played it for a few hours today with a wheel on my pc, the first thing i noticed is that the handling is very good, its not over the top hard but with proper assists turned on / off ( make sure auto breaking is turned off, abs isn't that great aswell ) with the wheel i found it quite hard to control the snap of the car if i push it to hard around a medium speed corner or even slow ones tbh, but the practices are there so you can get used to the breaking zones ect ect, and i found myself as the session went on improving a decent rate i would say similar to a f1 practice alongside track performance. one major problem i have is that down force is represented in the game but really doesn't impact the way it would in real life, for example in the lotus i am very good on breaking and can easily outbreak someone going 1on1 into a chicane ect. What represents car performance is speed, straight line speed difference is VAST i would come out 4 or 5 car lengths ahead of Rosberg for example but he would be pushing for the overtake very quickly
i am a fairly keen gamer so i choose the hardest setting and while i found it challenging i also found it to be as close to a sim as your gona get without forking out the big ££.
qualy works well, the only issue is cars really don't get out of your way when on a flying lap, i didn't have problems in Bahrain i was lucky and i managed to put the lotus on the front row ( AMAZING I KNOW
) but in Melbourne i found that i would be super fast through sector 1 slower through sector 2 and even slower through sector 3, but constantly because of my speed difference in S1 i would be coming up rapidly on cars that weren't on a flyer and it would wreck my lap this happened so much so in Q2 that i didn't make it through to Q3 which going by my practice speed would have been a doodle, frustration aside it still works, you can just be very unlucky.
race day is race day line up start race. now there are a few problems that exist in that its just super hard to get a good start and even if it goes well it would seem like you are not geared correctly as after the first few shifts cars from behind come flying past. the penalty system is just crazy, while it works if you really DO cut the corners it also gets confused if you run wide but maintain speed or oversteer ect and either warns you or gives you a penalty, if dont know how it decides between a warning or penalty but i was given one for plaining off the road at the chicanes in melbourne, which i found to be stupidly frustrating and wasted my time in the game.
enough whining about the problems for now.
the weather system is AMAZING, graphically its stunning, it effects the cars far more than any racing game i have played before and seems to be very well implemented.
very realistic, have done alot of research have lived up to what you would expect from a proper f1 racing game done well.
the cars , drivers , infact the whole game looks a treat.
the racing is good, its not you at the front all the time but its not you at the back, overtaking works well, car damage is a little on the light side but wheels blow, wings fall off it works.
but most importantly its fun and delivers on the experienceps sorry for long rambling post
