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[Bram Hengeveld]

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[Simon Trendell]

Since Brands Hatch is being released, how many people have the Jetta & will be getting Brands Hatch?
I'm planning on running one anyway if no one else does, we could make it an RD event if enough people have the combo & have interest.

 

[Ingemar Petersson]

It´s there ready for us all

 

[Stuart Thomson]

I watched some races at Brands Hatch (BTCC) on the tele last week and one thing I noticed was that a lot of cars were going wide onto the grass at high speed and then driving back onto the track to continue racing.

Grant, if you mean the stuff on the outside of Paddock Hill Bend, it's green concrete, not grass, so you should be OK :good:

You can see it in screenshots 1+4 above.

 

[James Yates]

I have a 4 hour long Brands Hatch practice up in the Jetta, come join

 

[Connor Caple]

I have never really got into iRacing.

The British tracks make it seem more interesting, but the force feedback is pretty pants. Other games have much better FF configuration options rather than 1 slider and the car handling feels 'wrong' in the newbie cars.

It doesn't feel like you get enough feedback on what the car is doing, other than the overdone tyre squealing noises and the grip (or lack of it) can be laughable at times.

I had hoped to find iRacing to be a great racing sim that would let me drive daily for the rest of my life and have fun races as I moved up the ladders, but it just feels flat and uninteresting.

I never even joined one race during my month there as nothing about the handling made me feel like it remotely resembled a real race car as they claim.

 

[James Yates]

Sounds like you didn't have it set up right. The FFB is just about the best in any sim (netKar Pro is a tiny bit better imo) and you get great feel in all the cars. I take it you drove the Solstice? That has power steering which is why it feels so light and vague. Also the reason why it felt wrong was because you've played other sims which are actually wrong - its the other way around to what you think. The reason the FFB only has 1 slider is because the FFB is done using algorithms and is direct off the steering rack to try to resemble the real feel of the cars. The iRacing FFB is the force on the steering rack whereas in ISI games its done on the tyre grip which is less realistic. That's why they give you so many options as you can add lots of extra effects in which the game generates unrealistically. In iRacing any other effect you feel is because its moving the suspension/steering on the car so you feel it through the wheel - when you run over a curb you feel the curb texture through the wheel. ISI games have a predetermined effect that it plays over the top of the actual FFB.

You should grab another free month/resub and race with a few of us, it will be much more interesting

 

[Kevin Ascher]

I have never really got into iRacing.

The British tracks make it seem more interesting, but the force feedback is pretty pants. Other games have much better FF configuration options rather than 1 slider and the car handling feels 'wrong' in the newbie cars.

It doesn't feel like you get enough feedback on what the car is doing, other than the overdone tyre squealing noises and the grip (or lack of it) can be laughable at times.

I had hoped to find iRacing to be a great racing sim that would let me drive daily for the rest of my life and have fun races as I moved up the ladders, but it just feels flat and uninteresting.

I never even joined one race during my month there as nothing about the handling made me feel like it remotely resembled a real race car as they claim.

I hardly believe you are serious.

 

[Ron Attwood]

Connor, you've commited the cardinal sin of criticising iRacing. You can say what you said about any other sim but say it about iRacing and it's because you set it up wrong. As it happens, I agree with you and I speak as someone who has purchased everything!
They market it as a drivers training tool. Nonsense, it's a sim like any other. The thing that cannot be denied however is the quality of the tracks. The rest you can keep.
Anyone want to buy full content? Vast majority of the tracks haven't even been raced on.

 

[Kimmo Tuisku]

When they release Brands Hatch i will get the track right away.
The jetta i already have,but i have not seriously driven it in a race
so i'm in if the time suits.

Regards
Kimmo Tuisku

 

[James Yates]

When they release Brands Hatch i will get the track right away.
The jetta i already have,but i have not seriously driven it in a race
so i'm in if the time suits.

Regards
Kimmo Tuisku

Brands is out, I've got a hosted session up if anyone wants to join.

 

[Kevin Ascher]

Sorry to say,
but why the heck do you buy full content for something you don't like?
You could of realized how cruel and bad iRacing is by just testing it for one month, right?

The reason why he doesn't get a right feeling simply IS that he didn't set it up properly or that he doesn't have a decent wheel.

 

[James Yates]

Sorry to say,
but why the heck do you buy full content for something you don't like?
You could of realized how cruel and bad iRacing is by just testing it for one month, right?

The reason why he doesn't get a right feeling simply IS that he didn't set it up properly or that he doesn't have a decent wheel.

He's got a G25 which is perfectly fine for iRacing. Most people don't have their wheels setup properly so I'm assuming he might not either - or didn't when he tried iRacing.

 

[Kevin Ascher]

He's got a G25 which is perfectly fine for iRacing. Most people don't have their wheels setup properly so I'm assuming he might not either - or didn't when he tried iRacing.

Got a G25 and a GT3 RS myself and have to say the G25 really does to job for iRacing very well.
I even use the G25 instead of the FANATEC for the Mazda.

 

[Kimmo Tuisku]

I find no reason to by full content. I have just bought
the tracks that the series i have run. I totally disagree
regarding the ff feedback, i think it's the best. But i spent 1 day
to configure the wheel (g25) to get it as i want. Now it is perfect
i just change the ff setting between 5-11 depending the car i
race with. The first days i drove solstice i did not really enjoy this game.
But when i reached 3.00 sr and could race with spec racer i got hooked.
And after that i think it just gets better and better. Skip barber series
wich i drove last season was really fun and now i'm racing Lotus series
wich is just as great. But all people have different taste and expectation.


Regards
Kimmo Tuisku

 

[Ron Attwood]

Sorry to say,
but why the heck do you buy full content for something you don't like?
You could of realized how cruel and bad iRacing is by just testing it for one month, right?

I ask myself that too. I can only say I was impressed by the look of it, was sucked in by the hype and before I knew it, I'd bought the lot. Then I woke up. I've uninstalled it several times, it's sitting on my HD at the moment, up to date and ready to go. I tell myself I can't possible dislike it as much as I think. I have another go and it comes flooding back. The nags, "x1 for going off" x2 for this and x1 for that" (I can hear you now, "Don't go off then")The limited track choice etc. etc.
I realise that iRacing doesn't suit me and I'll accept that.

 

[Kimmo Tuisku]

Ohh my holy mother im busy for att least 1 hour or 1 1/2 .
i check later if there is still hosted session going on.
I really looking forward to test the new track



Regards
Kimmo Tuisku

 

[Grant Osborne]

Grant, if you mean the stuff on the outside of Paddock Hill Bend, it's green concrete, not grass, so you should be OK :good:

You can see it in screenshots 1+4 above.

Oh, OK, sorry I thought it was grass, that would explain it then as the cars looked to be running well and truly flat out on what I thought to be grass :shame:

I had just set up my new tele and caught the race on our 1HD channel, couldn't believe my luck to catch the race. Actually since I got this tele I've been able to get HD channels that I never could before so I'm often seeing races from everywhere now, BTCC, NASCAR, and also saw an ROC race the other night where Schumacher won. And of course it was great watching the Sydney Telstra 500 V8 Super-car race the other weekend. :aus:

Cheers,

Grant.

 

[Simon Trendell]

 

[Sander Hogendoorn]

Radical @ Brands = :drool:

 

[Ben Tusting]

:no: