Formula 1 game

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Originally Posted by Alfa Fan

Time trial just isn't any fun is it? The slightest mistake on a lap and it not only invalidates that lap, but the one after, even if its on turn 1. ****ing hopeless.

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I can understand the invalidated lap penalty because I think it encourages you to aim for that "perfect" lap, but why they needed to add in the invalidated next lap I have no idea, particularly when you can get it for making a seemingly minor error. That's blummin' annoying!!

When I first got the game I remember trying to set a lap at, IIRC, Yas Marina, and it took me until lap 14 to do so :p Still...it's one way of learning the circuits!!

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

When I first got the game I remember trying to set a lap at, IIRC, Yas Marina, and it took me until lap 14 to do so :p Still...it's one way of learning the circuits!!

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I had the same problem at Bahrain when I started the career. There is one corner that is deceptively tight and I kept running out wide, it took me hours of "Jarno is faster than you in all three sectors" before I managed to string a lap together.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

During the race you can toggle certain settings of the car using the directional pad. ...

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Cheers. I was wondering how that was done.

After struggling on "Hard" level in career mode I dumbed it down to "Medium". I promptly put the HRT on pole at Malaysia and finished 4th :p : . At Shanghai I started 5th on the grid and finished first :eek: .
Is it me, or is there too large a difficulty gap between Hard and Medium? :mark:

@ArrowsFA1 - the penalty system is there to prevent people shortcuting the last corner and gaining speed into the next lap, but it's active throughout sector 3 so it ruins your lap.

@schmenke - it was stated on CM forum a little while ago that there is quite a gap between the difficulty levels. Maybe a patch will sort this out.

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Originally Posted by Bruce D

@ArrowsFA1 - the penalty system is there to prevent people shortcuting the last corner and gaining speed into the next lap, but it's active throughout sector 3 so it ruins your lap.

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Ahhhhh...good point. Hadn't thought of that as being the reason! Still it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game.

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Originally Posted by henners88

The first corner of any race seems to end in exactly the same way in quick game mode. You break for the corner and then you are punted a 100 yards along with everyone else across the grass as the people who have no idea how to play the game choose a destruction derby instead.

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One way to try and avoid this is set up your own lobby and change the settings so that the highest ranked players start at the back. That way the muppets who haven't found the brakes yet are at the front and sail off at the first corner, conveniently getting out of the way of everyone who actually wants to race :p

My copy arrived yesterday and I just got enough time to set it all up and play one race weekend: Bahrain, medium difficulty, 20 laps, HRT, career mode.

I put the car 7th on the grid and comfortably won the race. I think I'll need to up it to 'hard' difficulty level to enjoy more of a challenge. Also, must get online racing going.

i have a question, is the game really playable on the harder levels using just a normal controller (PS3) or do you have to have a wheel.

Well it's impossible with the keyboard. I believe it is fine with a controller, but the wheel is fractionally faster.

@Paddy, let us know your gamertag when you're up and running.