3 Reasons Why GTA V Cars have Low Top Speed?

3 Reasons Why GTA V Cars have Low Top Speed?
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[@alpergumulu9547]

now I wanna see a fighter jet with realistic speed flying through Los Santos. you know, going at 1.8 mach (1380 mph) speed and not at 200 mph

[@Vucko100]

(taking notes)

[@tomj4406]

..ive only gone the game limit of 336 mph..in planes or cars and..it's a nice speed for planes, far too much for land veh, lol. modders can remove the 336 mph limit..there are vids out there on it, it's crazy!

[@XiledGamer00]

@@tomj4406 Remembers going that speed with the reverse deluxo glitch years ago. The game doesn't like it very much lol

[@tomj4406]

@@XiledGamer00 Ahh, never ceases to amaze me how many glitches there are! ..makes me wonder if some aren't placed in the game intentionally by programmers? anyways, idk, my old Dell: i5, 4gb GPU & 8gb ram did ok at 336mph, aha..it be even better with the 16gb ram & 1660 Super ASUS card i have now, 6gb fast af ram on it. but, i bet bc i was doing so on story mode. OL? probs tougher to render. ie other players etc going on.

[@Free_Krazy]

I have actually seen a video of a jet flying at realistic speeds, they were basically just circling the map like every 12 seconds lol

[@yarinx6134]

Honestly gotta give you the crown for still creating GTA V content for so many years!! True dedication!

[@schwuppdiewupp7]

Agree but MAYBE YT is his job so he needs to put out content

[@Sunnykr275]

@@schwuppdiewupp7 it’s not about his “job” sirrr the thing is he is stays on one particular game. Not many people stay on one platform and keep extracting good content from it. He stays on one game and keep telling us new things even after 8,9 years of this game. Many would move to new game and share other games opinion but he didn’t do that. That’s why I really respect him

[@eddyb1596]

Dedication or obsession..? Either way, it's appreciated.

[@johnmarcogabuya3250]

@@schwuppdiewupp7ĺ

[@GringoLocoo_]

@@eddyb1596 😂

[@puchi4884]

I was actually thinking about it and was curious, thanks for the info bro

[@kiefydoinks]

I was thinking about this about what 7 years ago when it first dropped. I don’t understand why they do this.

[@greensteel9757]

Fast cars are much needed, it’s like real life you control your throttle

[@greensteel9757]

@Quacker Macker maybe not after a divorce or breakup LOL

[@Feku13]

fun fact: if ur car has digital speedometer then it is actually correct speed showing up. Ooh and another reason top speed is around 120mph is that physics are connected to the FPS game is running at. They fixed it on the PS5/XSX tho. One more reason could be that GTA5 came out on ps3/xbox360 first and it was already struggling with loading textures so going even faster wont help

[@nolanleahy4260]

The textures loading speed is definitely an issue on ps4, especially around the casino where the frames drop dramatically.

[@lucawiko4175]

And then me with my Computer, which isn‘t a Gaming Pc or so. (Only a Nvidea Gtx 1050 Ti and a i7 from Intel. It was a unused office Pc). And i drive my moddet cars at like Max speed wich is 336 mph or 540km/h. Because Gta dont let my car go higher or something like that. And i dont have any issues loading the texures and my Graphic are all high. So yeah…

[@GALLUS_PRIME]

@@nolanleahy4260 I have that same problem with my ONE S. Does it mostly happen when there’s more than five of so people running around the main entrance?

[@WillFuI]

On new gen consoles it isn’t

[@YOEL_44]

@@GALLUS_PRIME Nah, it also happens on single player. Like most games, GTA V loads the map in chunks, there are some chunks around the dam that have too much vegetation, so when you get close to them they load all at once and tanks the FPS down. On PC you can just disable grass and the issue dissapears.

[@Claude_Lib]

My 3 reasons why the top speed is so low. 1) Creating the illusion of a bigger map, of course. 2) Keeping things competitive in Online. 3) Preventing map pop-ins. I thought that would be your second reason when you played that clip.

