PC BETA #1 + #2 - Steering wheel / Hardcore mode:
Given the lack of vehicles we got to try it's too early to be definitive. I just felt too disconnected from the car.
Driver aids forced on - couldn't do a burnout (besides the fake one it does) and lose traction/spin out in Street spec.
Driving the Camaro and Challenger in town was a massive chore - too much grip in Street spec.
Driving on snowy roads was better, but this is how the car should handle on normal roads, and it should be much harder on icy roads.
imo you should really only have high grip in Circuit spec.
Wheel options/settings are a pain to tweak. It should calculate things like Linearity automatically by getting you to hold the wheel at 90 degrees.
Offroading in other specs was pretty good.
Darin from ISR was able to play the console betas with a wheel and was fairly happy with it though, so maybe there was some improvement.
Having a 'hardcore' mode is half the battle won, we just need it to be more hardcore. I suspect the problem in making the Street spec on-road stuff better is that offroad/raid stuff becomes near-impossible. Personally I don't mind if that makes us non-competitive with Sports players, just so long as we can enjoy cruising together.