Sim racing

That’s the dream setup!

I tried dirt rally on the PS4 vr and had to stop. I felt ill the rest of the day.

My experience has been better since then with vr on a pc, but I’m too scared to try another driving game. Maybe something slower like one of the truck simulators would be a good place to start though.

Jump in the street stock car, it's a good laugh and shorter courses are strange, wait for the legacy daytona oval to appear.

Decks

The Alcantara rim is fucking sex like you said. Feels great. I'm currently having a blast doing Nord in the Porsche 911 GT.

Had a quick go at the AMS2 update last night. The Champ cars are bloody good fun.

Also had a quick Vee race on iracing, span on lap 1 then got excited about a potential come back because crew chief said I'd set the fastest lap and I kept beating it.

Gradually realised that I was not catching anyone other than the tail end car ahead. Post race confirmed I was in fact about 0.5s a lap off the pace the whole time. Either a bug or Crew Chief is now able to sense my frustration and feeds me soothing lies like Rob Smedley used to do for Massa.

I know he normally says YOUR but I swear he said THE. I'm almost certainly mistaken.

I'm running the free version of Racelabs. Can't remember if you have to pay for extra lap data, if not I'll add it to my layout.

Maybe I'll just tweak the settings so that Crew Chief always tells me I'm the fastest (and most handsome). The ego boost was nice. Got to be worth a tenth alone.

Finally got round to playing GT Sport last night. It's pretty sweet with the wheel, but my god, can you not turn off the red gear number that tells you what you should be in for the next corner? It's annoying as shit.

You get a couple of those moments, as you get more used to it and changing cars. I been running Hungaroring with the skippy this evening and it finally clicked for me, new track and not run it yet, been about 2 hours in all trying to learn it.

Giving this week a miss in Skips, have not got Hungaoring and not particularly inclined to buy it.

Trying to get into the Top 10 in the league for Div3 was on the first page last I checked but only run 6 races due to health issues so it looks like it will all depend on Nurburgring races coming up.

Skippies round the full ring, madness

I read through all this thread at 4am this morning. Think I talked myself into getting a wheel set up in a few months time. Mentioned in another thread it is something I wanted to do. Guess it gives me a chance to properly research what I need but quite like the jist of addyb’s set up and something I will probably copy. Only PlayStation racing at the moment but .. fuck I’m going to eventually have the full PC rig aren’t I?

Yeah Im really happy with my setup. I just thought. I have a quest 2. Can I use that for VR with AC or any others?

Predictably, after the win, I received a good old fashioned Iracing rape in the USF2000.
Qualified midpack, then on the parade lap an idiot weaving 'to warm their tyres' lost control and went off and caused everyone to suddenly concertina behind. I foresaw this happening and managed to stop in time but the guy behind me didn't and removed my rear wing before the race had even started.

Then was on a recovery drive and a guy a further lap down span right across the track in front of me in trying to let me buy. Then my monitors randomly went black for a second, and I lost control.

10x incident points and a broken car 2s a lap off the pace without actually making a mistake. Bastards.

Looking at wheels…well it’s a bit of a minefield isn’t it? So many compromises or reasons to have one over the other.

Logitech G29. Solid and good durability. Not great brake pedals and I don’t think you can generally upgrade it for PS4/5. Has gear inners. Going fairly cheap though at £260. Can even order it at Argos and try and smuggle it in the house without eyes accusing me of things. For a few days at least. Could probably justify getting it now.

G2923. Slightly better brakes and trueforce (marketing jazz?) But a good £100 quid more

Thrustmaster 248. Same ballpark as g29, but opens up the option of upgrade path but those gear paddles are ducking loud and really puts me off even considering it.

T300. Belt driven. In stock on Amazon with payments over 12 months. Shit peddles and seems unreliable. (though that could be internet being vocal but it is one thing that keeps coming up, although seems ok if you don’t max out FFB) Opens up upgrade paths. Could justify getting it now.

T300 RS models. Out of stock everywhere. Well thought off and seems to be the darling choice. Opens up upgrade path etc.


DD. Expensive and fanatec are shipping from USA which is a ballache. So a no go really.

Kinda caught between of going Logitech and if I really get into - upgrade to DD in a couple years time or just going mid range enjoy it until it breaks.

Or I could stick with the pad and try and get the urge for a wheel out of my system.