G25

Just got my G25. Wow Love it :D
Brings GT Legends / GTR2 alive. Its taking some getting used to with the fully manual cars. Not quite got the hang of working the clutch whilst breaking and changing down gears at the moment so I'm starting breaking much earlier than I need to.
Using the sequencial box with GTR2 is good fun, and I had a quick go on the F1 mod using the flappy paddle gearbox and was flying around!

Can't believe it took me so long to buy one of these.
 
it truly is a worth while purchase, its build quality and 'feel' is 2nd to none and oooh the smell of that leather !!!
 
Yeah, G25 is well worth every penny, glad I bought mine :)

PinkFloyd, have you tried iRacing, imo it puts GTR2/GT Legends in the shade in a lot of respects :)

I find i'm too lazy to actually use the clutch/gearshift though most of the time, sticking to just paddle shift even in cars that don't have them in real life, did try the skip barber in iRacing last night with a proper h-shift for a laugh, got within a few tenths of my best and it wasn't that bad but wasn't quite as quick as paddle shifts...
 
My G25 is stunning..love it together with GTR2 and my 4870x2 it has revolutionised 1080p gaming on my PC.

Its my 4th wheel in the last 8-9 years and its by far the best!
 
Slowly getting the hang of it. Not as fast as I should be though :(
Racing in a M3 GTR on GTR2 and I am 4 seconds off of the AI cars, I'd be on par with my 360 pad :p As far as I can tell I'm loosing most of the time when breaking, and not carrying the same corner speed, I'm getting quicker each time though.
Don't think I'm doing too bad considering I've only ever used wheels on arcade machines and have never driven in real life :p


I glanced at the iRacing website... Is there not a free trial?
 
PinkFloyd said:
I glanced at the iRacing website... Is there not a free trial?
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No, they think they're too good to give anything away for free. :-)

To be fair to them, they have created the best sim code in the history of mankind... then wrapped a service I dislike intensely around it. Life can be so frustrating at times!

Andrew McP... who, just to stay on topic, would buy a G25 tomorrow if his ageing Logitech red Momo died.
 
No, no free trial, worth a try for a single months subscription imo though

It took me quite a while to get used to a wheel initially, I had got used to playing GPL with a joystick of all things, initially with a wheel I was a bit slower, but after getting used to it I just got quicker and quicker.


<Hijack time...>
Andrew_McP, thought you were enjoying it, what do you dislike about the service?
 
SKILL said:
Andrew_McP, thought you were enjoying it, what do you dislike about the service?
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I have *always* loved the driving experience in the Skip Barber. But the Solstice is an awful advert for the sim IMO, and I nearly gave up on day two. But even having persevered, bought and raced the SB, discovering just how great and satisfying the code is, the rigid restrictions dictating how and when you can race still annoy the ferk out of me. As does the whole 'serious sim for serious people' attitude in the forums, and the marketing led (IMO) week 13 race decisions, trying to sell more product.

I just want to relax and have fun in the best virtual car available to simmers. So open Skip Barber races with no SR to fret about every hour would suit me far better than the current serious, 2-hourly setup. They can't do that though, because it would suck too many drivers (from their limited pool) away from the serous races.

It is a genuine love/hate relationship. Sadly for iRacing's bank balance hate is currently winning. :-)

Andrew McP
 
iRacing isn't sounding particularly appealing here :/

I'll stick with GTR2 until I pick up GTREvo and will go from there. Will give Rfactor a proper go at some point.

I've got to the point when I can drive pretty well in full manual now, downloaded the BMW M3 mod for GTR2, great fun :D
 
The last wheel i had an experience on was a bit pants to be honest, just how real is the experience with pedals, a gearstick and the wheel? I'm interested, but only if its going to be like driving a real car, there was never any feel in the one i have used before
 
Andrew_McP said:
I have *always* loved the driving experience in the Skip Barber. But the Solstice is an awful advert for the sim IMO, and I nearly gave up on day two. But even having persevered, bought and raced the SB, discovering just how great and satisfying the code is, the rigid restrictions dictating how and when you can race still annoy the ferk out of me. As does the whole 'serious sim for serious people' attitude in the forums, and the marketing led (IMO) week 13 race decisions, trying to sell more product.

I just want to relax and have fun in the best virtual car available to simmers. So open Skip Barber races with no SR to fret about every hour would suit me far better than the current serious, 2-hourly setup. They can't do that though, because it would suck too many drivers (from their limited pool) away from the serous races.

It is a genuine love/hate relationship. Sadly for iRacing's bank balance hate is currently winning. :-)

Andrew McP
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Fair enough, I'm not sure on the idea of no-SR though, the I bought and raced the radical in week 13 (yup, sucker for cheap marketing ploys :p) and although it was fun they were all far more like a demolition derby than even the Solstice races can be :p

The forum 'crowd' can be annoying I agree, some nice helpful people on there as well which is nice.

I'm racing the skippy and LM this season (got addicted to ovals somehow ¬_¬) so i've got my races at quarter past every hour, alternating between skippy and LM, works quite well and I do frequently do essentially back to back races (~20-30 minutes freetime between them), can't get enough of it :)

PinkFloyd said:
iRacing isn't sounding particularly appealing here :/

I'll stick with GTR2 until I pick up GTREvo and will go from there. Will give Rfactor a proper go at some point.

