Automatic or manual gearbox?

[AL1C3]

I've always been a manual kinda gal when it comes to racing games, but the 360 controller just doesn't offer me much to work with comfortably. That, and there's so much going on at 220MPH that I just can't be buggered to fumble for a shift button.

 

So yeah. I'd drive manual if the controller weren't so... inconvenient for it. (personal opinion!)

[Janos]

Manual for me. You can't cruise calmly with automatic transmission.

[Hamann M6]

daniel uses manual..............ahhhh pure poet!!! i use it because i use the wheel now so it just feels right.

[AL1C3]

Ok, after about a day of practice with Y as up and B as down, I've gotten it down pretty well on a bike. I'm still working on it for cars, though. My Caterham shifts really quick, so I'm having a spot of trouble with that. I'll get it, though. I wish I could map my own buttons, though, like I could in GT4. =/

 

So yeah. So far, I ride bikes in manual, and drive cars in auto. For now, anyway.

[ThorpaaayUK]

Manual all the way, just so much more satisfying to get a good few shifts in right on the limiter than letting an automatic take all the credit (and usually shift early)! :D

 

And yer, manual is nice for cruising... slip it into a high gear, keep the revs low, and thats a slow comfortable cruise right there.

[AL1C3]

After about a week, I am now fully manual! Huzzad! Now if only I could find the gaul to turn traction control off on my Koenigsegg...

[Weeksy]

Manual because, you can control it how YOU want it. And it's also good for dragging and drifting, With manual and drifting you can control the speed of the corners you go around with a auto you have to keep 'tapping' the accelaration.

[cocoki700]

i would use manual but i have a problem with downshifting. thats why i use auto

 

me too!

[Rabbottt]

How do you drift with you arrow keys?

[cocoki700]

How do you drift with you arrow keys?

 

to play tdu on pc u have to buy a wheel smartass:rolleyes:

[buttsneeze]

Definitely manual.

[FizzPagan2000]

manual for me - isnt automatic slower?

i'm sure it's always been the done thing with games to make automatic slower.

going all the way back to super monaco gp for that though so maybe things have changed... ?

[TestDriver23]

manual for me - isnt automatic slower?

i'm sure it's always been the done thing with games to make automatic slower.

going all the way back to super monaco gp for that though so maybe things have changed... ?

 

 

Sometimes manual does have faster gear changes, but the main reason it's faster is because human has faster reflexes and usually faster gear changes

[rusta blad(360tag)]

i think that most people that drive in auto just cant handle manual AND I SAID SOME PEOPLE.

[Pherelas]

I know I responded to this ages ago but oh well. This game is quite clearly an arcade game and becouse of this I don't see the point in the pressure to use manual some people try and give. With a sim you can speed up lap time and all that but with this its about the cruiseing, thats what auto was designed for in my opionion.

 

In real life i'll learn in and drive a manul no question about it but TDU, naaa.

[FizzPagan2000]

what about all the double shifting going on with cars like the skyline s7 tt and dodge viper?

no-way you'll outpace a manual shifter in an auto with those cars...

auto... i'm sorry i just dont see any benefit...

[iI MENDEZ Ii]

i prefer auto cause its easier

and i cant downshift

[The Queen]

Manual FTW, automatic sucks ;)

[XxZanza LabzxX]

I hate Automatic, but I'm ashamed to say I use it, mainly because I always forget that I'm in manual, and the only thign that reminds me to gear up is the droning overrev noise, and then I don't really notice it because I'm too concentrated on driving.

[Koen Monkey]

Half

 

I use both but mostly atomatic:badspelling: I only use manual when im bored and want to try to get to my top speed.

[Tuph]

i prefer the Manual.

because shifting with the f40 is FREAKING COOL.

and the Mclaren F1 is sick to drift with in manual.

 

it makes the game more exciting as well.

[ShadowGT]

Hehe finnaly got that proof i can drift in a auto (kinda forgot about this topic lol)

 

[tube]watch?v=HJytUpHB-fw[/tube]

 

 

*edit* youtube embedding wont work for some reason so heres a link

 

[Guest RB26DETT]

you can drift in anything, shadow. :p

 

i used to drive using auto when i played with my old gamepad. it didn't have triggers so it was like a ps2 controller. then not so long ago, i bought a saitek cyborg rumble pad and it is exactly the same a xbox 360 pad except it's black so now i'm using the triggers so i can drive in manual transmission.

[ShadowGT]

you can drift in anything, shadow. :p

 

Damn straight lol :D

[ebadat]

nice drifting mate where u using hardcore mode??