Got mine on the 20th sort of today, it's past midnight.
My quick review of it. Note that I got a gamepod to mount on to.
After unboxing, first thing to do is invert pedals and add foam bits to brake pedals. What I noticed was that the screws and bots felt soft and would shred any time, so had to be super careful.
Removed old G25 from gamepod, and found that no holes fit for it. The pedals where kept in place with a bar of wood at the end to prevent slippage. But it can still pivot upwards. Will need to work something out. The steering wheel doesn't fit any of the holes for the gamepod either, so bolted on the clamp, seems sturdy until I got happy in the game, due to clamping position the wheel base can pivot a little under load, will try to fix this problem too.
In terms of feel of the wheel, it's great, more detail in force feedback so far. Holding it feels okay, felt better in a real car.
Compared to a DFP, it's massive difference, brake pedals has the full range before 100 percent travel. FFB is so much more detailed.
Compared to a G25, the t500's wheel is sure better, I Perfer fixed paddal shifters, and they are nice and big. The t500 are better too, I like the "GT" style, pedals are further apart which is a good thing so far, feels like I got more control over all.
Is it worth the money? Shrug, if you can afford to and GT5 crazy, why not, full support in GT5. There's so many cheaper ones for the more casual players.
Already thinking about replacing the screws, and see if there is a perfect pedal mod for it. I know, for that money you would expect decent screws, me too, oh well never mind I will fix it my self. As for the brake pedal, a perfect pedal is about one third or about half of the cost of the t500 depend on how far the pp is traveling, eg, to uk.
If going by thrustmasters flight sim stuff, I hope to see a few other bits such as a handbrake, some dashboard bits would be good too, such as shift light rev counter, buttons, ect.
. So my rFactor concern was unfounded.
