Could BeamNG become the BEST Touge Racing Sim?

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I've been a fan of BeamNG Drive for a long time now, but I've never actually tried touge racing on this simulator. So, I thought I'd give it a go, and try my hand at some BeamNG touge and drifting. We'll also be checking out some modded mods content in the way of Mount Akina mod, whilst I share my thoughts on the most underrated driving simulator out there! BeamNG has also received a ton of updates in 2021 that have improved the driving physics drastically, so I'm excited to see where it goes. Could it finally topple Assetto Corsa as the ultimate driving simulator? Let's wait and find out.
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[@pedrohenriquecanciamsantar2044]

I feel like beamng could be the best driving sim ever if people didn't treat it as a "secondary game"

[@TSRB]

I think an organisation just needs to set up some actual sim races for people to realise it's potential! And of course, build the infrastructure for it lol

[@lookaquarter]

​@@TSRB Look at what Touge Union did for Assetto. What started as a small group of people goofing around with the little touge mod content that existed at the time, lead to a discord server with 40000+ members, and facilitated the creation/conversion of dozens of touge courses, JDM cars (including 'touge-spec' modified versions of existing vehicles) teams, and even a touge racing 'cat and mouse' league called Battle Stage with multiple seasons of 15-20+ races events per season, with an average of 40+ participants per 'Battle Stage' event. All it takes is a few people with some initiative, and as soon as there's something there that people want to participate in, more will come.

[@turtleredspot]

@@SSmallwood See i agree the FFB isnt good, but you can tune the settings to stop it from catapulting your wheel and shattering your hand. I have my settings perfect for my dd so it doesnt want to break my fingers and it feels nearly as good as ac

[@Serzari]

@@TSRB There was Cobalt Motorsports for BeamMP! Unfortunately all the mods broke with a BeamNG update, but it had tire wear, dynamic weather, pitstops, flags and steward support, race timers and ahead/behind splits, track cut penalties etc. (Also, sorry if this is a duplicate reply, first one looked like it got shadow realm'd for some reason)

[@MetoFulcurm]

@@lookaquarter OOOOOOOO! That's exciting

[@AgentZ7]

even my "non car guy" friends love beamNG.

[@SteelRider]

it's for almost everyone

[@christiantaylor1495]

Yes but just because crash crash vroom vroom

[@stephendeben1590]

my dad (who swore off video games in the 80s) loves beamng, i had him play it when i got a sim wheel and it was his first ever video game lol.

[@SteelRider]

@@stephendeben1590 you reminded me that my dad bought me a wheel for Midtown Madness2 when I was 9 or something

[@stezenast5878]

What most people don't realize is how much the tires and wheel sizes make a difference. The biggest difference between my time attack and drift cars is just the tires, and the difference is huge

[@SomeOne-pd6vm]

tires and differentials. people forget about how much of a difference differentials make.

[@Joe-xr2xl]

beam-ng is rediculously good at rally physics. It honestly feels at home on dirt.

[@ryanroff6330]

What makes it not at home for you Rob b?

[@RetroPlus]

Agreed, i love rallying in beamNG

[@SzymkowiAK47]

since I bought beamng I'm rallying all the time. Just moded my Sunburst to EJ207 with boltons and I'm running 410hp on dirt. Always love to go sideways through the crests.

[@HapyAppleProductions]

Pikes peak dirt is one of my fav maps on beam

[@DSR505]

its about all it is good at for "sim" driving

[@FedoraQuilava87Music]

I love the fact that you can import Automation cars to beam now, so you can make your own stuff and send it down the touge

[@Joe-xr2xl]

you should see if you can get yourself a fanatec DD wheel, a cheap direct drive, you got pedals and a shifter already, so just the servo base you should need.

[@thecafesimracing2628]

I think Beam should become the official esports racing sim (when it's ready in terms of physics etc). It's would ensure actual safe racing. No one can drive like a...you'd just be shooting yourself in the foot.

[@official_Quube]

I gotta say, I prefer racing and drifting in BeamNG than in Assetto Corsa

[@kevinortizvanegas9921]

I just find it extremely difficult to drift in beam that’s the only thing I use assestto for lol

[@official_Quube]

@@kevinortizvanegas9921 i actually find drifting in beam pretty easy, but only an underpowered car going downhill

[@OcarinaOfVali]

@@official_Quube Do you use your handbrake in those down hills?

