Its a shame as the game is quite fun more-so with a wheel. Im really good at pad racing, but this game its hard to control the car whilst dodging traffic and keeping the sliding under control. But with the wheel the FFB is done pretty well and i find it easier to play than with a pad. It fully supports clutch and H pattern shifting too, along with mapping curves for throttle/brake/clutch.
So far ive found the social element to be non existant, sometimes you see people online, but i dont know how to interact. If you have a "crew" (friends) in the game then you can drive with them, but again havent tested that.
There seems to be a lot of steering lag, but i think its the animation thats lagging rather than the input, from my testing anyway, its not impeding my driving.
I found a piece of a kit car, you need to get all 20 to unlock the kit car. More interesting than Horizons "barn finds" imo and really makes you explore as the positions are not obvious, more like random.
The customization looks pretty decent too, pretty much what we find in Forza and GT. I havent unlocked all the parts so im not sure how many levels of performance parts there are, or the number of body kit parts or rims.
Generally there seems to be a decent depth to the game.
Trying to play now but cant connect =/