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VelociBacon posted:Yeah most of us just got used to it then swapped in some firmer ones later. Congrats! Are you in the bearpope discord yet? I am! I joined a long time ago and get the weekly pings to come racing. The constant reminder plus that iracing deal a few weeks ago finally got me to start practicing and upgrading gear. I'll probably jump into some goon races soon. The Friday races are really early in the day for me so I won't be able to make every week but I'll definitely be on.
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Vando posted:He was outed a year or so ago, messaging with a 14 year old etc. All easily searchable, he's banned from every single league and esports org forever as a result, he did one 'apology' video which he deleted and now tries to pretend it never happened (deletes all comments on videos etc). Do not send him traffic in any way. Huh, I was not aware of that at all. He’s (unfortunately) doing a good job of keeping it under wraps apparently. That explains why he only races people from his discord.
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Took some photos for the Desk Thread and figured I'll show the rig setup in here as well. It's a GT omega Apex stand with the rear seat extension, and a seat I got from amazon which is great but a little more than the GT Omega seats which are now in stock anyways (they weren't when I bought the rear seat extension). I added some height there with wood because I'm 6'2" and had a hard time getting it all to where I wanted geometry wise. I used the shifter platform but mounted on the other side so that I could put velcro on it + my logitech BT keyboard/mouse (where my gloves are). There are standard locking gym mats under the rig to protect my floors and to keep it as quiet as possible (condo in a concrete tower but I don't know how much the sound might go through the floor, or to other rooms). Everything (rig and VR headset) are on smart plugs so I can toggle them on/off without having to unplug anything. I should be using the sabent or w/e goon favorite USB hub with the on/off toggles but I can't bring myself to rebind everything in all my cars on iRacing, since the hub would be a different USB device. The right monitor is on it's own stand so that I can swing it over, it reaches right up to behind the wheel so I can get it as close as possible without my hands hitting it on wheel rotation for games that don't use VR.
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Christ, this is like discovering weed all over again. Bored and two thousand miles from my only friend who drives stick, I thought it'd be fun to buy a G923 and the H-shifter and use BeamNG to learn the principles myself. For fun! Just a little bit, on weekends. Then I realized I owned Dirt Rally 2.0 from an old bundle, and oh drat, it's a lot of fun to slam through the gears and ride the rollercoaster. It's a really fun rush. I really like this high. Then I come into this thread and find out there's fuckin'...vaporizers and giant techno-bongs and hypobaric chambers I can cocoon myself into for thousands of dollars to fully envelop myself in weed-smoke 24/7 like a Spacing Guild navigator. For now I've picked up Assetto Corsa on mega-deal from Humble, and we'll just...see how this all develops. VelociBacon posted:Took some photos for the Desk Thread and figured I'll show the rig setup in here as well. I love your setup but good god does the density of your calendar stress me out. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 17:53 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 17:02
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Squiggle posted:I love your setup but good god does the density of your calendar stress me out. I'll raise you 
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Squiggle posted:Christ, this is like discovering weed all over again. Welcome! You should hop in the discord and be coerced into iRacing because it's the best expression of all of this. I think there's $1/3 month codes around. My calendar yeah, Healthcare informatics is a nightmare.
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If you've never given Raceroom a shot, they're unlocking everything for free for 2 weeks. https://twitter.com/raceroom/status/1527266226409553920
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Squiggle posted:Christ, this is like discovering weed all over again.
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May 19, 2022 19:07
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RaceRoom runs well in VR, has above-average AI, and superb audio design. Definitely a game to try!
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Squiggle posted:Christ, this is like discovering weed all over again. Time to get Content Manager and hundreds of gb of mods!
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Squiggle posted:Christ, this is like discovering weed all over again. All these nerds are playing track racers, multiplayer... having friends. It's time to become the lone motherfuckin' wolf. How about a PS2 game that incites you to spend untold hundreds n hundreds of dollars on a handbrakes, sequentials, big 350mm steering wheels...
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The continued development and expansion of Richard Burns Rally is truly terrifying to behold at times.
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njsykora posted:The continued development and expansion of Richard Burns Rally is truly terrifying to behold at times. i just noticed it got an update after going afk and they finally saved per car specific vr position... good god also i changed my heusinkveld shifter/handbrake usbs to L connectors and while looking at the wires that came with them i noticed they are theyre made by the god drat assmann.com... 
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Assman Goes Green is decent, but it’s far from his best porn, imo.