I've got to the point when I can drive pretty well in full manual now, downloaded the BMW M3 mod for GTR2, great fun :D
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It's not as bad as it sounds, the initial car, the Pontiac Solstice is hated by many, personally I actually quite liked it, more so around Lime Rock Park than Laguna Seca, but it was fun, if slow, the follow on cars are far quicker.

But, for me at least it's worth every penny, I got hooked on GPL ages ago, played it a lot then slowly stopped, still picked it up every now and again but only ever hotlapping and for less and less time each go. Tried LFS, rFactor, GTR/GTR2, GT Legends nothing could quite grab me, then I tried iRacing, imo it's in that class above LFS et al that previously only GPL had been in for me, add in the SR/iRating system that on the whole works nicely to ensure close, clean, racing and it's (imo) the best sim racing game made, by a long way. Yes it's missing some features, could do with more cars (and more drivers) and yes it's expensive, but even with those it's still awesome and can only get better, can't wait for the next update at the end of January :)
 
SKILL said:
Fair enough, I'm not sure on the idea of no-SR though
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For the main competitive series, SR is excellent. But I hate the idea of screwing up someone else's SR if I make a mistake... mine doesn't bother me (except if it falls too low and stop me driving the car I want). So I want a parallel set of open, no SR servers for low-key racing without all the faff iracing wraps around the core simulation.

I bought and raced the radical in week 13 (yup, sucker for cheap marketing ploys :p) and although it was fun they were all far more like a demolition derby than even the Solstice races can be :p
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That's because nobody can practise *racing* in the things. You can test until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't prepare you for traffic. I'd love to try the radical, but to do that I have to buy it (ok, 'only' $15), and to race it I have to wait for the occasional week13 race, or wait at leats two promotional periods (28 weeks) for the pleasure of being allowed to use the car I bought.

I just object to that as a business model. Let me race it on a 'track day' server where we can have some fun and get used to how they handle in traffic.

Of course the reason they don't do any of this is that there are nowhere near enough racers onboard to survive the drain the low-key servers would put on the main races.

The forum 'crowd' can be annoying I agree, some nice helpful people on there as well which is nice.
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Oh agreed, I wouldn't want to give the impression it's all bad. But there is a very vocal "the problem's you, not iRacing" group who want the service to stay as hardcore as possible to protect them from 'gamers'. I'm happy for them to keep the hardcore, I just want some softcore racing with those superb vehicles. I don't even mind paying the same money!

I'm racing the skippy and LM this season (got addicted to ovals somehow ¬_¬) so i've got my races at quarter past every hour, alternating between skippy and LM, works quite well
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I don't have the skill to handle multiple vehicles. In all the sims I've ever driven I've chosen one car and stuck to it... that way I only have to remember one set of braking points, etc. But I can see that it's not *too* difficult to make iRacing work for you if you;re more flexible than I am.

FWIW I love the big fast ovals, and racing in a pack. It's very exciting. But I hate smaller ovals... the constant left turns make me dizzy, and bored.

Anyway, it's important to say that I really *do* think iRacing is the best sim out there by a mile. I race a Porsche 911 mod for rFactor at the Nordscleife at the moment, but I've yet to find a mod in any sim which matches iRacing for the sense of really controlling a vehicle. That's why I get so frustrated being unable to use the cars & tracks I have in a way I'd like to. It's their way or the highway... and after two months in (with a break in between) I thumbed a lift back off to rFactor & GTL. :->

I will have another month in next year, but I doubt they'll ever change the service enough to encourage me to stay permanently. I'd suggest everyone tries it for a month though... just grit your teeth through a week of driving the Solstice carefully, then you can buy a Skip Barber and drive a proper car. :-)

Andrew McP
 
I will make it simple, the G25 is without question the best driving experience you could get
It mite cost a lot but if you love driving games then there is no better than the G25 and its
So versatile.
My advice is to get one the longer you leave it to the m

cheers
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Andrew_McP said:
That's because nobody can practise *racing* in the things. You can test until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't prepare you for traffic. I'd love to try the radical, but to do that I have to buy it (ok, 'only' $15), and to race it I have to wait for the occasional week13 race, or wait at leats two promotional periods (28 weeks) for the pleasure of being allowed to use the car I bought.
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Just a bump to say that iRacing now has this (the ability to lap in heavy traffic) - they've got open practice sessions so you can now dive into a well populated practice for some hotlapping without that race ending/SR destroying fear.
 
I desperately need something not over £75 to attach the wheel to, I don't use it much currently as it's a pain organising the cables, removing/attaching the damn thing over and over.
Ideally I need a stand to attach it to so I can run an HDMI from my PC to the TV, and basically use it like that, it'll free up my desk then :)

Anyone know of anything decent but not overy expensive?
 
+1 for G25. I have used one for over 8 months now, and it is by far the best commerical wheel below £500 that exists. The motor is resonably small for the FFB and the brake pedal is floppy,....but it can provide good feedback. I mainly use it with rfactor...
 
G25 is awesome. I've used it with Richard Burns Rally and GTR2 now for ages.


****Never ever use automatic gears or automatic anything for that matter. Get used to manual everything and driving sims are miles more rewarding****
 
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