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welcome to my unboxing of the simraceway s1 now you might not recognize the brand simraceway when it comes to gaming peripherals however you'll probably recognize this one so co-developed with SteelSeries this is a racing wheel that uses motion control rather than actually being like fixed to an object like a table or like a huge chair setup so it uses motion control and the hugest variety of buttons that I think I've ever seen on a controller to give you a sim type feel and sim type flexibility and customization without being bolted down literally to a fixed furniture object and without taking up a ton of space in your home so motion controlled customizable driving experience steering shift and pedal controls all in your hands let's go ahead and see what else they have to say for themselves quick rotary dials for driving aids realistic racing wheel shifters cool okay responsive rpm / shift indicator lights customizable steering sensitivity rubberized racing wheel comfort grips and fully programmable 15 buttons and d-pad right full range throttle and brake controls and a high accuracy handheld motion controlled stewing package co-developed with steel series help it includes simraceway of the game however saying it includes simraceway the game is kind of like saying that it includes oxygen because simraceway is actually free to play which is pretty cool online world focused on live multiplayer racing for you to play no subscription fee simulation great driving physics laser scan tracks and proprietary skill matching technology for closer racing across all skill levels that can be a huge problem with racing games if you have that like super legit player that just sort of destroys everyone else it's not really fun to race when you're actually alone on the track and you have no chance of catching up to anyone or anyone catching up to you that's just boring um oh it also comes with ten dollars of in game currency so yes it's free to play but micro micro transaction driven so you can buy like cars stuff cool okay my understanding is people who like racing games like you know driving the cool car in the racing game and you know that sort of things so I'm not much of a racing game guy myself so so don't get me wrong although I shouldn't really call it I shouldn't really call it a game outright because simraceway is not it's more of a sim than a game so games tend to have more of an Arkady style of physics where it's not realistic but it might be easier or more fun for for novices whereas sims tend to be more realistic so it's easier to do things like spin out and crash but if you actually wanted to to practice I mean some sins even are used by professional drivers to practice a new a new track that they haven't that they haven't done before so if you want a more realistic driving experience then you definitely want to go with something that uses realistic physics and if I could get this package open I would be some kind of a hero man because this is unbelievable oh it should be noted though that just because it's compatible and comes with simraceway and comes with $10 of in-game money it is actually compatible with any other pc racing game as well so they list a bunch of them on the website that it is specifically compatible with but then at the end of it is also all PC racing games so that is totally never going back in that packaging that much is very clear what do we got here long periods of repetitive motion using an improperly set up workspace on there's your s RW currency cool okay and also seems to come with a small instruction guide that's very eco-friendly you know small instruction guide so you can tell they didn't cheap out on the instruction guide because it's printed in color but that they didn't want to you know overdo the paper we have dispensed with discs to save the planet that's right don't bother throwing away the CD it doesn't come with one you can just download the latest off of haha simraceway TOCOM slash download underscore client there you go getting started guide and blah blah blah ah yes that's what we want so this shows what all of the buttons are for by default and what they actually do this talks a little bit about the steering allows you to fine-tune some race-based driving aids in order to your preferences so to change the value of an asset assist select using the assist dial and then turn the assist values dial to desired setting low medium high or off to turn all the SS off select all on the assist style and turn the assess value style to off very very cool please note that once you've been turned off that can only be turned back on individually so assists driving assists you got all kinds of different things that's some pieces of the red packaging okay so spin stab shift clutch abs break traction steer pit in vault lock and also lock would probably be what you'd want to have it on after you've set everything so basically if you go okay I want clutch assists to be high so you said it'll like that very cool so I'm going to turn that off by default and okay so here's our shifter here's our presumably throttle and brake but give me a sec guys alright so I was right which is a miracle because like I said not really into racing game so this is shift up shift down this is your brake this is your throttle so these are all actually easy to reach even for someone like me with relatively small hands however once you're on these I don't know that you'd you know I don't I don't know that you'd necessarily be able to reach everything so you can see my thumb's can just