Today I spammed Sardegna again. Started around lunchtime, intent on getting to 20mil and getting my McLaren F1 today. After logging in, I saw it's moved to limited stock, which galvanized my resolve.
After the first run, in VR, and remembering my sore eyes and forehead marks yesterday after something over 4 hours in the VR headset, I decided to turn the PSVR2 off and do the rest on flat screen. This was to reduce eye fatigue and discomfort, but also because this is a grind. Doing the same race over and over again in the same handful of cars gets a little boring after a while, and I don't want to burn out the novelty of VR, for it to become familiar and normal, on this race. So I'll use that for new cars and new challenges. For grinding, I'll use flat screen.
This was more of a challenge than I expected. I don't have a big screen, but it is the same one I've been playing racing games on for over 10 years and... suddenly it looked so small. And I was understeering everywhere. Not understeering as in sliding the front tyres, but understeering as in I simply wasn't turning the wheel enough. Weird.
Seems a reasonable assumption that PD doesn't change the steering ratio, make it less sensitive when I take the headset off. Seems more likely that I do actually turn the wheel less on flat screen than I do in VR to try go around the same corner.
The corners themselves look tighter in VR than they do on flat screen too, so perhaps its that. I turn less because the corner looks less severe. I guess it's down to perspective and perhaps the flat screen view is a wide angle.
I also notice that I seem to start turning in to the corner earlier on VR. That may be perspective too, making me think the corner is further away when on the flat screen.
It took me a while to recalibrate. My first run was about a minute and a half slower than I was doing in VR, but I gradually started easing the car into the corners earlier, which opened them up, and also, I think, had the benefit of reducing the amount of lock I needed on the wheel. Or maybe I was just getting used to that too. Either way by race 2 I was starting to feel the groove and I started getting closer to my VR times.
Funny how much smaller the wheel feels too when I can see it, but of course it's the same wheel.. it's just smaller than the virtual wheel I've gotten used to seeing in VR..
Anyway, after an afternoon slog, I had enough for the F1 so I got it, along with that '92 NSX. I had no time to enjoy my new rides though. I still needed 3.5 million for the F40, and I don't fancy more grinding tomorrow so I dropped the cars off at the garage and went straight back to Sardegna for another round, before taking an afternoon break to mow the lawn and cook dinner.
After the meal and wine I was back in the seat, and now I have the F40 in my garage too. I took that around Brands Hatch to celebrate. Tomorrow I can get back to enjoying the game, post a Nurb TT time, clear the weekly challenges, start doing the rest of the WTC 800 races... maybe start working on missions, or getting gold in the licenses I don't have yet.
All that will go out the window on Monday whwn PD replace the McLaren with another 20mil must have.
Funny thing, the F1 has so many collector points it bumped me straight from something like 36 or 38 all the way up to 48, and unlocked a bunch of menu books along the way. The F40 was enought to push me to level 50, so now I can do engine swaps 🙂
A productive day but a tiring one. I'm glad I'm done with that and can get back to having fun.
