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F1-2010 the game is out!

Ferry_vO

Ferry_vO

Retired SOH Administrator
Had it on preorder so the mailman delivered it today and I just finished the first two hour session.

First impressions: It looks awesome, a giant leap ahead of GTR2/rFactor and even better than DiRT2 and NFS:Shift. Sounds good too. Easy to start driving, but not easy to master! It is not a true sim like GTR2/rFactor but it's not as 'arcady' as NFS:Shift either. So far I'm doing pretty well at the second-hardest difficulty level, and I even managed to get a Renault on Pole at monaco in my first race.

The first few gripes: You can only do a single GP with a real driver or a full career (3,5 or even 7 seasons!) under your own name, but not a single 2010 season with your own name and the car of your choice.

The rules regarding cutting corners and getting off the track are too strict; run wide and you'll lose your lap time. It even happens when you run into the gravel and if your current lap is already invalid and you run wide again your next lap will be declared invalid too! I did six laps at Melbourne in the rain and never set a laptime. Cockpit view is pointless because of this because you can not see the tyres and the apex of the corner. Did most of my driving from the 'T-cam' view so far.

There are tweaking options for the set-up of the car but not as many are the real sims. There are six or so default set-ups to choose from but you can set things like brake balance, shocks, springs etc, yourself. No data aquisition though so that make it a bit trickier.

However, when you get in the car and start driving it looks, feels, and sounds like you are inside an F1 car and it is a thrill to get it right on the track!

Some uneditted screenshots; full detail, framerate about sixty.

Mercedes on Spa:

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Red Bull at Abu Dhabi:

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Renault being pushed back into the pit at Monaco:

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Loews hairpin at Monaco:

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Force India at Melbourne in the wet:

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Screenshots do not do the rainy weather justice! Driving the car might be a bit too easy in the wet, but it looks stunning!
 
Unfortunately I seem to have a condition where racing sims make me a bit nauseous (literally) but I am curious - don't you have to have an F1-type wheel to get the real effect, and are those available ?
 
What do you mean with F1-style wheel, Mike?

Most have F1 style paddle shifters and buttons which can be programmed. The cheaper wheels only rotate about 270 degrees from full lock left to right which is about what a real F1 car can do. The more expensive ones can rotate more (Mine does 900 degrees or 2.5 turns left to right) but I can set it at any rotation angle I like. It's currently set at 360 degrees.
 
Found a little mod that fixes the viewpoint in the VC for me: http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=29281

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You can only do a single GP with a real driver or a full career (3,5 or even 7 seasons!) under your own name, but not a single 2010 season with your own name and the car of your choice.
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Wrong; you can do a full 2010 season with the car of your choice, just not with your own name.

The real Schumi didn't yet do this this year:

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Messy start:

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Webber ahead of me:

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Pulled a 'Schumi' on him the next corner and pushed him wide. Race control 'awarded' me with a ten second penalty so I won the race but finished fifth.

BTW I changed the rules setting and now they do not seem to complain every time I cross a line.
 
Some crash damage shots; this one's coming out of the tunnel at Monaco at full speed into the barriers (For screenshots purposes obviously!):

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Qualifying at Hockenheim in the Virgin; in the last attempt I spun off and was hit by a Williams:

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During the race I was pushing hard to defend 10th (!) when I ran wide at the hairpin and was hit by an understeering Renault. I did finish tenth by was again rewarded a ten second penalty for causing a collision and dropped to 16th or so.. I could tell my engineer was disappointed when he came over the radio after the race..:


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I'll own up and confess that I have it as well, going for only A$49.95 it was too good a price to pass up.
Already downloading each and every tweak I can find, no time to test it yet, some 1:1 scale racing coming up, both two wheels (MotoGP at PI) and four wheels (Bathurst 1000), plus a couple of bike 'Club Events' and a 'Retro' car meeting at Philip Island where they are only to happy for replicas to compete.
:jump:
 
wombat666 said:
I'll own up and confess that I have it as well, going for only A$49.95 it was too good a price to pass up.
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Good, I hate talking to myself in here! ;)

Started a three season career yesterday with Force India; qualified fourth in Bahrein (BTW that new second sector sucks big time!) and won the race. Passed hamilton in turn one and Vettel in turn 2 after he clashed with Webber. Passed him after the pitstops. This game may have its bugs and mistakes but once you start driving it does offer a pretty good experience!
 
Ferry_vO said:
Good, I hate talking to myself in here! ;)

Started a three season career yesterday with Force India; qualified fourth in Bahrein (BTW that new second sector sucks big time!) and won the race. Passed hamilton in turn one and Vettel in turn 2 after he clashed with Webber. Passed him after the pitstops. This game may have its bugs and mistakes but once you start driving it does offer a pretty good experience!
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They (Force India) should give you a raise now that you're their #1 driver :wiggle:
 
No raise and no #1 status yet even though I beat Sutil in all five races so far and I lead the championship now, thanks to a bad result for Webber in Spain and Button spinning out while in the lead.. They do give a bonus for good results so by the end of the season I should have earned more in additional bonusses than my $500,000 salary. But the best bonus could be a move to a better team. :wiggle:

The game is still quite buggy but apparently Codemasters is working on a patch to fix most issues.