[@christiantaylor1495]

To keep it competitive online? I suppose Assetto Corsa Competizione, and other racing simulator eSports must not exist then, where the cars go over 200mph, like the virtual 24 hours at Le Mans

[@NakedTrashPanda]

I personally believe it's because they want the map to feel bigger and because of the pop-ins. I don't think there is another reason, in fact if they wanted it to be more competitive they would make the cars go faster.

[@christiantaylor1495]

@@NakedTrashPanda driver a really fast car as Franklin in story mode and use his special ability on the highway to overtake several cars and then exit his special ability and the car will be going what's faster than usual top speed. It does that on old gen consoles even in the city.

[@NaddlyC]

@@christiantaylor1495 GTA is an arcade game, not a simulator by any means

[@LaVaZ000]

@@christiantaylor1495 Yeah but I don't think GTA V has a fully laser scanned map of South California, unlike GTA V, Assetto Corsa is a racing game that has racing tracks designed for high-speed racing, mind-blowing.

[@xii-warzone-xiiwz9996]

There’s one more reason and it’s the speed of which the objects load into the game. In GTA Online it would be super difficult for the game to load in objects, keep you online, and drive 200+ mph unless your on pc without any hardware limitation unlike consoles

[@XiledGamer00]

Even on ps4, back when the re-7b was broken and could go around 200mph. It was hard to control but the game was loading just fine. Only time I had issues with map loading was with the reverse deluxo glitch when the car went at the games max speed of 333mph lul

[@Barbro247]

Yeah the framerate drops bad even in invite only lobbies or storymode when going fast on ps4.

[@XiledGamer00]

@@Barbro247 don't go near the casino on PS4 if you really want the fps to drop.

[@SuperCrysis92]

Forza horizon literally does all of that and more Rockstar is certainly more than capable of using a little bit of extra money to pull it off but they won't.

[@iciboigaming4793]

That’s not an excuse bruh speed glitches exist

[@KP-48-007]

A difficulty option for realistic handling and top speed would have been really great.

[@swiwaii781]

yeah but the moment online players see harder handling they switch immediately

[@KP-48-007]

@@swiwaii781 fxck online I was talking about SP. Obviously that won't be applicable to ONLINE

[@jesukxd8494]

@@swiwaii781 I think that would be positive change

[@souxee]

Yes, i agree, its so boring that i have the best ultimate cars ingame, yet they are slower then most real life cars -.-

[@luciano12sa]

That could be a option to divide different skilled level players (like different aim assists using a controller does now). However, i think having the cars itself to be harder to control while at high speed is a much greater solution, specially because is grounded in reality and changes the gameplay dynamics, so it would be like driving fast on the streets with max population density on gta 5 right now, pretty hard. But also the game needed to lessen the focus on timing missions to alleviate the pressure of going fast all the time, so it can be a fun experience rather than a obligation.

[@TheGrandtheftautops3]

4:50 That night driving gameplay reminds me heavily of Midnight Club LA. Especially if you play that game on a CRT, night visibility + slippery driving + excess traffic = horrible experience.

[@andrewprincic2825]

I still play their complete edition lol. Wish they had a bigger map

[@rijkp]

same lol but i only play midnight club dub edition remix

[@adat81]

I think its hardware limit, because if you go way too fast game is basically breaking on consoles, good example is doing vindicator boost downhill in vinewood on xbox one (and maybe ps4 too) heres the glitch kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpOyaH-YYt2CsNU , so basically you cant go faster because consoles cant accumulate that big of speed because game cant render textures that fast

[@SoddingGit]

^ This. Hardware limitations, you need to remember that GTA V first released on the 360/PS3. Same with GTA San Andreas the PS2/OG Xbox couldn't render the whole map so the fog was to hide the draw distance.

[@Vucko100]

Good point, should've mentioned that as well

[@Ex-Mohammed_Anwar]

Also because of the FPS

[@adat81]

@TigaumNoob speed in diffrent games and other stuff depends on engine game is runned and other bla bla stuff, so you can be faster in diffrent games because engine can be made to handle that speed because its meant for that PS. im not a programmer

[@YOEL_44]

@TigaumNoob Sandbox racing games (NFS and the likes...) load world assets in a wildly different way, most of the time you could only possibly reach a place through a couple of paths so they basically generate a tunnel of details around you, in GTA you also have to take into account vertical movement and increased freedom of movement in general, so the chunks have to shape a 360 circle around you, plus all the lods for the distant map, which on racing games can also be optimized way more with clever level design.

