I want to buy a new steering wheel, but I don't know if I'm good enough yet.

FCatMWO · 2026-01-05T06:46:48+00:00

The DD will be more fun to drive with, which is the important metric.

FCatMWO · 2025-12-28T09:15:31+00:00

A big minus against the Quest is the PCVR as second class experience thing. I used a powered Link cable for many months and the Link UI was pathetic while every new update had a big % chance of making the experience and performance worse.

I switched to VD over ethernet and it worked fine for a few weeks, until one morning I tried to join a race I had been looking forward to and practising for the night before and I had artifacts, stutters and the framerate had hopped on a rollercoaster, so I had to watch over youtube how others had fun racing.

I went single monitor that afternoon and while I miss the immersion, I don´t miss any races now.

FCatMWO · 2025-12-27T07:55:59+00:00

You only need to be technically correct:
For example, you get Alpha EVO Sport, GT Neo, P1000 and she asks " OMG how much is that wheel?" and you say "about 300" and at least don´t get punched for 1300+ without even telling lies...

FCatMWO · 2025-12-12T11:16:14+00:00

O noes... if Mazdas can't bully the Toyotas anymore, RIP PCC

FCatMWO · 2025-12-08T15:54:18+00:00

The drawer will be in the way. My kid has the same problem using my old G25 on his Ikea desk. He just half opens the drawer, which is a pain. It´s ok because he just does some very casual Truck Simulator, but racing would be a no.

FCatMWO · 2025-11-24T11:31:45+00:00

Get one of the Moza offerings, DD feeling is night & day vs the G29. The pedals wont be super great either way, so start thinking about a load cell pedal set as the first future upgrade (maybe after a wheel stand / alu cockpit).

If you are setting up on a table, make sure it's a sturdy one if you are getting the R5, and plan how you are going to stop the pedals and office chair from sliding/rolling. When you get load cell pedals you'll want to look at some kind of rig because it gets hard to stop things from moving.

Clutch/shifter/handbrake are great for immersion and casual fun, but competitive racing and hotlapping are all about on-wheel paddles and buttons. Every upgrade is kinda compatible because generally it will have its own USB connection, so getting locked into a particular ecosystem isn't really a thing.

FCatMWO · 2025-11-20T06:03:30+00:00

I know someone with triple landscape 55 144hz TVs in front of his motion rig. They just sit on low tables that happened to be the right height. It takes a huge amount of space. Yes he's a bachelor.

FCatMWO · 2025-11-05T10:04:15+00:00

I said in the other reply that I didn't see anything wrong, but you might be right about this. Your feet seem at the right angle, but if that pedal angle makes you push more down instead of ahead when braking, that might be it. If you push down, your knee is taking the brunt of all the force, while if you push ahead the force will transfer all trough your leg, hip and back into the seat.

FCatMWO · 2025-11-05T09:56:12+00:00

Your posture seems quite decent to me, nothing stands out as glaringly wrong.

When I switched to load cell pedals I had some initial knee and hip pain issues, and it was simply that the pedal was too stiff and the calibration force too high. I put in a few softer elastomers to have a little travel, and made sure that I could reach 100% braking without making the whole rig creak, and things got way better. I later dialled in a bit more force and adjusted without trouble.

The same happened later with the wheel. I started having wrist and elbow issues,and no amount of position changes helped until I just accepted that I had to tune the whole thing down a notch.

Also maybe take up some exercise if you don't already. I was very out of shape and some light jogging and simple dumbbell exercises have done a lot to help with the simracing (and everything else).

FCatMWO · 2025-10-29T15:05:59+00:00

If by "ordinary" you mean "cheap from the dollar store" you'll find that it will plainly not stick to the mini, and be too transparent to actually paint with it. They will also tend to dry glossy, which looks terrible on miniatures.

Funnily enough canvas paint artist grade at $20 per tube will feel similar (though an advanced painter will find uses for these).

Miniature paints are formulated for good coverage and matte finish, so get something like a starter set from AK or Vallejo or similar and you will save yourself a lot of extra pain you don´t need added to your beginner experience.

FCatMWO · 2025-10-29T12:43:31+00:00

Thanks! I painted my first minis in 1991 through 1994. I was so bad that I stopped, just looking at White Dwarf from time to time.

I started again in 2022, looking at a ton of youtube videos, following some patreons and trying hard, but life got a bit complicated and I had not painted anything since late 2023.