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VelociBacon posted:Welcome! You should hop in the discord and be coerced into iRacing because it's the best expression of all of this. I think there's $1/3 month codes around. Oh boy, I'll hop in soon but I'm still at the "staying on track in a turn"/"don't just hold down the gas" stage of this whole thing, because other than 4/5ths of the first historical rally in DR2.0 and a couple of laps in AC in a little Abarth 500, all my time has been spent... SwissDonkey posted:Time to get Content Manager and hundreds of gb of mods! ...jacking with AC + CM + CSP + Sol + Reshade + A3PP setup. It looks great, doesn't crash, and I think I've found the sweet spot to keep up with my 144hz ultrawide. Now I'm adding cars and tracks from Race Department, but I know close to jack poo poo about racing so I'm totally depending on reviews and download counts to pick out content. With MS Flight Simulator taking up 200gb of my gaming SSD, I'm going to have to decide between driving and flying aren't I? I got a few nice-looking German tracks and the Hollywood Hills/CA Highway 1 maps, which seem just beautiful. It's wild that there are apparently traffic mods for them, too? And I'm honored by the new title 
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We're running some R3E races in place of the regular iRacing slots this weekend to see if the lure of free poo poo makes people try it, also running practice servers throughout, check discord for info etc
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Squiggle posted:Oh boy, I'll hop in soon but I'm still at the "staying on track in a turn"/"don't just hold down the gas" stage of this whole thing, because other than 4/5ths of the first historical rally in DR2.0 and a couple of laps in AC in a little Abarth 500, all my time has been spent... If you still smoke weed I highly recommend going down the Assetto Corsa drifting rabbit hole. Smoking weed and smoking tires is immensely chill
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SwissDonkey posted:If you still smoke weed I highly recommend going down the Assetto Corsa drifting rabbit hole. Smoking weed and smoking tires is immensely chill 100% agree
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Finally got around to setting up my CSL load cell pedals. I learned a few things right away: - I need to hard mount the pedals and my seat. Not sure how I'm going to do this yet. I use this computer and desk for everything so whatever I do needs to fit underneath and also be movable so I can go back to my normal chair. The desk is very solid and the wheel doesn't cause any issues. - Even assuming I get a solid seat-pedal connection, the brake elastomers are still absurdly stiff. I can put practically my whole bodyweight into it and it only moves ~10-15mm. With the brake force set to even 50% I'd wear out my braking leg in a couple laps. I've read they soften with use but I'm already looking at alternatives.
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:Finally got around to setting up my CSL load cell pedals. Noooo the distance is irrelevant, the pedal measures the force on the pedal, you don't have to push hard to move it 3" because it doesn't move that much, it doesn't need to. Get locking casters for your office chair from Amazon and find something to put behind your pedals and against the wall. Problem solved more or less!
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About a million goons in the discord use the gt-omega apex stand, folds up super easily and does the job for anything short of a bigger DD wheel. e; also yes the pedals are supposed to be stiff, in fact it's recommended that you have them even stiffer once you get used to it. Fellblade fucked around with this message at 07:54 on May 25, 2022 |
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VelociBacon posted:Noooo the distance is irrelevant, the pedal measures the force on the pedal, you don't have to push hard to move it 3" because it doesn't move that much, it doesn't need to. I get that its force based and not travel based, but when there's functionally zero travel it feels completely wrong. Right now I have the pedals against the wall already. Even at 15-20% brake force setting I'm tipping my chair getting to get 100% braking, but at that low force setting I'm literally not moving the pedal at all. I'll get the chair-pedal fixturing down before I do any elastomer swapping but I really doubt I'm going to keep the stock ones. Fellblade posted:About a million goons in the discord use the gt-omega apex stand, folds up super easily and does the job for anything short of a bigger DD wheel. This is the inverse of my problem. The wheel is nicely fixed already but my seat isn't. I'll probably try to build something myself first. I've got a whole woodshop to work with so I'm sure I can come up with something. At one point I had a full seat-pedal-wheel rig I made, but I tore it down awhile back after moving a couple times.
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If you make the load cell pedal softer you are actively making them worse at their primary function, so I would strongly recommend not doing that and exploring all other options. I also use locking casters on my chair.
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VelociBacon posted:Noooo the distance is irrelevant, the pedal measures the force on the pedal, you don't have to push hard to move it 3" because it doesn't move that much, it doesn't need to. I have locking casters and needed to upgrade to a 5below yoga mat to keep myself from sliding on the slick floor
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Mount the pedals to a piece of wood and then find a way to attach that piece of wood to your chair. Maybe a nylon strap or rope or something. A real car might take up to ~70-100 lbs of force to threshold brake so anything you do to try to make the brakes work with less force than that is going to make your pedal feel wrong.
