Speed either, due to human reaction time, when using any other control device such as a steering wheel or mouse. The same thing with hitting kerbs at high speed, as in real life, analogue users must be careful about hitting kerbs and release the throttle and attempt to control the car when these situations are unavoidable. Great skill can overcome many of the drawbacks of human reaction time, but never fully, and nowhere near to the standard of the computerised automatic steering that was present in the now obsolete keyboard steering system. This introduced 3 clear problems into the Live for Speed competitive environment.

1) Beginner Problem : Beginners found it too easy to drive the cars at high speed, being able to drive the cars at very high speed while mouse and wheel users at the same level of experience were still learning to control the car on the limit.

2) Hotlapping Problem : Keyboard users were able to refine their lines and take straighter lines through bends and chicanes because of their freedom to use the kerbs and grass edges due to the computer help.

3) Online Racing Problem : Keyboard users had very little fear of crashing and bumping with other cars. The slightest impact is very hard to control with mouse or wheel, as in real life racing, because of the upset balance of the car. A minority of keyboard drivers would use this to their advantage, often ramming their way through the field at turn 1 of a race, giving them an unfair advantage and making the analogue drivers lose the race when it had hardly begun.

How does the new keyboard steering help?

Two new steering methods are provided, "no help" and "stabilised". "No help" has literally, no help. No input from the car's motion is used to calculate any steering input. "Stabilised" uses the car's heading compared with its direction of motion, to provide a steering input which helps the driver to control the car. This has been provided as an aid to keyboard drivers to compensate for the obvious problem of steering with two buttons instead of an analogue device.

But "stabilised" mode does not use prediction, and is nowhere near as efficient as the old system. This automatically helps with the 3 problems listed above. The user must take some action to control skids and is not able to keep the power on full when the car gets out of shape. The driver needs to be more aware of the limits so that he or she stays in control of the car.

We believe this is a benefit to keyboard users, as it allows them to get the benefit of driving a racing simulator. We have designed LFS S1 to recreate as much as possible of the excitement of racing a car, without even leaving your home! And part of that excitement is the feeling of controlling that car on the limit, and the satisfaction of success, while being so close to the limit all the time. The new keyboard system gives the user more to do in controlling the car, and therefore more satisfaction from the experience.

Note to keyboard users who are not satisfied with the new system :

Please give it a much longer chance. Several keyboard users are enjoying the new system, for the reasons given in the previous paragraph.

"I paid for this - The LFS developers have taken something from me" :

We've heard this several times. We can't agree with this. Patch E is still available if that's what you prefer. We have offered you a free patch which you may use if you like. We recommend that you do, but that's your choice.

Final note to angry keyboard users and wheel users who have got into arguments :

Please take it very easy and discuss things in a calm way. Forum moderators have had to step in and take action several times because of discussions turning into arguments, getting out of hand and even degenerating into personal insults. This is quite unnecessary and is unfair on the RSC moderators.

Live for Speed Development :

Live for Speed Online Racing Simulator is under constant development and evolution. The intended direction is realism. At any time the developers may change plans, make a new system, change it later, delete it, introduce something that happens to make things harder, easier, simpler or more complicated. All members of the community must accept that. We listen to the community with great interest and we are very happy being so close with the community, and we feel involved and part of that community. But ultimately we the developers must take decisions and make this simulator into what we want it to be.

Thanks :

Thanks for reading this, and have fun racing!