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Jenny Agutter posted:take-two buying codemasters. expect the level of microtransactions in F1 to become breathtaking I always wanted to be a paydriver!
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Buy an extra 5 seconds of DRS for only 100 F1 Coins
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peter gabriel posted:Buy an extra 5 seconds of DRS for only 100 F1 Coins They banned the Ferrari engine last year
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Buy the Premium ERS upgrade: Pass start and collect 100 Electro-BoostPoints you can spend on the next lap. Wait, that's how it already works, isn't it?
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They should call the currency Racing Points and if you have any left over at the end of the season you can combine them to get a Mercedes 
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peter gabriel posted:They should call the currency Racing Points and if you have any left over at the end of the season you can combine them to get a Mercedes Oh you...
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peter gabriel posted:They should call the currency Racing Points and if you have any left over at the end of the season you can combine them to get a Mercedes 
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I’m building a rig atm as my actual track car is tucked up in storage because of corona and winter. Trak racer TR8 and Thrustmaster TX leather. Does anyone have any thoughts on what size screen pairs best? I hope it turns out bloody good jm like a kid at Christmas.
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After And that car is... checks notes The Ferrari F355? Somehow? Look, it's just really fun on gravel for some reason. Go try it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLct6ymp5s
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I spent a while yesterday trying to remember how to drive in ACC since I've taken a bit of a hiatus from it for more rally, plus there's some tire model changes, and was just getting really frustrated that lap times were not where I wanted them. So I decided to just do a quick race against AI with difficulty/aggression both at 92, started 21st in the grid of 24th at Zolder (random position), and just did a super fun 45 minute race, ending up in 8th despite getting spun out by an AI car and losing 17 seconds on one lap. Sometimes I need to remember to stop trying to get better at hotlapping and qualifying and just go race and have fun with that. I have all my rally stuff which I'm much better at when I don't want to race against actual opponents and just against the clock.
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KillHour posted:After (it has a Ferrari engine so you're not far off  )KillHour posted:Look, it's just really fun on gravel for some reason. Go try it. Low center of gravity + rear wheel drive + gravel = DRIFTUUUU Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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I think it being mid-engined, manual and high revving but not too powerful to control made it a good combo. You can get it really fuckin sideways and still recover. Also, I now have the world record lap time for a really obscure car/track combo so go me, I guess?
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Would it be reasonable to consider getting into PC Sim racing/driving if I only wanted to spend like 500-600 CAD (~450USD) on this? I have a very strong PC already (no VR though), was wondering about wheel/pedal recommendations. Is this too low a budget?
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VelociBacon posted:Would it be reasonable to consider getting into PC Sim racing/driving if I only wanted to spend like 500-600 CAD (~450USD) on this? I have a very strong PC already (no VR though), was wondering about wheel/pedal recommendations. Is this too low a budget? If you already have a PC that's enough budget to dip your toes in for sure, and I wouldn't go whole-hog on a Fanatec rig until you know you really enjoy the hobby anyways. https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Dual-motor-Feedback-Responsive-PlayStation/dp/B00Z0UWWYC That thing is pretty popular for the money. You can buy the H-shifter upgrade too if you want one. VR definitely is a game-changer.
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VelociBacon posted:Would it be reasonable to consider getting into PC Sim racing/driving if I only wanted to spend like 500-600 CAD (~450USD) on this? I have a very strong PC already (no VR though), was wondering about wheel/pedal recommendations. Is this too low a budget? Absolutely, a G29/G920 is always available for relatively cheap and the cheaper wheels like the Logitech and Thrustmaster stuff are used by the vast majority of people I'd say. I use a G29 and I'd say buy that and a nice standalone H-pattern shifter because H-pattern shifting is a lot of fun once you've got it down.
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Zaphod42 posted:If you already have a PC that's enough budget to dip your toes in for sure, and I wouldn't go whole-hog on a Fanatec rig until you know you really enjoy the hobby anyways. njsykora posted:Absolutely, a G29/G920 is always available for relatively cheap and the cheaper wheels like the Logitech and Thrustmaster stuff are used by the vast majority of people I'd say. I use a G29 and I'd say buy that and a nice standalone H-pattern shifter because H-pattern shifting is a lot of fun once you've got it down. Thanks, cheaper than I thought it would be. Picked up the G29 on sale (on Canadian Amazon also). I do some unimpressive track driving already IRL with a standard transmission and don't feel like I really need that for sim stuff. Looking forward to this! Thanks goons.
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KillHour posted:After Please, it's not even the scientifically proven best Ferrari rally car: 
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One of the best yearly deals in sim racing is on with all the Black Friday deals. Raceroom's entire content pack is £40 which is an awesome deal with how much stuff there is. The process is a bit irritating though as getting the £40 price means buying their monopoly money so here's the short guide. 1) Go here to buy 7500 VRP for £40. 2) Go to the actual content store, login through Steam and redeem the VRP code to add the points to your account. 3) Use the points to buy the Premium Pack which has everything ever released to this point.
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Alright so I got my wheel and pedals and have been playing around - so far just tried Dirt 2.0 and it.... is hard as hell but quite fun. A rolling office chair isn't going to really work for this is it? I keep pushing myself backwards trying to brake.
