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Dirt 4 No secondary shifter support for use as a handbrake?

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One of the best features of dirt rally was the ability to use a second thrustmaster shifter in sequential mode as a handbrake.
Really sucks that they took that feature out of dirt 4.

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This is not good as I do the same. Does D4 not recognize the shifter? Try choosing manual gearbox and then see if you can map the shifter.

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OMG !! I wish I knew this before my pre order started downloading tonight !!,
i bought my second thrustmaster shifter just for Dirt rally.
please put this option back in codies.....
Looks like I won't be playing from day 1 after all.

Ps4
T500rs 
2 x Th8a shifters. 

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Now for the bad news, your T500 is not supported by the game either.

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madwak said:
Now for the bad news, your T500 is not supported by the game either.
Only on consoles.

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madwak said:
Now for the bad news, your T500 is not supported by the game either.
Yeah I've just been reading this, just ordered the T300 servo base from thrustmaster, the T500 has been hanging on for a while now, I still hope they allow you to use a second shifter in sequential mode to map to the hand brake. 

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I've got the T500 and T300,  the T500 ffb on dirt rally blows the T300 out of the water. Somebody elsewhere has already complained that the T300 ffb is still weak on Dirt 4 but I'm unable to confirm until the 9th whether this is true or not?

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One of the best features of dirt rally was the ability to use a second thrustmaster shifter in sequential mode as a handbrake.
Really sucks that they took that feature out of dirt 4.
Hello! Sorry it's not clear, but we've actually implemented and improved this for DiRT 4! If you head to Device Management ---> Configure Device, you can toggle to select the device you want to configure. Two shifters should appear in your list - select one and go to Input Bindings and attempt to bind handbrake. If that doesn't work, the wrong device is selected - so go back, select the second shifter, and try again. :)

On the T500 - it will be supported for PS4, we're working on patching that in soon.

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I'm on playstation 4.  Can't comment on the pc side of things.
Thanks for the info. Also good to hear that second shifter is supported and T500 is being worked on.

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I can confirm the second shifter works on ps4 with t150.
Under device management select the usb shifter an assign to handbrake.
The h pattern shifter is connected to the wheel base. Bindings for this shifter are listed under the wheel device.

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Is there any support for the fanatec handbrake on Xbox one, it doesn't seem to be recognizing mine and that's a bit frustrating, it works perfectly in dirt rally but not in dirt 4

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One of the best features of dirt rally was the ability to use a second thrustmaster shifter in sequential mode as a handbrake.
Really sucks that they took that feature out of dirt 4.
Hello! Sorry it's not clear, but we've actually implemented and improved this for DiRT 4! If you head to Device Management ---> Configure Device, you can toggle to select the device you want to configure. Two shifters should appear in your list - select one and go to Input Bindings and attempt to bind handbrake. If that doesn't work, the wrong device is selected - so go back, select the second shifter, and try again. :)

On the T500 - it will be supported for PS4, we're working on patching that in soon.
Thanks for pointing this out, I totally glossed over it! But now I have another problem. The Thrustmaster TH8A shifter is *only* being recognized as R1/L1 on PS4, which are the same buttons as the shifter paddles. So every time I use the handbrake, I upshift. If I unbind the Shift Up control, the paddle doesn't respond. Any advice would help greatly.

Edit: to be clear, I'm only using a single shifter (in sequential mode), not two shifters.
EDIT 2: Figured it out. Lower in the menu, the gears were also assigned to the shifter. All good.

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Connect your shifter via usb to the ps4.
Then go to options /input/device management.
Select the shifter and under bindings assign shifter  to handbrake. In the same menu unbind gear up and gear down for the shifter. (square button)

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