[@official_Quube]

@@OcarinaOfVali No, cause I don't have one

[@official_Quube]

@@OcarinaOfVali forgot to add, Im not using an ae86 for this, I mostly use Bruckell LeGran for this, with an Inline 4 engine and RWD output, drift steering and thats all

[@thephantomdriver7210]

There are alot of organized Races, I am in like 6 discord server alone that does really organized races And there are always Akina server online and I can also provide Touge Server myself with every touge map there is in beam So would love to touge race with you at some point on beammp!

[@NicOz42]

Look who I found here :D

[@thephantomdriver7210]

@@NicOz42 I'm everywhere

[@thataspie_]

I always wonder what song do you play in the background? It sounds like drum and bass to me.

[@janekmusil318]

5:32 the new Initial D stage looks preety cool.

[@Cheseday]

Beamng is too realistic that if my car explode then my pc will explode too

[@Delic0111]

TSRB, I'm really digging your tunes, where can i find a playlist?

[@dragonbutt]

If beam ever gets its controller settings to a point where you can plug and play and have the driving feel good and not just 'doable' then maybe.

[@irohnick]

have you played it recently? no idea what you're on about

[@dragonbutt]

@@irohnick You have to go in and adjust controller settings to make it palatable to play with a controller. Its not impossible to play without doing so, but its not very user friendly (really only one step above editing text in a file) to adjust it. Its hard to compare beam to normal racing games or driving games, but every other driving game has controller support thats already pretty well dialed in, where adjustments are purely for preference, and not to prevent steering wheel flailing and going full lock in a split second while going 130mph. As standard the controller setup for beam is very linear and its awful. I say again, its not impossible to play without doing so, but you have to do it if you want to have any sort of a semi realistic driving experience, akin to an actual racing game, and the way you adjust it in beam is very user unfriendly.

[@irohnick]

@@dragonbutt I don't know what you're talking about, personally. many a few of the people I got into beam had controllers, and they all praised beam for its intuitiveness and ease of change when it comes to controls personalization, and many just also kept controller settings default. I for one suffered the pits of hell trying to play Assetto, but beam allows me for very good fine tuning. so I personally have zero idea what you're on about

[@ericsson_motorsports]

I play on a controller and it drives great

[@TheToasterPope]

@@dragonbutt I actually like how much freedom the control binding system provides, I was able to set up a flight simulator joystick as an improvised handbrake, something that can only be done with the amount of customization the game provides. I think it’s the perfect balance of advanced and user-friendly.

[@y0nj1r0]

"im too good at sim racing so i havent crashed yet"

[@ironwolf3699]

Has he done a police chase on a touge yet?

[@2-Slick]

If it had graphics mods and an option to make the car more tougher then yeah

[@npc_citizen9276]

Aah you want another arcade graphics filled game? You can play wreck fest.

[@mintgoldheart6126]

Then go play Assetto

[@Sarutdevypera]

Could you do some touge runs on transfagarașan

[@phillbozz853]

If you have the highest graphics it’s looks very good

[@kyzerkyzerkyzerkyzerkyzer]

beemNG ❌ bing chilling ✅

[@kingman36051]

Italy is a great touge map too

[@ethangoldwyre]

I wouldn’t call BeamNG a racing sim, it’s more of a car sim that you can also race in, the subject of the game is the car, not what you’re doing with it.

[@al-dorifto1631]

Dam bro akina is the only touge map I play with the ae86 lol until I can match takumi and bunta skill all I play is akina lol but dam I'm still 30 secs behind the record but I need a better sim setup. For normal racing the tmx is fine but for touge I can't replicate it to feel like life. I can actually drive harder and faster IRL than on sim

[@tatacraft791]

Nice PS3 graphics, BeamNG is the best car game ever tbh got 920 hours

[@R061116]

It needs VR tho :)

[@rend8307]

Neeeeed it

[@NicoKyunKyun]

the reason beamng can't get licensed cars is the crash, let's face it, no one like their car crashed, even need for speed have to paid a lot of money for licensing, so we can put the most outrageous bodykit in their game, the same goes for forza horizon. BeamNG didn't have that amount of money

[@LitRue]

my favorite game

[@koga8100]

Beam tires are sooo slidy if they weren’t it would be the perfect game

[@TheRyansLion]

Apparently they put an update out recently fixing that

[@jugee8]

when u spend all ur money on a sim rig and not a gpu

[@npc_citizen9276]

Or cpu and ram. I have 2 gig cpu and it works on high graphics

[@dogwater1089]

This is 100% how drifters build cars 7:36

[@JTPineapple]

beamng went from a crash sim to a full blown video game with really cool crashes. probably my favorite car game out there

[@fisken1]

2:07 there are actually touge servers on this game

[@versa5864]

Shinji Inui technique video when

[@lizmendoza152]

yes

[@qweasd-hn4dz]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2G5i5-YeZaZq9E recommend this video he also does other things and is honestly the best out there to explain Initial D techniques

[@versa5864]

@@qweasd-hn4dz watched it, just think it'd be interesting to have TSRB do a video about this.

