

TrackIR seems like an awesome thing to have but they definitely have a monopoly on the scene right now and starting at $150, it's a steep price for this game.

It still slides a bit but again, it's functional.įace Tracking: This is where my biggest savings came into place. My super technical pedal pad weights? The biggest Harry Potter books I could find in my closet.
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I may buy a separate shiftier sometime later and switch to manual but those are real expensive! If you are wondering what I have it mounted to, it's a rubber real feel practice pad on top of a snare drum stand. There is no clutch petal but I'm honestly only driving automatic right now. Obviously it's not as good as the one GBeast has but it gets the job done. It's a pretty dang good wheel and I like it a lot. So, I bought a Thrustmaster VG Ferrari Italia off of Amazon for $90. Apparently even though I have a windows 10 Xbox One controller receiver these controllers only work on Xbox One (Im guessing they all connect via their own USB cables and don't use an actual wireless signal. Thankfully I did some extensive research and didn't go out to Gamestop to buy the wheels for Xbox One. Racing Wheel: This was the most expensive purchase for my setup.
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Look at it! In all its ghetto glory! It's beautiful! In case anyone is interested in doing something similar I'll break down what I did in full detail. So with that in mind, here is my pretty ghetto but functional driving wheel and face tracking set up: I'm not saying it isn't worth the money but that is still a lot of money for me to spend on something that I really only want to use on one type of game. However my main problem with that was spending the $600+ dollars needed to match the GBeast set up. I simply had to get something close to that set up. So I watched the American Truck Simulator Quicklook.
