Formula 1 2010

[89CAL]

Its not to bad. Once I'm no longer used to F1 Challange It'll be better

but I must say its awfully easy..... Driving for lotus and I'm leading the championship after 4 races. All the assits are off except for traction control, to hard to throttle the car with the X button lol

But yeah qualified 1st in the wet at Shanghi tonight by nearly 2 seconds over everyone else, wet weather driving not that hard apparently

[benm]

Online multiplay is where its at....or if you prefer something more serious signup to iracing.com

[noexec]

Its not to bad. Once I'm no longer used to F1 Challange It'll be better

but I must say its awfully easy..... Driving for lotus and I'm leading the championship after 4 races. All the assits are off except for traction control, to hard to throttle the car with the X button lol

But yeah qualified 1st in the wet at Shanghi tonight by nearly 2 seconds over everyone else, wet weather driving not that hard apparently

pfft @ having traction control on I use my keyboard and I have it off lol

I haven't really had a chance to do career mode just yet but I have done a couple GPs. It does seem a little easier than expected but other than that it seems pretty cool. I have rFactor with an F1 mod on it at home which is more realistic and harder. It has oil/water/tyre temps and tyre wear etc etc and its almost (would be easier with a steering wheel/pedals) impossible without any driver aids (traction control mostly)

[mad082]

pfft, traction control doesn' really count as an assist. the real cars had it till 2 years ago, lol

[89CAL]

well when i first played it I think traction control was on medium and I just spun every corner... Its a bit annoying there doesnt seem to be any sensitivity on the X button despite the control being capable of it. Cant hold Revs off the line on race starts just goes to full revs. Would be great with a little simulator and steering wheel with pedals but oh well lol. Cant be bothered spending that kind of money

[noexec]

well when i first played it I think traction control was on medium and I just spun every corner... Its a bit annoying there doesnt seem to be any sensitivity on the X button despite the control being capable of it. Cant hold Revs off the line on race starts just goes to full revs. Would be great with a little simulator and steering wheel with pedals but oh well lol. Cant be bothered spending that kind of money

yeah sucks not having a steering wheel and pedals

[FloydWestwood]

at first i thought it was awesome.

now some things really annoy me.

-when you pit with other cars, the stupid lolly pop man waits for the entire pit lane to clear before he lets you go. retarded!

-on 100% race distance, after say 40/50 laps on a random circuit, the lame teams like hrt and virgin are still on the lead lap, and one spin puts you right at the back. stupid!

-the bug where research/development never comes is annoying.

-monaco struggles with graphics with lots of cars around.

-you can hit a wall at 300kph and only your front wing comes off and you can still throw down a decent lap. I thought this was meant to be semi-sim??

are you guys noticing the same things?

[noexec]

The ones i've noticed the most is are the AI damage and the corrupted save game file bugs.

If an AI car gets damaged (I.E their wing gets ripped off completely) they aren't affected.

And if you do R&D during practise and then quit to the paddock/game your saved game file becomes corrupted (happened to me during my r&d at Albert Park GP), so obviously if you do R&D during practise just make sure you don't quit to the paddock without at least going into qualifying first.

theres that list of all the bugs that was posted earlier on, but I have heard codemasters are meant to be releasing a patch to fix a lot of these issues soon

[89CAL]

As for the R&D not coming in. I have found that if your the second driver, you wont get the upgraded parts straight away, but at the moment I have about 5 or 6 R&D upgrades after 11 races done for the first season

As for before where I was talking about it being to easy. Ive discovered what I think is a slight glitch with the difficulty setup menu.

I'll try and explain

There are the 4 (Pretty sure theres 4) preset difficulty settings and then you can adjust from there and make a custom setting

I played around with it the other day and all of a sudden the game was way harder.....

It turns out that if you change the preset setting to say hard, then change one or more of the assit/pit/gearbox settings, the difficulty setting goes to custom, but the AI remains at whatever your preset difficulty setting was, in this case hard

I think it should be set-up with a preset difficulty setting, then AI difficulty below it. So when it goes to custom you can always see what difficulty your at

Its not a big thing but It took me a while to work it out.

