- 85
- United Kingdom
I recently borrowed a G29 off a friend to try it out and see if it is worth the investment, I had high hopes of perhaps slightly improving my performance both speed and consistency, and also enjoy that extra edge to the game.
I've read how you can't just jump in and be up to a speed with a wheel and I appreciate that, but I never remember reading just how different the game is to control.
I have around 12 hours on the wheel across different cars and tracks. I'm around 1.5 seconds off my pad pace on a good lap, my consistency comes and goes.
My biggest problem right now is turn-in and understeer, the pad won't let you over-rotate the steering so no matter how hard you yank the stick it won't induce understeer from having too much angle, you can understeer from having too much speed, but you simply let off the accelerator and the game does the rest. because I'm used to this, I can always be on throttle early and adjust input to acheive a good exit without running too wide.
With a wheel it's totally different, I struggle with the sense of speed to gauge steering input required and 9 times out of 10 I have too much angle on for the speed. What also doesnt help is the force feedback does not tell you if you are understeering on a G29, anyone who has understeered in real life knows the wheel goes light when it happens, it doesn't on the G29.
as a result of the above, my turn in suffers because I daren't quickly load in the angle for fear of boating off the outside, this in turn affects my braking, I'm scared to try and trail break so I break earlier to get my speed down to a very comfortable level.
I did a back to back race C tonight, quali time was 1:57.8 with a wheel. Race 1 with wheel was mid to high 1.59's, Race 2 with a pad was high 57's low 58's.
I'm frustrated because I enjoy using the wheel and the immersion it brings, but it's just very difficult to get to grips with (excuse the punterino).
Has anyone else tried a wheel and just been left feeling a little empty?
I've read how you can't just jump in and be up to a speed with a wheel and I appreciate that, but I never remember reading just how different the game is to control.
I have around 12 hours on the wheel across different cars and tracks. I'm around 1.5 seconds off my pad pace on a good lap, my consistency comes and goes.
My biggest problem right now is turn-in and understeer, the pad won't let you over-rotate the steering so no matter how hard you yank the stick it won't induce understeer from having too much angle, you can understeer from having too much speed, but you simply let off the accelerator and the game does the rest. because I'm used to this, I can always be on throttle early and adjust input to acheive a good exit without running too wide.
With a wheel it's totally different, I struggle with the sense of speed to gauge steering input required and 9 times out of 10 I have too much angle on for the speed. What also doesnt help is the force feedback does not tell you if you are understeering on a G29, anyone who has understeered in real life knows the wheel goes light when it happens, it doesn't on the G29.
as a result of the above, my turn in suffers because I daren't quickly load in the angle for fear of boating off the outside, this in turn affects my braking, I'm scared to try and trail break so I break earlier to get my speed down to a very comfortable level.
I did a back to back race C tonight, quali time was 1:57.8 with a wheel. Race 1 with wheel was mid to high 1.59's, Race 2 with a pad was high 57's low 58's.
I'm frustrated because I enjoy using the wheel and the immersion it brings, but it's just very difficult to get to grips with (excuse the punterino).
Has anyone else tried a wheel and just been left feeling a little empty?