[@ALKUN87]

Physics are another reason. At least some vehicles are nearer to the ground the faster you're going. The collision physics start behaving differently in abnormally high speeds. Sometime ago I modded my game so the vehicles are WAY faster than normal. While I was driving a blazer I found out that I couldn't go over a certain speed because it got so low to the ground that it clipped it and made me stop.

[@YOEL_44]

I think it's safe to assume that if they would have planned to let vehicles go faster, they would also set the downforce in a different way, you just have to change a line in the handling file.

[@JlRlK]

True, same with handling flags, some of them just can't work properly, like long first gear, it changes in vanilla car 1 gear shift near to 100 km/h while modded car with 300-400 top speed gets 140+

[@JlRlK]

@@YOEL_44 but they didn't there is line in handling meta with downforce, but that stuff is just multiplier to original one - Original one u can't change at all, so your car will be pressed a lot, while u driving 300+ km/h.

[@fuze3522]

I would much prefer the feel of going 200 in the game, it feels so much more realistic! Would definitely make the races more exiting. The only reason I think they didn’t do it is because this game was designed to run on the Xbox 360 and PS3. Those consoles simply couldn’t handle those kinds of speeds.

[@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet]

Fun fact: a Nascar stock car is faster than an F1 car in GTA V.

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

Although irl the average speed in nascar is higher most of the time atleast

[@4storyboss]

even indycar is faster than f1

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

@@4storyboss average speed...cuz ovals

[@geckogt262]

@@MagnumLoadedTractor no not really

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

@@geckogt262 then what is it the speed of the trucks that move the car from place to place?

[@llndmsn998]

Good point about the difficulty curve. I will say however, even at the artifivially low speeds we currently have, a lot of player have a hard time controlling their cars lol.

[@fredcharleskrueger5183]

As far as handling mods go, I really like “DriveV” it’s a simcade-ish handling setup with realistic top speed and acceleration. Pretty good in my opinion.

[@BaconPuncakesX]

i've been complaining about the top speed for years i would honestly think upping it from 120 to 150 would make a huge difference.

[@jadenr3833]

Old consoles couldn’t do it

[@BaconPuncakesX]

@@jadenr3833 but these newer ones (and obviously pc) can do it

[@KP-48-007]

@@jadenr3833 pc and ps4/xo with hdd can do it, having that as option would have been great

[@jadenr3833]

@@BaconPuncakesX hence why they have faster cars

[@jadenr3833]

@@KP-48-007 my PS4 wasn’t even able to fly over the casino without crashing lol and I’m only going 130

[@RukarioEnterprisesLLC]

Yo, my dude, I'm glad he's still making content, I thought he ended his videos like some KZbinrs do, where they don't upload for a long time.

[@chillyman7340]

Your one of the best GTA modding goats, GTA 4 brought me here so many times, am glad your still making gta content, great video man :)

[@TheJaisonIpe]

Adding to this I also think it's an optimisation method for rendering the environment, especially considering last gen consoles and low end PCs. The speed is just fast enough to ensure that the environment loads, thus making it seem like the whole map is pre-loaded instead of things randomly popping up.

[@JorgeElCuh]

Driving a slower car or having cruise control as an option would easily solve the last problem you were talking about

[@janvertonghen14]

Honestly, those are my suggestions: 1. could've just have a option to disable the traffic or maybe lower it down a bit 2. they could've add a tempometer that limits your speed to the certain kmh u want and that would actually make the cars way faster 3. Better steering and more precise steering so it will be more difficult to hit a car at top speed.

