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  1. VetteIfan said:
    I'm surprised by the popular opinion that it's basically a head to head between Brazil and Argentina to win. Brazil I can understand, but Argentina are vulnerable at the back and I don't know if it can be cancelled out by their strength up front all tournament.

    I put my bet on a Germany win earlier in the thread so I should probably stand by that, but Reus is a massive blow for them. Over the past 6 months he's been in "one of the top 5 players in the world" kind of form, and I thought he was going to set the World Cup on fire. Sad. 
    I'm sticking with what I originally thought earlier in the thread roo I could be wrong but I somehow think I'll be proved right.

  2. From the lack of popularity of GRID2 and massive popularity of games such as Forza (hate to admit it) F1, Grand Tourismo, and any PC game, I would assume people want to the racing "experience" and setups are a big a part of that as, say, maps are to Battlefield. Otherwise, just go get a copy of Mario Kart.

    yeah but Grid is more about the different styles of racing you can do though I think at least that's what attracts me to it plus it doesn't take itself too seriously as well which I consider to be a very good thing. I've played a number of sims over the years and some of them can be very hard indeed.

    I like a sim feel but I don't like games where every car has got past me by the time I'm over the line to start my first lap which in some of the games they can be like. I like AI that challenges me but at the pace I go at. Plus game makers do need to bear in mind that not everybody knows how to setup a car for racing I struggle a bit with this myself as I generally pick one of the default ones in the F1 games. I just pick based on what track I'm on and what the weather is doing.

    I think the fact that Grid 2's main problem for me was that is was to much arcade and not enough sim was it's  problem not so much whether you could play around with setups. Plus the career mode was too short and it looks like to me that Grid Autosport in that regard has answered both those questions with a positive answer and ticked both boxes. This is only based on the things I've seen thus far though and feedback given.


  3. fIsince08 said:
    Already pre ordered GRID AS and I quite fancy FIFA this year.

    yeah I've preordered Grid Autosport too the more I see of it the more I like I'm liking that it seems that CM have put a lot of effort into the career mode this time around. I just hope the F1 team have been taking notes because they're in danger of getting left behind unless we see some improvement in that game too especially given the number of driving games coming out at the end of the year this year. F1 2014 needs to show  improvements on it's predecessors and fast. Otherwise just as Mercedes have done with the rest of the F1 field they'll be left behind in the tyre smoke


  4. mike96 said:
    The guy who claimed he'd been on the plane with Hamilton post Singapore '12 when he made the Merc decision (Forgotten his name). That was a funny thread...
    WinestAuto or something like that? The guy who was born in 1967 but wrote like he was born in 2007 :P
    Yeh, that's the guy. He claimed to be Hamilton's best mate and got p***** when we didn't believe him.

    Hey, the new car smell has gone away. Now it appears that I smell of petrol... :(
    just you wait till you become attached to your wheel :p

  5. if this is Autosport question then really it should be in the Grid section this is the F1 section basically the best way to start any race is basically try to hit the right amount of revs and try your best to anticipate when the lights go out or green light comes on  but I think Autosport has a countdown timer to it's races though so that should make it easier.

  6. Heads up: Game UK have just dropped the price of the Black Edition for Xbox 360 and PS3 by £5 to £34.99. Existing preorders will only be charged the cheaper price, of course.
    Heads Up . . . I pre-ordered at Game UK some weeks ago for £34.99 [Black Edition] and cancelled a couple of days ago. I  see that the PC version is now £29.99.

    Pre-ordered on Steam for £26.99 [£29.99 - £3 for owning Grid 2] . . .but will it be the "Black" edition ? . . thing is, the "Black" edition isn't available on Steam for pre-order ?
    ~:>
    What do we do now Cap'n? :p
    I thought Loore might have jumped in to clarify this "Black" edition mystery . .

    The pre-order at Game UK is the Black edition, the pre-order at Amazon seems to be a standard edition, the pre-order at Steam doesn't say, but also doesn't give the choice, Loore is giving Rastus a free copy because of his generosity in giving Miatakias a load of stuff to build a new gaming computer, but he only assumes it will be the Black edition . . . So what is the deal with Steam ???
    ~O)

    well @Loore is busy this week at E3 so at the moment so we can't really expect him to reply just yet. I've gone with the standard edition because things like they have in the Black edition are only useful if you play online really which I don't. I think there's enough content though in the standard edition anyway to keep me busy for ages as I'm really looking forward to working through the career mode on this game.

    Truth be told, I'm not that bothered which version as apart from one free car I use my own skins on the cars so don't need what is in the package . . .
    ~O)
    same here I'm mostly interested in the career mode really and the idea of working my way up through each discipline and taking part in the various different championships would be good to have like a mini Indy 500 too with the Indycars and Indianapolis in there. Would be surprised if there isn't a Indy 500 type race in the career mode somewhere anyway. Given both are part of the game at least.
    I'm a little disappointed that the punters haven't made more comments about the inclusion of Bathurst ? . . this one has been asked for, for years and is now in the game.
    If it is anything like the one we have in Pcars it could be as popular as Spa . . .luvverly track . .
    ~O)
    yeah I'm just glad 3 of my favourite tracks from F1 are in there in Hockenheim Abu Dhabi and Sepang love racing on all 3 of them and Sepang's looking great at night as well. Never driven any of these tracks at night with the exception of Abu Dhabi but racing them at night in the Endurance series definitely intrigues me. Have to be honest and say they've picked a good group of tracks even that Autosport raceway they designed  looks good.

