Would videogame driving peripherals and games help me learn to drive stick?
I am 26 years old and don't know how but I have been getting into Veeky Forums that I want to learn.
Im embarrassed to take lessons
Would videogame driving peripherals and games help me learn to drive stick?
I am 26 years old and don't know how but I have been getting into Veeky Forums that I want to learn.
Im embarrassed to take lessons
Your pic will kind of help. I used that myself for a little bit. The best way is to buy a cheap manual car and drive it around. I learned just over a year ago myself at 26.
In all honesty the majority of stick is the feel of the entire car, like feeling the clutch bite, feeling the car begin to move, and feeling how the car reacts to your rev matching. Unfortunately most of that you really can't replicate with peripherals, even with really good force feedback.
Like the other guy said, buying a cheap manual car would be the way to go. It's a shitty solution, but just going out and doing it is the best way.
>The best way is to buy a cheap manual car and drive it around.
This.
The G27 is a rad wheel, but no peripheral will teach you the finer points of proper clutch usage, how to not stall etc let alone about how to use the handbrake in conjunction with everything needed for day to day driving.
Don't you have a friend that can teach you? I'm sure modern simulators are great and all but honestly nothing simulated can compare to the real thing.
My advice is to just suck it up and ask a friend or family member to teach you. You've got to know at least one person who knows and can teach you. Don't pay for lessons.
I don't have friends
You can't be serious.
Honestly, not really.
Learning to drive stick is one of those "you need to FEEL it" type situations, and as far as I know the aren't any sim setups that emulate the feel of clutch biting.
Other than getting lessons I'd suggest buying the cheapest manual car you can find and give yourself a crash course (after getting the theory down from YouTube, of course) in an empty parking lot somewhere.
The good thing is that it's not actually that hard, it just requires practice and a touch of patience to begin with. Once you're moving you'll be fine.
Testing the waters, aka being sane, aka being a fucking wuss: $200 shitbox that needs a new everything but ran when parked off CL + chink phone with a data connection good enough for youtube
I KNOW WHAT I WANT, AND I ALWAYS GET WHAT I WANT: Buy a nice manual car and stall and jerk your way through traffic until you get it (or die) (you deserved it for being WEAK)
I don't have any friends and not alot of money to throw around. My g27 did indeed help me quite alot with building confidence in driving a manual however like the others have said the intricacies are not there.
Don't kid yourself.