[@HoldMyBong]

Yeah sure lets drive around an empty city clown. You just listen 3 reasons why you work at mcdonalds and not rockstar

[@FakeExotic]

140 mph is too fast in gta roads, also the traffic is always there to screw you

[@jesukxd8494]

Not in online. In online there is less traffic and if cars are faster you don't always have to go full throttle. That would add some skill for driving and that would be awesome. Works fine in gta rp server and its more fun

[@FakeExotic]

@@jesukxd8494 nope, the npc always seem to stop right infront of me in an intersections, sometimes they suddenly turn to me

[@jesukxd8494]

@@FakeExotic If you are smart how you drive it is not really a problem

[@FakeExotic]

@@jesukxd8494 bruh not everyone is good at driving

[@YOEL_44]

@@FakeExotic LOL then how is that an issue with the speeds, instead of you?

[@pedinhuh16]

I fail to see how the player's skill and reaction times, and also the difficulty are any relevant factors to not increase the top speeds at all. Why? Simple, you can just not drive as fast, or drive slower cars/bikes if you truly need to.

[@whatever57010]

this is just speculation. I can think of other reasons as well... like saving the option to update the game with a slightly faster car 100 times, and there won't be any reason to buy the new cars. also saying 95% can't drive like that is arrogant and not a valid reason

[@JimmyDJDog]

number 2 is stupid, if you can't drive it fast then just don't drive as fast until u can lol or just dont buy the car

[@MermaidTyrone]

@@JimmyDJDog Yeah I agree it would be fun, but what he says in the video is that you need to cater to the mainstream audience. You know if driving is too hard for casual gamers and they crash into shit all the time then they aren't going to play the game, so they will get less money from online and so on. They gotta make money at the end of the day and making the game too hard for casuals is only going to lose Rockstar money.

[@agentburningbutters3655]

It can also be a reason for having firefights whilst driving, it makes it easier for you and others in the vehicle to aim as the enemies scorch in from behind

[@_Matt15]

In my opinion reasons 2 and 3 are the reasons that prove that they should add faster cars. Fast driving should take more skill, and if you want to just ride slow use less throttle 🤷‍♂️

[@Anyrhing77]

the main reason is more technical, loading objects is not that easy for most consoles

[@jesukxd8494]

I think the first reason was alright and does make sense but I disagree with two other reasons. I think making cars go faster would bring more enjoyable experience when driving cars. maybe handling could be changed a little but I think It could bring positive change. Also I think there are hardware limitation. It would be harder to run gta if textures load faster. Also in online faster speeds can make players desync because your connection isn't always good enough to handle faster car speeds.

[@MermaidTyrone]

Yeah I agree it would be fun, but what he says in the video is that you need to cater to the mainstream audience. You know if driving is too hard for casual gamers and they crash into shit all the time then they aren't going to play the game, so they will get less money from online and so on.

[@jesukxd8494]

@@MermaidTyrone Works fine in FiveM and everyone likes it

[@jesukxd8494]

@@MermaidTyrone Also you don't always have to drive fast if you can't handle it. just like in real drive.

[@TeenWithACarrotIDK]

@@MermaidTyrone literally what Rockstar did when children complained about front wheel drive cars turning “too slow” and rear wheel drive cars turning “too much.” Appease your brain dead audience when they complain about things that aren’t issues, and you will always make money.

[@MermaidTyrone]

@@jesukxd8494 Yeah but im talkin about real casuals who don't know how to play video games. FiveM doesn't make any money for rockstar they make money from *casuals* like real normies. Yknow, that's who they make the game for, not for hardcore gamers who know how to drive and actually play the game, there are maybe a couple of million of those. They have to sell tens of millions of copies so making the game easy is a priority.

[@JM_E46]

honestly they could just put in something like "remove chip" option in ls customs like you can on electric scooters for example so you can remove the 120mph limit and put it on

[@GolovaPomidor]

I actually thought it's because PS3 could not load textures that fast back in the day so sppeed was limited

[@singer3249]

i have been playing GTAV on PS3 (without mods) and have high speed of 137.13 in a T20 car. I have tried to see how fast I can go after that and seems that RS changed it to where it can't be done anymore.

