Deus Ex: Mankind Divided [External Link] is 75% off, I'd recommend it

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Quoting: tuubiBelieve it or not, you won't find the familiar H-shifter in modern high end rally cars. WRC drivers use either paddles or sequential manual stick shifts that AFAIK work like you described. Clutch is basically only needed to get the car moving. I guess if you're going for total realism, you'd need all kinds of setups to cover all the available car classes in Dirt Rally.

Looks like you're right. From Wikipedia [External Link]:

A sequential manual transmission (or sequential manual gearbox) is a non-traditional type of manual transmission used on motorcycles and high-performance cars for auto racing, where gears are selected in order, and direct access to specific gears is not possible.

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A true sequential transmission will very often use dog clutch engagement rather than the more usual synchromesh as fitted to a normal H-pattern road car gearbox. Engagement using dogs requires only a very brief interruption of engine torque to complete a shift into any adjacent gear. This allows shifting between gears without the use of the clutch. The clutch would normally be used only for standing starts.

Thank you for making me feel better about my 50 € wheel! ^_^

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Quoting: ArthurHow does it work in practice though? How does it know to gear down instead of up - do you have to brake while shifting down in order to gear down instead of going to a higher gear?

On the DFGT, the stick has three positions: neutral (centered), up (away from you) and down (towards you). By default, pulling the stick towards you shifts up and pushing it away shifts down. You can hear a click when it reaches those extreme positions, and after you let it go, a spring brings the stick back to center.

I like the DFGT for its price and compactness, but if you're looking for sturdiness (the DFGT wheel itself is great, but the pedals do look a little flimsy and are a little bit too close together), silence (some reviews say its FF is too loud; doesn't bother me, though) and realism, it's gonna be hard to pay much less than a few hundred bucks.

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The lack of a clutch does take away a little bit of the realism, especially if you've driven manual cars, but at least for me it doesn't cut a significant part of the fun. Ditto for the sequential gears, as it only goes up and down and not in an H-pattern.

Anyway, the pedals are connected to the wheel through a VGA port, so I suppose you could switch them to another one with a clutch. Or maybe you can buy the 3-piece pedal separately and have it connect directly to your PC, perhaps using a cable like this one [External Link]. I've tried to find a testimony of someone who's actually done this, but got nothing.

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Have you considered the Logitech Driving Force GT? I think it's a great first wheel, works with pretty much every racing game I've tried (only exception: ETS 2 has wrong range and no FF, but it's fixed with a package provided by the developer) and you can get a used one for 50 USD.

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Dang, not the answer I was expecting. :D

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Quoting: EhvisF1 2017 has Linux depots (encrypted) and a configuration.

Not a sure sign, but what percentage of games get Linux depots and never end up seeing a release? I know it's more than zero, but can anyone actually do the math?

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Not only does it have a career mode, it is very promising. Check out this hyp... er, trailer.

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Quoting: bekoYou may consider Patreon again. It's perfectly possible to place "one time orders". That's up to the user. A subscription is optional (granted, only if this wasn't restricted lately)

I don't see that option, at least not for Liam. As financially disadvantageous as it may be, I'd rather pay a lump sum of $60 than have a subscription for one year and pay 12 times $5. I just don't like to have my card charged for subscriptions, not even if unsubscribing is immediate. I'd even cancel Netflix if it were only up to me.

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If you're kinda sick of the game (like I am), I recommend reading the extensive patch notes [External Link]: apparently they've fixed some things that, after almost 100 hours in, made the game so repetitive and predictable to me that I just couldn't play it anymore. Poor AI pit strategy, repetitive radio messages, frequent crashes that provoke a save-scum behavior, all that seems to be fixed or at least improved.

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