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F1 2011 |OT| Not bad for a number 2 game
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Does anyone have any footage of practice or qualifying with no assists, fuel and tyre sim on with the bottom 3 teams? I found a couple of videos on youtube but I swear I'm driving a lot better than some of them yet they are posting times 4 seconds quicker than mine in a Lotus. :|
Online was fun today.
My first race in Melbourne was my favorite, I started at the back, passed a few and watched 2 cars spin in front of me then overtook Lucius at the start finish straight using DRS for the win. Got a message from a spectator afterwards telling me how awesome that was. (Lobby was still public at that point)
I need to practice the rest of the tracks though. It took me about 6 laps to start posting fastest times in catalunya before StopIt beat my time in the final lap.
As for the technical side of online, it's pretty bad right now. People dropping constantly and clients crashing. The lag is pretty bad at times too. Spectating is a mess and I've had an instance where I was still stuck at red lights when everyone else took off at the start...
My first race in Melbourne was my favorite, I started at the back, passed a few and watched 2 cars spin in front of me then overtook Lucius at the start finish straight using DRS for the win. Got a message from a spectator afterwards telling me how awesome that was. (Lobby was still public at that point)
I need to practice the rest of the tracks though. It took me about 6 laps to start posting fastest times in catalunya before StopIt beat my time in the final lap.
As for the technical side of online, it's pretty bad right now. People dropping constantly and clients crashing. The lag is pretty bad at times too. Spectating is a mess and I've had an instance where I was still stuck at red lights when everyone else took off at the start...
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
Staab said:
TC?
Played for about 3 hours and I haven't even finished my first race yet.
And thats just fine with me.
Running on PS3 with G27. I was ready to trade in this version for the 360 one since this has nasty jaggies on the PS3. Framerate is also disappointing.
But I was playing in cockpit view with HUD turned off. So with the jaggies I couldn't read the corners properly as I'm not familiar with Melbourne on the ground.
When I changed to TV view which is over the head of the driver the jaggies interfered less and I was able to read the corners better. I also bit the bullet and turned on the racing line.
So an hour later I was more comfortable at driving than before.
Then I committed time to learn the trackfrom the ground. I wasnt happy with the Force India car and tried Team Lotus instead and I am much more happy with how it feels.
Here is one reason why I haven't finished a race. Playing for an hour I could not crack under 2:33 a lap.
I have all assists turned off and all wheel settings at 0% which I think feels very direct and appropriate. TCS might help me push the car more but it doesn't make a 7 second difference. I am probably not carrying speed at the right corners but I feel like I know how to push every corner pretty good.
So i settle for that time and race from 12th This is on easy difficulty btw I'm thinking of changing that after a season. And yes I changed my assists after I set the difficulty that was a rude surprise.
I note that I'm able to keep up with everyone at all corners except one where if I push the car I will spin with no chance of saving it. All other corners I'm right on that edge and I'm keeping up with the CPU which is on easy.
The only problem is that during a 12 lap race I have yet to finish a race because I push too hard and wipe out.
So I figure with more practice I'll be able to post more competitive times but also think I have to study someone elses laps.
I shuffle steer so I had to relearn how to drive with hands on the 3 and 9 o clock positions. I think that after 3 hours I'm much more used to it than before.
So I'm excited. Love the race weekend experience. Love the difficulty and concentration required. I've only played a couple of tracks but the season tracklist looks great. India will be interesting. Flag and penalty systems are great thus far until I inevitably encounter some issue with them.
Codies is living up to what the ideal F1 game should be like. Like everyone I was concerned when they got the exclusive license but they're showing me that there aren't many that would have done it better anyways.
When I heard Codies was getting an exclusive license I was disappointed.
I'm fine with that. It just means I need more practice and
And thats just fine with me.
Running on PS3 with G27. I was ready to trade in this version for the 360 one since this has nasty jaggies on the PS3. Framerate is also disappointing.
But I was playing in cockpit view with HUD turned off. So with the jaggies I couldn't read the corners properly as I'm not familiar with Melbourne on the ground.
When I changed to TV view which is over the head of the driver the jaggies interfered less and I was able to read the corners better. I also bit the bullet and turned on the racing line.
So an hour later I was more comfortable at driving than before.