[@kiban7676]

5:25 well if you use Kiddions free mod menu , there's an option where you can basically change the parameters on which your vehicle is basically functioning , for example what i do is to change the acceleration rate from lets say 0,35 to somewhere around 2-3 ,but the car becomes too unpredictable and hard to control , to fix this you have to decrease the suspension power , i like to put it on 1,4 ( normally its set on ~2,5 ) Also you can change other stuff if you're interested which i personally always do Disclaimer: If you ever use a Mod like kiddions please try not to abuse it

[@dacian23]

It’s an interesting time to release this with the HSW upgrades being implemented into the game lol. Some cars can hit close to 200 in the right areas now

[@l7m378]

another major problem is the amount pf bumps the map itself has. There are so many bumps that even trying to turn with full already ends up being a pain, even more so when you try to hit the apex and end up hitting the crosswalk. Im already used to high speeds, but some portions of the map is also extremely narrow, in such an extreme way that the car barely fits in the lane. The video has some very good points as well, but for those who truly want to have some sort of speed in the game, even if it is to be only on race events, there should be some sort of class that has some special requirements, like the open wheel cars, that are single seated, and cant carry anything nor use guns to bully other people with the speed.

[@PhazeLD]

I think for the ps5 and series x upgrade they should have increased it, that or made a mini updated gta version that you can upgrade to if you wanted that has increased/unlocked speed. Then og’s can stay with what they like and “next gen” gamers can get the upgraded game. They already have cars that can now go faster with hao’s special works and it makes driving such a better experience

[@redxcted._]

ur channel really grew no 🧢, i remember watching the short movie u made and now ur channel is huge

[@Denes2005]

For point 2: Yes, but if r* gave realistic top speeds they’d probabily give proper handling at those speeds too Same for 3rd, they could have just made the traffic less

[@bilal6865]

Less traffic looks bad i am glad what rockstar did ....you can see forza horizon games looks do empty and life less

[@bandwagon240]

@@bilal6865 the downside is that Rockstar can't manage to make the AI not just drive into you on purpose. I'd rather have sparse AI and be able to travel faster than an irl Prius than be saddled with a 115 mph 2.5 million dollar supercar in dumb/homicidal traffic.

[@joaojunior2515]

@@bilal6865 more traffic would be bad in a game like Forza, While GTA is more like a sandbox open world game where cars are a part of the game in Forza they're the core. If we had traffic as GTA has the name of would be Wreckfest

[@rafsandomierz5313]

@@joaojunior2515 Anyway isn't amount of traffic cars in Forza horizon controllable? I mean you can set it how you like it.

[@Blaza303]

5:18 well it wouldn't kill you just to go a bit slower, honestly increasing the speed definitely poses a bit of a challenge to driving in gta, especially when you have to focus on swerving between traffic and shooting but i don't care, it takes more skill and teaches new-comers how to "get good" the game is already easy enough as it is by having multiple flying vehicles that point, target and nuke players that don't have a fighting chance, if only land vehicles had realistic speeds then i already think the game would be a hell of a lot more balanced

[@rafsandomierz5313]

Map is pretty small if they did that they would have to increase speed of every vechile including traffic, which GTA's 5 engine may not take it that well.

[@Heelbaas]

They should give you the ability to change engine modes, like if you chose sport it should be a realistic speed so its more dangerous but also faster, normal so thats how gta speed normaly work and enonomy or something so its slower but like as fast as civilians, like in the game maffia where you can choose to limit your speed to the legal speed.

[@timeless_glory8_AKA_lockie]

I never knew it was pronounced “vichko” I always thought it was pronounced Vucko

[@0nics]

I literally have an online mod menu JUST to adjust the cars to their real speed

[@AL3JANDRO_GV]

Very good reasons, especially for me I feel that going at that speed must be tiring since you have to be too concentrated and in a crash at that speed you can die instantly, that's tedious

[@jkclassy3643]

0:00 Now thats the Vucko intro we all love!

[@dyingcactus2350]

Please do a video comparing low stats to high stats in gta V. I think it would be really interesting to see the differences.