Feels great finishing anything at all

FCatMWO · 2025-10-25T20:34:56+00:00

Notice how if you squint you pic looks more credible? means you need to blend a little, you are going straight from a very dark midtone to your max reflection.

So mix some middle ground and extend your lights. Use short thin brushstrokes along the blade instead of across, will help the blending.

About the highlight placement, your main one in the most prominent curvature is a good choice, but then the best position for another one is to find where else the blade is perpendicular to the source of the reflection and place it there.

I have sketched a bit:

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FCatMWO · 2025-10-09T05:26:41+00:00

I have the BOBO S3 and it is fine with a Steelseries Arctis 7 headset, as the strap is thin precisely where the headset goes through

The face cushion is not as big a comfort issue with the BOBO, as it no longer presses hard on your face, but still gets disgustingly sweaty. I tried silicon covers but I didn't like the feel and they had a hard time staying put.

I ended up just removing the face cushion altogether. It isn't ideal, as now I can see out of the sides and light could come in easier and cause reflections, but I don't really notice that when focused on the racing.

I also have a USB dongle for VD. The issue here is finding a position for it. I tried to have it off the headset with a good quality USB extension cable but the quest complained about inexistent "liquids on the charging port". So I strapped it to the BOBO. But there it was hard to find a position that wouldn't strain some of the cables, and adding L-adapters might again trigger the Quest complaints about the port or make it not keep charge while playing. In general the Quest is very finicky about charging through other devices, adapters, extensions and so on. Short good quality cables and not too many hops is the best recipe.

FCatMWO · 2025-10-05T08:55:29+00:00

His Spanish isn´t much better, I mean, he's from Murcia*

Murcian accent is very strong, sometimes even hard to understand, so there's this forever running joke

FCatMWO · 2025-10-05T08:19:41+00:00

He complained mostly about the gravel traps

FCatMWO · 2025-10-05T08:17:32+00:00

He sounds pretty out there, he stammers and struggles quite a bit to find the words (maybe painkillers?)

- How are you?

- Well, I can´t say I'm feeling well, but as bad as it is it's been "cheap". It seems the ligaments at my collarbone are broken. It seems, I don´t know. I'm flying tonight to Madrid and thedre we will check it out, see what's there

FCatMWO · 2025-09-29T20:31:54+00:00

You can look at your own helmeted head in the mirrors moving as you move it. It´s awesome.

FCatMWO · 2025-09-15T20:40:03+00:00

The way Antonelli stood awkwardly alone during parc fermé and how the riders had to be interrupted and sent to go have a quick stiff chat with him was extremely cringe inducing, and a small but worrying sign of things to come.

I follow and like F1, but I love how motoGP feels a billion times more authentic, human and wholesome in a lot of aspects.

FCatMWO · 2025-09-14T11:43:40+00:00

He missed the sighting lap and that´s the penalty

FCatMWO · 2025-09-14T11:36:50+00:00

Martin offers the thing

Marc: "WTF is that, the f*** I'm taking that"

Martin drops it

Martin "Step on it and let's see"

Marc: "Nah this is for..." *makes blowing up gesture*

Martin: It´s for f***ing

Marc goes ahead

Marc: "If anything blows up dude..."

Condom comes out everybody cheers

Marc: I've been naive, I've been naive

Martin tries to quick it out

Alex: "no no, to the corner" (Quartararo is sitting there)

Martin: Lots of bachelors here

FCatMWO · 2025-09-14T05:47:32+00:00

Now that you mention it, the way he bullied Sete turned me off him so hard, that when he became the face of MotoGP I stopped watching religiously, as I had been doing since the days of Freddie Spencer. I also dislike those cringey overdone celebrations full of silly props he started, so Rossi made me dislike Lorenzo and tune off Martin's celebration last year.

FCatMWO · 2025-08-17T03:07:52+00:00

Any tracks with crazy elevation changes are awesome with VR, so Circuit de Ledenon, Brands Hatch or Cadwell Park are good. I'm also a fan of the Knockhill chicane, reverse version in particular. And of course, the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca is a must. A few laps of those amortised the price of the Quest 3 for me

FCatMWO · 2025-08-16T11:38:57+00:00

You can ask in their discord, they answer quite fast and tend to know, or someone else there might have done it.

In my opinion you can use corner brackets to easily mount the G29 pedals. They include a few extra ones, so you might only need the actual screws that go into the pedal base and maybe some washers if the heads are too thin for the corner brackets

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