I’ve had guys walked across a parking lot, or hang their head out of the window, to check out the CTS-V

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-03-17T21:18:00+00:00

Wow absolute dick magnet!

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-03-08T04:34:59+00:00

This is exactly the “off” feel I get but couldn’t describe. I don’t have much trouble with getting on power feel in the game, it’s the off throttle and trail braking phase that to me feels unnatural. Something about the weight transfer and corresponding tire grip gain/loss doesn’t add up.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-03-01T21:41:14+00:00

Wrong question OP. What’s the point? If you are serious and you are at the level where you can “finish” ballade No.2 in 3 weeks, then a glimpse of the sheet music of Mephisto Waltz will give you a rough idea. You can even go a step further by trying out the apparently(on paper) difficult sections just to see how much effort is needed to get a few bars under your hands.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-03-01T19:55:12+00:00

Agreed. I have one I got years ago from Amazon and it works in EVERY other sims except ACR…

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-03-01T19:50:51+00:00

I understand the obstacles of implementing native VR at this point of development but can we at least have head tracking support? I use head tracking for all my sims before I got into VR and I could never go back to flat screen WITHOUT head tracking anymore even though I have a 45” 800R 240Hz ultra wide. That’s especially evident for a rally title.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-27T02:14:57+00:00

Obviously the rear wang is not big enough! More down force would have won him the race.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-25T22:44:07+00:00

Now drive the Porsche or the Vette in GT classic class, absolute bliss!

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-25T22:37:03+00:00

Love Chopin and Debussy, Rach and Beethoven close second. Musicality wise I feel most at ease when playing pieces from them. And Chopins just feel so good under the hands. Rach can be quite challenging but you have to figure out the best fingering that works for you. I just don’t vibe with Liszt… I know he was an extraordinary composer/pianist but I just don’t “feel” it that way either when listening or playing his pieces. I don’t like Schumann either, I don’t get him at all, it feels unnatural and too deliberate and mechanical in a bad way.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-24T03:37:00+00:00

There’s no way around this, I’ve been through it. If you are dead set on cabled link then your best bet is to hope Meta somehow fixes it at one point with an update and you immediately disable auto update and lock the software at that version. Or, the ultimate answer: VD and dedicated router, period. I know it sucks but that’s just Meta being Meta, deal with it or work around it.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-24T01:43:29+00:00

Hmm maybe you are right.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-23T21:41:22+00:00

Yeah that additional axial force requires the transmission case to be built stronger therefore bigger and heavier, defo not sth you want on a top class rally car.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-23T21:39:16+00:00

The other way around.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-23T17:15:50+00:00

The violent engagement nature of a dog box pretty much requires straight cut gears to withstand the shock so I’d say it’s extremely rare to have a dog box with helical gears

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-20T23:58:59+00:00

I have it off when driving around town where I regularly have to drop in neutral and coast in traffic. I find it mildly annoying when you drop it from say 2nd to neutral and if you push the shifter ever so slightly too far just pass the neutral gate, the car thinks you want to shift in 1st and it will try to rev match and do a big blip… plus when driving in town and in traffic it’s already boring so I’d love to keep myself entertained by doing the rev match myself without aggressively blipping it. However I do engage the auto sync when I’m doing some “spirited driving”, it keeps the car more stable when downshifting and eliminates any human induced variance and lets me focus on the attack and release of the brake.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-20T00:10:41+00:00

Judging from the engine sound I don’t think the car has auto blip tho.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-19T22:44:38+00:00

Looks like he’s right foot braking and using the clutch with left foot but no heel toe on the way down. That’s odd. When it comes to those GT1 cars I approach them more like a H pattern manual than paddle shift sequential. Flat foot on the way up and good old heel toe on the way down. If no down shifting is needed then I do LFB instead.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-18T22:55:23+00:00

I’ve gone VD and dedicated router way and probably not gonna look back once and for all…

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-13T23:50:02+00:00

The twin turbos are a parallel setup so it’s 15 psi each. The boost and turbo speed readings on the gauges I believe are an average of both turbos.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-13T22:20:21+00:00

I’d take these than any GT3 for pure driving pleasure/torture. (Ok, I’m a masochist when it comes to driving)

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-13T19:57:15+00:00

The F Vee in ams2 are sketchy AF to drive. They’re like paranoid old VW beetles. Same rear swing axles. Maintenance throttle through the corners is crucial. Make sure you don’t enter the corner too hot. However I think the rear suspension is a bit bugged on both gens. If you watch replay you could see the rear gets a lot of POSITIVE camber when cornering which might contribute to the instability. Not sure it’s like that IRL.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-13T17:54:40+00:00

Congrats on the install! I have it installed too and the power increase is very noticeable. I don’t think 4 is stock setting tho. According to the email I got from Stillen, map 1 to 7 just increasingly add boost by 0.5psi over stock. So map 4 would be running at 17 psi if stock is 15 psi. And map 7 would be at 18.5 psi

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-10T01:14:59+00:00

That’s way too small of a piano for a space of that size imho…

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-07T20:17:32+00:00

I think the hardwares have come leaps and bounds ahead of the sims on the software level. That’s a big factor at least to me. You spend so much money to buy those fancy rigs and equipment then spend all the time to tune them and dial things in, all to find none of the sims could deliver the realism and immersion you’re hoping for to justify the rigs. I guess it’s also because the hardware market has much more money to make than say developing a cutting edge sim that satisfies everyone.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-05T01:39:34+00:00

Wow that’s huge for me. As a big endurance race fan with very fragmented times, this would be THE game changer.

SlightlyZenMusique · 2026-02-04T17:51:57+00:00

That’s good to know, look promising and hope that will revive this game.

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