[zebra]

I was looking forward to this game, but geez the bugs that are being spoken about after only a few weeks of being released is crazy.

[89CAL]

I dont find it that buggy really

Its good... its just not as great as I was expecting, but the more you play it the better it gets to a degree......

the worst thing I've found so far is when theres a lot of cars around the same part of track the game slows a bit. But other then that I've found it not to bad.... but I was a bit disapointed after all the talk of how good this game was.... I think certain parts of Formula One Championship Edition were better or just as good but I guess its codemasters first try and a good one at that

[Evoking]

Hi,

Does anyone know when F1 2010 is being released in Europe?By the way I have found a site Supaswap where you can swap games looks good think i can save some money!

http://www.supaswap.com

[iamhe77]

Why do you have to wait for it to be released in Europe?

PS3 games are universal (ie a US/Jap/AUS etc game will work on a European PS3 and vice versa)

....unless of course you view posting such a question and then "by the way"-ing a link to a website is a free way to promote your website

Edited October 18, 2010 by iamhe77

[mad082]

obvious troll is obvious since f1 2010 was released in europe around the same time as everywhere else (late september)

[grippy]

I've been playing the pants off this game for the last 2 weeks with G25 wheel and pedals and home made lounge room race car.

The non HD is a big disappointment especially compared to GT5 and the textbook codemasters labyrinth of menu's is a pian in the arse! How long does it take from when you put the disk in to when you actually get to drive??

The cars are quite hard to drive if you go to max hard levels on every option especially with traction control off. It's very easy to spin but you can learn to control the car by not getting into the throttle too early but it takes discipline...

Manual control of the pits is difficult also as you have to brake to 100kms in a designated area before the pit entry and activate the pit limiter, once in the pits the most annoying thing is you are asked to brake for the pit box and when you do it is always too late and you overshoot the pit box and cop a delay while the team pushes you back into the box. After trial and error I found that you need to brake long before you turn into the pit box and it works ok.

Overall the game is pretty good, the graphics suck, after playing GT5 (prologue) it is like a psx2 game.

Lets hope a V8 supercar game comes out in full HD.

Happy gaming...

It will never replace the real thing....

[r33_racer]

I thought the graphics for it were really good.

Pissed about the delay for GT5 again....

[grippy]

Graphics are ok but compared to GT5 it is terrible..

How many more years do we have to wait for GT5??? I'm over waiting and this last delay is pissing everyone off....

I doubt it will be available this year now?

Maybe Christmas 2011??

[mad082]

latest info is that gt5 will be out by xmas

[89CAL]

The worst thing about the graphics (I guess) is that when theres alot of cars in the one spot, the frame rate drops horribly and it goes all shuttery. If you've played Formula 1 Championship edition, I believe the flow of the game is much nicer and the way its set out. The Official formula 1 layout with all the sector times coming up and the positions etc. Its much nicer i believe, I dont get why codemasters have set out there menu's and HUD so poorly.

I did like the way in Formula 1 CE, the car setup was vital to a good laptime, and getting it just right became an art, once you cracked it you could set the thing up good almost everywhere. I dont even bother with fiddling with setup in F1 2010, just use the quick setup.

[Spurdo]

my flatmate bought it a few weeks ago.. he was less than impressed. so i had a good crack at it the other day. farkin rubbish.

but then when compared with gran turismo.. what isnt?

i find that when video game companies make an official licensed product like this, they seem to be relying mainly on the fact that its an official licensed and endorsed product of whoever they make it for, to sell it. and make very little effort to actually make the game itself any good. movies are a prime example, film companies will go and make movies, then someone gets the idea to make a quick buck by slapping together some horse shit video game based on any given movie, slap the name on it, ship it out, and if the movie does good then the game might sell too. but the game always sucks ass? anyone else ever noticed this?

F1 is kinda doing the same thing with the games market IMO. i've played several of them over the years and i've never been impressed.