Paddle or stick shifting?

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I was wondering how many of you guys shift with the stick, at first i used the paddles but since a few days i'm shifting with the stick, and i have to say it's much more fun. It gives the game a much racier feeling, i wonder if you guys have the same feel about that.
 
Stick.
I wish you could side mount it on a seat.....and add a functioning clutch.
Let the real simulation come through....todays wheel set-ups are still too arcadey.
 
I definitely prefer the stick; I make many fewer accidental shifts than I did with the paddles.
 
I've only been racing with the wheel for a week now and gradually find my times improving.
Beating the GT AllStars competition was a major victory for me.
But to relate this to the shifter, I used to drive with automatic tranny when using the DS2.
With what I'm losing time-wise in my steering handling I find I'm gaining with the manual shifting.
Cornring acceleration is far improved from the automatic box.
A side effect is I find I'm getting a sore right shoulder now from the shifting.
That's why I wish the shifter could be detached and put down at my side.

Another question.
Do UK wheels have the shifter on the left like your real cars have, or are you forced to conform to the right-stick set-up?
 
Stick is on the right, but it's position is out of place anyway even if it was on the left.

I use paddles, but occasionally jump for the stick (usually to change down) if the wheel is turned way around and I can't get to the paddle.
Alan
 
i dont know about the UK but in australia, where our cars are right hand drive there is no 'new' batch of wheels that come with the shifter on the left... we just have to get used to it on the right
 
ls2_297
i dont know about the UK but in australia, where our cars are right hand drive there is no 'new' batch of wheels that come with the shifter on the left... we just have to get used to it on the right
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Huh, that's kind of crappy.
Another good argument for a detachable shifter!
 
I only got my wheel yesterday but i only find it easy using the stick with a low force feedback setting. Otherwise I cant control the wheel in the corners as well as i could with 2 hands. I do agree tho that its a lot more fun using the stick.
 
I try to know if the car I'm driving is equipped with paddles, up and down shift or normal shift!
And I ajust my cockpit for the right set-up:
- Small steering wheel w/paddles for per example the BMW M3 CSL,
- small steering wheel with original DFP shift for cars like JGTC cars or LeMans prototypes,
- big steering wheel with homemade shift for most of the road cars...
 
I use the Paddles for the M3 CSL, M5, F1 car, Rally cars (the WRC Subaru has paddles i think).

For the rest I use the stick, it's so much more realistic :)
 
Beelzebub
paddles are easier, stick needds to get ur attention 100% :D
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Not to argue but it largely depends on what you're used to and whatnot, plus it's your own opinion so well, here's mine.

Down to what you want in the end, I guess if it depends on the car, but if you can get sed to either a stick or paddle, it's more or less automatic more so than one would think.

I was used to the paddle shifting untill I got to try the DFP with the shifter, I too wish it were seat mounted (and also an option to detach it to try it on the left side since I want to see what it's like for guys such as those in the BTCC and V8 Supercars for one), but heck, better than not having it. I've tried both and I'm used to both.

But GT isn't the only game I used the DFP for, I also play Live for Speed S2, and Richard Burns rally which both have their intresting controls like GT4 (although since I'm so used to using the clutch with having to use a clutch in LFS and optional in RBR, I end up at times trying to shift al-la like I would in LFS or RBR), and I think either paddle shift or stick shift have their own feel...

Paddle shifting reminds me a lot of F1 but more so on WRC, infact some days I feel like a WRC Driver when playing a rally sim with the DFP on the paddles, with the shifter, I'm reminded of GT and Touring car races, espically DTM although for a case like LFS S2 Alpha I use the clutch and well, I like the feeling of that as well.

It's a matter of getting used to anything, to say the stick shift requires all your attention is like saying the paddle shift requires all your attention, crazy as that will sound, but it's down to what you're used to (as some can be more than able to drive say the XR-GT Turbo in LFS but can't drive the RB4 or FXO one bit and vice versa...) and what your'e willing to do to get used to whatever.

Enough of what I have to say,

Later.
 
It's the same with that guy from Holland (very very sorry but I don't remember your name :dunce: ) that said that driving AT enables you to concentrate on your line better :lol: While not having any fun at all and being slow......

Anyway, anyone has his personal opinion so we just have to respect it 👍
 
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Originally Posted by vtec_guy

Me and my friend have just had a phat session with the stick shifter and now i cant stop using it.


me being that friend i would more than agree that stick shifting is way way more fun any day.
 
Does the stick on a DFP have a real trail or is it just an up and down deal?
 
The default shifter setting on my wheel was the wrong way round and me and r34jse have just sorted it out so up is downshift and down is upshift. Still gotta get used to it :-S
 
Wonder how could you sort this out in a Mercedes or VW or.....some other AT cars with STUPID sequential pattern.

Would this be possible ?
 

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