[@viperthegamer8141]

The first reason was obvious but I was oblivious to the other 2 thanks vucko you actually never disappoint, it's insane how different and creative your videos are, you can never find the same content on the same video in this channel

[@andreideyu692]

I learned how to drive in games in NFS games, gta sa and gta iv , in gta v i just exercised while listening to west coast radio and driving cars through all the map and that helped me driving to locations without using the map

[@takuminightcore1886]

Still would’ve been a nice option if they could remove the speed limiter on it because it would be actually kind of fun just trying to go up to high speed and prevent your car from crashing out. We have something similar now to HSW‘s but it’s only for current GENand the only way to get ginormous speeds is just using a mod menu while some people may not be comfortable of using it

[@maciejd7823]

That's why I play with controller and keyboard + mouse. Shooting with the mice and driving with the controller. In cayo Perico for example you could nail down perfectly the plasma cutter and the acetylene burner, simply by using analog capabilities of the gamepad. It's a shame that we still don't see much analog keyboards.

[@josephroberts1161]

I felt when you said slow ass Lexus is250

[@cmudd9788]

This is why I loved the map on Test Drive Unlimited. You have cars that can go 270 mph and it still takes 15-20 minutes to drive across the map.

[@twistedmanbags]

I think it's also worth noting that the gearbox system in GTA is completely unoptimised, almost broken? Using the handling editor and manual transmission mods can correct the ratios and make the cars feel much more controllable at higher speeds.

[@TripledSevens]

Another reason IMO the map is designed so cars going 120 mph feels fast, as if they're gonna make cars go at realistic speeds, they need to make larger terrains. They will make lesser bumps, bigger and smoother roads to accomodate for faster speeds. Of course I've just realized this supports the 1st reason of this video lol

[@deenster]

For me personally, unlocked or more realistic top speeds for cars would be a very welcome feature because It's so much better imo. The races would be more realistic and serious. And if a problem is that new player would struggle, who cares, it's a learning curve that is fun and not being limited. A solution to the car going to fast could be a button to press to switch between two modes (slow and fast) or like in some other games "shift" would speed the car up etc. I would also lower the acceleration speeds but increase the top speeds. Idk I might create a FiveM server just because of this lmao

[@2tonedripgaming420]

4:25 his car transformed

[@OnasaD]

“Struggle to keep the car on the road” That’s realism for you, good luck controlling any super/hyper car at 150mph+

[@Rosteripulla]

Because killing 500 cops and hiding in an alley for a minute to be forgiven for all your wrongdoing is so realistic.

[@c-028]

4:06 If they can't control their car then drive slower. That's also a fact they need to learn in real life.

[@gabrielmoralesgonzalez6471]

I like how he casually says "Before I wrap up the video I have to do this" when he is going to do an insane stunt with slow motion effects.

[@egg_master7978]

Rockstar does do a good job of making worlds seam big like rdr2 is huge but when I got a mod menu I did the fly command and places are really small and close like saint denis and braithwait mansion look like 1000 feet away

[@pfistor]

Honestly surprised performance wasn't the #1 reason. I figured if you went fast enough on the ground you'd have stuff popping in etc. Maybe not on high end PCs but on console it probably would have been an issue. I didn't even really think about the other things you mentioned and they actually make a lot of sense. Good video.

[@nathanholtzclaw]

Another pretty big reason is that it's a game from 2013, so it was made for older inexpensive hardware (PS3, Xbox360) that stored games on a hard drive, so keeping the speed lower allowed assets to be rendered in smootly

[@Thomas_Angelo]

The main reason is because the consoles back then couldn't handle speed more than 120mph. Rendering the map for ps4 and ps3 were hard so Rockstar never cared to fix it and blamed consoles.

[@BANGKOKM3]

This game was release on old console (PS3/Xbox 360) due to Hardware limitation. Now we got a new feature "HSW" (Hao's Special Works) that could increase top speed over 130 mph as non-boost vehicle (Available in selected vehicled) (some vehicle could be reach on 160 mph in normal road) I hope PC version will be get a new features later soon as possible after 3 month that release GTA 5 (PS5,Xbox Series X/S)

[@moritzrossbroich]

Those were some pretty decent arguments, well done, haven't thought of that before

[@a_car_dude_with_a_camera]

It’s also because the game can struggle to load the map when you’re going too fast, cause I was going like 140-150 in the Itali GTO and because I play on a 4 year old Xbox One S it would have difficulty loading the map and would occasionally freeze

[@HaineroAncientAliens]

1:23 Nice ride and awesome 2nd channel!!!