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I finally watched some Youtube videos about braking and turns, settled the gently caress down, picked a car, picked a track (this Biķernieki mod track is very fun), and just started practicing staying on the racing line. I finally feel like I'm at least capable of driving an imaginary car, so...big win. But...Fellblade posted:About a million goons in the discord use the gt-omega apex stand, folds up super easily and does the job for anything short of a bigger DD wheel. Just bought this myself, after realizing over the weekend that the angle of my office chair down to the pedals on the floor is...bad. My legs go numb against the edge of the seat, it puts weird pressure in weird places, especially holding a foot over the clutch/brake. I tucked a rolled up blanket under my legs to raise my knees up and built a wooden box out of scrapwood to lift the pedals off the floor and hold them in place against the wall, and that definitely helped, but I'm already annoyed at attaching/removing the wheel and shifter from the edge of my desk and I like the idea of something I could build up further if I get into it enough to justify it. I think load cell pedals would be the next thing before a proper seat, but either way a solid base to lock those in place is going to come in handy. SwissDonkey posted:If you still smoke weed I highly recommend going down the Assetto Corsa drifting rabbit hole. Smoking weed and smoking tires is immensely chill  yes, I do. This is a good idea. I haven't even LOOKED at how drifting works, but I do look lustily at the Japanese drifting cars. My current stoned driving activity is mostly leisurely laps through wood tracks at sunset. AC with the full suite is pretty.
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May I also suggest LA Canyons for a very chill mod based on the real roads in the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles?
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Fat Alfie's historic road circuits are also great for cruising. https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/authors/fat-alfie.138572/
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Bentai posted:May I also suggest LA Canyons for a very chill mod based on the real roads in the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles? Hell yeah you can, because it rules. The Pacific Highway too, both amazing for cruisin'. There's also a project whose name I can't recall at the moment for highways around Tokyo, and that is some good poo poo at night with some city pop. GhostDog posted:Fat Alfie's historic road circuits are also great for cruising. And these! I love the old cobble and farm look. Some day, I will race in this racing game.
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I must be the only person that doesn't really enjoy the LA Canyons or the shotoku revival project or whatever that's called.
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Nah I'm kinda the same, even if I just want to chill and drive a road car I still want a circuit. That's kinda what I've always liked Black Cat County in AC for, that and the secret UFO skybox.
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Squiggle posted:Hell yeah you can, because it rules. The Pacific Highway too, both amazing for cruisin'. There's also a project whose name I can't recall at the moment for highways around Tokyo, and that is some good poo poo at night with some city pop. Shutoko Revival Project? Hopper fucked around with this message at 19:57 on May 25, 2022 |
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That's the one! I do wish it had some AI, but the sheer scale of it is impressive.
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I spent years of my life obsessed with drifting IRL and I can tell you it's nearly impossible to get the feel for it in AC, for me at least. It all just seems a lot more slippery than it's supposed to be, but when you hop into a public server there's lots of people enjoying it and tandem drifting so clearly it just is gonna take more time. I've gone so far as to grab the exact car I used to use, 'stock', and it just feels like it's got way too much HP. You don't even need to clutch kick or weight transfer or anything to initiate the drift, rolling on the throttle will immediately get the back wheels spinning. I don't know if this is a setting I have wrong but I found it makes it really difficult or impossible to use the throttle to adjust the drift. Anyone else have a good solution to this? I've actually had a lot of fun just in the iRacing mx5 getting some small drifts going, and it feels much more realistic to me in terms of the snappiness of the car. I highly recommend setting up a second wheel profile for this because you're going to want to be able to throw the wheel into opposite lock. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 20:49 on May 25, 2022 |
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I reckon AC drifting must be kinda transferable as a skill if you can get the esports champion to transition into RL this well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-naAfCBNE
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The LA Canyons map with traffic on is the closest thing you can get to a modern version of the original Test Drive on the Commodore 64. That I can do it in an 86 identical to my real one makes it even better, and there's none of the general silliness of the Forza Horizon games. I'm thinking of putting up a server next week, I'll post the details here if anyone wants somewhere to cruise.
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KillHour posted:Mount the pedals to a piece of wood and then find a way to attach that piece of wood to your chair. Maybe a nylon strap or rope or something. A real car might take up to ~70-100 lbs of force to threshold brake so anything you do to try to make the brakes work with less force than that is going to make your pedal feel wrong. Like So 
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Holy poo poo lol but also yes
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That was actually a really good setup, the ergonomics were accidentally perfect. I've since upgraded almost the entire setup minus the pedals to a an extrusion rig with transducers and a direct drive wheel base, but its still not as comfortable as that one was. Edit: There's actually 2 pieces of 3/4 inch plywood screwed together as the base there, because 1 was still flexing an unacceptable amount under heavy breaking, and I was too lazy to build a proper torsion box. Zosologist fucked around with this message at 05:38 on May 26, 2022 |
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