hey guys i have just bought s2 and i am wondering what to do you see just because i have the money doesn't mean i have the skill can anyone recommend a good steering wheel that is cheap cus i keep losing in s2 races with the keyboard
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- hughesie89
just bought lfs.....now what
G25 or DFP for a wheel. Check out the aussie league and arse forum for more info. http://www.australasianleague.com
dude... you're just going to lose in s2 races period. You need to take the lfs career mode, realise you're crap... get better beating your pb's get nearer the mid pack, learn to overtake and be over taken. learn to get faster then these peeps, then join a league to get some real compution (im at the second stage, beating my PB's)
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...what career mode....?
dont listen to him hes drunk
all you have to do is just find some servers, race around and pick some you enjoy, then slowly get used to each of the tracks and then learn them
you definately need a wheel though! keyboard isn't gonna cut it if you want to get serious
dont listen to him hes drunk
all you have to do is just find some servers, race around and pick some you enjoy, then slowly get used to each of the tracks and then learn them
you definately need a wheel though! keyboard isn't gonna cut it if you want to get serious
And do not never give up if your style is side wayz, because drifting is hard 
uh.. did you purposely put a double negative in there "not never"? lol
just practice.. theres no 'real' way of learning the ways of LFS, just get in any car (and i mean any) and just .. go find a track you want to learn and just tear it up
"Sideways". It's one word, and ends with an S, not a Z.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the last time you saw it written was in the 1980s, when the letter Z was sometimes substituted for the letter S by complete cretins, to make the words they were using uglier and more stupid-looking.
I think that you could pull a Kev and go for a WR. Do some of the STCC licence driving, or just find a server that you enjoy the people occupying it (dSRC?) and just have fun.
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Just pick a car and track that has players online, do some practise laps offline to learn the track and try to get within... say... 5 seconds of the world record on that track. After that put some Ai drivers and drive against them. The Ai drivers are complete a**holes (
) but the thing you can learn with driving against the Ais is to avoid collisions and learn to overtake cleanly. Never hit anyone, especially from behind and be prepared that the other drivers may brake early and can drive a bit carelessly. A good car to start with the FXR. It is fast, fairly easy to drive and has lots of grip. Just have fun and don't spoil the fun for others and you will enjoy the experience. Welcome to LFS
what about a good steering wheel
and has anyone tried the wireless xbox 360 one
i am looking for one that works with both
and has anyone tried the wireless xbox 360 one
i am looking for one that works with both
Logitech make the excellent G25 in my totally biased opinion.
A wheel that works with "both", being the PC and the Xbox 360? Sorry. No such animal exists.
works with both? that wheel is your best bet, but far from good
I've had S2 for about a month and am very quickly realising that pretty much everyone online is incredibly good at this game. Be prepared to lose *a lot*. Don't let it dishearten you however, as the feeling you get when you start finishing in the top half of the pack is brilliant. The main thing to get over is the difference between online play and single-player driving games, which are usually made deliberately easy to cope with the short attention-span of the mainstream audience.
My suggestion is to pick a track, pick a (low powered) car and practice as much as you can, then when you have mastered that, change track. The LFS desktop ( http://www.lfsworld.net ) is a weatlth of useful information, particularly the Hot-lap section. Here you can download replays of the world record laps so you can study the lines and braking points to see how best to drive.
The STCC servers are also a good place to start learning how to drive in a pack, as they are tiered, generally keeping you with drivers of a similar skill - you have to earn points to be allowed access to the servers running the faster cars.
Also, the Caribbean Cruise servers are a good start as the emphasis is on simply driving about rather than balls-out racing. This allows you to have fun, enjoy the occasional spur-of-the-moment race and generally get to know the cars and one of the most used tracks in the game in an environment where you don't always have to be pushing each car to its limits.
As for wheels, I recommend the Logitech Driving Force Pro ( have one and its brilliant). It has 900 degrees of movement compared to 360 degrees of most wheels, seperate axis for the brake and accelerator and both a paddle and sequential stick gearshift. Its RRP is £99.99 (around AU$250) but if you shop around you can get one for under £70 (AU$175). Its intended for the Playstation 2, but as its USB, works perfectly on the PC, using the drivers for the Logitech MOMO wheel, which you can get from their website.
If money is no object, you can go up to the Logitech G25, which has a proper clutch and 'H' style gearshift but at £200 RRP (nearly AU$500!) its a bit dear for most people.
My suggestion is to pick a track, pick a (low powered) car and practice as much as you can, then when you have mastered that, change track. The LFS desktop ( http://www.lfsworld.net ) is a weatlth of useful information, particularly the Hot-lap section. Here you can download replays of the world record laps so you can study the lines and braking points to see how best to drive.
The STCC servers are also a good place to start learning how to drive in a pack, as they are tiered, generally keeping you with drivers of a similar skill - you have to earn points to be allowed access to the servers running the faster cars.
Also, the Caribbean Cruise servers are a good start as the emphasis is on simply driving about rather than balls-out racing. This allows you to have fun, enjoy the occasional spur-of-the-moment race and generally get to know the cars and one of the most used tracks in the game in an environment where you don't always have to be pushing each car to its limits.
As for wheels, I recommend the Logitech Driving Force Pro ( have one and its brilliant). It has 900 degrees of movement compared to 360 degrees of most wheels, seperate axis for the brake and accelerator and both a paddle and sequential stick gearshift. Its RRP is £99.99 (around AU$250) but if you shop around you can get one for under £70 (AU$175). Its intended for the Playstation 2, but as its USB, works perfectly on the PC, using the drivers for the Logitech MOMO wheel, which you can get from their website.
If money is no object, you can go up to the Logitech G25, which has a proper clutch and 'H' style gearshift but at £200 RRP (nearly AU$500!) its a bit dear for most people.
erm, the DFP (and Momo) are both £50, and a LOT of LFS'ers (inc me, only mines dead) use the G25 which costs £140 (+ Postage)
:wtf2: OK... I don't know why I thought they were that price....:chairs:
I think I may have been looking at a price list that was a year or so old...
I still think £140 is a bit steep for a wheel unless you start to take LFS very, very seriously.
Given that you get a set of three pedals, a high-quality FFB wheel and a H-pattern shifter it's actually pretty good value. Or it is if you get one that doesn't break in 3 months which a lot of them appear to do.
i have spent £70 on a Momo (loooooong while ago), and then £60 on a set of new high quality pedals, and after buying my G25 i absolutely love(d) it, it feels like its worth more like £500!
I miss it
mine went for 2 months!
Oh gawd, mines getting on 2 months old now
*touch wood*First thing i did when i got s2 was go and race the fox at westhill, not the best idea though lol. After that i raced round blackwood to find a car i liked (FXR) and learnt it round blackwood. Then switched to FXR other tracks, learnt other tracks. Got bored of the FXR and learnt other cars at the tracks i knew. Eventually you find you know all the tracks - not in all cars but you know the track well enough to not crash ont he first lap in a new car.
xbox wheels dont have ffb so dont buy one
I guess you've not seen the prices of the BRD wheels
Keiran
Heh.. I'm sure there are people who could have bought a real racing car with the amount they have spend on their sim setup
the rather snazzy rotating cockpit which is a complete setup will put you back $38,000, makes the G25 seem cheap in comparison
LFS, serious business
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