[@forrandomsites3336]

You know what I found funny, back in the Xbox 360, if you enabled the low gravity cheat and then combined it with brake boosting(I think that's what its called, but it's essentially boosts your speed if you brake just after a bump on a road), you could actually go faster than the limit. And strangely enough the game didn't have insane popin as I thought it would, aside from the usual bushes and signs, which still visibly popin even with the limit. I'm guessing they only did this to stop the console from exploding because after awhile of driving super fast, you could hear my xb360 taking off and it's the slim model...

[@UnL1k3]

I think one of the main reason was because the 360 and PS3 would have had issues streaming the complex GTA world at very high speeds. So they built the driving mechanics around this constraint in mind. One thing other games do when you start going extremely fast is spawning less traffic to make it easier to maneuver. (I think the Forza Horizon games do it)

[@K3ntucky123]

the reason why some cars are slow is because the rendering time, at 3:43 some of the trees just pops out and some texture quality are bit to low

[@zephyrfireblood6531]

Due to 3rd point, that's why I do enjoy the cruise mode Mafia games have. It limit you to a legal speed so you won't get in trouble and you can chill out while driving

[@Christopher_Hegarty]

Not sure if it works on other consoles. On PS3, if you use Franklin in combination with the Slidey cars cheat, when you activate his special ability it increases the speed cap on the game. Only works on cars.

[@zphyr6780]

I feel like now that gtas on new gen consoles they should actually take the time increase the speeds of certain car classes, 200 max for super cars so that way they actually feel super. And maybe 150 max for sports (higher end sports, I don’t except a AE86 to be as fast a Ferrari) And it does seem like they’re kinda experimenting with the idea since they gave us HSW which actually increases their top speed by a lot.

[@therealfunzieguy]

We all know that GTA is not a racing game, it's a crime game

[@XeonPrototype]

The real reason is because they want to optimize the game to as many computers as possible specially consoles since their hardware is locked for life, so they have to test the majority of combination of components and decide a real top speed in which it is not possible to see any pop-ins, texture glitches and most importantly lag (including map size as shown in the video) Amazing video, these are def good alternatives that are actually possitive!

[@djairjordan]

I think alot of it has to deal with graphics frame rate and packet burst I've noticed sometimes when I am going at top speed through town buildings will glitch out. Think if cars were faster the game wouldn't be able to keep up and it would be super buggy

[@ufosauna]

3:18 sound of my CPU fan

[@CadenLol]

The second reason for the car being hard to handle at high speeds. The driving phyics of the game was built on low speeds not high speeds. That's like saying the reason an oven is better than a microwave is because it cooks the food better. They're both built differently and for different reasons. Ovens are used to make food, microwaves are used to warm up food. high speed chassis are made for high speed, low speed chassis are made for low speed. All you had to do was say that the map is tiny and you were done. And the kids who cant drive on it need to get good at racing games because they're literally playing a vehicle game. There's no excuse for being bad at driving if you're playing a vehicle game.

[@bowo299]

You can also press the gas half way and then it is kind of similar of traveling in "reasonable" speed.

[@emilioamador709]

before 2016 the cheat slidey cars removed the speed limit and allowed to reach 250 mph in supercars, it was extremely fun to use but Rockstar broke it... On PS3 and Xbox 360 you can still use the cheat without the nerf

[@Race2Royalty]

I’d still want the option to go 200+ paid to much money for my super cars!

[@xSleeper.]

i think the main reason was that the old consoles couldn load the map fast enough at these speeds

[@vhsjay5922]

last 2 i disagree and the reason u can’t keep the car on the ground is because they don’t have realistic wait and down force+ aero, and i love going fast on gta me and my friends always street race and see who has the fastest car (using glitches ofc cuz rockstars sucks)

[@livingwater25]

its been so long since i watched your vids!! can't believe you have a voice now 😊😊

[@Radek-j4y]

Fun fact: when playing story mode, playing as Franklin. Enabling his special visibility you can actually hit over 200mph in cars.