[@duckypcs]

Wierd that you are getting bad framrates. You should be able to get atleast 60 fps on ultra even while recording. I have a bit worse specs than you and get no issues at all.

[@npc_citizen9276]

Probably a bad cpu or low ram

[@aaronbalchand5475]

I dont know why but its hilarious watching a grown man laugh his butt off while drifting a bus on the touge

[@austinhawkins8604]

If people modded beam ng like they do assetto it would be be the #1 racing sim, period

[@austinrknaggs]

Bro you gotta get more beam mods. They’ve got some where you can build your engine with every single part. They have airplanes and shit. Aston martins idk pretty much anything

[@1mariomaniac]

@@austinrknaggs I have a mod where you can swap any engine into any car, want a economy car with a V8, sure? Want a truck with a bus engine, why not? It's a ton of fun to mess with 😆

[@rend8307]

@@1mariomaniac mod name? 🤔

[@1mariomaniac]

@@rend8307 "Vehicle Global Strength, Weight, Size and Other Values Edit (WORKS FOR MODS)" by Agent Y

[@rend8307]

@@1mariomaniac thanks maniac

[@severelydisadvantaged8547]

Not just cars, you can use planes with a joy stick and even boats, as well as full blown off-road buggy’s and trophy trucks it’s just satisfying to watch the suspension work in slow mo

[@thischannelisback3153]

games that have stuff that make you scared of crashing and damaging the car (ex: if you crash you gotta pay for the damage and if you crash it actually does damage that can stop the car) always feel more realistic to me

[@glub__blub]

Beamng has me so close to buying a pc but the problem is I have a real car that I wanna do stuff to

[@zwenkwiel816]

Can only crash that real car once though...

[@glub__blub]

@@zwenkwiel816 yeah and if I don’t get better suspension and a rear sway bar it’s gonna happen faster cause subaru understeer is real. And I have to do the 60k service which luckily I’m getting a good deal on because spark plugs are a bitch on subies

[@ViceMightBeTaken]

BeamNG is like the Garry's mod of sim racers.

[@TSRB]

Yes!!

[@trorsus6627]

literally bro ive been obsessed with this game for like a year lmaoo

[@sambalzone94]

Now there are even more touge maps. Ngl I prefer BeamNG more to AC when it comes to touge driving. It simulates gutter run, irohazaka jump, inner wheel lift a lot more consistently. I had a moment in AC where the car just go crazy when trying to pull off such stunts.

[@fivemer4202]

haven't even watched the full video yet beamng is the most realistic feeling physics with a wheel i've ever tried 10/10 recommend great for touge also 1v1 me also cool video

[@al-dorifto1631]

in beamng I make it to like the 3rd corner before I crash lol

[@epg1714]

The rail guard and the trees in mt. Akina map mod is a bit sticky. So if u touch it, even a bit. It will pull your car

[@aryawyk.7874]

just like in assetto akina, i think they are made like that on purpose to avoid wallriding

[@harkin3684]

@@aryawyk.7874 its impossible to use wall riding to your advantage in BeamNG. It normally will snap your steering or at least ruin the alignment. Its just a bug common to modded maps, especially the ported ones

[@trorsus6627]

its very difficult but i have tapped the walls a few times with the expense of a tail light

[@IvanVT27]

And if you combine automation with beam, you got yourself the definitive racing game, driving the shitbox you yourself designed is the greatest feeling in the world!!

[@npc_citizen9276]

You can already do that without automation. Just a little modelling and scripting

[@mintgoldheart6126]

@@npc_citizen9276 "just a little" he says

[@manicgamingguy6161]

I love beamng I am always making content for it but also love playing Automation tycoon making my own cars that I then can export into Beamng and drive them. love it

[@chessiesystem613]

The Automation map on beam has a pretty good mountain road with switchbacks, even an inner gutter

[@samuelmerson]

Loved the foot pedal cam!

[@eddieru]

what’s that “free” dnb remix that played in the background

[@Ang3lUki]

Can you feel the chassis flexing around you as you drive? You don't get that in any other game, people think the physics sim is just for crashes, but no it makes the cars feel so much more weighty and real. Yes that does mean they don't feel as sharp, but that's a concession that an arcade game makes for accessibility, really undermines my interest in AC.

