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  1. Millsey55 said:
    They should've not bothered with an early release, as they could've spent more time into developing it and adding a Career mode. Although they should've added the Career into it anyway as it's the main part of an F1 game.

    Not just F1 but most if not all sports games have one of some sort whether they're good or bad is irrelevant but generally it's done on pretty much all sports games. As I've got careers on the go on most of mine atm either on my consoles or on PC. So why it5's been scrapped here is anyone's guess. But I do spend most of my time in these modes when playing the games. So it's unlikely I'll be getting it and if I do decide to I won't be paying any more than about £10. While the graphics do look  pretty good and I'll  give CM a big thumbs up on that but this should be coming as standard anyway. Without a mode that is worth sinking time into though I can't see myself paying full price.


    I do agree with you @Millsey55 though I wou8ld have preffered they kept the October release and had the career mode than rush one out in June without one.


  2. mmpaw37 said:
    vtidixon said:
    vtidixon said:
    I dont get what is wrong with talking P cars on the forum,
    Nothing wrong with talking about it on the forum. Just in the appropriate place please, so people who don't particularly want to read about it don't have to plough through it to find the on-topic stuff.

    Ye fair point but this is the only forum im a active member of as im sure many others are to. I only visit this site in the hope cm release info that gets me exited about the sport I love but I have nothing good to say about the 2015 release so what would you rather me post? Say nice things about Pcars and discuss the features and wow factour the game has with like minded ppl or constantly whine that cm are so shit at marketing games they give us NOTHING to talk about!!! This is the official forum for the F1 2015 game yet what info is there to find on here? Questions are never answered by a dev or mod on here either so pointless asking anything you might like to know about the game. Like I said I can see what your saying but tbh if we werent talking about a what a great game Pcars is we would all be saying how crap cm really are at marketing there product that most will have in 27 days! Just saying


    @vtidixon ..., We haven't even seen anything to do with F1 2015 really other than screenshots, so how can individuals compare pCARS to something that hasn't been viewed...? - It's just pointless

    If people like pCARS then that's fine, everyone has their own likes/dislikes but, when people start trying to compare it to F1 2015 my mind just baffles!...

    I think the majority of members here who have pCARS are essentially comparing it to Codemasters' last-gen titles, such as 2010/2011/2012/2013/2014 and automatically assume 2015 will be the same, which is just ridiculous...

    F1 2015 is as Codemasters have said; A totally new concept built from the ground up, and I think people forget that...?

    Perhaps but you're also forgetting something, Yes they have said this but everything else that has been said about the game leads me to think that aside from having next gen graphics everything else about the game is worse than the previous games. It's almost as if CM are trying to test our patience by seeing how much they can get away with before we stop buying into their rubbish. Unfortunately for CM I have to say I've reached the edge of mine and people around me have always noted how patient a person I am and that I'm one of the most patient people they know.

  3. Joethe155 said:
    I'm now on the verge of cancelling my pre-order after seeing that about the broadcast presentation.
    Indeed makes me even more glad I've taken the stance I have with 2015as everything is making me think I'm dead right to skip this years game. Still I've got plenty of other games to keep me going so will stick with them.

  4. matthew44 said:
    I think if we had career mode (e.g being our own driver) we wouldn't be able to have the podiums or be on the grid before the start of the race, soon everyone will forget about it. Being driver for a season will be great fun anyway and it allows for other stuff like podium celebrations, grid and probably some other cool stuff. There are also other different game modes in the game like pro mode. I feel losing career mode isn't that bad. 
    Yes we would as it's been done before as the F1CE game did it.

  5. Lukedfrt said:
    Hughesy said:
    Such a classy developer, couldn't see Ubisoft reacting this way if their game ended up being leaked... But then Ubisoft wouldn't put their games on GOG as they want to use horrible DRM.
    http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/witcher-3-devs-on-pc-pirates-day1-patch-4-everyone.html
    yeah I've never played the Witcher series but I have to say I am tempted to give it a go
    I've never played them, but seen the reviews for it and think i'll have to pick it up!
    yeah yesterday I found all 3 games on sale on Steam for £50 which includes 1 and 2 and will add 3 once it's released. I grabbed it as I felt considering how they looked I thought it was a pretty good price. Haven't playe3d them yet though but it looked too good an offer to turn down given the high ratings the series has got.

  6. The version of P Cars you played must be different to mine which is bizarre. I have played extensively thus far and experienced none of the problems you mentioned. I'm still getting F1 2015 though.

    I agree it may just b the hardware he's using as it wor5ks perfectly fine for me as well.
    I'm on PS4 and everything is great so it must be differences between hardware.
    yeah I'm on PC and I wouldn't say my machine is mega top but it's not far off. My system I would say meet6s the recommended specs for P Cars so I can pretty much have everything turned up pretty high on it. Because when I bought my machine I made sure the specs at least matched what the PS4/XB1 could do , as my PC is a custom build system it has more ram and better graphics than the consoles but everything else is around more or less the same. It did cost a fair amount though but it was worth it.

  7. mmpaw37 said:
    The version of P Cars you played must be different to mine which is bizarre. I have played extensively thus far and experienced none of the problems you mentioned. I'm still getting F1 2015 though.

    I agree it may just b the hardware he's using as it wor5ks perfectly fine for me as well.

    There's nothing wrong with my friends hardware I can assure you...

    I may add, it wasn't the graphics or framerate I was referring to as those are fine on High/Ultra settings - I was referring to the bugs that he(and I) have experienced while racing...

