This would allow people to set things up the way that's best for their equipment.
There are just too many different combinations out there to have one arrangement that suits all.
For example, DFPs would prolly be better off using the D pad, while G25s might prefer to use some kind of two button and two paddle combination as there's no D pad on the wheel.
sitting in my buddy's (mildly race preped) 911, wearing a helmet and 5 point harness, i actually start to feel claustrophobic due to the lack of freedom of movement. you have to have your mirrors adjusted perfectly, because you can barely turn your head at all, let alone do a proper shoulder check. and that's *without* a HANS device, which would surely make it 10x as bad.
so as much i expect the 45* look will be difficult to adjust to, i think it's very realistic.
Maybe it's because of the bumps making it look faster, I swear the straight is bumpier (not as bumpier as the pre-S1 one though. The BF1 would probably take off there.).
Very good patch and new car is awesome, but mine opinion is this: Clutch get overheated way too fast. It is impossible to drive over 2 laps without boiling your clutch. Other things are OK and i prefer new blackwood and the other new stuffs, but If I'll a have chance, I may
change clutch into a stronger one. In a race of 5 laps you need to drive without clutch over 3 laps, unless you want to retire. And I've understand that using a clutch is good for the engine so it's cruel to get punished of using it? Hopefully you'll recognize my opinions, even im only a demo driver. And I'm not alone with my feelings, almost everyone have complained about that the ruining your clutch is too easy and fast.
I don't get why you're insisting on using button clutch whilst still demanding other aids to come back. Have you actually tried just racing like you used to, I did and found that over five laps in a pitstop race (so two 6000rpm starts) my CT box had a minute smidgen of orange in it as did most other people on the server. TBH it hasn't actually changed my technique, something I can completely forget about happy to know that I'll no longer be in the minority of insisting on lifting off on gear shifts. For all this talk did you actually even use auto-cut or did you just flat shift everywhere?
The L2/R2 buttons are the ones on the front of the wheel in front of your paddles, easier to reach than the D pad anyway. Having tried it in the road cars the view system atm does seem clumsy and I think there should be an option for the old style single button but an upper limit of something more realistic, maybe 70 degrees for any controller or button combo.
That's just a little hint for a desire to go in the right direction, add a zero to the end of that and then we're talking
You don't need to use the clutch in the FBM. In the XFG and XRG you must lift off the throttle on upshifts, and ideally blip the throttle on downshifts. If you're driving properly you shouldn't have issues with clutch heat.
i was changing some options in the custom view while inside the boxes in the formula bmw, clutch binded to a button (but i wasn't driving!) car was in neutral and it stalled by itself. why?
Actually the way my gears were changed before the patch was less abusive to the mechanics than the way I change them now - although the damage model isn't sophisticated enough to simulate this.
In the end I'm not here to convince everyone that the new sequential-mode for h-shifted cars is big BS. For me - as an avid real life driver & biker - it nevertheless is. It doesn't feel right in the context of the game. Period. No let's :drink:.
I don't at all.
I started with autoclutch as I used to drive like that. YES it works but it doesn't feel right (do I have to repeat it another ten times?). Then I tried manual clutch (button), and I really like the fact that you can stall the engine now and there's no autoclutch below 3k rpm (I hated that - should've been lower / adjustable). But shifting with a manual button-clutch is more like a dexterity (what a great word) exercise than a realistic driving experience so I'm most probably coming back to autoclutch.
You both tell me that you can blip the throttle when shifting down with autoclutch - but I tried and it didn't work, seriously.
And by the way I think I forgot to mention that I love the other features that were ADDED (please note that the field of view is reduced... ).
Could you possibly setup a button so that you can use button clutch but have it "feel" like a real driving experience? For example, back when I had my DFP I was planning to cobble together a button and block of wood where the clutch would normally be. This would be easy to do by cannibalizing a simple USB controller. I was planning to start on this project, but then the G25 came out so I abandoned it. But something similar should be very easy and cheap to put together, and would give the experience of having a clutch pedal without the cost. Then you could drive similar to real life without using your thumb or whatever as a clutch.
@Bandit - getting over the issue of not being able to stall (I would actually like an auto-clutch option that just presses the clutch to change gear and doesn't help you pull away and stop, so you retain total control and know exactly when the clutch will be used) the current auto-clutch on an H-gate works exactly the same as the FBM or MRT in LFS (or any car IRL with a sequential 'box without aids) so it's hardly unrealistic. In fact the road cars in LFS would be far more likely to be found with a sequential conversion than some kind of complicated paddle shift/triptronic system.