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I'm on a wheel. G29.
The main things with using a wheel is consistency, and comfort while racing (crucial for long races). A wheel is not guaranteed to make a racer faster.
I'm definitely liking race A this week. Not necessarily earning much DR, but it's tending to be good clean racing.
Agreed, and that was why I was looking forward to these races. But I think I was scared off after the first race I tried, by being run over by one of those bad drivers who rubbed me into oblivion in that chicane at the end of lap one... race over. If it's less common on the whole, yeah: it's pretty well sorted out by speed and actual ability fairly quickly and shouldn't be a forum for the usual criminal activity in Dailies.
He is, and so is P3. 👍
I'm still using a DS4 until I get some kind of idea which wheels will work with a PS5. The biggest issue I have is that there's a TON of dead zone at the far left and right of the stick travel, and no real feedback where you start to lose grip, so I end up scrubbing the front tires a lot in tire wear races. I was 2 seconds slower on lap 9 than lap 2 of last night's FIA race in the Toyobarus, for example.
Motion control sounds fine for the steering but rotating the controller and trying to use it for brakes and gas at the same time doesn't work for my hands.
I use a G29 (EDIT: WHEN DRIVING IN DAILY RACES... keeping the post on-topic!), which is fine from a bang-for-the-buck factor-- it's fine quality and after you get over the notchy on-center thing, and the notchy feel of the gear drive, serves the purpose well. but I do think I've tapped out what I'm able to do with it, with the available feedback and braking feel.
Yeah, this is the video I watched (after already committing to my wheel...) and it was really interesting. I haven't tried to play with the DS4 since, but I should give it a try to see how close I can get to my current best times. Maybe I'd even be faster on some tracks?!
But, I was able to learn something new, which makes the game a little more enjoyable.
Controller, brake & throttle on L2/R2, steering on left mini-stick. Can't use motion control, my brain wont deal with it. I'm so bad at motion control I happily bought a wired aftermarket controller that can't do motion control (I hate having to manage battery life more than I hate cables).
While this is true, it is not necessarily true that the game uses the extra fidelity. For all we know there could be only 20 possible throttle and brake input levels, with the game taking whatever the attached controller has and dividing it up into chunks.I think Thrustmaster pedals have 1000 different readable input positions between 0% and 100% throttle, Logitech is 250, if I remember correctly. Maybe @super_gt could verify that if he’s around today.
This has nothing to do with driving style, what I mean is this: the DS4 analog stick moves about a 1/4 of an inch from center to full left. Of that .25 of an inch, only roughly .15-.18 actually affects the position of the steering, if the stick is anywhere in the last .1 or so of travel it reads as 100% left. It's like if a 900 degree rotation wheel only registered the center 720 degrees.
A lot of that IS lag, but the ones that aren't are more likely using d-pad to steer rather than sticks..... Yes, you can use d-pad to steer. If that is your chosen input the game does a bit of smoothing.
Same as d-pad, if using X & O or X & square for throttle/brake, the game smooths the inputs a bit. They don't instantly jump from zero to full when you hit the button, it takes a small but significant fraction of a second. Same on release.
