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KingShibby posted:My Christmas present to myself this year is down to either a Playstation 4 or a racing cockpit. Right now I'm leaning towards the PS4 then getting the cockpit once I get my tax refund. I've read some not-so-great reviews of the csl seat. I guess it's pretty unstable, ie it can fall over when you sit down. Might be worth checking out the isrtv review or some others if you haven't already. Definitely quite a few solid options out there. I too want to get a real rig, but given the studio apartment I live in and the furniture I have, the wheelstand is going to have to do for a while. It's really quite good considering it takes up zero space. Might not be so great with a stronger ffb wheel like a csw, but it's plenty stable for the g27 with clubsport pedals.
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thehacker0 posted:I've read some not-so-great reviews of the csl seat. I guess it's pretty unstable, ie it can fall over when you sit down. Might be worth checking out the isrtv review or some others if you haven't already. Definitely quite a few solid options out there. Well that makes up my mind right there, guess I'll have to save up a great many  to buy the $1000 cockpit, the triple monitor mount, and the nice racing seat 
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Sep 10, 2014 19:49
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drat you all and your disposable incomes. All I have as a student is rich parents that spoil me. 
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Sep 10, 2014 20:45
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KingShibby posted:Well that makes up my mind right there, guess I'll have to save up a great many Theres some other affordable options Obutto http://www.mainperformancepc.com/product/obutto-gaming-cockpits/obutto-ozone-gaming-cockpit/ playseat http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...sl_1k99ei033g_b I'm sure there's others too. This is the review I watched, it looks kinda sketch to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0EU4cizwMI thehacker0 fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Sep 10, 2014 20:55
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Torabi posted:All I have as a student is rich parents that spoil me. I wish I had rich parents that would spoil me  I work full-time to pay the bills and officiate 3 sports so I can actually have disposable income... Edit: Sold on the Wheel Stand because it's cheap enough that other people can buy it for me! KingShibby fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Sep 10, 2014 20:56
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I have the CSL seat, it's not bad at all. It might tip over if you're trying to stand on the side of it or something. Once you're sitting in it, it's perfectly stable. The only thing I don't like is getting the pedals totally locked down. They only attach at one point.
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Sep 10, 2014 21:04
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KingShibby posted:I wish I had rich parents that would spoil me Nice. You can't go wrong with that stand. It's great it terms of saving space, and you can use it on the couch for console play or right up against your desk on the PC.
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Sep 10, 2014 21:05
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thehacker0 posted:Nice. You can't go wrong with that stand. It's great it terms of saving space, and you can use it on the couch for console play or right up against your desk on the PC. I play Planetside 2 as well and it's a pain in the rear end to detach my wheel and shifter from my desk so I can put my keyboard in front of my monitors. Also Planetside 2 with three monitors is amazing.
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Sep 10, 2014 21:08
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I have a Wheel Stand Pro, it works well for me. I just swing it around when I race and put it back in the corner when I'm finished.
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Sep 10, 2014 21:17
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I do the exact same thing. If you don't have the space for a dedicated rig solely for racing, a wheel stand is the way to go. The wheel stand pro is pretty beefy as well, and does a good job of standing still under force feedback. It's a bit heavy, but not so much that you can pretty easily pick it up and move it around. I just slide mine to the side under my desk when I play other games. How does the TH8RS shifter feel in sequential mode by the way? Trying to decide on a shifter upgrade from my G27 which has both sequential and H pattern. I will probably use sequential more than H patter honestly, so I'm looking at some sequential-only shifters as well as the TH8 and fanatec. Does anyone else have experience with any of the sequential shifters on the market?
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It feels great, but I don't have any experience with any time of sequential shifter. The only thing I did was increase the resistance. The default resistance was good for H-pattern but felt way too lose in sequential.
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Sep 10, 2014 22:47
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 Wheel Stand Pro Club wutup.
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Sep 10, 2014 23:21
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I'm guessing with that thing you pretty much have to left-foot brake or heel-toe it, eh?
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Can I ask why you'd use a stick shifter to change sequential rather than using the paddles?
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Tony Montana posted:Can I ask why you'd use a stick shifter to change sequential rather than using the paddles? I'm sure some people do it for authenticity since a lot of these racing cars use sequential shifters not on the wheel. I think they're called dog box shifters or something like that.
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Sep 11, 2014 01:59
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Tony Montana posted:Can I ask why you'd use a stick shifter to change sequential rather than using the paddles? It frees up buttons on my wheel. I use the paddles to look right/left.
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Sep 11, 2014 02:49
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You don't find taking your hands off the wheel compromises your control? That's why paddles originated in F1, keeping your hands on the wheel.' edit: you're running a T500 like me.. you don't have enough buttons anyway? What do you have mapped on there? I've got radio stuff and manipulating the data box and buttons to spare. edit2: hrm that wheel stand is sweet.. I just modified my desk recently but I wish I'd bought that instead. Still can do, dragging into the middle of the lounge room to play on the big screen is awesome.. more for games like Dirt3 rather than when you're all getting iRacing serious. Oh yeah.. iRacing does rock. I've been away from my computer for about a year and the only game I really wanted to come back to was that.. had a strap a few days ago and it was great. Star Mazda was on rails around Interlagos, but apparently the Spec Racer ford is at Spa next week so that's going to be loving brilliant. Star Mazda at Okoyama which will be good just because any iRacer that's put in their time knows that track like the back of their hand. edit3: Star Mazda isn't actually called Star Mazda anymore.. it's Pro Mazda. Hmm.. wonder if iRacing will update, not that I really care but it was neat to be able to bash in the name of whatever car and see it's real life basis on Wikipedia. Tony Montana fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 03:27
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I like the feel using the shifter, and it always irked me a bit using paddles in cars like the SRF. My bindings are as follows: Paddes are look right/left L2/R2 are text chat for pass left/right SE - Traction control disable ST - Tow PS - Pit speed limiter Triangle - PTT Square - Cycle black box menus X - Select Circle - Quick In car adj menu LB - Splits RB - Relative Box
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Sep 11, 2014 03:51
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With the H pattern shifter, the only advantage I can think of.. actual advantage besides immersion or feel or whatever.. is you can skip gears. From 4th down to 2nd in hard braking for instance.. have you ever found that to be useful?
