Curb/Pavement Boost to be patched?

I may be a little late to the current conversation on how 'legit' these 'speculations' are, but here's my take.


As some of you know, I've become good friends with Shaggy when it comes to playing this game. I'm extremely relavent when it comes to their community. Shaggy himself has given me picture proof that he is in fact, in contact with a Rockstar Developer who gives him inside information, and has done it many, many times.

axdsilva, I hate to see people like you base your facts on what Shaggy says from videos he's made over a year ago. He's changed remarkably since then. He's told me before that what he did in the past was silly, even though those are his most viewed and talked about videos.

I'm being 500% serious when I'm gonna say this. Shaggy is just as reliable as a source in the GTA racing community as Broughy is, weather you like that statement or not, he's the real deal now.

As a late comer to the serious racing community and both Shaggy and Broughy's videos (only a little over a month ago I saw them for the first time, I think), I agree that Shaggy's tone has changed alot and he does take the more technical details more serious. That being said... his overall personality turns me off, and Broughy looks like a British version of me. The NoDo-SweatBuckets Battle was a clear indicator of who was a bit more... "professional"

Probably time to stop racing, then.

Okay, so here's my personal take on it, if anyone here is even interested.

Curb boosts should not be patched as even though it can be rewarding, the pavement can cause you to over steer, hit lampposts and severely damage your car, ultimately resulting in bad consequences. Basically what I'm trying to say is using curb boosts takes balls and can easily backfire, so why take an interesting element like that out of GTA racing? We all know that GTA Racing isn't a sim (its a Arcade, fun mode), so it really isn't an issue. Everyone has the availability to do it, Right? Also with dedicated time and passion that people have put into hot lapping and setting fast laps will have to be reset in rockstar created, verified, and popular custom tracks, like some of Nodo's! That will cause inconvenience to some people and even if rockstar weren't to reset times themselves, it would be very hard to beat the times of those who used curb boosts! You're probably thinking Rockstar tracks? They don't matter right? Well they do! Some people hotlap rockstar created and verified tracks to get high up on the leaderboards (not me personally).

However, I see why other people from the racing community want the curb boosts patched. It isn't realistic to have rev boosts and rev changes going over curbs. It should be opposite to be honest. It should slow down to encourage racers to stick to the quickest racing lines (AKA ROADS!)Although this isn't ideal for some racers, I don't think it should be patched for the reasons I have stated above. It adds an extra element and saves a lot of time and complaints about people's record laps. Everyone has the availability to do it, so tell me what makes it unfair ?

Sometimes people forget that this isn't a racing sim, it's an open world game about crime.

I think the reason kerb boosting exists is not just a reward for taking risks while racing but also a reward during missions and free roam (in single and multiplayer) to help you get away from cops.

In other words I don't think it will be patched. The best we can hope for is the ability to remove lampposts and other objects. I'd much prefer that.

I had felt for awhile it was intentional, as a way to make driving on sidewalks unpredictable and uncontrollable, but they underestimated the skills of hardcore gamers. Now though I feel like it's just a unforseen side effect of the physics engine they use, and is unpatchable without a complete overhaul of the physics.

I'm willing to say that you arent too far off the truth. It might not need a complete overhaul, but it would have to involve a bunch of new mathematical formulas for the wheel/suspension simulation to accurately compensate it in a realistic way.

Surely this is something overlooked by many game devs because testers (probably) rarely try to set world records when making sure the game is working as intended. Things like curb boosting only really show if you're more or less trying to break the physics of the game.