barely make it to the paddle and then just barely make it to some of these however most of this stuff you shouldn't really have to use in games so let's have a look at what all the buttons are so the conveniently located buttons that I will realistically be able to press no I can't reach that one can't reach that one then I'll realistically be able to press with my fingers on the paddles shifting and braking and our look right and look left so that's yeah okay that's pretty that's pretty basic umm the stuff that i realistically wouldn't be able to reach but most people probably could are things like speed limiter and request pit i should be noted that things like speed limiter so this is for when you're in the pits are not necessarily available on our cars but because this is a racing accessory it does have the it does accommodate some special options that aren't available in all cars like launch control which gets you off the line if the cars up and boost which it boosts your speed if the car supports it so things like that so if you have larger hands than me remember guys my hands are super small then you should realistically be able to reach this probably this you should be able to reach boost as well as lights I just can't quite make it there so what else do we have so we got look-back rear brake balance front brake balance orange control which we covered HUD which i think is fairly self-explanatory or shows you the HUD or doesn't show you the HUD horn this one now this button actually has very cool functionality what it does is it makes it so that the car will actually lift off the ground and then it does like a complete rotation and then it will flip the wheels from the top of the car down to the bike from the bottom of the car down to the top of the car like transformer style and it will go along the road like gosh they just honk the horn so that honks the horn this is for navigating menus so you got like enter select your d-pad as well as your back button so you can actually I mean that's one of the biggest frustrations with with most racing wheels well the only real racing wheel that I've really used in the past g25 was that you actually still have to have a keyboard handy for a lot of games because you can't navigate anything by bearing in mind I didn't have the shifter plugged in so I think that has navigation buttons on it but there's a lot of accessories to plug in whereas this is just one piece that you can like store in your coffee table and not you know worry about it being in the way all the time right okay camera view changes all of that stuff aha so steering sensitivity you can change it anywhere from 180 degrees to 360 degrees and then this we have already covered so let's see what else SteelSeries has to say for themselves here like I said guys I am NOT a racing aficionado so this is something I do need a little bow actually nope wait come back this is cool so the rubberized grips here are awesome these are these are like the stickiest rubber grips ever without feeling like it's sticky you know how sometimes you're just like oh it feels like you know silly putty it's not like that they feel very very nice there would be very difficult to accidentally drop this controller the rest of the unit has like a soft touch feel which is also very nice it has a braided cord we said look at how long the cord is actually that could be relevant so you're not going to be plugging this in from you know a super long way away it looks like about a Linus arm span and a half which for those of you who work with real measurements is probably about ten feet okay or three meters for those of you who used like real real measurements like not Imperial measurements um so Ready Set raise okay full range you can okay continue you can okay I would definitely recommend going to steel series calm and having a look at what they ought to say about it because the unit itself feels very solid without being too heavy and this gives you some idea of all of the customizability that is available here's a quick list of a bunch of games that supported during two gt-r live live for speed or heard that need for speed I've definitely heard of that one it's very mainstream um used by the pros interesting test and improved by professional racing drivers including Dario Franchitti relatively good Wow that's kind of cool I mean it's one thing when there's like a mouse that's like approved by pro gamers but when there you have like a wheel that's approved by pro drivers who like actually have to like risk their lives to do what they're doing and they say it's okay then that's a sort of meaningful actually for a neutral set up okay you can compromise between this and this so I think the point of all of this is the convenience factor so not having the bulky setup the customizability factor yeah it's kinda neat I mean it's a lot better than holding like a Wii mote so the PC is still light years ahead of consoles in terms of that the one drawback from my mind is lack of force feedback so personally I like I have a hard time with racing games already if I don't have hot force feedback I have a much harder time with racing games however if you just want yeah if you just want the convenience factor if you don't care about the force feedback and you want something that you can just kind of pack up and take with you somewhere very conveniently then this might be the way to go so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the s-1 from steel series the simraceway branded s1 don't forget to subscribe Cline's tech tips from unboxings reviews and computer videos