Formula 1 game

I might add to my previous comment that thinking about it the tail was coming around a bit going into the hairpin at the end so caution how much brake bias to the rear you use as the fuel loading will change the feeling. Pity you can't adjust the brake bias on the fly like they do in real life, but the adjustment system is a bit slow for it.

@X-ecutioner, er don't you think that dude was a bit rough last night? He hit you a bit at the start and then roughed me up at the hairpin. Every time I tried to avoid him he pulled over more on me. I let him go that time but then on the next lap he got together with you and I pulled alongside you guys and thought what the hell I'll go for it into the next turn and he just turned in so we hit again and he spun off. I backed off to let him go but he was taking forever to recover so I carried on after you. Then you pitted real early but I presume that was because of the puncture so I tried to maintain the gap to him but he was quicker (which made all his hitting tactics really stupid). We both pitted on the same lap and then he disappeared so I just managed the gap to you for a while. Made a mistake at one poiint so I whacked the engine to max revs and did a 1:15 lap and then backed off again cos you disappeared. Was a really boring end to the race, just making sure not to do anything stupid.

Afterwards I did a 3 lapper at Hockenheim with some rather robust guys but I outsmarted them and won that one, then quit for the night cos it was already 30min since you left so I ended it.

I want to do a 3 round mini champ of 3 lappers if possible next time we're online. I agree the longer races are interesting but you keep getting punctures so it's annoying.

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I want to do a 3 round mini champ of 3 lappers if possible next time we're online. I agree the longer races are interesting but you keep getting punctures so it's annoying.

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That should be fun. Yeah, the longer races are a no-go until the patch fixes this. That guy you talk about did do some stupid things. At the start I was alongside him and had the inside line for the first corner, but he turned right in front of me and tried to block me by brake testing me, so obviously I couldn't do anything but punt him and put him in the grass.

Yeah I was watching that and thinking "why is this guy being so agressive off the start, we have a long way to go here". I got him there and tried to go around the outside of you on the hairpin part but you got a better drive out. Then I got you on the run to the hairpin then locked the brakes and you both next to me and (see previous post)...

BTW What was his message to you afterwards? I was waiting for one to me about my forcefulness on lap 2 but if you play with fire...

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BTW What was his message to you afterwards? I was waiting for one to me about my forcefulness on lap 2 but if you play with fire...

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He said something like he had to retire because of the puncture and thanks for getting out of the way on my slow lap during qualifying unlike a lot of other guys around etc. Nothing about the wheel banging. :p I think that punt at the start got me my first puncture. Luckily or unluckily the second puncture was right in the middle of the back straight, so I jumped straight into the pits.

Man, I'd love to join you guys, but my time gets more limited by the week! I'm in the States, so I dont think you're awake after I'm off of work. The Multiplayer lobbies really thin out after I get on at 6pm PST (-8 GMT). I have a league to practice for in iRacing, so that limits me even more.

Did some TT's at Shanghai. I'm at 1:33 in the Ferrari, but I think I can shave off another second. I somehow exited the practice and qualy sessions wrong in career mode and all I had left was the race. I only got in 5 laps in Practice and I totally missed the Qually because my son wanted some Cheerios and then TV and then, blah. I exited out (not thinking) and I got no times in. I have to remember to FF to the end of the session and then exit, D'OH!! Oh well, I'll do my career race tonight.

bblocker, I've been wondering why I always miss you by a couple of hours, you're in the States, that explains it.

Actually the lobbies are pretty thin all the time, I think the most I've had in one race is 6 cars and the average is 3. A lot of guys are doing private lobbies which doesn't help.

I make videos of this game. : ^ )

http://www.youtube.com/kevincali24

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bblocker, I've been wondering why I always miss you by a couple of hours, you're in the States, that explains it.

Actually the lobbies are pretty thin all the time, I think the most I've had in one race is 6 cars and the average is 3. A lot of guys are doing private lobbies which doesn't help.

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I did a lot of full grid 12 player races yesterday. The first time I mistakenly put all driving assists allowed, and the lobby was filled with idiot rammers. It was a group of I think 3 Spanish guys who consistently kept ramming everyone in the race. Needless to say, I'm NEVER going to do that again.

Next, I hosted a couple of pro races, all driving assists off, had some really close and amazing races against about 4 or 5 guys until I came across a total buffoon dumba$$ Italian guy called ISOoffroad or something. Although he was really fast in the races (doing 1:12 laps at Monaco and 1:41 laps at Spa. I was leading and he was eating 1 second out of me every lap), but kept making mistakes. More importantly he was needlessly aggressive at starts and during overtaking, kept barging and banging into people around him. Spun me around twice in 3 races. And as the icing on the cake, sends me a message after the race telling me to learn fair play. :confused: The hypocrisy and audacity of some people. :rolleyes:

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.

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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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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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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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.

Can I ask: Did you have the possibility to change the tyre choice during the race before pitstopping, or did you guess before the race that you would change to slicks some time through out the race?

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Can I ask: Did you have the possibility to change the tyre choice during the race before pitstopping, or did you guess before the race that you would change to slicks some time through out the race?

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During the race you can toggle certain settings of the car using the directional pad. You can change the engine map, front wing angle or tyres for your next stop.

I wish you could change brake bias though :s

Yeah changing the brake bias on the fly would be a major benefit.

Well thats only for the PC that you can do so?

Had the honour to play F1 2010 at friend's place last weekend. Well, what can I say. What I found truly enjoyable, is the racing of AI. I think it's the best I have ever seen. They really remind real racing drivers, when you compare this to what can be seen in a real F1 race from an onboard camera view. Had several really enjoyable battles on various circuits. Oh, and I may add that I really like especially the last sector of the much-criticized Valencia circuit. Doesn't seem that bad of a track at all. :D

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Well thats only for the PC that you can do so?

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No the console versions have it as well. Look in the menu for controls and see what buttons are defined for it, otherwise customise the settings to suit you.

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Had the honour to play F1 2010 at friend's place last weekend. Well, what can I say. What I found truly enjoyable, is the racing of AI. I think it's the best I have ever seen. They really remind real racing drivers, when you compare this to what can be seen in a real F1 race from an onboard camera view. Had several really enjoyable battles on various circuits. Oh, and I may add that I really like especially the last sector of the much-criticized Valencia circuit. Doesn't seem that bad of a track at all. :D

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Ah, another convert... :D

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Well thats only for the PC that you can do so?

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No, I'm playing on Xbox.

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Well thats only for the PC that you can do so?

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You use the D-pad to alter the settings, at least I can on my 360 using a wheel.

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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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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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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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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@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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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.