F1 Fanatic

Basically, if i jump in the car and set competitive times within a few laps without changing anything setup-wise, then i know i will have wasted my money. That’s not how motor racing works. If however, after tweaking suspension, working on camber and toe angles and adjusting downforce for bumps and chicanes i find the sweetspot and start becoming a challenger, then it will be fulfilling my need.

I think you’re going to be disappointed. Codemasters are not making a hardcore simulation here. They need to appeal to the casual gamers just as much as the hardcore fans. And in a straight fight, casual gamers will win because there are more of them about.

If you watch the video where Autosport look into the game, Anthony Davidson reveals all: when you arrive at a circuit, the default setup for that circuit will allow you to set respectable lap times. You will be able to milk a few tenths of a second out of the car by tweaking your setup, but don’t expect to be able to find a setup that will allow you to dominate the competition by several seconds a lap. This has been done for two reasons: firstly, to accomodate the casual gamers who may not want to spend an hour perfecting their tyre pressures and suspension settins. And secondly, because this is the way it works in real life contrary to your beliefs. Whe the teams arrive at a venue, they already know what the basic setup is because their simulators are so good. The practice sessions are spent drawing those extra few tenths of a second out of the car.

In a racing game I want to race. The worst thing about rFactor is that you have to be a mechanic to have any chance of being slightly competitive.

Just hope the achievements aren’t ridiculous like the online one in Grid.

I’ve seen the list of achievements. Some look easy, others will be very difficult. There’s a nice even spread of them.

Ned, just to correct you, the last (official) F1 game was F1 2009, and the one before that was F1 Championship edition(a souped up PS3 version of F1 2006, released in 2007(!)). In those PS3 games, I just started from the back (at my own will) at most tracks, although I could never get much speed at Suzuka. Montreal was a completely different matter, 4th fastest on hard in a Midland F1.

Last year (on the Wii at least) on the multiplayer mode you couldn’t qualify during the season you juust got thrown straight into the race so is it this same for F1 2010?

Also:
Schuberb: Win from pole position 41 times!

Schumacher managed that in over a decade of racing! How on earth can we do that in seven years! The only explanation is if we can do this outside of career mode as well, because 7 times 19 equals 133, requiring you to get a double once in every 3 races!

Glad you agree sw6569.

Like you, I like racing fair and with damage/realism on etc.

For me that’s how difficult I want it. Not to spend hours in practice sessions setting up the car.

Well you don’t have to use it, its just a handy feature for when something goes massivly wrong, but I agree I personally don’t like it and never used it in Dirt 2, I just simply restarted.

Although I can see the use if you were on the last lap and braked too late for example and went off while winning, that would be annoying