How comfortable is it to play with a gamepad?

[FliXis]

Please don't tell me about the steering wheel, I understand everything perfectly, but for now I only have a gamepad.

How viable is it to play this game with a gamepad? Provided that those control assistants are disabled, which are usually always disabled on online servers.
But at the same time, those assistants are used that are not affected by the settings of serious online servers.

My personal experience is as follows:
AC1 - with the "Advanced gamepad assist" mod - great
ACC - very decent, but I play with the assist enabled, which is enabled in the control settings and is not affected by the settings of online servers
ASM2 - bad
ACO - bad

I really like the smoothness and stability of the controls in AC1 and ACC (but only with the assist from the control settings).
Will I get the same experience while playing LMU? I saw one video on YouTube where a person played LMU with a gamepad, but I really didn't like this monstrous sensitivity. In my opinion, it should be adjusted automatically depending on the speed at any given moment, but with the ability to adjust it with various settings. Is there such a possibility in the game? Is it possible to make the control similar to AC1-ACC?

Thanks in advance!

[shadow82]

Not the best, not the worst.

Natively it will have a very heavy assist turned on by default (akin to the one in ACE, without any option to tweak it). It requires tinkering in the game save files as not all options, that rFactor2 had, are available in-game (god knows why, never got any answer from the dev team when I asked them almost year ago). As long as they don't lock out those settings from the save file, it will be fine, but until early access is over it is pretty hard to tell. And even then, if those options do not make it into the game menu, you cannot be 100% sure that one day they will not disappear from the config files or become unfunctional/unsupported.

[ayberk45]

If u want to play simrace with controller this game is best am play with my xbox 9th gen gamepad and am br3 sr3 I have 10 wins 21 podiums and 15 fastest lap yesterday I won sebring 40 min endurance race and I play with non asist just racing line, am gonna upload my sebring race replay on youtube but Its long If u want when I share I'll send u and u can see my drive on gamepad

[FliXis]

Originally posted by M4X:

If u want to play simrace with controller this game is best am play with my xbox 9th gen gamepad and am br3 sr3 I have 10 wins 21 podiums and 15 fastest lap yesterday I won sebring 40 min endurance race and I play with non asist just racing line, am gonna upload my sebring race replay on youtube but Its long If u want when I share I'll send u and u can see my drive on gamepad

Yeah, I wouldn't mind it.
My main fear is that the controls are too sensitive, especially at medium and fast speeds, I won't be able to play if that's the case. Since I'm used to the comfort of ACC and AC

[FliXis]

Originally posted by shadow82:

Not the best, not the worst.

Natively it will have a very heavy assist turned on by default (akin to the one in ACE, without any option to tweak it). It requires tinkering in the game save files as not all options, that rFactor2 had, are available in-game (god knows why, never got any answer from the dev team when I asked them almost year ago). As long as they don't lock out those settings from the save file, it will be fine, but until early access is over it is pretty hard to tell. And even then, if those options do not make it into the game menu, you cannot be 100% sure that one day they will not disappear from the config files or become unfunctional/unsupported.

I heard about the file, let's hope they don't disable it or at least move everything to the game settings

[deros1]

Originally posted by M4X:

If u want to play simrace with controller this game is best am play with my xbox 9th gen gamepad and am br3 sr3 I have 10 wins 21 podiums and 15 fastest lap yesterday I won sebring 40 min endurance race and I play with non asist just racing line, am gonna upload my sebring race replay on youtube but Its long If u want when I share I'll send u and u can see my drive on gamepad

Any chance that you can share your gamepad settings as I am having a terrible time with mine.

[jellobiafra]

It helps me to set the reaction curve of the control stick from 200 to 100 in the Steam settings.
Otherwise there are no settings unless you edit files.

[Marshall_maz]

I am very interested in this game , but I don't have a wheel setup. I play all my games with an Xbox One controller. Does anybody have any experience with this game and controller combo ? I don't want to get the game if it's going to be unplayable with my controller.

[jellobiafra]

Sorry, but didn't you read the thread?
People who use a controller are talking here.
Just to be on the safe side, if anyone wants to play single player, there is no other content than a single race weekend.

[Zakalwe]

Originally posted by Marshall_maz:

I am very interested in this game , but I don't have a wheel setup. I play all my games with an Xbox One controller. Does anybody have any experience with this game and controller combo ? I don't want to get the game if it's going to be unplayable with my controller.

You'll be just find. Very playable with an XBox controller, and extremely good with a DS4/5/Edge using the DSX app, And while you're here, Assetto Corsa Evo plays well too, and has better physics!