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The steering on FC isn't heavy - I have no problem winding enough lock on to get round corners. But the FF is really strong compared to GT5P... which creates a lot of kick back. To be honest, in some ways it's not a lot different to my 911, which loads up under hard cornering and has huge amounts of steering kick back over bumps and camber changes. The real difference is that the FF strength is the same across the entire lock... where as it's more normal for steering effort to increase with lock.
I drove lots of cars when I was younger with much heavier steering than FC... the worst of which was an opel manta fitted with a wide arch kit, a rover 4.0l V8, 8" wide wheels and an 11" steering wheel with no power steering - that was a bitch to steer at anything below 50mph! We're spoilt now-a-days with power steering on pretty much everything.
I drove lots of cars when I was younger with much heavier steering than FC... the worst of which was an opel manta fitted with a wide arch kit, a rover 4.0l V8, 8" wide wheels and an 11" steering wheel with no power steering - that was a bitch to steer at anything below 50mph! We're spoilt now-a-days with power steering on pretty much everything.
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Ok only thing that was major heavy was a Mk2 scimitar....or tractor as it was afectionatly called oh and that MK bedford truck in the army....you had to stand up and use your body weight to turn the steering at any speed (the old MK no power steering) LOL
It's not really the FFB strengh thats the problem for me it's the "Kick back" is too strong and causes a penulum effect with me trying to hold it straight, no problems in corners at all, it's the straigh and anywhere near the sterings center position LOL GT5 has the same efect but it's easy to hold it and it only dose it on the rarest of ocasions, FC starts as you put the power on! I'm going to wait for the patch before I try it again. I tried the online side og Gt5p with it just, expert high speed ring with the ferrari (what else LOL) had some good races, got into a bit of trouble when I was boxed in on the high speed bank and lost the back end but that was me not fully used to the wheel yet, was finishing between 4th and 7th consistantly with a car I'm not fully used to yet and the wheel which I'll be tweaking for the next week, so prety good results so far, I'm running it on strengh 7 and medium feedback, not fully happy with this setting so time to try some more.
It's not really the FFB strengh thats the problem for me it's the "Kick back" is too strong and causes a penulum effect with me trying to hold it straight, no problems in corners at all, it's the straigh and anywhere near the sterings center position LOL GT5 has the same efect but it's easy to hold it and it only dose it on the rarest of ocasions, FC starts as you put the power on! I'm going to wait for the patch before I try it again. I tried the online side og Gt5p with it just, expert high speed ring with the ferrari (what else LOL) had some good races, got into a bit of trouble when I was boxed in on the high speed bank and lost the back end but that was me not fully used to the wheel yet, was finishing between 4th and 7th consistantly with a car I'm not fully used to yet and the wheel which I'll be tweaking for the next week, so prety good results so far, I'm running it on strengh 7 and medium feedback, not fully happy with this setting so time to try some more.
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Well I perservered, light hold on the wheel, steering set to low pedals to medium and woha! It works! and works well! still got that "twitch" on the straights but esay to control now. It will be alot better when the FFB is turned down and maybe the dead zone widening a touch but a few things came to light. If youve read the "front wheels locking up" thread you'll see theres the usual auto steering intervention on the pad.....well not on the wheel! you want to do 100mph+ and go from lock to lock with the steering? yep you can set fire to your front tyres quite easily LOL Fighting through it and slowly getting use to it you can see theres alot of feed back from the car and track, dare I sa more than GT5p, if they get the 3 strenghs into the patch tomorow then it will be quite stunning! Oh and cheers stotty for the advice on losening up on the wheel, you stop fighting it and it just vanishes, everyone try it!
It isn't as good as GT5p now as it dose interfere with getting on the perfect line some times but once you can reduce the strengh of feedback I think most will agree with me, I've just been drifting the 355 for a laugh........it was fun on the wheel, but fairly imposible on the pad!
It isn't as good as GT5p now as it dose interfere with getting on the perfect line some times but once you can reduce the strengh of feedback I think most will agree with me, I've just been drifting the 355 for a laugh........it was fun on the wheel, but fairly imposible on the pad!
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