Steering ratio in setup menu

To Developers:

Please implement in-game customizable steering ratio in the setup section!

Every other sim does it and people with wheels having less than 900° are requesting it!

Moreover, by experience with other sims, it is the most realistic solution to allow a better driving feeling!

Please consider this...

 

It is something that has been bugging me too...

I drive and have been driving simulators with 540° degrees for years. It is today impossible for me to drive with a synchronized virtual wheel in AC. Even though I enjoy it a lot I had to turn it off because an unsychronized wheel was messing with my reactions.

I have never had this problem with other sims, since they accomodate people's preferences for the way they interact with the software. In AC people can finetune their ffb as they wish, can change their FoV, you have even implemented rumble effects even if you self-admittedly don't like them. It's fair to say you are generally very open towards your market and want to accomodate people with different expectations, wether it is driving aids or differents methods of input (mouse,gamepad). So even though having steering ratio restrictions depending on the car is the most realistic, I think it is primordial to find a way to steer every car the way everyone has the best feeling. Some people have accustomed to different steering degrees, some people have mobility issues...the reason is irrelevant. The connection we have with the sim wether it is a gamepad, a mouse or a joystick is of outmost importance, and as it happens a lot of people us AC with their wheel.

In LFS for example, you just choose your steering rotation in the settings and off you go! Wether it is 200, 450, 720, or 900° is your choice. If you want to drive with unrealistic settings it is your own problem, unless they give you an unfair advantage.

I don't know if steering ratio in the setup is the solution, but you need to find a way for everyone to be able to setup their wheel to feel at ease with the sim. It has been clear a lot of people want this, so I too, urge you to consider this.

 

I strongly second that!

 

Another example...

http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/t125-wheels-setting-for-csr-elite.6938/

 

It would be nice if each car had a way to configure the steering ratio and also a separate override in the settings menu. For me some tracks might require different steering ratios and it would be nice to have this option.

 

The thing about steering ratios is that it would allow more people to enjoy the game with their different equipment and other reasons. Disability is one good reason. If someone has just one hand or has lowered movement in his arms and a simple setting in the game would fix it then why not do it? In the end it is about inclusiveness and exclusiveness. Imho for a relatively niche game like ac it doesn't make sense to not have some simple options that would allow a larger userbase to enjoy your product. The wider variety of controllers the game supports properly the bigger the userbase can be. You want to be as inclusive as possible simply because every cent counts.

For example other games have been very bad at making their games playable for color blind people. Why? For no reason at all. But the lack of such support have defenately not helped the sales of their games . That kind of exclusive approach will just cost money for the developers when a small group of people are excluded for no reason at all.

Supporting different wheels with different rotations will only make the game available and playable for bigger audience. There simply is no downsides to supporting wider variety of steering wheels by offering the users to ability to adjust steering lock for example. If someone wants to buy ac and play it with his 120 degree racing wheel I just don't see the harm of letting him do just that by allowing him to adjust the steering lock for all cars so he can play as he wants with his steering wheel. A setting that does that is better option that forcing the same user to either not buy the game, quit the game or use some special tricks to go around the problem.

Also there is the simple fact that locked and not adjustable steering lock in a racing game doesn't really work when you have people playing with vastly different kinds of wheels. I'm sure there are still quite a lot of those 1000€+ non-ffb ecci steering wheels around that only do 240 degrees or something like that. There is no reason to not support those wheels properly. Even if it is 2014 not everybody have 900 degree wheels. Giving the players full control of the linearity, sensitivety and speed sensitiveness of the wheel for all cars will only make more people happy. Speed sensitivety is already there and sensitivety is kinda but a little bit more work and it would be perfect.

 

I can't find a steering lock setup option when I'm in the pits during the race weekend. I don't mean the lock found on steering wheel drivers, or steering wheel angle setup. But in my opinion there should be a steering lock setup option inside the game, in the pits, every car may require a different lock-to-lock angle depending on circuits hairpins. So, an important setup option is missing? Quite surprising, or then it's just me again and I can't find it.
P4/5 could not turn throught Vallelungas tightest hairpin, ( 15, Torantino ) for example, the car has too wide turning radius.
- tuuliaki

 

I would like to bump and second the opinions stated here. A "By car" steering lock, steering scale or steering ratio setting (just like we now have "by car" FFB settings, and just like ISI motors engine games have had this for years) would make things easier for padders, people with older wheels, and that sorta stuff. AC's current options (including config ini tweaking) change these sort off settings for all the cars. This means that I can either drive the Exos (360degree wheel in the sim) correctly but can't drive a ferrari F40, whilst with config ini tweaking I can drive the F40 but the Exos becomes impossible.

If the devs can take this into consideration for the next update I'd be very happy.

 

Fully agree.

 

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