Does a Force Feedback Racing Wheel Make You Faster?

April 5, 2022 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment

Is it true what they say? Does a Force Feedback Racing Wheel make you faster at sim racing video games? Well I just got my first wheel in a long time – and first ever with FFB, a Thrustmaster TX Ferrari 458 Italia Edition, originally for Xbox One but just as at home on my Xbox Series X, so I set out to find out. I set a lap in F1 2021 with my favourite car (The McLaren MCL35M) at my favourite track (Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia) with a standard Xbox Series Gamepad and then set about trying to match or beat that time with the Thrustmaster.

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Weekly Vlog: March 8-14, 2021 – Xbox Series X & F1 Testing

March 18, 2021 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment

In this week’s Vlog, I continue to catch up on lost time with my Xbox Series X – playing Gears 5, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Forza Horizon 4 and Destiny 2. All that, plus some personal news I couldn’t quite get in to the previous Vlog and my thoughts on F1 Testing ahead of the 2021 Formula 1 Season.

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Weekly Vlog: February 8-14, 2021

February 18, 2021 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment

In this week’s Vlog, inclement weather and below-freezing temperatures put paid to my plans to get out and shoot while taking walks outside, so instead I played some video games! Featuring my thoughts on brand new PS5 Exclusive available through PSPlus Destruction AllStars, first impressions on Control Ultimate Edition, early experience with Destiny 2’s Season of the Chosen and some brief thoughts on F1 2020.

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Let’s Play Firewatch

February 9, 2016February 16, 2020 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment

What IS Firewatch? A mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness where the protagonist’s only contact is with the person on the other end of a handheld radio. Huh? Oh, er, I mean…Let’s find out!

Let’s Play Until Dawn

February 1, 2016February 16, 2020 / TVPaulD / Leave a comment

There’s some teens, a mountain, some cabins, an inexplicable & surprisingly un-remarked upon lack of resources for this explicitly pre-planned event, lots of tropes and no way out or communication with the outside world…Until Dawn.