Then I committed time to learn the trackfrom the ground. I wasnt happy with the Force India car and tried Team Lotus instead and I am much more happy with how it feels.
Here is one reason why I haven't finished a race. Playing for an hour I could not crack under 2:33 a lap.
I have all assists turned off and all wheel settings at 0% which I think feels very direct and appropriate. TCS might help me push the car more but it doesn't make a 7 second difference. I am probably not carrying speed at the right corners but I feel like I know how to push every corner pretty good.
So i settle for that time and race from 12th This is on easy difficulty btw I'm thinking of changing that after a season. And yes I changed my assists after I set the difficulty that was a rude surprise.
I note that I'm able to keep up with everyone at all corners except one where if I push the car I will spin with no chance of saving it. All other corners I'm right on that edge and I'm keeping up with the CPU which is on easy.
The only problem is that during a 12 lap race I have yet to finish a race because I push too hard and wipe out.
So I figure with more practice I'll be able to post more competitive times but also think I have to study someone elses laps.
I shuffle steer so I had to relearn how to drive with hands on the 3 and 9 o clock positions. I think that after 3 hours I'm much more used to it than before.
So I'm excited. Love the race weekend experience. Love the difficulty and concentration required. I've only played a couple of tracks but the season tracklist looks great. India will be interesting. Flag and penalty systems are great thus far until I inevitably encounter some issue with them.
Codies is living up to what the ideal F1 game should be like. Like everyone I was concerned when they got the exclusive license but they're showing me that there aren't many that would have done it better anyways.
When I heard Codies was getting an exclusive license I was disappointed.
I'm fine with that. It just means I need more practice and
I'm just trying to fiddle around in the career as I suck at F1 games and am trying to get a handle on these things' power and speed, but when I complete the practice or qualifying sessions and do the load back to the garage, more likely than not the game crashes to desktop with an error. Anyone else getting this? If I quit out of practice or qualifying in mid-session and drop back to the garage, it's just fine.
Specs: Core i7-950 CPU, 2x GTX460 1GB in SLI, 6GB DDR3 RAM, running off a 60GB SSD, Win7 x64.
Specs: Core i7-950 CPU, 2x GTX460 1GB in SLI, 6GB DDR3 RAM, running off a 60GB SSD, Win7 x64.
Yeah, once we actually get into the races it is good but drop outs are too common and spectating is a buggy mess too.HenryHSH said:Online was fun today.
My first race in Melbourne was my favorite, I started at the back, passed a few and watched 2 cars spin in front of me then overtook Lucius at the start finish straight using DRS for the win. Got a message from a spectator afterwards telling me how awesome that was. (Lobby was still public at that point)
I need to practice the rest of the tracks though. It took me about 6 laps to start posting fastest times in catalunya before StopIt beat my time in the final lap.
As for the technical side of online, it's pretty bad right now. People dropping constantly and clients crashing. The lag is pretty bad at times too. Spectating is a mess and I've had an instance where I was still stuck at red lights when everyone else took off at the start...
I enjoyed that race in Catalunya. I noticed you were setting a few hot laps (I started on Primes and went for Options at the end) so for the last lap I stuck my fuel mix to rich and really went for it. If the league ends up with tactical battles like we have seen glimpses of last night, it's going to be a good one.
Bless you sir! That override thing has solved all the issues I had with the wheel feelAngst said:Somebody at Codie's forums said this about settings for wheels:
"And this is important at the Driving Controls menu the
OVERRIDE INPUT DEVICE TYPE : is Steering wheel"
Haven't tried it, but I'll give it a shot later.
I'm slightly annoyed with the game, it feels more like I'm fighting the controls than the other players. I know (sort of) where to push it and where to brake, but my dude in the car has his own ideas. Kinda like B-spec
Lucius' advice sure helped, but it's still not 100%.
I'm doing long weekends, 20% race laps and I'm somewhat stuck in Australia. First I had some weird problems not being able to use the tyres I wanted to use. Then I got a weird penalty (black flag, you're disqualified, etc). The funny thing is the flag appeared when I was exiting boxes, but everything was automated, so I don't know what happened there. I rage quit and started again. After practice two, I'm having good results with my HRT (normal dificulty), but I've blown my car in both sessions.
Does anybody know why you can't use diferent tyres through diferent sessions? For istance, if you use slicks, in practice one, those used slicks will be locked in practice two.
