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Here’s how to best tune your UTV in Exo Rally Championship

Exo Rally UTV
Exo Rally UTV

Exo Rally Championship isn’t a game where you can easily eyeball the best racing settings, and learning the UTV and its ideal tuning will make grabbing your first license a lot less painful.

Exo Rally Championship is quite a 2000s throwback, though it’s actually way more advanced than any off-road racing game we’ve seen recently. The goal isn’t just to be the fastest. It’s to earn your license, then hold onto your license points by driving cleanly through environments that actively want to destroy you. Meteor showers included.

All new players start with a UTV, which is the most basic of all rides in the game. But handling that ride it is much more complex than you’d anticipate. The good news is that tuning is where the secret sauce is at. By adjusting the rover setup, players may be able to unlock the second license without rage-uninstalling the game. 

Best UTV tuning settings in Exo Rally Championship 

Before you touch a single slider, know this: the UTV’s default setup is built for nobody. It’s a starting point, not a baseline, and the sooner you treat it that way, the sooner your laps stop feeling like a fight. 

Initially, you may not feel the need to dig deep into the tuning menu, and tweaking the bars on the Quick Setup would suffice. Even in the long run, tuning menu in Quick Setup should be enough, especially if you’re already familiar with rovers.

These are the best Quick Setup tuning for UTV:

  • Suspension Travel (Front): 0.71 m
  • Suspension Travel (Rear): 1.00 m
  • Ride Height: 0.300 m
  • Suspension Stiffness Initial (Front/Rear): 14,000 / 12,000
  • Suspension Stiffness Main (Front/Rear): 18,000 / 16,000
Rover UTV Quick Setup
UTV quick setup

For players after maximum customization, Exo Rally offers an expansive UTV tuning menu that lets you smooth out the UTV’s harsh controls.

These are some settings that work across most terrains. Note that tried these on Off-road Hard and Slick Hard tires, so they may require some tweaking if you switch to Soft or Paddle tires.

Alignment

  • Steering Angle: 32
  • Toe Angle (Front): 0.30
  • Toe Angle (Rear): +0.20

Brakes

  • Brake Force: 6,500
  • Brake Bias: 0.55

Differential

  • Torque Splitter Stiffness: 0.35
  • Power Stiffness: 0.40
  • Coast Stiffness: 0.20

Gearing (1st through 6th)

  • 3.2 / 2.3 / 1.8 / 1.5 / 1.3 / 1.1

Anti-Roll

  • Anti-Roll Stiffness (Front): 0.10
  • Anti-Roll Stiffness (Rear): 0.15
  • Gyro Stabilization: 0.10

Aero

  • Downforce (Front): 0.30
  • Downforce (Rear): 0.35

Suspension

  • Crossover Point: 0.30 (front and rear)
  • Transition Smoothing: 0.10–0.15 (front and rear)

If you’re running a rocky or jump-heavy stage, bump main stiffness on suspension up by around 2,000 on both axles. On smooth surfaces, raise initial stiffness instead and pull the crossover point down to 0.20 so the car firms up sooner and stops wallowing.

UTV Suspension Guide

Alignment is where most new players accidentally make their UTV unplayable. A small amount of toe-out on the front sharpens turn-in without making the car twitchy on straights, and matching toe-in at the rear plants the back end so it doesn’t step out under throttle. Don’t crank steering angle past 32. Higher numbers wreck your high-speed stability and you’ll feel it on the first long track.

Braking is where the UTV punishes overconfidence. If you trail-brake into corners and want more rotation, push the bias back toward 0.48, but expect to catch slides. UTV’s brakes are tough to tackle by default, so feel free to play around with this setting on your own preference after spending some time in free roam. 

Anti-roll and aero are your fine-tuning knobs. A slightly stiffer rear anti-roll bar helps the UTV rotate, and the modest gyro value keeps it from spinning out mid-air during meteor-shower chaos without killing your agility. Downforce values stay conservative because the UTV isn’t fast enough to benefit from aggressive aero on most stages. Raise both by 0.10 only when you’re hitting genuinely high-speed sections.

Using the best UTV tuning settings in Exo Rally Championship should help to clear out the first license or at least cut down your attempts in half. It’s worth noting though that the learning curve on the Exo Rally Championship is generally higher than in most driving games, so it’s still going to take some time to adapt to the controls. 

Author Fariha Bhatti

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Fariha is a content writer who grew up playing such games as Metal Slug and King of Fighters. She briefly ended up in the corporate world before finding her way back to gaming. With bylines at WIN, PCGN, and One Esports, Fariha can talk all day about FPS games, especially Valorant. She has a degree in criminology and a problematic spending habit when it comes to CS2 skins. She can be followed on Twitter / X at @Frizbyx.

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