  7. RobertKNL said:
    I like it the way they are doing it now, with awesome imaginary teams like Ravenwest (their name and livery is just so awesome) and Team Kicker. I don't really care about the imaginary drivers though. Like everybody said, getting real licences is very expensive, so I like this solution. 

    I'm wondering though, maybe that @justbiglee or @Loore can answer it, whether they will add new cups in future DLC. I'd think that the 'platform' of GAS is great for other sports/classes. Like a Formula S class with Formula One cars (the real F1 cars, you know with big V10/V12 engines that make a lot of noise, not the turbocharged vacuumcleaners they are driving today)
    As for the new cups in the future, I know the answer to how the DLC works but I can't check if I'm allowed to tell you with @loore as he's in LA. I wouldn't want to jump the gun and mess up an announcement he had planned.

    As for the original posts point about having lots of licences for things like the BTCC, WTCC, Formula 3, DTM and whatever else I've missed off the list in one game is of course something we would love to do (how awesome would that game be??). The reality of it is that many of the sports promoters want a game to themselves, they don't want to share a pack with somebody they consider their competition. Its not the case with all of them and I'm not naming names but over time we're hoping that they'll come around to our way of thinking.
    Here's to hoping :D

  8. @justbiglee‌ - the preview build includes the hi res pack?
    Not sure off the top of my head, I can find out if you want tomorrow though?

    Being totally honest even if it does that build is so old now it wouldn't matter, the games had so much more extra polish applied it since the preview build which must be pushing 2 months old now.
    I think it would be interesting to know certainly but got to say the games looking great if the vids are anything to go by anyway certainly the Endurance night time races look excellent anyway

  9. RobertKNL said:
    I like it the way they are doing it now, with awesome imaginary teams like Ravenwest (their name and livery is just so awesome) and Team Kicker. I don't really care about the imaginary drivers though. Like everybody said, getting real licences is very expensive, so I like this solution. 

    I'm wondering though, maybe that @justbiglee or @Loore can answer it, whether they will add new cups in future DLC. I'd think that the 'platform' of GAS is great for other sports/classes. Like a Formula S class with Formula One cars (the real F1 cars, you know with big V10/V12 engines that make a lot of noise, not the turbocharged vacuumcleaners they are driving today)
    they already have the F21 series so they don't need to do that plus the indycars in the game are powered by similar engines to F1 as basically indycar is more or less an American version of F1 at least that's how I see it anyway

  10. The F1 games aer different though as you have to prepare for the possibility of a change in weather as things like being sunny one minute and chucking it down the next can happen in those games and using the weather forecasts and you can plan accordingly. Autosport doesn't have a dynamic weather system so I don't think it'll be needed. Happened to me yesterday racing in Brazil unfortunately it cost me the race. I had planned for the wet weather as the game said 40% chance of rain but it didn't come till the second to last lap and I thought I could get to the end without it impacting me but I got it wrong still was a fun race though


  11. P308R said:
    Why not simplify setups with quick-setup like in thé F1 games? You still would be able to "setup" the car like that. I am primarily a racer, not a tuner.

    settings aer there if you want them you don't have to use them they're more for getting the car comfortable with your driving style it won't necessarily improve your times I think that's what @Loore is saying here it's the upgrades that the team gives you that wil give you any boosr in performance if anything assuming they do that is as different teams have different options I think


  12. mike96 said:
    fIsince08 said:
    mike96 said:
    That heal and hurt game was cool, I really liked that one. I might start one up perhaps, for old times' sake. Also on the topic of memories, does anyone remember ServantOfJesus? He was Mr Troll himself.
    The connection game was really good as well ;)

    Yeah, that was a funny dude. And remember the Force-India guy who used to make countless threads about relationships :D
    Nelly Furtardo?
    Yup :D
    yeah I remermber them too btw Nelly Furtado has been on these forums on the F1 srction

  13.  

    Hi all

    does anyone know whether it does?

    thanks

    Ric

    Just to answer your question some of the earlier builds didn't while some of the newer ones do. Would be tough to say from for sure depends when they were creating the videos.

    thanks for your reply.  There's more than one build being previewed at the moment then?  Do you know who's got the newest one? 
    We've had 3 builds that people might be capturing from, Announce, Preview and Review (though they shouldn't be capturing from review because thats embargoed)
    I'd say the magazine ones must be the preview given it is essentially called a preview build then

  14. hola said:
    And If next game to be revealed is Birmingham Studios new gen bug fest then..., we may not be hearing any news on "Dirt4" 'till January. Maybe some sneak peek by Christmas?
    While F1 2013 may not have been up to the standards set by it's predecessors. I wouldn't exactly call it a bug feat but I hope lessons have been learnt and 2014 sets a new higher standard for F1 games
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