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Sep 11, 2014 04:38
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I miss the sequential shifter of the DFGT since I got a G27. I never use the H shifter, I probably will spend some dough on a Fanatec sequential shifter. Its just more fun than paddles.
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Sep 11, 2014 04:49
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It's gotta be slower when you're really on it, though.
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Sep 11, 2014 04:55
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The H-pattern on my G27 is really just fun. I know I probably won't be fast enough for it to ever be an advantage, but rowing through the gears is so much fun in the right car. For example, it owns when playing the IndyCar 1994 mod in rFactor.
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Sep 11, 2014 04:58
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Quit telling people how to play video games.
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Ha, stop telling people how to post. I'm just talking about H patterns with some people.
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Sep 11, 2014 05:03
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How To Get Out Of Rookies: Start from the pits go fast, turn left (sometimes right?) let everyone pass you and give them room don't run in to other idiots. Went from low 2's to getting my D license in like 3 races doing this.
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Once you get D licensed I suggest starting races from the grid, since you do need to start learning how to manage a race start.
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The place to learn starts are those multi-class week 13 races...if you can handle that poo poo, you can handle anything.
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The Orange Mage posted:The place to learn starts are those multi-class week 13 races...if you can handle that poo poo, you can handle anything. Week 13 happened during my second week in iRacing. Never again.
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invision posted:How To Get Out Of Rookies: Of course qualifying on pole and lead every lap works aswell, even at USA international.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:I miss the sequential shifter of the DFGT since I got a G27. I never use the H shifter, I probably will spend some dough on a Fanatec sequential shifter. Its just more fun than paddles. I've never used the H-pattern shifter on my G27 for any car, 100% paddle shifting only. Now that I have 3 monitors I rarely use the Look Left/Right/Up/Down functions, but I did map them to the POV pad on the shifter. This is how I have my G27 mapped for the DW12: 
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I actually use the H-pattern quite a bit on my G27, mostly for mx-5 cup and production car challenge races. I practiced for a while in between official races for fun, and once you get used to it I'm actually not any faster/slower (some cars/tracks are more difficult H-pattern than others). It just feels wrong to use paddles on a car which is known for being classically 5/6 speed manual. Same with other cars like the mustang, L79, or even stock cars (they are dog box I think). It's not as bad using paddles in the skippy or star mazda, but I would rather have a nice sequential shifter for those. But I'm more interested in a sequential just for the enjoyment of it. The paddles on the G27 don't have a particularly positive shifting feel, and it's just more involved and satisfying to shift with a sequential stick. I will probably end up getting the fanatec shifter to kill two birds with one stone, but there are some pretty great looking sequentials out there (DSD, Frex shift+).
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 ASTON MARTIN CONFIRMED quote:Bedford, MA (September 11, 2014) – iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, the world’s most realistic racing game, today announced the addition of four Aston Martin Racing cars to the iRacing.com lineup. iRacing.com will create a virtual version of the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 that will compete next weekend in the iRacing.com Nürburgring 1000 Blancpain Sprint Series event, as well as other Aston Martin Racing cars including the Le Mans class-winning DBR9.
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Update on GoonCar I hoped to have it restarted by October, but more Real Life stuff happened. GoonCar is in indefinite hiatus unless someone else would be willing to take it over.
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I wouldn't be of any use to organize, but I'd be happy to contribute some funds. Actually I wouldn't mind organizing a special event race in the following format once multi-driver support gets in: -Endurance race, maybe 4-6 hours, depending on participation -The number of teams and the size of said teams would be dictated by participation -Team Captains chosen from the most experienced drivers -Captains must draft their team (serpentine order) -The minimum driving requirement would be raised above the default formula This would basically be a mixed-skill competition. By doing a serpentine draft, one would hope there would be some terrible rookies in the mix (like me) and would give the opportunity for said terrible rookies to race alongside of more seasoned vets. Hopefully the vets would spot for the lesser-experienced players and give them pointers as they went along. What do you guys think, does this sound fun?
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I'd say 4 hours max, maybe a 2.4 hour minimum, still I would be down for this. Also, check out what might be coming eventually: 
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Bentai posted:I'd say 4 hours max, maybe a 2.4 hour minimum, still I would be down for this. Also, check out what might be coming eventually: Yea someone posted that a few pages back I think. Probably a good thing for the service, but the rookie races are going to be even worse than they already are with random people from steam joining races with no clue whats going on. Perhaps they will have a new series for 'lite' users
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Sep 11, 2014 18:18
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The second image confirms they'll be restricted to "lite-only" series. It'll still be full of chaff though.
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Bentai posted:The second image confirms they'll be restricted to "lite-only" series. It'll still be full of chaff though. I wonder if lite memberships will be allowed to do solo testing...
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Bentai posted:The second image confirms they'll be restricted to "lite-only" series. It'll still be full of chaff though. Oh you're right, I missed that. Thank god. It will definitely be a good thing, I have a few friends who love doing test sessions at my house but aren't quite ready to take the plunge. I bet the lite version could get them hooked though
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invision posted:How To Get Out Of Rookies: How to get out of rookies: Wait until the track for the week is Charlotte Start from the pits You will never see another car Finish race.
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