Formula 1 game

A couple of bugs I have found.

Coming into the pits in the race ahead of a Williams, I slowed for the speed limit line a bit to early and the Williams turned into a ghost car and drove through me and into the pits.

Mid way into a wet Australia race I saw on the circuit map about 7 cars in the pits and assumed there had been a mass crash, but when I pitted 7 laps later all the cars were just sitting in the pit lane stopped and my Car was blocked and I had to retire.

So clearly a lot of problems already.

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Originally Posted by aki13

A couple of bugs I have found.

Coming into the pits in the race ahead of a Williams, I slowed for the speed limit line a bit to early and the Williams turned into a ghost car and drove through me and into the pits.

Mid way into a wet Australia race I saw on the circuit map about 7 cars in the pits and assumed there had been a mass crash, but when I pitted 7 laps later all the cars were just sitting in the pit lane stopped and my Car was blocked and I had to retire.

So clearly a lot of problems already.

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How about this bombshell: F1 2010 is a fraud and Codie's couldn't take the heat so they shut down the thread !

http://community.codemasters.com/for...ai-phoney.html

Confirmed Race AI is Phoney

Proof
Just raced on Bahrain and started in sixth. At the end of the 1st lap i was second. My lap time was 2:03. Webber was in first, he was at most a second a head on track yet his lap time was 2:00. The big issue was Kubica. He was 3rd, yet his lap time was 1:59. This is impossible. There is no way that on the first lap Kubica can go round the track 1 second quicker than Webber, 4 seconds quicker than me and still end up in 3rd at the end of said lap.

If the AI we see on the track are not posting the lap times and just populated like cars in GTA that would explain lots of the issues I have with the game

No split times - cause the AI isnt actually lapping

Strange AI pit stops(questioning whether the AI has made a pit stop)

No penalties for the AI

This game is a time trial with the AI just there to act as blockers of the racing line. The AI difficulty isnt how well they drive just how aggressively they defend the racing line. Should really have expected this from a game based on a rally engine.

That's the same thread that I posted about, I figured they shut it down, but about 20 threads have taken it's place over there...

About the new teams battling at the front, seems they've developed it so the performance of the car will depend on where it's placed in the grid, or which position it's racing for.

Try getting a McLaren, Red Bull or Ferrari at the back of the pack and it won't be able to progress through the field at all... in fact, they're commonly passed by the new teams. But, once a new team gets up towards the top 10, they suddenly find bursts of speed. I had a race where Chandhok started on the final row of the grid, through pit stops cycled to the lead (short race so the pack was closer together) and suddenly started running times equaling the Red Bulls and McLarens that were there. Chandhok finished 3rd in that race, based entirely off the times he started running when he took the lead...

As for the dynamic weather, it's a crock. Qualifying in China, Q1, it's nice and sunny. Q2, it's POURING (with a 4% chance of rain, might I add) so I figure in Q3, I should expect the same. Without looking, I throw on full wets and head to the track where... it's... completely dry. No wet track, not even damp. Dry.

I hope they send the real copy of the game once I'm done with the beta though... that'd be nice.

Apart from looking quite good. It appears the fundamentals of the game are crocked and rubbish.

All that time and proposals and they don't put effort into the intricate details and it ends up dissapointing nearly everyone.

I'm expecting that update patches will be available in due time so I'm not worrying too much about these teething problems yet. That said, I probably won't receive my copy until mid next week :cheese:

Here's the potential reason why some like myself (PC version) have experienced severe and massive slowdowns. It appears a massive 2GB replay file is being accessed or written to which results in a catastrophic drop in FPS. Codie's has issued a temporary solution, don't know if they'll fix it this year.

http://segmentnext.com/2010/09/23/f1...freezes-fixes/

"3# Frame Skips, Low FPS, Lag

PC version of the game may be experiencing all this due to a massive replay file, too much data writing occurs on that file causing the lag and frame skips, when you go back to the game after having watched a replay.
You can find the file here."

:rotflmao:

I know I have already posted about this, but I had to fill you in.


Firstly let me explain I am not very good at these games.

I started a full season as Vitaly Petrov (No Reason), at Medium difficulty. I enjoyed the 1st round in Bahrain it all went fine.

Round 2 in Australia and I find the games a shame.

I have been playing it on and off today.

I start the race in the dry from 4th and after 5 laps it begins to rain. For the next 10 laps we all run on dry tyres while the circuit is awash with water with no spins or slidding just full grip.

We pit for Inters and resume, I then notice alot of cars in the pit lane stopped. (The first time I raced this race I reset because of this glitch and now I find it does it again).

So I carry on with inters as if I stop for wets I will get trapped in the pits. After a while I spin a few times and run 13th. I now lap 3 cars 5 times in 20 laps. Hispania, Virgin and Hamilton??? :confused:
These cars are running around with their pit limiters on. :eek:

While I get lapped myself. I decide I have had enough and pit and sure enough I stop in a que of cars in the pits race over I can't reverse or crash thats it.

I look at an instant replay and see a Williams had crashed into a ferrari exiting the pits (like in Hungary with Kubica and Rosberg).

7 other cars just sit there and look at them for the rest of the race, leaving my race to be over.

It makes me wonder if this glitch arrives after 2 races, what will the rest of the season hold.

One final point, I crashed into about 4 cars once I got bored and only damaged my nose, the AI cars just drove off is this right.

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to vent my concerns. :dozey:

It's not perfect, but I'm enjoying it. Although I'm finding "Hard" too easy - another easy 9th place for Lotus - and "Expert" far too tricky.

Plus the teams need rebalancing, Hispania are constantly challenging for points and Williams are often near the back. And it's too easy to drive in the wet even with traction control off. The damage modelling is pretty awful too but I think that's a consequence of their licence from FOM or whoever.

Hopefully they'll patch it up soon. For a first attempt though, it's not too bad.

Well, I've been playing it since the 24th all through the weekend, and the game actually surprised me a bit, turned out to be better than I thought. The feel on the steering wheel is pretty good, force feedback is good as well, but it's a bit too easy.

I'm running in expert mode with all driving assists off, qualified 12th and finished 5th in a Lotus at Bahrain. WTF? I guess time spent playing rFactor helped with this one.

BUT there are still a lot of bugs with this game. For example the pit stop bug, which I read can be corrected by changing your pit-stop strategy at the start. Without changing the recommended race strategy, I would start 12th, make my way up to 4th, then pit and come out 24th!!!! Behind Trulli, my teammate, who started 20th! And many times the AI just didn't pit.

Also, it's already confirmed by Steve Hood, the chief designer, that AI qualifying times are fake, which is a huge bummer. I knew something was wrong when the track was weirdly empty during the qualifying sessions. And there are rumors about the AI being fake in race as well, as posted above. About that, it might, just MIGHT be a timing bug, fingers crossed! If not, then Codies really dropped the ball with this one.

Having said all that, the game is a total BLAST online. I played for an hour or so online yesterday. Won a race at Interlagos, which I have by-hearted during the hours spent playing F1 challenge. Was winning Melbourne and Montreal until I spun the car due to over-eagerness, but still finished second. Well, I should have turned traction control on like the others since it was in the options, but decided not to.

Anybody wants to play online, look out for my Live ID: CaptainRaiden ;) (Bruce! Where are you? Did you get the game yet?)

Would love to but I've been chasing shops all weekend and found that nobody in SA is getting it before the 30th! :( I've also heard that online is more where the game is focused rather than offline, which is a shame, and I'm disappointed reading all these comments. Seems like people were sworn to shut up about the major flaws of the game. Also explains why some reviews were saying it was brilliant yet giving it not quite 100% scores.