Hello People, after many days of some sweaty driving and testing a lot around, I finally would say that I pretty much tweaked the ffb to a level where I think it can’t get any better.
To me, at least.
I understand that every person has its own taste, but I think we can all agree that everyone should like a tasty slice of Pizza and an ice cold Coke
Having that said I think what I tweaked might be the best ffb setup for our T300 and I would like to highly recommend at least everybody who is not definitely satisfied with the way how the Steering feels to give it a try.
Personally I would even go so far and appreciate it if even some Veterans like
@Scaff would take their time to try out my Settings and hear some opinions how they feel with the way I set it up.
I‘m always open to some criticism and advice if it’s constructive.
In the following I’m going to describe my approach which has led to my, most probably, final setup.
I took a Car I really appreciate to drive. In my Case it was the old Mercedes 190 group A Car. Completely stock. Default setup. Authentic Driving AIDS only. I usually drive with ABS turned off, but used the weak setting for my testing as I‘m able to much better judge the cars‘ handling, trail braking and weight distribution.
I than chose some tracks that I’m very familiar with.
I entered a Private Session and began to drive. Lap after lap I slowly began to pick up pace and gradually pushed the Car harder through the Corners.
My main goal was to not overdrive the Car, as my intention was to get a feeling for what the Car does under given circumstances and speeds, and how that translates or is being transferred through the Wheel itself.
I paid a lot of attention to different aspects.
Tires, Suspension, Weight Transfer, Braking to mention the more obvious Aspects.
But the devil lies in the more nuanced and subtle things which I paid even more attention to as these are to me the things that make or break my Sim experience and illusion, Virtually driving a Car.
The small things like feeling oversteer kicking in, and being able to react to it and counter the Consequences of spinning.
Also feeling Understeer and being able to react to that.
The Weight Shifts under Braking, loading the Front Tires, respectively unloading the front and shifting Weight towards the rear while accelerating out of Corners.
Trail Braking especially was an aspect which i tried to cover and fully delivered.
The Suspension and feel for the Road Surface.
Tires and Contact to the Road.
Overall I tried to get it felt like really driving a Car. Naturally and intuitive.
English is not my native language so it’s not easy for me to use the right Words and I could write so much more, which eventually wouldn’t say anything more, but I can definitely say I tried my best what I think a Car should feel like in a Videogame and how it feels compared to the real World.
I drive Cars for over 25years, have driven endlessly many Cars over that time.
Small ones all the way up to the big Boys.
And I can assure that with these settings, you’ll experience all of that and of course much more as I’ve never pushed a Car in real World so hard as i did in this Game.
But I’m pretty sure that this is how it would have felt.
Don’t get me wrong, I‘m fully aware that it’s still just a Videogame played with a cheap plastic toy Wheel, but the Immersion was incredible.
It gives me the full Control over the Car, and mistakes or journeys into the gravelpit are fully on my side.
No excuses.
There’s no moments like ah, it’s the games‘ fault. No. It’s totally me to blame for pushing to hard or just simply not having the Talent to compensate for my stupidity thinking I made the right choice taking certain Corners and not being able to accordingly react to the Information the Car is giving me.
Because the Information was there, I just didn’t pay attention or simply thought close your Eyes, it will go well.
Nope, it won’t
So overall, like I said I think this Game, no, this Gem, this in its raw default Out of the Box unpolished Jewel is overwhelmingly underrated by many Gamers out there who maybe just didn’t took the time to understand, or maybe lack the knowledge how to set it up properly, simply gave up, shelfed it and forgot about what they could have had if they just would have given it some proper seat time.
I don’t know how often I almost cried out loud, simply of joy and happiness, because that’s what this Game triggered me to.
I thought I’d never again get so much joy out of a Racing Game since I abandoned Project Cars 1 in 2017, and went over to GTS.
I even preordered PC2 when it was first released in 2017, I think it was a month before GTS was released.
But since I was on a base PS4 playing with Controller, I was shocked how bad it looked and felt on Console.
I was so disappointed that I sold it 2 days later and never looked back.
Then GTS caught my attention and I got hooked.
I bought a Wheel, a T150 and felt like wow, this Game is really good.
I‘m such a fool
After many years on GTS, a few Weeks ago I accidentally took a look in the PsStore and noticed that PC2 was on sale for like what? 15€?! Ha, ok let’s give it a try. I was sick of GTS, I wanted something different and as soon as downloaded it and turned it on, I was hooked and couldn’t believe what I have missed all the years.
The perfect Console Sim which in my honest opinion beats GTS in somewhat EVERY single aspect.
But anyway it’s late and I don’t want to overblow this massively huge Wall of Text even more.
Oh, yes before I forget, you may ask, so where are those fancy Settings this strange Dude is talking about…
Here they are, I’m glad to be able to share them with you my Fellow Racers…
Flavor Immersive
Gain 86
Volume 38
Tone 36
FX 55
Enjoy them, have fun and like I said, if you have any questions or scratch your head because you might say, Man, those Settings are awful, bash me, thank me, whatever.
Just keep it over the Belt Line
Cheers
PS. Special shout out to
@IfAndOr
Pps:
My way to describe this Game and how I now feel about it
Especially looking at you GTS, this Song says all
