Ghosting ruins Esports for me.
Am I the only one that thinks that cars ghosting when they spin totally ruins Esports and the other high level leagues? I remember last year Opmeer getting tagged at Imola and everyone else just dri...
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If I’m in a car irl be it on road or on a track. If I had a choice off positions where to drive car from, I would always choose to sit behind the wheel. Where your supposed to be. If I’m playing any racing game I’d never choose to drive from cockpit pov. I’d pick halo or bonnet even bumper cam. When driving in real life on a track, my whole body feels and processes feedback from the car. Then I use the eyes in my head which is attached to my neck to look towards the horizon but in a instant glance at 3 rearview mirrors that are all positioned perfectly to see almost everything behind. But with a quick glance I can check my blind spots: Then I use my ears to listen for other cars that are close by.
When playing a racing game most off us are looking at a 2D screen which it extremely limits your view and awareness to what.could be right next to you. Unless you also have a decent audio system giving proper surround sound you can’t rely on your ears. Then even if you’ve got a decent sim rig set up. The only feedback your getting is from the steering wheel and perhaps acbrake pedal.
irl I use steering wheel to tell me what kind off surface I’m driving on. Brake pedal tells me if I’m locking brakes. My backside provides all the feedback from what the car is doing along with my eyes looking to the horizon. So seeing any movement i can react
Playing racing games, even with high end rigs is limiting. So using a camera position that gives you a better POV and awareness helps players negate playing a games limitations.
Anyone using a mid tier sim setup or less and a cockpit elitist is cutting their nose off to spite their face. Using tvpod handles no different to cockpit. But with Tvpod your getting to maximise your experience just by being able to use your eyes
@ScarDuck14 wrote:Playing racing games, even with high end rigs is limiting. So using a camera position that gives you a better POV and awareness helps players negate playing a games limitations.
This.
As I said, good simracing titles go hard on features and development to ameliorate those limitations in other ways, making cockpit cam actually really nice to go with. Even if we had the option to go with bumper cam or T-cam on iRacing, I wouldn't - just like virtually everyone goes with cockpit cam on ACC even though the sim has other cameras enabled for gameplay.
F1 is not on the same level though.
Again, it is disappointing that it is like it is. Short races, ghosting, tv pod. But that's the offering, a simcade. I don't think it's reasonable to treat it like anything but a simcade, and expect players - even esport ones - to use like a sim.
That's on EA, not the players. And also on us for not adjusting expectations.
@mariohomohYou’ve probably seen this. But couple of guys in this video agree with most that I said,