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The advice for rolling chairs is just set something grippy behind the wheels so they don't move.
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Yeah try putting like a stack of books behind your office chair or something if you can. But ideal would be something more fixed. You're going to find that you're much slower with a wheel than a controller at first. Stick with it and you'll adjust and get faster than you were on controller. Also, as frustrating as it is, you need to spend a good amount of time dialing in your wheel feedback settings. The differences are subtle but a dialed-in wheel versus a stock default settings wheel makes all the difference between being able to drift and recover a corner or just constantly over-correcting and crashing. A wheel with weird FFB settings makes it really hard to drive well. The good news is you can google "<game name> + <your wheel model>" and you'll find lots of people posting their configurations, so you can just copy one to start with and tweak from there.
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njsykora posted:The advice for rolling chairs is just set something grippy behind the wheels so they don't move. Locking casters are cheap enough to get hold of, I use them and they work pretty well, though depends what surface you are on.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah try putting like a stack of books behind your office chair or something if you can. But ideal would be something more fixed. Yeah I'm in F1 2020 now and you can very easily just bring people's steam workshop poo poo into the game without even restarting it. Soooo is there a discord or something where you guys all hang out? Guess I'll check the OP but I don't remember seeing it. Would be fun to get some goon races going. I was avoiding all the tarmac driving games previously because with an xbox controller it just felt uselessly difficult but I might have to pick some stuff up now. I'm finding F1 to be much much easier/more fun than Dirt 2.0 with the wheel and pedals. e: Fellblade posted:Locking casters are cheap enough to get hold of, I use them and they work pretty well, though depends what surface you are on. I feel like even the rotation of the chair is kinda loving with me but I'm not sure if my butt is just confused why it doesn't feel any car movement. What wheels are you using? I have a Steelcase Leap so I'm guessing there is going to be a lot of aftermarket support for it.
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VelociBacon posted:Soooo is there a discord or something where you guys all hang out? Guess I'll check the OP but I don't remember seeing it. Would be fun to get some goon races going. I was avoiding all the tarmac driving games previously because with an xbox controller it just felt uselessly difficult but I might have to pick some stuff up now.
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Oh my god I just had the first moment where I brought a car through a series of fast sweeping tight corners, exactly the kind of thing a controller is horrible at, and I'm in love.njsykora posted:The Bearpope discord is here. Though pretty much all the group racing happens on iRacing. Thanks. e: vvv yeah I'm on hardwood. I'll look at my options.
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VelociBacon posted:I feel like even the rotation of the chair is kinda loving with me but I'm not sure if my butt is just confused why it doesn't feel any car movement. What wheels are you using? I have a Steelcase Leap so I'm guessing there is going to be a lot of aftermarket support for it. I have a GT-Omega chair of some kind, which rotates. I just got some third party ones off amazon for £15-ish and they do the job, though I am on a carpeted floor, doubt they'd work as well on wood or vinyl.
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I've seen some guy who had a sort of belt from his chair to his pedals.
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I'm just gonna post the legendary rig of Glenn McGee, who won a competition on iRacing and is now a Mazda factory driver. https://twitter.com/racermcgee/status/668445452254232577
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VelociBacon posted:Alright so I got my wheel and pedals and have been playing around - so far just tried Dirt 2.0 and it.... is hard as hell but quite fun. This is what you need OP. Locks the pedal base to your chair wheels. If you’re handy at all you could certainly make something like this for yourself and save some $ https://www.peingear.com/product-page/pein-s-pedal-mount
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:This is what you need OP. Locks the pedal base to your chair wheels. Cool. I can probably make something for less but it's good to know that exists, makes sense.
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The thing I posted is good because even with those wheel cups you can still push the pedal base on the carpet. You need the base locked to the chair in order to prevent both the base and the chair from moving
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Perhaps a system of pulleys and counterweights would be the way to go? Just spitballing here. You could jack up the foundations on your house one one side and let gravity do its thing, maybe a bungee cord from chair to desk to avoid sliding back too far
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The thing I posted is good because even with those wheel cups you can still push the pedal base on the carpet. You need the base locked to the chair in order to prevent both the base and the chair from moving It's probably worth spending the 5 bucks on them anyway to find out before you spend 110 on a solution you don't actually need.
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njsykora posted:I'm just gonna post the legendary rig of Glenn McGee, who won a competition on iRacing and is now a Mazda factory driver. If you're starting out in sim racing please remember that a leopard skin seat is mandatory. You will never be accepted in the sim racing community without one.
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Vando posted:It's probably worth spending the 5 bucks on them anyway to find out before you spend 110 on a solution you don't actually need. Yeah, you can also build one with some 2x4s and screws for a lot less than $110. Eyud fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Vando posted:Good lord you nerds will overthink everything: Right.. you can literally get Wheel Chocks for Eleven dollars. https://amzn.to/3q3FbVy I bought the "bed" ones that werr 13 in a 6 pack, I really only need to use 2-3 at a time. https://amzn.to/2V4h7ne
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tater_salad posted:Right.. you can literally get Wheel Chocks for Eleven dollars. What the gently caress is this coffee table? 
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GutBomb posted:What the gently caress is this coffee table? When you just decide to keep the cart that the delivery people used to drop your furniture off
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