[@NeedForSpeed.2004]

Imagine ur going like 200mph, and you hit a slight dip sending u either almost airborne or u lose all grip & spin out

[@hamiltonmcgregor5534]

Midnight club 2 really trained my reflexes while racing in games lol. Now that game is fast AF

[@mr_lastname05]

I heard somewhere it was so the map had time to load everything in, the 120mph top speed was the max speed in order to load stuff in, I could be wrong tho

[@pipipupu1964]

so nobody is going totalk about the fact that this is one of the first videos we hear his voice!

[@Maddiedoggie]

I don't really have an argument for the first one. R* could make a bigger world, but GTAV was originally meant for PS3/Xbox360 which is why the world size is so small. The second two could be easily solved with a cruise-control function, or by having different driving modes. Mafia II and III does that well by allowing players to choose between an arcade or a simulation mode of driving. That way players with different levels of driving skill can enjoy the game. Maybe top speed can also be tied to the driving skill?

[@andromedavtuber7326]

Me, a veteran racing gamer that finds it chill to listen to in-game music while going 400km/h+: I don't see a problem with going 200mph...

[@AlexandraWills]

I thought it was because the map wouldn’t render on Xbox 360/PlayStation 3.

[@racinggameschannel]

Oh man, back in the day i used to drive in fivem back when the cars were proper fast (160-240mph depending on car), i do miss high speed light traffic racing back then, would love to go back to that!

[@corbinpyles]

To my opinion I feel like for the GTA games when you're driving any vehicle they should've added that miles per hour thing like cars have where it tells you how fast you're going but it would be only numbers.

[@ReSpark141]

i remember playimg gta on the ps3, the T20 was the undisputed fasted car in the game if memory serves correctly, once maxed out, you were able to drive faster then the game could render

[@static-san]

Good detective work. I also noticed during the side-by-side comparison that the "true" speed doesn't feel a great deal faster than the game's limited speed. So I think Rockstar picked a reasonable speed limit that is a good, all-round compromise.

[@ThatGuyIsToxic]

5:24 Michael's response to your statement 😂

[@vitaobatera]

Honestly, those are resonable points you said. But the main one is that, in 2013 there were A LOT of slow CPUs and hard drives (specially on notebooks). CPUs with 1 core were not gone for long, so the Core 2 Duo E4600 or Athlon 64 X2 5400+ were HUGE bottlenecks for asset loading even with faster HDs. You can search on YT for cases where even the slowest cars can outpace the CPU loading speed and everything becomes gray (no texture) and then you fall inside the world (no geometry). This can be done to this date with a modern CPU if you attach it to a slow 5400rpm drive with a fast car. So the main reason why the cars don't have huge top speeds, is because GTA 5 is ancient and the hardware already owned by gamers for years (5 years before 2013 is 2008!!!) were about to break the game.

[@luftwaffle173]

The realistic type of driving does seem really amazing, I gotta try it out sometime

[@porsche.963]

The main reason why is hardware limitation if everycar had it's top Speed from its counterpart (for example the entity xxr) you could probably do a lap of the high in like two minutes but the game wouldn't be able to load anything

[@corbinpyles]

That makes sense, the realistic speed is how the cars in GTA should be but I get it, it would be very difficult to drive the car with the realistic top speed, Imagine the Batmobile's realistic top speed in GTA.

[@LudditeK100]

Pretty sure it was just so the graphics could keep up. I remember playing Vice City Stories on PSP and it was really easy to so fast enough to literally outrun the graphics. You’d go so fast the world can’t load in quick enough and you wind up in an empty space

[@xpywebka]

At least they should add an ability to turn on realistic top speed in races. Or the same feature in private lobbies

[@shadowtear101]

When GTA online first came out you can see each vehicles top speeds on Legendary Motor Sports and SA Super Autos. For example the Zentorno TRUE top speed is 230 mph. I don't remember what update it was but Rockstar removed them since none of the land vehicles could go their actual speed.