Ever since the beginning of the game, I, along with other pad players, have noticed that wheel players have a significant advantage. Initially, I observed a clear advantage in slow corners, where, d...
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I'm a pad player and i have found a significant amount of lap time and better tyre wear by changing my controller config settings in the menu. Don't just use the default one.
Pad will NEVER be as fast as a wheel. I don't know why people cannot understand that. The is simply far more control over how many degrees you turn a physical wheel over the movement of a 1.5cm thumbstick! A wheelset's pedals travel significantly further than a gamepad trigger. It's impossible to have the same level of control. Adjust your settings and find something that works for you..... Or just go and buy a wheel!
I totally agree with your opinion about inputs when it comes to the wheel vs pad argument and agree that it should mean you get more for the money invested into buying a rig setup. On the flip side as a pad user and enjoy league racing the discrepancy between tyre wear is totally off when comparing the two so much so that at most tracks in forced into doing a 2 stop compared to a wheel user only having to stop once and stretching there stint out I'm talking between around 8% and 25% difference in tyre wear which is too much of a gap to make up in full race conditions.
I have tried all sorts of ffb and controller settings to counter the handicap but to no avail.. thankfully after around 3 months I've just about got the sweet spot for me handling wise in these settings but again tyre wear is my biggest problem.
I think nobody is really asking for pad driving to be as fast as wheel driving. Heck, I'd say the closest we had was F1 23, and even then the wheel was faster, though by a small margin. (I'd even say I still prefer 23's handling on pad, 24 was rough but at least the front end was sharp and 25 is... not as good as 23, almost like there is some sort of artificial delay to controls... maybe it's just me though with "skill issues".)
I think people just want to stay competitive enough by driving with a pad. They can try to somehow compensate a lack of speed, but when you just have traction discrepancies, (major) tyre wear differences and some other things as well (as it seems), it's hard to even try to stay competitive with a pad no matter what.
And not everybody can just have a wheel, or even drive fast with one. Heck, I have a wheel, but I don't have enough space for it to use it all the time, so it's sitting in a box waiting for better days - for me, a guy who now races casually but enjoys some competition, driving with a pad is just faster and easier.
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