I use a G920 and it takes some getting used to, but once you get a feel for it, it’s pretty fun. I find it helps a lot to drop the steering outer deadzone to ~60% so you have about 540 degrees of steering rotation rather than the full 900 which makes countersteering harder than it needs to be. I actually just use normal steering assist also rather than simulation steering so that may just be down to preference.
Road racing is the easiest to learn, Dirt racing can be tricky but once you get a feel for effectively countering slides it becomes incredibly fun. Cross-country is possible with a wheel but you’ll want to be in third person so you aren’t driving blind whenever you hit a jump. If the Trial is a cross-country event I’ll always use a gamepad just out of respect for everyone else since I know using a wheel isn’t optimal.
They’re not impossible, but you are limited to a very small number of cars that will work well with a wheel, and you need them tuned for a wheel. It’s a big disadvantage for competitive racing as some of the fastest cars are pretty unusable with a wheel.
Cross Country and Dirt Racing with a wheel is crazy fun, but only if you remember that cars designed for going offroad…quickly…are going to be specifically built with super tight steering ratios, not the lazy 900+ degree steering that works fine for street and road cars. This is one of those areas where in order to thrive offroad, you want to go into your wheel settings and make one of the available defaults a custom offroad profile that lowers your steering ratio to something like 500 degrees versus the 900 or 1080 its probably defaulted to.
Got my wheel, been trying it out, getting slightly used to it. It needs adjusting quite a lot with FH4. The force feedback prevents you from turning from a skid to correct it, that seems a bit wrong.
I’d recommend turning down the force feedback, especially if you’re new to wheels. Also keep in mind that counter-steering is sort of auto-magic on a controller, whereas it’s FAR more difficult on a wheel. You have far better throttle control though, which can help a lot.
I liked using my wheel, in spite of how much worse I was on it than controller (I’ll always favour immersion over performance), but I had to stop. Without a full cockpit setup, the wheel was just hurting my back, which already has enough issues. In fact driving might have been what caused my back problems in the first place. So I had to ditch it to go back to a controller. Makes me sad.
I’ve tried going manual with clutch on a controller, but it’s just too clumsy and unwieldy. I just wanna be able to clutch kick . Other than that I’m pretty satisfied with my controller setup.
Plus on a controller you can use reverse, and forwards gears at the same time which also gets you out of a lot of trouble. Like 180 deg, and 360 deg spin is easy with a controller, I don’t know how to do it with a wheel.
Damn programmers, the wheel setting alter you controller settings… that is bad programming. They could have used two separate variables. Went to play with the controller, and I couldn’t steer, lost the trial which is only the second one I have ever lost.
How you getting on with it Aqua? I got myself a g920 about a year ago after years of wanting a wheel setup. I was super excited to try it out in FH4 but after a couple of days went back to controller I was that bad at it. I looked at all sorts of guides but couldn’t get anything to feel right. F1 2019 was brilliant right out the box. Sadly the wheel and stand has been tucked away in a cupboard for months.
If you spend a lot of time altering the wheel settings it gets better, I tried to do the season with the wheel but failed. But now I am bothered that altering the wheel alters the controller, and that’s put me off messing about too much.
I’m using a g923 and it took some practice to get used to the change from controller but once I had like an hour into the game I found I was significantly better at cornering without hitting anything or spinning out.
The more time I put in with the wheel the better I got. Now I have no problem absolutely decimating the ai with no assists. On controller I’d usually use traction control.
One thing I did find was my tunes had to change slightly. Despite my rankings (for tunes) I’m quite a good tuner but I keep most of them to myself. I found small tire pressure and suspension adjustments were needed after switching to a wheel
. Other than that I’m pretty satisfied with my controller setup.