Let us customize steering lock

Hi
I think customizable steering lock will help drivers a lot. For example for me the 599 is way too sensitive under the default steering lock and its 720 degrees limit. Setting the lock much lower would be awesome, as I don't even use 50% of it for the tightest hairpins, and just allow me to get the exact sensitivity I want from every car (or change it to always have the same sensitivity from all of them).
Another thing is allowing us to drift every car. This is the only thing holding me from drifting the 458 properly with nice angles for example.
A nice implantation will be if it comes with a customizable steering wheel lock, allowing 900 degrees on cars that don't for example, and letting us see "wheel sensitivity" parameter which will be the steering wheel lock, divided by the steering lock, to let us match the sensitivity of different cars easily.
I know this topic might raise its realism concern - but hey this is just an option you don't have to use, and some will really love this.

 

I am already using custom racks
from 520'-360' (locked virtual wheel of course)

 

I find most of the cars have a nature towards oversteer, we need to be able to change the steering ration in garage. I prefer much more understeer and have dialed as much understeer in as I can, with the wheel settings, but it is still far from perfect. Please give us steering ratio manipulation, the same with brake and throttle gain for each car in garage (where applicable, remember some heavily tune their street cars. So some options need to be opened up across the board), please Dev's.

 

Steering lock is a car specific setup issue, even irl so I see no concerns for realism...

 

+100

 

Well irl every rifle has a different weight and such, yet you want to match your mouse sensitivity between different FPS games so all of them have your favorite sensitivity.

 

why do you want to force a setting which is not available irl? on the 599xx you have very limited setup options, so it could be hardly changed

 

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This was already discussed a long time ago in the early "TP" days.

Kunos already said that "car setup" pages would be refined and tweaked over time.
None of the car setup pages/screens are of an absolute final form yet.

 

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. I'm not against a steering lock in the setup if that is what you were thinking. On the contrary... I use quite different values for steering lock for the same car depending on track and the rest of the setup.

 

My custom steering locks, virtual steering wheel locked, obviously
Only car with realistic steering lock is Formula Abarth

 

Silly me just doing what Aris told us: Set the wheel to 900 degrees and forget it.

 

Just tested 900 in the profiler, 900 in the game, and I get ridiculous deadzone in cars that don't have 900' IRL - Formula Abarth, L49, all the race cars, 458, 458 s3

Steering wheel sill goes full 900' degrees in all the cars

 

Strange, no deadzone here...to each his own just not sure how realistic a street car with 400 degree rotation is (not that that is what you are using Kristaps, just that I have seen people using values like this elsewhere.)

 

How much steering lock you get in cars like Formula Abarth or Ferrari 458 s3? full 900 or less? because non of those cars have 900 IRL

 

The game sets the steering lock for you...you can physically turn the wheel more than the game reads but you can tell it isn't doing anything.

 

This is the deadzone I am talking about, totally f***s up the driving experience, especially If you go sideways, you turn the wheel but nothing happens.

 

If you set 900° in driver and 900° in game you will get the real steering ratio for all cars that have 900° or less irl. Your steering wheel and ingame steering wheel rotate 1:1. As Michael says, turning the wheel more than the real car has will just be ignored by the game.
For cars with more than 900° rotation, e.g. 1080, the 1080 will be compressed to 900°, meaning the wheels don't rotate 1:1.

Kristaps, I don't think the deadzone has something to do with 900°. Are you sure it's a deadzone? Does the ingame steering wheel move when you turn your wheel around the center?

Edit: Btw. I think a custom steering ratio in car setup would be good, especially for users with wheels with lower degrees of rotation. And I think the devs said they are working on it. With my 900° wheel I would like to have a more direct steering ratio for some road cars, especially for drifting.

 

I am speaking about the cars who has less than 900' (tatus, l49, all the race cars, 458, 458s3)
Test your self, get in the game press F5 for better view, and start turning your wheel, and see what happens

 

Works absolutely fine, just tested with 458 S3, no deadzone at all, every movement also moves the wheel.

 

if this is the problem, instead of modifiyng steer lock it would be good to have an effect from ff simulating the limit of the steering degrees.. but i guess a lot depends on the aviable power