Hi,
The alcantara is really nice. The thickness of the wheel is not really real life (3-4cm), but that's a good thing because you can reach the paddles easier and the fact that you can mount the paddles in 2 position is also a plus. The structure is plenty rigid, with no flex, and being 32cm you have enough leverage to turn the wheel and feel comfortable with the position of your hands.
The rev LED's are nice enough, but you need Fanaled or Sim... something to run them. You need to fiddle with settings, because they don't always match the LEDs in-game.
As not so good things, the buttons are a little disappointing for me, they feel too tooyish, plastiki when you press them. They don't have any click when you press it, it's just press, feel some resistance and they work, but I would have wanted a more pronounced click. That my opinion thou. It's a thing of taste, you might like the way they are pressed. I am the guy who wanted a mechanical keyboard with clicky cherry mx brown. So if you want all your things silent, you will actually be fine.
The rotaries have a nice push, that I would have liked to see to all buttons, but when you rotate them they feel a little imprecise. The feeling is good, but sometimes you don't know if you went 1 or 2 steps. It's always 1 step, that's good, but the feedback receive from feeling the rotary roll gets you the impression that sometimes you went 2 steps.
They rotate 360 with no limitation. Also, it doesn't matter where the starting position is, it's the same button pressed. So it's not a potentimeter rotary, where you rotate more you get more, but every time you rotate to one direction, you get the same button pressed over and over and over again. There are like 12 steps.
Also, I've said that it's sturdy enough, and it is, but sometimes you feel the plastic covers stretch and contort, which is not very pleasant. That's something I've never heard with g29, maybe because the motors where a lot louder. Still, thinking in a turn that the wheel might break it's something you need to adjust you brain to ignore.
One last thing, some buttons in advance mode are duplicates. Don't know why, but the yellow one from the low right is the same with pressing the white controller from top left (where it's written radio).
Overall it's good, but because i don't like the feeling of the buttons, it's partially disappointing to me.
All the thrustmaster wheels have the c same lack of feel on their buttons? And why no reviewer talks about that ...
