Turtle Beach VelocityOne Race Wheel & Pedal System

This wheel was marketed as a healthy median, packaging everything an entry level sim racer wants into an easily configurable bundle. Heavy price tag, but you get more for just $100 more than a Fanatec DD CSL bundle. So you think..I read the reviews, researched it, contemplated the bad ones. Watched others use it. I had to see it for myself and I was very excited to use it. I did not open it or use it with ideas. I also updated it to the newest firmware available to avoid quirks I found when I played my first race.First day, it's great and works fantastic. I used it in Asseto Corsa. Felt very adaptive and easily customizable. As that's one of its features. I noticed that the base can be very loud past 60% strength on Track mode.The issues: The brake pedal is EXTREMELY TOUCHY (as of v1.20). In the OOB firmware, the brake was horribly balanced and you had to push your pedal base down into the floor to get maybe 50% response. The fix was to make it so touchy, my toe resting on the brake pedal locks up my brakes. Sensitivity settings and deadzones are no help.The RMD and system it relies on is glitchy after usage/a race or two. Once you use the wheel or even at random - Menus are laggy and inputs don't register, forcing you to restart the wheel. It's a very good system to have on a wheel base that costs.. this much.. but barley working makes it laughable.A lot of people complained about the wheel base having play, but I think some just didn't have the wheel properly seated. I did not see any issue with this, but at high speed going in a straight line?... you better not have the strength past 65 or it will shake, clack, and make all kinds of annoying noise. It almost seems like the wheel base is loosing grip as the direct drive gear tries to spin. Like metal on metal... This is day two! What gives? You think maybe tweaking some settings, dampening, and making a deadzone would fix that? Nope! Enjoy it, cause anyone who lives with you won't. Already read someone having issues they had to fix physically themselves ibsice the unit on reddit after a week. Not to mention the late FFB taking hard turns.The button box is a cool concept and with more serious racing, keybinds are a necessity. How come the four 3-way switches only have a single registerable position? Cheap. How come the button box uses up two buttons (apparently map-able now) to turn the unit off and on - When there are two buttons ON THE UNIT TO DO THE SAME THING? Likely a last second design choice. I had no issues with flex on the build quality and mounting. So there were.. some improvements.The software.. oh what happened there? Throttle and breaking inputs get stuck after a few laps. You gotta power off the wheel or just unplug it from the base which isn't easy to do on the fly. So forget playing multiplayer, that's a fantasy.. Makes it very difficult to drive fast and tactically if I spin out with extra throttle input or lock up breaks. Creating deadzones and making sensitivity adjustments just dampens the initial curve. You'll hit a rough full-throttle ramp up a quarter way down anyways..Why is the pedal connection on the very BACK of the pedals? You know people are going to want or need to but them against a wall to stop it from sliding or something. If it exists, a L-shaped or angled connector would have been a smart idea. You buy this and I bet you'll break the cable.Overall, I can't recommend this wheel at all. I was severely disappointed. Save your money, your sanity, and your significant other or family the headache or the noise and swearing it will cause. It's such a shame because it's not bad past the issues. 7.2NM with a whole setup for $650 sounded great. Now I wouldn't even buy it on sale for $450...It was a good effort, but there is just too much wrong with it. This is TB's first racing product - but they also had a fail of a flight sim setup too. Hopefully improved by now, but jeez. They know how to get it here, they know what looks good and what is useful for sure. Execution? Programming? Testing? Almost absent. It's a shame... already looking into Moza and Fanatec.