tweaking the brake axis

[Skybird]

I wonder whether I miss something.

Using a G27, I find it hard to prevent the brake time and again acting in a digital, on-or-off matter. I increase the dead zone,. but when braking effect becomes noticable, it jumps to a very high effectiveness value already. Using almost no deadzone at the beginning of pedal movement: again, the brakes start biting with almost max power and zero subtlety. It is extremely frustrating trying to dose the braking force, and prevent a slow moving truck for example from coming to an immediate halt instead of having it just rolling on but at a reduced speed (in front of a red traffic light for example).

I wish there were not only sliders for deadzones, but also sliders for linearity settings of the pedal axis. But the brakes work way too sharp.

Gas works better.

[room217au]

Retarder.

[Ragequit Inc.]

"Braking intensity"-slider is in the options. Left is less sensitive. (I have it all the way down, though I use mainly the retarder. Pedal brakes only when wanting a full stop, or in emergencies)

[UK_l0nd0nerupnorth]

Belive it or not the solution I found is in options un tick the simulated air brakes option and that actually makes braking more realistic

[Skybird]

There are two brake settings, in two different menus (not very clever to split what belongs together - and actually is left together in other driving sims' hardware setup menus...). You have in controller menu a slider for "Bremse Reaktionsschwelle", this effectively works like a deadzone setting, the further right the slider goes, the more the pedal has to be pressed before it starts to show reaction - but that reaction always sets in with a really strong bite. The other axis setting is "Bremskraft" oder "Bremsstärke", to be found in the gameplay options menu. One would assume it belongs to the hardware setup, and that it works like "sensitivity" and allows to alter the linearity, but to me it makes no difference whether the slider is utmost left or utmost right. The brake bites full force anyway, has always the full spectrum of braking power within just a tiny fraction of the pedal' movement way.

One can work around this deficit, yes, and if you have a super sensitive foot, you can break without immediately come to a full stop. But it hardly is like it should be and like it is in reality. A truck behaving like that would cause the driver to have hickups all day long.

The only real criticism I would say about this game, else it is quite good.

BTW, retarder and air pressure do not do what I am after. They are on, switching them off makes things worse (retarder) or has no effect for the sensitivity of the braking axis. It still bites almost digitally. For whatever the reason is, the gas pedal can be dosed much more sensitively.

[room217au]

Originally posted by skybird05:

..(retarder) or has no effect for the sensitivity of the braking axis..

umm.. it isn't supposed to. It has nothing to do with the foot brake. The retarder is an alternative way of braking, and with now 5 settings of strength, is the perfect thing. Once you get used to it - and I bound the retarder to my mouse wheel - the only time you need to touch your foot brake is to stop the truck in the last couple of metres before, say, traffic lights.
I don't know if using the mouse-wheel in addition to a steering wheel would be an issue for folks.

Your foot brake should be affected by the braking intensity slider. You say it has no effect either at zero or at full intensity. That says to me that you mayneed to re-calibrate, or reset your wheel settings since v1.17.x

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by skybird05:

...The brake bites full force anyway, has always the full spectrum of braking power within just a tiny fraction of the pedal' movement way...

Then there's something wrong with either your hardware or your game install. Check in game controllers (where you can see the graphs for the pedal operation) that it works in Windows. If it does, do a game cache verification through game properties>local files.

[Skybird]

Already done. All lights green. Wheel works in other sims, btw.

[room217au]

Originally posted by skybird05:

Already done. All lights green. Wheel works in other sims, btw.

I know there were some changes to code involving steering wheels? SCS increased the rotation to 900 degrees? Maybe other controls were affected too? Try starting ETS2, then plugging in your device.

[[ST-R] Solutech [ST]]

Check the brake axis sensitivity in the logitech profiler isnt set too high . Mines on 20% .