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Hey! The survey link seems to be some hours late this time due to some circumstances. This survey is about your enjoyment with the game and if you're going to purchase the next game (+ why/why not and etc.) Link to the survey: https://surveymonkey.co.uk/r/f12019-survey Also please do note that I'm not a Codemasters employee. I just wanted to post this as no one else is around right now 🙂

Heading off. Thanks all who raced with us! Info about next week will be shared a bit later on 🙂

Session up! 🙂

I'll be hosting a "Barry's not here" lobby from 15:00 (GMT) (/3PM) onwards, so feel free to join. You can join the Steam Chat with this link: https://s.team/chat/OdGIqsXZ Look for lobby which is hosted by UP100 🙂

Seems like Barry won't be around this Friday... If there is enough interest, I can be the one to host the lobby this week as it'd still be nice to race with other forum members 🙂 Also here is the link for the Group Chat Barry talked about earlier: https://s.team/chat/OdGIqsXZ

Also T E: Eh what? I pressed ALT+SHIFT+S on another window and this happened? 😁

As far as I've understood, the audio team is there once again. At least it seems to be that issueskid is there 😅 Though I doubt the actual audio files are the issue, moreso trying to emulate all kinds of audio effects, such as reverbs from materials they created some years back.

I can only talk in a general sense as I'm not and never have been an employee at Codemasters. P2P connection stuff is also ridiculously hard for me to make alone at least, so my experience with it is... certainly quite low 😕 Basically in single player the AI will immeadiately know where you are, but in online the actions are often delayed because the machine that is running that AI's calculations get your positions later than what it would in single player. It's unlikely a new generation of consoles would really have an effect in this except in cases in which the console doesn't have enough time to send all of the multiplayer information, or do the calculations. Though latency is caused by many different things, most of which I probably don't know about. The most optimal setting for AI calculations would most likely be a some kind of LAN enviroment. There is an option for a LAN game on the PC version at least, so it could be tried there (though do note that it actually has to be in LAN, and not through Hamachi or similiar programs, as those cause even more latency)

I think what Barry means is that there is no difference in AI calculations between modes. Most likely "more stupid AI" is caused by the latency and processing that goes into handling multiple players and trying to sync between them.

These usually tend to have quite next to nothing to do with the engine in itself. For example you've also said the LOD is fine in F1 2019, no? but yeah. We don't know how the code is managed at all, and which parts of it are the engine, and which are game specific code. If only they would be using Unity... we could just read through the entire code (or at least with normal C# applications/games)

Well there is always the ERS assist if you don't want to handle it yourself... as technically it's an assist they use in real life 🙂 I don't think I lose that much by having the assist on, though I tend to forget about it completely. Usually when I lose it's more due to my poor driving than the ERS 😁

I dont know if you remember, but we had "We have to ask EA" as an answer to this question some years ago 😁

Hey! Barry doesn't even work in a studio that develops GRID and so on. The Birmingham guys have almost exclusively worked on F1 games (+ F1 spinoffs) since they were acquired by Codemasters. Split screen was said to be in works for GRID ages ago, though I don't know if this will come out as GRID 2019 would then be the first EGO 3 game to have split screen as an option 😕

GRID 2019 is running on the same engine (EGO 3) as the following games: F1 2015- DiRT 4 DiRT Rally 2.0 Though being on the same engine doesn't mean anything in the games is similiar, as what people usually see as the engine may be only developed for a single game/game series. F1 games are also developed by the Birmingham guys whose games are at times quite different from the Southam games in terms of features.

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