FRL~ToCA11~GTP #1~ CHAMPIONS: Ninners (RPM-ECM), AMD87 (Alfa) Team SYM (Nissan)! FINAL TABLES UP!Open
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Haha. Its funny to think how different DS3's and Wheels are to use. If you wanna turn left you can either slightly move your thumb, or have to rotate both your arms...
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I keep my physical effort away from making pixels move...
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That's something worth considering... problem is making my parents agree with me spending my salary with a G27 (or for a game, like they say.)
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I know right off the bat the argument won't work for two reasons:
-Currently at university studying Mechanical Engineering during the morning.
-Currently working part-time during the afternoon.
Automatically, I would have my nights free, but I'm usuall busy studying... so yeah.
I'm not looking into buying one right now, is that even being my money they wouldn't let me buy it.
They say it's stupid spending money to buy something for a game... I pretend to buy it anyway, even without their approval. I'll work a way.EDIT: Thread opened two days ago and we're already on page 13.
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Anyone opening a room?
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I expected Furi to open one.. but he's nowhere to be found it seems..
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I was just curious. I won't be able to get on until around 9:00
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Yes
When I first got my DFGT I was expecting to instantly magically be a few seconds faster, god how wrong I was...
After about a year now I reckon I am on about the same pace with a wheel that I was with ds3, but slightly faster with the higher performance cars. The wheel gives you more steering control and adds a who new level of realism to the game.
It's easier to drive slower cars on their limit just because they are slower and require less accurate control to master, which is why when they did the WRS TT using BMW 2002s ds3 users were all right up there on the leaderboards.
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My first couple months with a wheel I found myself being slower or, with just a handful of cars, equal in terms of pace... but the most noticeable difference was the tyre management which improved significantly (back then I used to race a lot of NASCAR with some friends and being able to use a smoother line through the turns in the ovals allowed me to be slightly faster but more importantly gain around 5 laps per stint, which in longer races could mean 1 less stop)
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This is spot on. I use a DS3 and it's fine for low-power stuff, but anything around 400bhp or higher is a nightmare and impossible to drive competitively against quick wheel users.
I had a G25 for the first GT Academy but it took me weeks to adapt to the wheel and be quicker with it than I was with the DS3, it really took a lot longer than I expected. Once you're settled there was no doubt it was quicker in any car, just the added precision that you have with a wheel and also with the throttle is a massive advantage, but don't expect to just pick it up and be immediately quicker.
I am pretty sure wheel users however have an advantage in GT6 - for example at Apricot Hill (forward), the long left corner in a GT300 championship I was racing in; wheel users could have their right-front tyre going bright red from the amount of steering input they were giving it - whereas DS3 users couldn't even get enough lock on the car to make the tyres get hot through that corner at all, so as a result the mid-corner speed was much lower just due to the amount of lock available on the steering..
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Currently NASCAR is the only thing in GT I use the wheel for.
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NASCAR can be bad on the arms on lobbies that race 20+ laps. My right arm was quite tired after 31 laps at Daytona. At least I won.
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Are you using it like NASCAR drivers do?NASCAR can be bad on the arms on lobbies that race 20+ laps. My right arm was quite tired after 31 laps at Daytona. At least I won.
I do as they do, I get as close to the wheel and pedals as I can. This means I don't need to stretch my arms.
I ran 50 laps of TT and was fine afterwards.
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Are you using it like NASCAR drivers do?
I do as they do, I get as close to the wheel and pedals as I can. This means I don't need to stretch my arms.
I ran 50 laps of TT and was fine afterwards.
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If I do that, I'll tear my right toes off. My "rig" requires me to stay close enough to the wheel so as to not strech my arms too much, but far enough so that I can step on the pedal with most of my foot.Are you using it like NASCAR drivers do?
I do as they do, I get as close to the wheel and pedals as I can. This means I don't need to stretch my arms.
I ran 50 laps of TT and was fine afterwards.
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200 laps at Daytona completed.NASCAR can be bad on the arms on lobbies that race 20+ laps. My right arm was quite tired after 31 laps at Daytona. At least I won.
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I did a bit of private testing with 4 cars and there fastest times were about 3 tenths apart, Alfa understeers a lot, the Toyota had sight oversteer and was prone to snapping but I did spin a couple of times during my 5 lap stint.
The civic felt good with a touch of understeer while the Renault, I was able to get the quickest time out of the 4, which I drove last after using it 1st to learn the track. Probably down to either the Honda or Renault, the devil I know or the devil I don't know regarding my TOCA history.
The civic felt good with a touch of understeer while the Renault, I was able to get the quickest time out of the 4, which I drove last after using it 1st to learn the track. Probably down to either the Honda or Renault, the devil I know or the devil I don't know regarding my TOCA history.
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Test Session Saturday 7.30pm GMT.
Registration for cars pushed back until Monday 8pm GMT.
Registration for cars pushed back until Monday 8pm GMT.
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