Post by Jezza819 on Mar 11, 2016 17:40:20 GMT
I've covered the whole spectrum from low DOR to high DOR, normal steering vs. sim steering, high FFB to low FFB, Thrustmaster vs. Fanatec, and I'm not happy with any of it. It's the same old thing that bites me every time and it's that sharp falloff into the dead area at the extreme left and right side of the steering range then you move the wheel back into effective steering, the wheel over compensates because it slightly delays your input, and if it doesn't spin you out it very nearly does.
The whole steering model is so spongey and sloppy feeling that I can never feel confident that the wheel is actually going to come close to doing what I'm asking it to. It's like your steering a car with rubber bands instead of a steering wheel. Even on a slower corner I know where I should apex that corner at but when you approach it and turn the wheel, it just pushes too wide. So I over compensate and try to take more curb to allow for the push but this time it actually bites and now because I've taken too much curb it spins out. That's what I'm talking about. It's totally unpredictable and unreliable.
If I were clever enough to be able to make a pie chart representing where I feel like I'm getting actual steering with green representing positive and red nothing at all, there would a slice of red at dead center extending 2 to 3 inches either side of 12:00 some green from about 11:00 to 9:00 on the left and from 1:00 to 3:00 on the right and then a WHOLE LOT OF RED the rest of the way around. And that's using a DOR of about 720. Those green areas shrink up dramatically the lower DOR goes.
The whole steering model is so spongey and sloppy feeling that I can never feel confident that the wheel is actually going to come close to doing what I'm asking it to. It's like your steering a car with rubber bands instead of a steering wheel. Even on a slower corner I know where I should apex that corner at but when you approach it and turn the wheel, it just pushes too wide. So I over compensate and try to take more curb to allow for the push but this time it actually bites and now because I've taken too much curb it spins out. That's what I'm talking about. It's totally unpredictable and unreliable.
If I were clever enough to be able to make a pie chart representing where I feel like I'm getting actual steering with green representing positive and red nothing at all, there would a slice of red at dead center extending 2 to 3 inches either side of 12:00 some green from about 11:00 to 9:00 on the left and from 1:00 to 3:00 on the right and then a WHOLE LOT OF RED the rest of the way around. And that's using a DOR of about 720. Those green areas shrink up dramatically the lower DOR goes.