Thrustmaster T500 RS wheel
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Good news is I just managed to get one of these as I have always fancied one but been scared by the price - Amazon lightning deals came good though but before I was able to research it properly. How good are they and have I invested wisely?!
Bad news is on telling/confessing to my wife how pleased I was to have snapped one up and what a bargain it was, she confessed to having watched it all day on Amazon too and had bought one too for my Christmas present. D'oh! Talk about mixed emotions!
Bad news is on telling/confessing to my wife how pleased I was to have snapped one up and what a bargain it was, she confessed to having watched it all day on Amazon too and had bought one too for my Christmas present. D'oh! Talk about mixed emotions!
zebedee said:
Good news is I just managed to get one of these as I have always fancied one but been scared by the price - Amazon lightning deals came good though but before I was able to research it properly. How good are they and have I invested wisely?!
Bad news is on telling/confessing to my wife how pleased I was to have snapped one up and what a bargain it was, she confessed to having watched it all day on Amazon too and had bought one too for my Christmas present. D'oh! Talk about mixed emotions!
I guess you have to hope its good enough for 2 people to play head to head now, lol.Bad news is on telling/confessing to my wife how pleased I was to have snapped one up and what a bargain it was, she confessed to having watched it all day on Amazon too and had bought one too for my Christmas present. D'oh! Talk about mixed emotions!
marctwo said:
zebedee said:
read some excellent reviews of it since so seems that way, will have to put one away until my 5 year old gets a bit older, either that or flog it I suppose!
My 3.5 year olds use my Driving Force GT without any issues. I have to operate the pedals for them though.
.Blimey it is taking a while to re-learn how to drive properly with this wheel! Lots of spinning and I am struggling to catch slides. I guess it is all about driving realistically and smoothly, to some extent driving fast with the joy pad relies on very sharp and sudden inputs and corrections, but you can't make corrections from left to right that fast. I have had to increase steering sensitivity though to give me half a chance of catching slides, but do people generally reduce this again as they get used to it or is quick steering generally a good thing? I also struggle with finding reverse, especially when dark so overall I think I am slower at the moment but enjoying the sensation a lot more. Any other tips for driving quickly with this set up as opposed to a controller? I had to take the 'realistic' brake mod out, it just made it impossible for me to get full brake and had no feel to it either (I don't have a gaming pod so they sit on the floor) and the pedal is stiff enough without it I reckon.
zebedee said:
Blimey it is taking a while to re-learn how to drive properly with this wheel! Lots of spinning and I am struggling to catch slides. I guess it is all about driving realistically and smoothly, to some extent driving fast with the joy pad relies on very sharp and sudden inputs and corrections, but you can't make corrections from left to right that fast. I have had to increase steering sensitivity though to give me half a chance of catching slides, but do people generally reduce this again as they get used to it or is quick steering generally a good thing? I also struggle with finding reverse, especially when dark so overall I think I am slower at the moment but enjoying the sensation a lot more. Any other tips for driving quickly with this set up as opposed to a controller? I had to take the 'realistic' brake mod out, it just made it impossible for me to get full brake and had no feel to it either (I don't have a gaming pod so they sit on the floor) and the pedal is stiff enough without it I reckon.
Smooth inputs!
Probably depends what game you're playing but generally speaking, not much real-life racing requires the kind of large steering inputs you can use with a controller (unless you get it wrong), except perhaps drifting. Just as in real life, going fast is about controlling the weight of the car - having the distribution of weight where you need it for maximum grip. IME a wheel (and even pedals) lets you do that easier as you have more precise control, but you lose the superhuman ability to go from lock to lock in an instant so you have to drive with more care and not go so far over the limit in the first place.tim-b said:
Smooth inputs! Probably depends what game you're playing but generally speaking, not much real-life racing requires the kind of large steering inputs you can use with a controller (unless you get it wrong), except perhaps drifting. Just as in real life, going fast is about controlling the weight of the car - having the distribution of weight where you need it for maximum grip. IME a wheel (and even pedals) lets you do that easier as you have more precise control, but you lose the superhuman ability to go from lock to lock in an instant so you have to drive with more care and not go so far over the limit in the first place.
cheers, GT5, I thought as much, in a way it makes you feel that you are going slower so you then try to overdrive. Was it Jackie Stewart that said if you are going fast it shouldn't feel like it? Probably depends what game you're playing but generally speaking, not much real-life racing requires the kind of large steering inputs you can use with a controller (unless you get it wrong), except perhaps drifting. Just as in real life, going fast is about controlling the weight of the car - having the distribution of weight where you need it for maximum grip. IME a wheel (and even pedals) lets you do that easier as you have more precise control, but you lose the superhuman ability to go from lock to lock in an instant so you have to drive with more care and not go so far over the limit in the first place.Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff