F1 2012 Ps3 Patch

[Ljubisa_frizer]

New / Updated Features

• On PS3 only we’ve enabled the full rotation for 900 and 1080 degree steering wheels. This will require the player to set their wheel up using the options available, specifically we suggest setting the Wheel Saturation to around 65 – 70% as a good starting poin

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I personaly don't like what they done with full rotation for 900 and 1080 steering wheels, because if we set saturation of 65-75%, and we use steering deadzone 1% to reduce twitchiness on the straight (than with 65-75% sat it's not 1% than it's aprox.3% with old seetings, which is to much). And only deference is that now we dont have soft stop that we use to have ( my opinion is that, that was helpful thing).

 

[JonnySmith]

You're not the only one,
I've changed to saturation of 73% but my 1% deadzone is massive.

They've 'fixed' something that wasn't broken which now is.

Wonder of they fixed the rain bug?

 

[Ljubisa_frizer]

I found this on Codemasters forum in response why they change too full rotation. I Tryed and it's not too bad, i'm on G27 but my saturation is 65-67%, still exploring.

Post-Patch Steering, an Official Response - Lee Mather

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26-10-2012 04:15 PM
The following post is courtesy of F1 2012's Game Designer Lee Mather.

There’s been a lot of talk about the changes we’ve made to the steering on PS3 in patch 1.02. To try and help you all understand how best to set-up your wheels I thought it best to give you a little insight in to what we’ve changed and why.

Originally the game locked the maximum amount of rotation allowed by the wheel to 180 degrees on PS3. This narrowed down the amount of input required when using wheels with larger ranges of rotation, such as the Logitech DFGT and G25/27 and the Thrustmaster T500 RS. Due to some small changes in the tyre model this year that range made it much harder for the player to achieve peak slip. Peak slip being the sweet spot for maximum grip for the front tyres. With such a fine amount of input and a realistic F1 tyre slip graph, this made it harder to drive consistently and quickly.

Both PC and Xbox gamers have the ability to adjust the amount of steering lock they wish to use; PC users via the control panel, and Xbox users via device set-up of the Fanatec wheel they are using.

So in order for us to allow PS3 users the same level of set-up, and the ability to experience the game how it’s meant to be felt, we took the decision to open up the lock fully on all PS3 wheels. This does remove the actual lock stop, but you shouldn’t be steering up to that as it is. Instead you now need to adjust the Saturation slider to reduce the amount of input required. Using a Fanatec CSR Elite on Xbox 360 we’ve found using between 300 and 330 degrees to be best. So based on this we suggest a saturation setting somewhere between 60-65% on a Logitech wheel ,and around 70% on the T500 RS. If you prefer the previous, more direct steering then increase this number until you’re happy with how it feels.

All wheels behave differently, which makes it very hard for us to be able to set your wheel up for you as default in the game, which is why we give the option to adjust saturation, linearity and deadzone. With a combination of all of these, you should be able to get the feeling you are looking for.

A good starting point for a 900 degree wheel would be:

Steering Deadzone: 1%
Steering Saturation: 63%
Steering Linearity: 10%
Throttle Deadzone: 0%
Throttle Saturation: 0%
Brake Deadzone: 0%
Brake Saturation: 0%

For a 1080 degree wheel increase the saturation to around 70%.

I hope this has been helpful and will help you to set-up your wheel effectively in F1 2012.

Cheers,
Lee
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[glenniez]

Saturation at 62% works well for me, everything else at zero especially deadzone. The car is not as twitchy as before with 0% deadzone.
If you must increase the linearity then 1-2% will help the twichiness, 10% is too much and makes the steering feel more dead to me.
I don't miss the soft stop lock as I don't drive around using lock to lock steering, if you do then you will lose FFB and know you're doing something wrong when this happens.

The feeling of using more of the steering lock is much more satisfying than only using 180 degrees of lock and less arcade like in my opinion.

The problem is the FFB strength isn't as good as before and the environmental effect is too strong , I think it's because they're improved the offline grip levels and changed the steering.

Overall though it's pretty pretty good.

 

[tragow]

Any news on ps3-US patch? Still on version 1.01

 

[Ljubisa_frizer]

Saturation at 62% works well for me, everything else at zero especially deadzone. The car is not as twitchy as before with 0% deadzone.
If you must increase the linearity then 1-2% will help the twichiness, 10% is too much and makes the steering feel more dead to me.
I don't miss the soft stop lock as I don't drive around using lock to lock steering, if you do then you will lose FFB and know you're doing something wrong when this happens.

The feeling of using more of the steering lock is much more satisfying than only using 180 degrees of lock and less arcade like in my opinion.

The problem is the FFB strength isn't as good as before and the environmental effect is too strong , I think it's because they're improved the offline grip levels and changed the steering.

Overall though it's pretty pretty good.

After a while me to came to that wheel settings on my own, steering saturation to 62, everything else at 0 and I am satisfied, I am waiting on Andy Pastore brake modification for my G27, and then i will probably change brake saturation.
But I'm struggling with FFB settings, on some tracks i set it to 10-10-50 and on some 30-40-10 but I would like to set once for all and to be satisfied on any track I chose. Please give me some advise what settings are you use,and why, in short words, you don't need to explain to much. If it isn't to much for you. Thanx in advance

 

[glenniez]

After a while me to came to that wheel settings on my own, steering saturation to 62, everything else at 0 and I am satisfied, I am waiting on Andy Pastore brake modification for my G27, and then i will probably change brake saturation.
But I'm struggling with FFB settings, on some tracks i set it to 10-10-50 and on some 30-40-10 but I would like to set once for all and to be satisfied on any track I chose. Please give me some advise what settings are you use,and why, in short words, you don't need to explain to much. If it isn't to much for you. Thanx in advance

HI, Yes I know what you mean.
Environment effect 10-20% (I use 10)
Overall 90-100% (90)
Weight 0-10% (0)

I'm using The DFGT and now the environment effects are too strong over the kerbs, I don't know what others wheels feel like. Before I used 50% and it was okay(post patch)
Keeping the weight low gives me better feedback through the corners and I feel the grip/slip better.
Try and see what you think, hope this helps.