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Anonymous
8 years ago

Steering wheel sensitivity

As many have noticed steering wheels is not working in Need for Speed Payback. The team making the game have now made is work with 2 Logitech models, but this is not nearly enough. We can't buy new equipment each game they release because of lazy development. Because that is sadly what it is, looking at other games from other companies they support these things from the start. The previous game that was just named "Need for Speed" had for example alot of models they supported, the code should be similar? 

But as of now, my steering wheel for example (Thrustmaster T150) does work in the matter that it it can send signals to accelerate, brake, shift gear and so on. Problem is the steering, it can steer but when I turn my wheel 180 degrees the cars wheels turn like 2-3 cm, meaning me going into a wall. So it's completely unplayable. (probably because my steering wheel is able to turn 1080 degrees in each direction). I had the same issue in the previous NFS game, but there was a feature in the controls settings, that was the "steering sensitivity", this fixed the issue instantly. 

But in NFS Payback, here you can't do that, you can change it some in the "instant config" or whatever it's now called, but this is far from enough, I max that setting and it wont work anyway. Also in controls settings you can't change keybinds, and that's something I believe have been a feature since NFS 1997?

I have also sent this very text to the game developers and they ofcouse want to hear if there's anyone else having the same issue as me and what they think of this. 

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    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Hi,

    So I have the Thrustmaster T150 Pro and yea, for the most part it's not too bad. It's playable enough for me to enjoy it, but often the steering wheel will suddenly make a jerking motion making it impossible to try to drive straight with ease. Also, probably because of the whole 1080 degrees thing and being that they only took time to make the Logitech G29 steering wheel work perfectly with Need For Speed Payback is causing the steering to be overly sensitive with the T150. At least it's not a game where you need to stay in the lines like with Gran Turismo, but when you're doing drifting challenges, it can be a bit of a challenge to do well.

    If they at least add an update to adjust the sensitivity of the steering wheel like they have in Gran Turismo, that would probably help out a lot. Hopefully they fix this soon so it can be even more enjoyable for everyone. That way you don't have to feel like you need to buy a second steering wheel just because the video game makers are too lazy to make the change themselves. You think they would have taken care of this from the start before releasing the game especially being a car game. Who the hell wants to drive their car in a game with a joy stick if you can have the option of driving it with a steering wheel. I don't get it. For now, I'm just glad my steering wheel works with Need for speed payback now. Better than not at all. Definitely more enjoyable and realistic than with a PS4 controller. I don't know why though that they would only focus just on the G29 and G920 (for xbox and pc) and not any other steering wheels. Makes no sense whatsoever!!!

  • Same problem with my ferrari italia spider thrustmaster for xbox one

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