Thanks for dem' links 👍.
Choosing Input Mode 3 seems to help, and from there I toy around with the steering deadzone, speed sensitivity and steering angle from tuning. Cumbersome having to adjust this for different cars, but I've managed to get a little "gameplay" out of it.
Countersteering is strange though: the wheels becomes really stiff and don't want to turn. But still fun recovering from slides and over-correcting. Interestingly, took an Ariel Atom for a spin at Monza, and it handled almost like a dream - 6 am, the sun crashing in through my view.. I'll admit, I enjoyed that.
It is a sim, get a wheel and you shall see how great this game is. Banging on about how its not a sim because your struggling with a control pad does not make any sense when was the last time you seen a race car being controlled by a xbox or ps pad?
Still shouldn't be forced to buy a wheel just to experience the game in all it's glory. They had plenty of time and delays to sort the game out on the X1 controller and they didn't.
If the mantra is "play PCARS only with a wheel to experience
proper physics", then maybe it should just be made for motorsport schools and not gamers.
Ok, we get it, you don't like it. That's fine, you have a right to have an opinion and you made your point. But please don't go on and on and on in the Project CARS forum... you want to move on, so do we.
Thank you for that enlightening note.
You like arcade/simcade racers so this title is not for you. Have fun with Forza.
I love sims; not those which force me to keep fiddling around with settings to get the feel right for each car. My feel I do not mean easy and arcade-like, I mean like an actual car - predictable to some degree and obeying laws of physics.
It's well below par no matter how the controller settings are adjusted.
My assessment is exactly the same as others who had high expectations and trust me, my initial impression of this game has nothing to do with "realising this is a sim".
It seems there will be a patch for controller coming, so I don't see the point in even playing again until then.
Try out Input Mode 3, keep advanced settings off and toy around with the steering ratio in tuning. You might enjoy it to some extent.
Have been playing the PC version for a few years and received my X1 copy yesterday so spent a few hours with it yesterday.
On pad only of course.
After reading various posts on forums and in here i had some doubts and concerns......but they were completely unfounded.
The PS4 version looks "slightly" better to me, but the X1 version is still very pretty.....controls i had no problems with out of the box too and jumped into some very nice and close competitive racing.
In terms of F5/PCars comparison.....PCars has the edge to me purely because it has the Weather/TOD....graphics i think they both look great but again i would say PCars is more visually appealing to me.
I love F5, and FH2 and eagerly awaiting F6.....but competition is a good thing.
The overly negative views expressed by few are completely ridiculous IMO....on playing more i expect i will come into bugs and areas that are frustrating, but know SMS is working to fix them.
I'm amazed to hear you say you had no issues with out of the box controls on X1 pad. So you generally don't mind twitchy remote-controlled car-like handling then.
The weather and time of day is very nice to play around with, I'll admit, but on a graphical level overall, NO way this beats FM5. Play Laguna, Catalunya or Lemans in FM5, then play it in PCARS (X1), same time of day.
Have you run into the bug of getting kicked back to the dashboard? Snetterton 300, light rain, daytime, Pagani Huayra: I exit the pits, the track surroundings looking all funny with black/white lines as if the GPU's breaking down or something..and it takes me back to dashboard. Launched the game 6 times in a row with the same car/track set up, and it kicked my to the dash right after exiting the pits or once I exit the pit lane.
^^ So as soon as I find it even mildly enjoyable, the game kicks me back to dash.
Sh** Bob, I don't think she like-ah me!
Don't forget to lock the door after you when you leave.....
Hah, some of you guys.. with the wisecracks and all. I'd give that a 5/10 maybe. Good attempt.
I own the game on PC, PS4 and XBone. I use a fanatec and Thrustmaster wheel to play. After reading all the negativity surrounding the DS4 I tried the game with the DS4 using stock settings. I chose to run the Clio community event because I'd done 100's of laps across the three platforms and managed a top 50 time with the wheel. Within 5 laps of using the DS4 I was within half a second of my wheel time. With more practice and getting used to the game with a pad I see no reason why I couldn't have matched my wheel time. So, in my opinion, this game is perfectly playable with a pad.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that those having problems have a different game to me or they are just not very good at proper sim racing games.
How much driving time do you have with the X1 pad?
My eyes
What is this, an old Forza 1 video?
I tried reducing the number of cars to 16 and it was still pretty bad, it seems as some tracks have worse frame rates although oddly it doesn't seem to be related to the size of the track. XBO here.
