@basswerks1 As a wheel user myself I think there is merit in what both
@Baron Blitz Red and
@Vic Reign93 are saying. I find myself struggling against the field in the few COTW online races I've done with you guys against both DS3 users and wheel users. You could argue that I'm just not very quick, and I concede that I'm not compared to the regular racers in those lobbies.
I have no idea if I could go faster by switching to a controller for online racing but to be honest, even if I could, I don't think it would be by enough to make a huge difference. Vic may have had trouble last night racing a guy using a G27 but he was hardly troubled by yours truly using a DFGT like the one you've just acquired (smart move
).
Sure you can laugh and say all that proves is that I suck but the point is, regardless of control input, it's the player who makes the car go, stop and turn and some are just better at it than others, end of.
I agree with
@VacekS on one thing though; GT6 is a driving game and playing with a controller just doesn't feel like driving. I drive in cockpit view, with a wheel, because for me the enhancement and immersion that brings to the whole experience is worth any penalty I may or may not experience in terms of speed. Once you feel the force feedback of a wheel and experience the satisfaction of correcting a slide, the rumble of the road through your hands and the actions of actually "driving", you'll begin to appreciate all a wheel has to offer.
One thing you will definitely notice if you watch carefully is that wheel users invariably look far less erratic and twitchy on the road/track, simply because the control you have is far more progressive and less switch like when it comes to steering. Ultimately, whether the wheel improves or degrades your times, your driving experience will be transformed.
(BTW, thanks for being a gentleman at the first Cape Ring race yesterday and giving me back the place after the little shunt you gave me - it was one of the few races I wasn't dead last
- Beating Baron across the line at Spa by a hair's breadth when he was on CS tyres hardly counts as something to write home about!