[@ethanbenton6676]

The polo loafers a certified staple now

[@Ang3lUki]

BeamNG, the only driving sim where you unironically say "I died" instead of "I crashed"

[@Steph.98114]

Love beam but it really needs VR support as i don't have room for me to use my monitors with my Sim setup

[@FilipNone]

I think you need to remake this video to convince more people, now beam is really improved

[@benjaminasracas4525]

The drifting in this game is kinda weird, especially on modded cars

[@Red_Lion2000]

What is the background music from the start of the video?

[@Jukusaka]

I swear i need that playlist so much the song from 3:00

[@drmagnusw1238]

You probably know, but u have ESP toggled on😄

[@draygan04]

I've never tried beamng for touge

[@uzzylikescurry]

Hey @Thatsimracingbloke what’s the first song that played in your last 2 videos

[@deenster]

Great content, you've convinced me to buy the game

[@mrparadisedrifter1678]

the manual transmission is default set to arcade ish style so make sure to watch tutorial videos to get the best experience. I actually learned how to drive and with manual just by beamng drive.

[@lyingglitch1018]

I believe i am better than you

[@davideleo2062]

I've actually bought the game a couple of days ago but got very disappointed when i tried it because the ffb was reeeeeeally bad compared to Assetto Corsa. Anybody knows a way to make it properly good? (Yes, I've tried adjusting the ingame ffb settings but it still is very difficult to drive in a straight line at high speed or close a simple drift)

[@Беспроводнойактивныйсабвуфер]

reverse ffb in settings?

[@davideleo2062]

@@Беспроводнойактивныйсабвуфер wdym?

[@xXRockman1Xx]

You need to tune the cars if your using the default vehicles they are not tune correctly for a wheel and are uncontrollable. You also can put in response correction curve that helped me a lot with my wheel. I don't know what wheel you have so I can't recommend any settings for you sorry.

[@mintgoldheart6126]

Reminder that beam simulates power steering and all the steering mechanism that are commonly used on vehicles.

[@audie9240]

have you played in mobile before?

[@C35LAM]

i need that music playlist lol

[@ocularcavity8412]

I LOVE Beam NG but the only reason i don't play t more is EXACTLY what happened to you while i am playing my Force feedback will randomly die, and i don't think it is a problem with Fanatec, i have a Thrustmaster T500 rs and it is TOTALLY SOLID! It NEVER has the force feedback cut out or has the centering mis-align in ANY or driving sim but it randomly happens in Beam NG and it is SOOOOOOO ANNOYING

[@LitRue]

also why did you need to turn the graphics down to the lowest with that pc?

[@npc_citizen9276]

To get 144 fps probably

[@D3LTA2]

I love BeamNG so much, I love doing time trials along road courses in road cars... Get a great feel of how different cars are on the limit of grip hurtling along a bumpy country road 😅🙌🏻

[@weok-doing-things]

I remember launching it by accident with my sim gear. I was driving for like 4 hours amazed by the details and physics. The way chassy works etc. and it was like 3 years ago

[@_blood_moon_proto_1500]

i have a g29 i love it.....now i gotta save for a direct drive....now i just gotta get a paypal.....great video, i just hope i can get good at touge, rally and track racing

[@rileypaterson7117]

i love beam ng and modding it haha the mod comunity adds so much

[@Jackaboo]

I can relate heavily with 7:19, some of my best memories in this game are drifting around with random people in beammp and just never resetting. drifting an absolutely hammered car is something you can experience anywhere else!

[@granddukeofnuke-chester]

Bruh, why haven't more people subscribed to you yet, this is some top notch content

[@sumblwnup8695]

Beamng is a really good game, the only issue I have is downforce

[@irxgamingofficial2566]

I wanna play beamng so much but I can't afford it.

[@carllindgren7130]

What's your opinion on Forza Horizon 5?

[@c1oud503]

Please no :D

[@lizmendoza152]

FIRST

[@ShadowDemonontren]

Well, I am second then.

[@draygan04]

soup

[@lizmendoza152]

@@draygan04 ?

[@airtonsilva5221]

Para que pones una cámara en los pies si no haces ni un punta y taco? Jajajaja pobre embrague amigo aprende a manejar jejejeje

[@ishitmypantsinacarwheniwas7]

note:by pressing j you can pause the game

[@illegalcumtrader56]

Beamng akina is ported from AC I think

[@rotkiv2269]

Hit me up if you want to do any sort of racing or driving in beam!! Rotkiv#9519

[@lizmendoza152]

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