Spinelli
I can get a great feeling with properly configured non-realfeel rf1 ffb. I also have to always make sure to include regular RF1 FFB whenever I use realfeel in Game Stock Car, Historx, and pretty much anything built around realfeal. The added regular RF1 FFB, rather than just 100% realfeel, gives me more feel regarding things like, but not limited to, the following:
- small different slip percentages of my front wheels as im turning in applying more lock
- as im holding the car in a steady state of slip mid corner
- under hard threshold braking
- under the "releasing the brake as im asking more and more of my total grip to go into turning rather than braking" phase
These are all EXTREMELY crucial to not only pure laptime but consistency as well. I can feel what the car needs/wants in terms of technique, and possibly setup as well, and what i'm doing wrong, much more clearly and defined with non-realfeel ffb, but it really depends on the settings of all the different lines of the FFB section.
Realfeel does give a more springy, life like, feeling though, it will feel more natural and better to most, it also acts more naturally and fluidly as the wheel loads up and with regards to the rear end sliding around, it's actually bloody beautiful in the rear end sliding, not only with small slides, but big drifts as well.
Once I got used to the original non-realfeel FFB and learned how to take advantage of all the extra info from it, especially when configured to my liking, I found I could never get those last few tenths without it. The 100% realfeel/0% regular RF1 FFB just doesnt give me all the tiny dynamics that are so crucial to racing these cars (in reallife or sims) on the limit without going over, let alone doing it lap after lap. The regular style FFB also makes it more obvious what the car needs from me as you can set it up to be less subtle just like you would get from g-forces, inner ear balance and chassis/"seat of the pants" feelings in real life.
You have to have the FFB setup properly though and get used to the fact that the wheel's feel of pure naturalism is going to be compromised in order to output much more information about the car, much more details, but again, at the loss of a nice, natural, realistic feeling (this loss can be minimized though depending on your settings). Then when, OR IF, you can get used to the FFB and learn to drive and read/accept the wheel as a tool to transmit information about the car to you, rather than just a replication of a real life steering wheel, then you may understand the power it is capable of. But if you don't try to configure and get used to the language the wheel speaks to you in this FFB, then you may never grasp, and therefore use, the true power of this FFB philosophy.
- small different slip percentages of my front wheels as im turning in applying more lock
- as im holding the car in a steady state of slip mid corner
- under hard threshold braking
- under the "releasing the brake as im asking more and more of my total grip to go into turning rather than braking" phase
These are all EXTREMELY crucial to not only pure laptime but consistency as well. I can feel what the car needs/wants in terms of technique, and possibly setup as well, and what i'm doing wrong, much more clearly and defined with non-realfeel ffb, but it really depends on the settings of all the different lines of the FFB section.
Realfeel does give a more springy, life like, feeling though, it will feel more natural and better to most, it also acts more naturally and fluidly as the wheel loads up and with regards to the rear end sliding around, it's actually bloody beautiful in the rear end sliding, not only with small slides, but big drifts as well.
Once I got used to the original non-realfeel FFB and learned how to take advantage of all the extra info from it, especially when configured to my liking, I found I could never get those last few tenths without it. The 100% realfeel/0% regular RF1 FFB just doesnt give me all the tiny dynamics that are so crucial to racing these cars (in reallife or sims) on the limit without going over, let alone doing it lap after lap. The regular style FFB also makes it more obvious what the car needs from me as you can set it up to be less subtle just like you would get from g-forces, inner ear balance and chassis/"seat of the pants" feelings in real life.
You have to have the FFB setup properly though and get used to the fact that the wheel's feel of pure naturalism is going to be compromised in order to output much more information about the car, much more details, but again, at the loss of a nice, natural, realistic feeling (this loss can be minimized though depending on your settings). Then when, OR IF, you can get used to the FFB and learn to drive and read/accept the wheel as a tool to transmit information about the car to you, rather than just a replication of a real life steering wheel, then you may understand the power it is capable of. But if you don't try to configure and get used to the language the wheel speaks to you in this FFB, then you may never grasp, and therefore use, the true power of this FFB philosophy.
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