(07-04-2020, 11:49 AM)Neaven Staismith Wrote: In. Don't know a thing about F1 but bought last year's game for about £8 a few weeks ago and I'm quite enjoying it, so going to watch the qualifying today
I've had it for a while but I can't get to a point where I'm not running off the track/into the back of cars constantly Any tips for how to git gud? Not sure whether to do a career or just random races
(07-05-2020, 08:18 PM)Neilson Schmeilson Wrote: I've had it for a while but I can't get to a point where I'm not running off the track/into the back of cars constantly Any tips for how to git gud? Not sure whether to do a career or just random races
I did a full season on one of the easier difficulties and cruised most races apart from the city tracks with no run off :
Upped the difficulty and I'm shockingly bad at it :
(07-05-2020, 08:18 PM)Neilson Schmeilson Wrote: I've had it for a while but I can't get to a point where I'm not running off the track/into the back of cars constantly Any tips for how to git gud? Not sure whether to do a career or just random races
The F1 series is actually quite a good sim racer so it isn't as easy to go and pick up a controller and play, which can be frustrating.
There are a couple of people you can watch on YouTube who have good track guides - Veloce Hyperz, TRL Limitless are two I use quite a lot. Make sure you have the right set-up for your car - I normally just search on YouTube or on f1carsetups.com and pick one.
If I'm going to do a GP weekend in career mode I'll spend a good few laps on Time Trial and put together as many laps as I can until I feel like I've learnt the track. The best advice I can give is to know the track as well as you can. E.g. for Austria T1: break at the 50m board and downshift from 8th to 4th, take an early apex, accelerate early and take as much of the exit as you can - get the left side of the car as close to the yellow sausage kerb. If you can get to that point then you'll never come off the track. These F1 sim racers do it as a full time hobby/job and spend hours a day on it
Also settings - I'd always have manual gears (the automatic gears for some of the corners can be wrong and it shifts at the wrong time as well) and medium traction control on.
Playing it on 60 with no braking assist and low traction control and I'm winning about one race in every three (caveat to come). Deliberately totalled in Monaco because I just could not do it. Qualified in last, 5 laps in I was about 10 seconds behind 19th and just pied it full speed into a corner
Still using automatic gears and the racing line for corners though hand-eye coordination is definitely not good enough to do manual gears. Turned the racing line off for the last 5 laps of Austria as I had about a 7 second lead in pole, cut down to 2.2 seconds by the time I crossed the line
07-06-2020, 10:34 AM (Edited 07-06-2020, 10:34 AM by Kashinda.)
Aye, I can barely get my fingers to work at the same time to change my fuel mix and talk to Jeff while I'm driving, nevermind have to worry about 8 gears
07-06-2020, 10:37 AM (Edited 07-06-2020, 10:38 AM by Hung S.J..)
It becomes 2nd and nature. Load up a time trial, selected a track like Paul Ricard or Abu Dhabi, use flashbacks and try and do the corners with manual gears and no traction control.
massage the accelerator out the corner, realise that gears allow you to do engine breaking and if you aren't getting enough turn in the car, go down to 2nd gear.
Most people manage it fine, you are both experienced gamers so you'll have it hooked up after 2-3 hours.
Makes the game infinitely better. you'll thank me in a few weeks time.
Every time I've attempted talking to Jeff I've totalled myself. There's surely an easier way to do it than navigate through three menus with two hands while trying to leather through a bendy track at 200mph
07-06-2020, 10:39 AM (Edited 07-06-2020, 10:39 AM by Hung S.J..)
(07-06-2020, 10:38 AM)Neaven Staismith Wrote: Every time I've attempted talking to Jeff I've totalled myself. There's surely an easier way to do it than navigate through three menus with two hands while trying to leather through a bendy track at 200mph
The bairn's got a wheel and pedal actually
On ps4 you just press L1 and give Jeff your command through voice. e.g. "box this lap" or "driver in front"
Need a few nights trying gears out like. Turning that racing line off for corners is massive as well - probably did about 20 laps with it on and felt quite comfortable, took it off and felt like I had never seen the track before
07-06-2020, 11:05 AM (Edited 07-06-2020, 11:06 AM by Hung S.J..)
Not sure how a wheel would help traction control? Maybe pedals, but it's about how much acceleration you use out of the corner, you have to feather it progressively rather than floor it. Some great pad players out there setting world records in the time trials.
It just takes a few hours to get a hang of. People pump 100s of hours into other games, but wont take a couple of hours without assists to get up to speed with this one. I don't get it