Formula 1 game

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Originally Posted by Bezza

Racing games online are an issue. Love COD2 and stuff like that but with racing games all you get is idiots who want to ram into people and drive the wrong way. Same with football games, if you are winning, they will quit early before the match finishes.

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That is the choice many of them take online. Started a race yesterday at Suzuka, 8 players joined in the lobby. The race was only 5 laps. By the 2nd lap I was way ahead, 3 seconds faster on every sector. They started quitting, and by the third lap all 8 of them quit the race. I crossed the line and was given the default victory because everybody else DNF'ed.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Oh I dunno. I had some great scraps playing TOCA 2 online as well as Colin McRae Rally - but of course in that you use the ghost car thing so no collisions!

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That's what I do whenever I host Monaco online, otherwise the whole track becomes a big destruction zone.

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Originally Posted by Bezza

Waiting for my copy to arrive in the post :)

Racing games online are an issue. Love COD2 and stuff like that but with racing games all you get is idiots who want to ram into people and drive the wrong way. Same with football games, if you are winning, they will quit early before the match finishes.

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I think it is the quick game modes where you get all of the dicks who ram everyone.

In some of the custom game modes you get people who race properly.

I haven't really come across too many bad people, although apparently I'm "unsporting" - according to someone's rating of me! =P Me thinks it's that dude in Canada who we mentioned earlier in this thread.

Anyway, after owning the game for over 2 weeks, I finally got around to playing some single player stuff on Saturday! Well personally I think most of the people moaning about this game are just being picky. For one I thought the AI was very good and defensive and work well. I knew what to do to avoid the pitstop bug (pit one lap later) and so my races have been smooth. Love the changeable weather and how you can work through all the practice sessions to get towards qualifying and the race. Scored a point in the first race but failed to get into the points in the 2nd race. Hopefully I'll get to the third one soon.

I'm loving the career mode. I like racing my arse off in the Lotus, putting in qualy times for 30+ laps and still only just coming home in 19th place.

My only gripe is that sometimes the A.I is slow in qualifying. I put the Lotus on the front row in Canada (on legendary with zero driver aids). But in the race they were far faster than me.

Yeah, I've see that behavior in career mode, too.

I quallied 4th at Barcelona yesterday. Gonna race when I get home, tonight. I definitely bought the game for the career mode and it's been pretty fun so far. This is the first time I bought a game to race against the AI. I got 9th in Malaysia in a torrential downpour in the Virgin. It's my best achievement in the game so far.

I got iRacing for multiplayer, but I have ventured out a few times and usually set up something after my career race. Melbourne races have been fun so far. May do some at Suzuka tonight.

Career mode is a lot of fun...currently at Force Indiam having graduated from Sauber and leading the championship. I also found the AI much quicker in the race than in qually, especially at Barcelona.

Personally I prefer the idea of them being faster in the race. Not like the Simbin games where they are miles faster in qualifying so you work your butt off to get a good qualifying then drive past everyone by the 2nd lap and die of boredom out front. Ok the best situation is being equal but if I had to choose, the F1 2010 way is the way I'd want it.

About the AI settings - everyone keeps saying they're on Legend AI but mine only goes up to Expert. Is that the same or am I missing something? On that level I'm maybe getting the Lotus into the top 15 and race to 10-12th place, so it's fine, just wondering if they changed the wording for the different release areas.

For a good laugh I spend time reading the CM forums. Just 2 examples from this morning - one guy saying "wow this game is now really great". What did he do? Just switched off all the assists and started driving the game properly. Fancy that...

The 2nd one was another guy going off about how the AI around him always put in amazing lap times just around his pitstops so he drops down the order. I don't know about you guys but I really don't find the time to be looking at laptimes on the screen while I'm driving, it's taking too much brain power to keep the beast on the track. So I'm thinking maybe the AI overtook him cos he wasn't concentrating on driving... ;)

If CM would have been smart and allowed us to have a full online grid there would be plenty of leagues of varying orders of "seriousness levels" which would allow us to escape the havoc that usually is in public online racing.

Oh well. Maybe for 2011?

By first British GP in career mode was quite exciting for me.

I only managed to qualify the Lotus 20th, just behind Trulli. The race day was wet. Everyone started on inters and I had a cracking first lap, climbing up to 13th. I had very good pace in the wet and steadily picked off cars. By lap 6 I was up to 9th, just ahead of Schumacher and Kubica.

I noticed the conditions were improving so I made a gamble to make an early pit stop for slicks. I came out onto the still damp track in last place but I was soon able to catch the backmarkers. I began to rise up the order as other cars pitted. Rosberg came out of the pit-lane side-by-side but I muscled my way past before his tyres got up to temperature. After the pit-stops I was 5th!

As the track got greener the cars around me started to find their true pace. The leading pack of Hamilton, Massa, Vettel and Button began to pull away at a rate of 2 seconds per lap. Behind me a queue of faster cars began to form, led by Rosberg.

I held off Rosberg for 10 laps before I made a mistake on the new loop. Four cars got through but I still managed to hold onto the 9th place for the last 8 laps.

Best race I've had so far.