Grid Autosport Beginner's guide to a realistic racing experience on mobile

Grid Autosport was at one point one of the most realistic racing games ever released. Developed by Feral Interactive and released for mobile devices in late 2019, Grid Autosport is proof that the mobile platform is powerful enough to run some of the AA console and PC titles if properly optimized.

There's a lot to admire in the game as it offers similar PC features and gameplay style on mobile as well. In this article, we'll be detailing the features of Grid Autosport in the form of a beginner's guide to help players learn of the game's many features even before they get their hands on it. 

So without wasting any more time, let us get into the beginner's guide for what is arguably the best and most realistic racing game on the mobile platform.

Career     

Like the PC version, Career mode is one of the most exciting modes in any sports game. Mobile players get to experience a realistic and intense career mode in Grid Autosport by playing through seasons after seasons and collaborating with real-life sponsors such as Razer, Intel, RedBull, and many others.

To kick off a season, you will be required to choose a discipline like the type of category you prefer. Disciplines are not the games' difficulty but more like the cars and tracks that will be used. Lower discipline means easier to control cars, and the sponsors will require fewer accomplishments from you, while choosing a higher discipline means you will be driving awesome sports cars, but more will be expected of you.

Racing in careers also gives you a race partner and access to the Standings where you can see your progress and position after every race. If you perform incredibly well in a season, you will be awarded, and you can also visit the award sections to view your awards.

Extra Championships

Extra Championships can only be accessed by downloading the DLC (Downloadable Content) in Grid Autosport and enabling them. Extra Championships give you access to several other championship events and tournaments but only as Drag Racing.

This feature is recommended for players who love drag racing but can't seem to get enough of it in the game. You can simply download the DLC extra championship pack and enjoy dozens of drag racing competitions in different disciplines if this is you.

Custom Cup   

The custom cup is one of the most exciting modes in this game because it allows players to create their own custom cups and tournaments and set the rules however they want. The custom cup consists of the same race modes found in the quick race section of the game, such as Race, Time Attack, Endurance, Eliminator, Checkpoint, Demolition derby, Drift, and Drag.

You can choose any map, track, car, or even go with day or night. You are in complete control of the game in Custom Cup.

Time Trial

As the name goes, the time trial is where you must race against time and try to cross the finish line just in time before the timer hits zero. Players will also have to choose a discipline before starting a time trial race as well.

Game Difficulty 

First of all, before getting into the details of the games' difficulty, "Grid Autosport was designed to be difficult." These words are coming from the game instructions themselves, which means despite the difficulty level you set the game, it may not matter as some cars might either be too hard to control or some tracks have too many unexpected sharp turns.

With that out of the way, here are the difficulty levels of Grid Autosport: 

Rookie 

This mode is for players handling the brakes for the first time, those with little to no racing game experience. Auto brake is enabled in this mode, but there will be no bonuses after winning races.

Professional

This is for players familiar with racing games, those that have handled race cars in the past. Auto brake is not available in this mode, and there are no bonuses for winning races. This is like the 'Normal' difficulty in the game.

Expert

For advanced players who wish to test their skills tougher AI opponents in challenging race tracks. This difficulty offers a 6% bonus for every race won. 

Veteran

From here, it gets close to impossible, but if you are as good as you think you are, then this is where you can prove yourself in a corner only tracks, no race line, and you'll be pitted against expert AI opponents. If you win any race, you get a 24% XP bonus.

Master

Everything goes in this difficulty. It is simply impossible to win a race in the regulations of master difficulty where you'll be up against veteran level AI drivers, sharp corner tracks, night whether, and complete manual control of your car. Winning a race in this difficulty gives you a 38% XP bonus. Can you do it? Can you flow with the Grid? Because you will have to at some point.

Custom

Custom difficulty lets you play any race with custom controls set however you want. If you want to customize your racing experience, then this feature is for you. You can change the AI difficulty level, Handling assist, Damage level, Traction control, and others.

DLC (Downloadable Content)     

You won't find this feature in most mobile games because it usually only comes as a feature for PC and Console games. DLC allows players to download additional game data that adds more features, modes, or items to the game apart from the existing ones.  

In Grid Autosport, you can download certain game packs in the form of DLC such as Black Edition Pack, Boost pack, Touring Legends pack, Sprint pack, Best of British pack, and Drag racing pack as stated above. These mentioned packs each have the respective features that they add to the game after downloading them.

Then there's the HD Textures pack which involves DLCs such as Touring HD textures, Endurance HD textures, Open Wheel textures, Tuner HD textures, Street HD textures, and Party Mode textures.