Generic [Off-Topic] Dirt Rally wheel settings? Anyone?

SLRE isn't too bad these days (apparently they had to do a lot of updates), but if I had to choose between it and Dirt Rally, It would be Dirt rally all the way. I am a big rally fan, so of course I wanted both games. SLRE has a lot more simplified graphics and the stages are a lot less bumpy. They are supposed to be recreations of real stages based on GPS, so they are still pretty narrow.

The physics are a little different on SLRE though, but they feel really great on asphalt, just average on other surfaces (a lot of understeer). Starting the career with a FWD car is tough because that handbrake button is never where I need it going into hairpins. I actually ended up using a trick mentioned for Dirt rally and bumped the brake bias to the rear (later found out it was pretty common to do this IRL in the old days of rally).With a good rear bias on the brakes, you can left-foot brake to set the angle of the car. The other thing that helped a lot was watching videos from the Team O'Neil Rally School:


That video really helped me understand that left foot braking in rally often happens when you still have the accelerator floored. Took that into SLRE and took on some narrow asphalt stages... Quite intense when you really get the speed up and are trying to swing the car around from corner to corner using a realistic DOR (lots of turning on the wheel).

After learning this and some seat time in SLRE, Dirt rally was a lot easier (but felt like I was going really slow when I did get a few smooth sections in)

 

I knocked up a handbrake to my R3 button out of some stuff I found in my garage for dirt rally. Shame I can't map buttons in AC?


T300rs, t3pa with Bodin load cell brake conversion, t8ha, ps vr

 

My TMX only has a Mode button and the Xbox button on the face, so I would have to do a mod that pushes a button wired to the A or B button (Dirt Rally and SRLE are different....). I imagine, I will eventually get a TH8A shifter and do the 4th gear handbrake trick on the Xbox: still have to deal with paddle shifters though (I'd rather have sequential/H-pattern + handbrake.

At the end of that day, I'm glad I'm having to actually learn techniques used in the classic rally cars where handbrake wasn't always used. (Group B cars didn't use them IRL) and weight transfer is generally much better with left foot braking for all but the slowest of corners. Of course, video games and Hollywood make E-brake turns look cool (and it is pretty important in modern rally and drifting).

 

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