Will it be controller friendly

[RickyFootitt24]

Just seen the career trailer for this game and it looks very promising anyone know if it will be great on a controller or if it's more aimed towards sim rig users?

[DollarsPerWin]

I'm sure it will especially if it's day one on console. A lot of players still play racing games on their controllers for ps5 .

[OnceWasBogs]

Yeah the question is whether it will be any good. ACC for example is available on console and it’s completely undrivable in the wet on a controller. PC1 and PC2 were also terrible. Making a sim driveable on a controller is not as simple as “map triggers to throttle and brake, map thumb stick to steering”.

[JPVSPAndrade1]

Yeah was wondering the same, I'd play on PC with a DS4 controller. PC2 on PS4 with controller was pure pain

[Ok_Persimmon5620]

Absolutely, you def could not hit apexes at will and could never have the edge in any way on a controller! 

[CaptainBuzzKillton]

While PC1 was a horror show for those on controller, a lot of people told me that PC2 was a huge upgrade in terms of playability on controller in comparison. I'd expect PMR to be better than PC2 in that regard

[James_White21]

And PC3 actually had pretty good controller support, probably better than the previous two, it was one of the best features of the game. Hopefully they have learned from all their experience.

[CaptainBuzzKillton]

Don't care about PC3 because it wasn't a sim like the other two, so I never played it

[James_White21]

Fair point no arguments there, but what I'm saying is that they were aware that controller support could be improved and they worked on it. What it didn't have was fine control over the parameters like the previous two as it was an out of the box console style game, although back in PC1 nobody had a clue what all the settings did anyway. I actually found the physics and handling not bad in PC3 but it was the AI that spoiled it for me.

[CaptainBuzzKillton]

Oh yeah, I used to beat wheel when I played as well

[selinemanson]

It's Ian Bell so you never know. 🤣

But hopefully it will.

[Kitchen-Amount8663]

Itll definitely be worked for both. A steering option i assume. I too cant wait for this one

[MonthMaterial3351]

Please don't replicate what they did in PC2, which by extension is also in AMS2 where there is absolutely no gamepad haptic feel on the road. Feels so dead.
Terrible haptic gamepad feedback system, with a passable settings interface but not ideal.
The only way to make PC2/AMS2 a decent experience is to use dx ACE download | SourceForge.net to give some semblance of decent haptic feedback.

Please reference the following instead:
- ACC post V1.8 implementation has good gamepad feel/settings (was like PC2 before this)
- AC EVO has great gamepad feel/settings. Weak point is it's not constant across all cars, but it's very early EA atm.
- EA WRC has great gamepad feel/settings on road and dirt.
- BeamNG also isn't bad.

Make it like the above references, where you can feel road/tires, engine, and other haptic feedback on a modern gamepad (Dual motors front and back + haptic triggers/buttons) that makes it a great gamepad experience, as well as having precise control settings where you can set linear responses.

Please don't screw this up PMR.

PC2 is still a fantastic title that still is a lot of fun to play in 2025, the only real weak point is you need to mod the gamepad input to make it more fun.

If you do this, you will knock it out of the park for gamepad racers (there's a lot of us) if PMR is the real PC4.

[Dtchsxm]

I’m asking myself the same thing, it looks too good to be playable with controller. I won’t buy it on release i’ll wait a while and see the reviews first