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I've just been getting into them, but I'm very bad. I've been playing Project CARS and Dirt Rally to practice - both have useful things to teach about car physics and handling. I have a pretty basic PS4 wheel, since I'm not good enough to invest in anything better. Racing imps, what helped you get better at these?
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buy an old manual transmission vehicle to practice IRL!
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Jun 1, 2017 01:48
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I've found that watching different people's replays on youtube (especially for Dirt daily challenges) really helped me get a better sense of the ways you can approach different parts of tracks
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Jun 1, 2017 01:59
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FactsAreUseless posted:I've just been getting into them, but I'm very bad. I've been playing Project CARS and Dirt Rally to practice - both have useful things to teach about car physics and handling. I have a pretty basic PS4 wheel, since I'm not good enough to invest in anything better. Racing imps, what helped you get better at these? I've been playing rfactor 2 off and on over the last few years. this video is long but helped me improve the most https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRmYMlmdqM
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Jun 1, 2017 03:37
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just practise .. its an inevitable requirement of getting good at something. eventually youll memorise tracks and then you can think about how youre driving them. if you learn the nurburgring (the nordsleife) in project cars then youll be able to drive any track. in dirt rally the co driver is very good so you can get away with just learning specific corners for each stage
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Jun 5, 2017 07:57
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The license tests in gran turismo 4 helped me get a lot of the basics down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2q7U9O8v0k Then I moved on to Forza 3 and the rewind feature let me practise individual corners over and over and then finally I bought a G27 and started running practise sessions in F1 2010 over and over
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Jun 5, 2017 11:11
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I.N.R.I posted:just practise .. its an inevitable requirement of getting good at something. eventually youll memorise tracks and then you can think about how youre driving them. if you learn the nurburgring (the nordsleife) in project cars then youll be able to drive any track. in dirt rally the co driver is very good so you can get away with just learning specific corners for each stage
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Jun 5, 2017 11:47
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FactsAreUseless posted:How much does wheel choice matter? I've got a Thrustmaster T80 on the PS4 because I was able to get it for $60 instead of like $200 for the T150. I don't know about those wheels specifically but you'll want good force feedback (actually lets you feel all four wheels) with a good profiler, as you'll be changing settings per game for example http://www.racedepartment.com/threads/g27-profiler-settings.108323/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8DeyQqlk0
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Jun 5, 2017 12:54
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Hollenhammer posted:I don't know about those wheels specifically but you'll want good force feedback (actually lets you feel all four wheels) with a good profiler, as you'll be changing settings per game
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Jun 5, 2017 13:00
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FactsAreUseless posted:I'm on PS4, so all my settings are in-game. Fair enough but the same principles apply to your actual car's setup in game
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Jun 5, 2017 13:53
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The t80 is good enough, after a point you're buying better force feedback which feels awesome but doesn't really help performance. You just have to practice and watch skip barber videos etc
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Jun 5, 2017 19:50
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Right now I'm just trying to be able to take turns correctly at all.
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Jun 5, 2017 22:14
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I like sims a lot more than arcade racers because you can look up real-world racing guides and apply them.
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Jun 5, 2017 22:14
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I used my friends expensive racing wheel and shifter to play dirt rally and it was fun, except I kept trying to ease on the wheel to make it straighten out which never worked
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Jun 5, 2017 22:29
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Larry Parrish posted:I used my friends expensive racing wheel and shifter to play dirt rally and it was fun, except I kept trying to ease on the wheel to make it straighten out which never worked You mean rather than letting it go to straighten out?
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Jun 5, 2017 22:35
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julian assflange posted:You mean rather than letting it go to straighten out? Well yeah because letting go made the force feedback go nuts and put the car hard left or right
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Jun 6, 2017 02:24
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Upon reflection its pretty likely he hosed with the settings
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Jun 6, 2017 02:25
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Larry Parrish posted:Well yeah because letting go made the force feedback go nuts and put the car hard left or right Haven't played with one for a while but I think the early/cheap wheels didn't like that so yeah had move it back yourself
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Jun 6, 2017 02:26
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FactsAreUseless posted:How much does wheel choice matter? I've got a Thrustmaster T80 on the PS4 because I was able to get it for $60 instead of like $200 for the T150. a wheel with force feedback (the t150) is much better than one without (the t80) because it simulates wheel resistance + road rumble etc, presumably thats where the extra cost comes from. but you can even excel at sim racing with a regular controller if youre so inclined. but if you want sim racing to feel close to real driving a wheel with force feedback is needed
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Jun 8, 2017 14:33
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anyway it doesnt really matter, like i said you can set world record times with a controller if you want, even in sims like project cars which arent set up for controllers by default. you can always upgrade later if you really get into it
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Jun 8, 2017 14:41
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I.N.R.I posted:a wheel with force feedback (the t150) is much better than one without (the t80) because it simulates wheel resistance + road rumble etc, presumably thats where the extra cost comes from. but you can even excel at sim racing with a regular controller if youre so inclined. but if you want sim racing to feel close to real driving a wheel with force feedback is needed Reviews suck though so maybe not
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Jun 8, 2017 15:19
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Wait the t-80 doesn't have force feedback?
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Jun 9, 2017 18:12
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That thing is more expensive than a driving force pro wtf
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Jun 9, 2017 18:16
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Control Volume posted:Wait the t-80 doesn't have force feedback?
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Jun 9, 2017 22:20
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M28M311?ref=aw_sitb_digital-text
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Jul 14, 2017 14:51
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GT7 in October, if anybody cares.
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Jul 14, 2017 17:21
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Human Grand Prix posted:GT7 in October, if anybody cares. WHAT
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Jul 14, 2017 18:22
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i heard about iracing where to get started, rather than winning you have to not hit anything and that seemed really interesting to me. anyone else play iut
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Jul 14, 2017 18:48
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Human Grand Prix posted:GT7 in October, if anybody cares. Im excited for it .. you cant really call it a realistic sim anymore but theyre great racing games anyway
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Jul 14, 2017 19:30
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ArfJason posted:i heard about iracing where to get started, rather than winning you have to not hit anything and that seemed really interesting to me. anyone else play iut its a good sim, in some ways the best, but it costs an unreasonable amount of money to get into (you buy cars and tracks individually and they arent cheap) and the online community is kind of ... stiff? like the community spirit seems to favour the unpleasant combo of personality traits where people are both extremely pedantic about how everyone else is driving while also being extremely slow and bad at driving themselves. basically its full of the kinds of personalities who are willing to spend that much on a racing sim
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Jul 14, 2017 19:36
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good sims to get into for cheap are project cars and assetto corsa. i personally prefer project cars even though its not the best simulator because it has the best tracks, and you can have day/night races and stuff. but wet weather races dont work well in it because the slick tires are almost always faster than the wet tires and tyre wear doesnt really work either, like tyres either work perfectly or theyre completely worn out
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Jul 14, 2017 19:39
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I.N.R.I posted:Im excited for it .. you cant really call it a realistic sim anymore but theyre great racing games anyway Same here.
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Jul 14, 2017 20:36
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I.N.R.I posted:its a good sim, in some ways the best, but it costs an unreasonable amount of money to get into (you buy cars and tracks individually and they arent cheap) and the online community is kind of ... stiff? like the community spirit seems to favour the unpleasant combo of personality traits where people are both extremely pedantic about how everyone else is driving while also being extremely slow and bad at driving themselves. basically its full of the kinds of personalities who are willing to spend that much on a racing sim I'd love iRacing on a console, tbh. It was fun when I played it.
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I checked and its subscription based. Absolutely killed any chance of me playing
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