BTW had a chance to try the Korean track and it is quite good! Hope they'll get it finished in time for the real race..
 
Hoi Ferry,

Have to agree with you, the graphics are top notch, best i've ever seen on a computer screen !

On the other hand though, what good are awesome graphics if you can't drive the bloody car !??

So far this game has only brought me aggrevation and irritation to the highest degree... Been on the virge of putting my Logitech Formula Force RX wheel thru my brand new Dell 30" monitor with considerable force.... :angryfir:

After hours and hours of trying and reading about steering wheel setup in the F1 2010 forums i finally got my steering wheel recognised, and what's more, the 'advanced settings' became available as well, something that the bulk of complaints is mostly about.

Only result i get out of this however is that i can steer only straight ahead or either full left or full right, nothing in between....

Adjusting all the steering stuff in the 'advanced settings' menu doesn't help. I can steer full left or full right and that's it no matter what i adjust. Never seen this kind of behaviour before in any race game...

The only thing i got out of this game up to now is appreciating GPL, GTR2, R7Evo, NFS/SHift even more than i already did ! :mixedsmi:

For the time being i have had enough aggrevation and irritation, too bad about the wonderful graphics, if these Codemasters even cannot get a steering wheel to behave correctly than what use is such a beautiful looking and performing game. Nada, nothing, niente, zero in my racing book.

Like Panther says: Boy,Oh,Boy!! If only we could have GPL in such glorious and superb graphics fashion one day !!

Should you have any tips about my Logitech FormulaForce RX wheel to behave better in F12010 i'm all ears, Ferry ! :cool:

Cheers,

Jan
Dissapointed ( not to say aggrevated and irritated )
 
Sorry to hear about your steering wheel problems Jan, and unfortunately I do not have an easy fix for you. Guess that's another reason to wait for the patch.. Until then, try to keep that big screen in one piece! :icon_lol:
 
Won't let you go that easy, mate. :cool:

I figure you've got *your* steering wheel working correctly then ??....

So, what brand is it ?

Does it have combined pedals ?

Can you use 'advanced settings' ? And if so what are they ?

I like the graphics that much that i would be willing to buy another steering wheel....

Thanks for your time ! :salute:

Cheers,
Jan
 
Jan, I'm using a Logitech G25 with three seperate pedals, 900 degrees rotation and a six-speed gear shifter. Expensive, but one of the best steering wheels available and the local Mediamarkt had a good deal; €110 less than the recommended Logitech price at the time.
IIRC The advanced settings in the game is used for the deadzone and force feedback settings.

I would have to check later, but I think you can select different ready-made profiles for controllers? Haven't really touched the settings since I found a good 'feel'.
 
Ferry_vO said:
Jan, I'm using a Logitech G25 with three seperate pedals, 900 degrees rotation and a six-speed gear shifter. Expensive, but one of the best steering wheels available and the local Mediamarkt had a good deal; €110 less than the recommended Logitech price at the time.
IIRC The advanced settings in the game is used for the deadzone and force feedback settings.
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It's a bit more than that, f.i. there's steering deadzone, saturation, and linearty to play with. It will increase/decrease twitchiness in a straight line, steering sensitivity, and straight-line handling respectively. Can be set from 0 to 100%. I certainly do see the difference but it doesn't help with increasing the control over my steering wheel at all.

I have an expensive steering wheel too, ACT Labs, with throttle,brake and glutch pedals and beautiful stick shifter but i use it only for GPL. Since Logitech is about 'the lead' in game controllers i thought i had much more chance to get the Logitech wheel to work than the ACT Labs. No where is it mentioned in the F1/2010 compatible wheels listing to begin with....

I would have to check later, but I think you can select different ready-made profiles for controllers?
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That would be great but i haven't found it myself...

Remarkable thing is that my Logitech FF/RX IS mentioned in the Xbox listing for compatible wheels but NOT in the PC listing.....

Haven't really touched the settings since I found a good 'feel'.
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You can call yourself very lucky ! :cool:

I'll go back to the support forums, see if i can find any more ideas/tips..

If by any chance you find how to get to these ready-made profiles for controllers i'd love to hear about it ! :)

cheers,
jan
 
The profiles for the steering wheels must have been in the WRC 2010 demo, which gave me a bit of a headache to get my steering wheel configured and working..

Anyway, these are my settings for F1-2010:

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and:

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No settings for a driver with the (temporary) loss of use of a right hand!!
I now have only 7 fingers and 2 thumbs!!!
Came off the RSV4 on Monday, removed my right hand pinkie......just like the real racers.
:censored:
 
Ouch!!!

Did the doctors manage to reattach the finger..?

The bike must be in bad shape too, though your health is of course the most important issue here.
 
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