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You've got this the wrong way round:

Just because the steering angle reduces, it does not mean you're steering less. This steering angle reduces because, in most stock cars and real life cars, the brakes are pushed quite fat forward to prevent the car from snapping at the rear. It's for consistency and safety.

When you trail brake, the steering angle reduces because you're overloading the front tires and are exceeding the front peak friction. Look at the telemetry when you're braking. In reducing the steering angle you're actually increasing the grip in the front tires (as you're bringing them back closer to peak friction) and you're actually turning more and carrying a higher apex speed and more rotation.

If you want more bite and rotation under braking, you can just set the rear brake bias more rearward or adjust the differential.

GT sport multiplayer is leagues upon leagues ahead of FM7.
And offline is no fun as the AI is awful - truly, truly awful. They just follow the racing line at different speeds for each difficulty level.
For FM8 please create a decent online system - GT sport is your competition and you should be trying to best your competition. Safety and skill ratings are a must. And make a decent AI for both drivatars and apportioning collision blame for penalties. And recruit a motorsport consultant - it's very plain to see that no-one at T10 has any understanding of motorsport.
or you can spend all that 'next gen' power on eye candy to please the crowds and not the fans - I'm pretty sure which route yo'll take :(

Well - it shouldn't happen when I'm just tapping the brakes and have them compressed to just 15-20% ?

Forza physics just overreact to everything. They seem to operate on largely binary principles. Car physics have a general rule, like only brake in a straight line, get all your braking done before you get to the corner, don't lift off during fast corners. That kind of stuff. But clearly when you need to go fast, you're going to be braking under all kinds of conditions: straight, trail braking, left foot braking, etc. You use brakes and throttle position to balance the car, so the general rules still apply but there's wide grey areas either side that actual physics takes care of, and that area is where really good driving takes place. But Forza doesn't behave like that, so if you do any of this stuff like you would in a real car, the physics will punish you, even if it's entirely appropriate for how the track is driven in real life. And that's just because Forza overreacts to everything. In terms of racing physics, it's a blunt instrument.

It's fun once you get used to it, but you have to drive the majority of cars in a very specific way that you couldn't get away with in real life or actual sim games. And I say the majority because even though there's a lot of cars, the blanket rule about the way cars with different engine-drivetrain layouts behave is applied to a lot of them, with very specific exceptions. If my car behaved (or sounded) the way the stock car behaves in Forza, I never would have bought it: that's because the actual way it's driven just feels like a carbon copy of a bunch of other cars, even though it's not true to its actual behaviour on the track.

Bravo Sir!

You hit it right on the head. This is precisely the feeling I got when I first started playing Forza after driving a handful of fast cars IRL - both my own and friends - AWD and RWD, some of them tuned to nearly 800hp. Something always felt amiss in Forza 7, particularly in the brakes, suspension, and aero physics department. I thought to myself - why does the experience feel assisted in some ways? Even though all assists were off and steering was "sim".

Say, for example, when I play PCARS2, I just feel like there are so many parameters, so many nuances and "mini calculations" happening under the hood that it makes the driving feel real, and very, very distinct when going from car to car.

Edited by user Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:47:05 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified