Played for about an hour with my wheel this time.
T300 w/599X rim
T3PA-Pro pedals
I didn't bother using my T8HA shifter, especially since none of my cars are stick shift.
I didn't have any problems with FFB. Seemed decent enough. You can go into the Driver Options before a session and turn up the FFB strength and sensitivity settings if it's feeling a bit weak to you. Then again, I dont crank my FFB strength up super high on PC, either. Overall detail isn't as good as some of the best, but it's respectable and a lot better than Project Cars out-the-box, at least.
My first run was about 12 laps with the Evora at Dragons Trail. I had a lot of problems with this. I could only get about 2.5 seconds from my controller time. Cant wrap my head around ideal braking practices, but my biggest problem was not being able to control the car going from about 30 to 45 degrees steering angle. Put me into a slide pretty much every time. And I just couldn't understand why. At least not at first...
Then I went and did about 12 laps with the Merc GT3 on Brands Hatch. I fared much better here. Unlike with a controller, I felt I could achieve some consistency and wasn't over a second off my optimal lap time. But I was still slower overall than my best controller lap. Only by about 0.6 this time, though. Everything felt *mostly* ok, but I was still struggling with the braking and steering some. And I noticed something here. During the slow hairpin after the 1st corner, holding a constant steering angle, my turning radius was growing as speed scrubbed off. Quite the opposite of what should happen.
And this is where I became fairly sure that GT Sport is using some sort of speed sensitivity setting, and it's obviously not changeable as apart from the two FFB setting and rebinding the buttons, there's no wheel settings at all. This is really messing me up and probably why I couldn't control the Evora as I cranked the wheel up to around 45 degrees. The steering ratio picked up quickly, making it too difficult to approach the limit without overstepping things. I noticed it on some other corners as well. After the hairpin on Brands Hatch I was talking about, you have that tricky downhill left-hander. Normally you kind of roll through that corner and then try and pick up the throttle as soon as you can, running a tad wide over the curbs usually being fine or even desirable. But I found that as I rolled through the corner and my speed scrubbed off, the more the car was understeering. And by the time I would usually want to get onto the power, doing so would send me *too* wide. Meaning I had to hold off getting on the throttle til I could get the car pointed better and since I was having to dial in a bit more angle as the corner went on, I had to be very careful with the throttle when I did get on it.
Anybody else notice this or have any issues with it? If I'm wrong about it, there's definitely something else funky going on with the steering. And it's really holding me back.