Does anybody know why you can't use diferent tyres through diferent sessions? For istance, if you use slicks, in practice one, those used slicks will be locked in practice two.
It's a rule in Formula 1 that you have to give back tyres at the end of the practice sessionsfresquito said:
Martin Brundle explains it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6HurO-608
Basically
End of P1 - Hand back 1 set of Primes
End of P2 - Hand back 1 set of Primes and 1 set of Options
End of P3 - Hand back 1 set of Primes and 1 set of Options
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I need to improve my time on Melbourne, clearly.
Edit: Frawdder's time in insane. I don't know how he did that racing his ghost :\
What's your setup mate? Do share!
Edit: Frawdder's time in insane. I don't know how he did that racing his ghost :\
What's your setup mate? Do share!
Gareth Bale
Member
Both springs on 11. I'm going to try it out when I get home. Apparantly it gives you much better speed through the faster corners.Foliorum Viridum said:
I saw your ghost as well mate. If you don't mind me saying, you lost almost half a second in the corner before last.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
On his setup I just went TWO SECONDS faster in two laps.
Wow.
Wow.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Three seconds faster and that wasn't a perfect lap by any means. Haha. Well, I think we're going to see a lot of people do better times now
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I think a patch is in order.
- Crashes
- Connection issues online
- Godlike setup
- AI apparently having TC in wet
It's an awesome game, but those are all big issues. The crashes and online connection especially for most of us.
- Crashes
- Connection issues online
- Godlike setup
- AI apparently having TC in wet
It's an awesome game, but those are all big issues. The crashes and online connection especially for most of us.
http://community.codemasters.com/forum/f1-2011-general-discussion-1403/471964-ai-tests-turn-tyre-sim-off.html
So apparently the ai is slightly affected by fuel but not affected by tyre wear? Same as last year, which is what put me off playing the career.
So apparently the ai is slightly affected by fuel but not affected by tyre wear? Same as last year, which is what put me off playing the career.
Yeah, it's a wonder.Juicy Bob said:
The godly AI and now setup glitches, it's like last year all over again. Even with the unrealistic lap times I still enjoy hot lapping and trying to better my times but my career has been put on hold, I don't want to have to change the difficulty every session or turn assists on.
A lot of people on the CodeMasters forums have also been complaining about the graphics on PS3. I've not really been that worried about them but apparently the frame rate can get horrific around places like Monaco. I've not been around Monaco yet, but I think I'll do a quick race there after Qualifying and try it out myself.
I don't have an issue with 30FPS, just as long as it's solid. Surely this game can manage that on a PS3?
I don't have an issue with 30FPS, just as long as it's solid. Surely this game can manage that on a PS3?
cowden_harley
Member
im xb360 and not had any issues and gfx are fine.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I dunno, once it's got a little bit more well known everyone will have it so we'll all be equal anyway!Lucius86 said:
Wax Free Vanilla
Member
Juicy Bob said:
visuals over stability is codemasters game.
last years version was awful and so is 2011, when bunched up and during replays the framerate must surely hit around 15-20fps. it's a complete joke.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
http://www.racedepartment.com/f1-2011-setups/
This will be your friend. Obviously anything other than 11-11 will give you a disadvantage until it's fixed, though.
I never do my own setups, I always nick them from Lucius/Race Department
This will be your friend. Obviously anything other than 11-11 will give you a disadvantage until it's fixed, though.
I never do my own setups, I always nick them from Lucius/Race Department
Yep. While the setup I used to get my current time was taken from Lucius, RD is a great source of setups.Foliorum Viridum said:http://www.racedepartment.com/f1-2011-setups/
This will be your friend. Obviously anything other than 11-11 will give you a disadvantage until it's fixed, though.
I never do my own setups, I always nick them from Lucius/Race Department
Of course I hope the 11:11 spring issue is fixed ASAP, but even if it isn't by the time the league starts, all we need to do is mandate the same setups for everyone to ensure equality in the qualifying/races.
CaptainRizla
Member
Please add me! I'm sick of having an empty friends list
Gamertag - Captain Rizla
Gamertag - Captain Rizla
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Will do! Do you have a Steam account as well you want listed?
Also, I think a few of us are going to race now if people want to hop online.
Also, I think a few of us are going to race now if people want to hop online.