    But anyway, who cares about Project CARS, its F1 2015 we should be discussing here to be honest... 

    I never said there was but sometimes differnt hardware/software combinations react differently to different programs that's one of the things I've learnt in in my years of computing that's what I meant

  8. Lukedfrt said:
    Spent some solid hours on it today, still struggling to master the kart aha  :p
    yeah the karts are hard. Gave up on them in the end and decided to start at Formula Rookie level instead. I will come back and have another go eventually as I want to do a career where I go from the bottom to the top for the Zero to Hero part of career. I'll be worrying about that later though

  9. Tourgott said:
    The AI from what I've raced with in Formula Gulf aren't the best but I think this has something to do with the way I try to overtake. As in the F1 games its been fairly easy to outbrake the AI where here its not and I'm having to really time the overtake, get it wrong and the smallest of touches can wreck your race. A lesson Im quickly learning but its great.
    Dive-bomb into PCars AI like in the crap Codemasters games and your race is over. You actually have to race the AI like in real life, waiting for a mistake or slipstream them. That's what I love about PCars Formula A.
    yeah you hasve to in most of the disciplines although I do race with damage off and all that it still feels good

  10. The version of P Cars you played must be different to mine which is bizarre. I have played extensively thus far and experienced none of the problems you mentioned. I'm still getting F1 2015 though.

    I agree it may just b the hardware he's using as it wor5ks perfectly fine for me as well.

  11. Hughesy said:
    Such a classy developer, couldn't see Ubisoft reacting this way if their game ended up being leaked... But then Ubisoft wouldn't put their games on GOG as they want to use horrible DRM.
    http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/witcher-3-devs-on-pc-pirates-day1-patch-4-everyone.html
    yeah I've never played the Witcher series but I have to say I am tempted to give it a go

  12. Something kinda interesting... The betting shop opposite us closed down a few months back and they're being cleaned out today, one of our regular customers just came in and asked if I could store a massive TV for him that came out of the shop till his mate could pick it up. And then said there's another one going if I wanted it lol.

    So I just got a 37" HD Ready TV for free! Doesn't have a power lead, remote, or stand, but none of that will be a problem :) Interesting day!
    looks like we both have ended up with interesting gifts lately then. My last grandparent died in March and apparently left me with £1000 in his will so I have a little extra money to spend if I need it, as all the grand children were left money. I never knew anything about this until yesterday though.

  13. The concept of PCars is brilliant and most of the ideas (mostly all the available options and being able to set races exactly how you want) and idea of the career mode is an excellent. The handling is good and damage is great. Problem is; the AI is absolutely abysmal which ruins pretty much every race for single player. They're either too slow (even on 100% difficulty), too cautious around the player or too blind, they run off the track needlessly and personally I think that ruins the game as a whole and completely undermines all the brilliant ideas and concepts the game offers. I will always maintain that in a racing game, the AI must be a primary focus. Get that wrong and it doesn't matter how brilliant the rest of the game is. With that in mind, if F1 2015 nails the AI, then yes, it'll come close and pass PCars. If they don't nail the AI, then no it won't. For me personally, I could do without all the stuff in PCars if it meant a game where I can race the AI wheel to wheel and not have a five second gap after the first lap. 

    Hopefully the AI is a focus for patches in PCars though as it's ruining an otherwise great game which is a shame as the potential is definitely there.
    I would imagine it will be as things are going to be continuously worked on as I think that's constantly been said by the people that worked on it up until now. I think the main focus recently was just get the game out so people can finally play it given the number of delays it's faced. After all one of the good things about it being a new gen game is that the game can be patched quickly and quietly behind the scenes and get everything updated with minimal fuss not something that can be easily done with the old PS3/360 gen. So hope4fully things like this can be rectified swoon.

  14. mmpaw37 said:

    In regards to Project Cars...

    A friend of mine rang me last night and told me he had purchased it, and after a few tweaking with his wheel, he's managed to get it somewhat perfect(or so he says).

    I am going to visit him after work and see what this PCars is like for myself; however from the reaction from him, he didn't sound to enthusiastic and has said it needs a lot of tweaking. He has a decent system so i'm not sure what he really means but, he did say that the graphics and framerate are a slight issue.

    He'd explained that you have to spend so much time messing about with the graphics settings - then you have to restart the game when you've applied those settings and it takes a lifetime..., but again I will see for myself what he means later on.

    TBH..., from what he said I don't think I will be purchasing it...

    I think if you like a good relatively easy to get into sim then you'll enjoy it. I didn't find myself having to play around with the graphics settings to much at first I had a problem with the spray flickering when I was doing a wet race but it just needed some tweaks to the Anti Aliasing settings I had set up which I resolved but aside from that it pretty much worked out of the box framerate wise it looks good for me as I do have a fairly decent card in the GTX 770 4gb. But obviously everybody is different.

  15. ive never heard as much tosh, no other game blames the license as much
    It's because the FOM tries to rule everything with dictatorship.

    I'm starting to hate FOM compared to other racing series. At Youtube, for example, DTM posts full race recaps and onboard sessions, which is amazing of course in case you missed the race or want a replay from a different angle. FOM, however, hides all footage on their website - only accessible when you pay regularly to view a few selected videos (from the massive amount of footage that is recorded during a Grand Prix weekend).
    Yeah I think that's the problem. I think it's their insistence to being control freaks is the problem here after al a lot of the stuff thaqt has been asked for here isn't in the game. I don't think it's entirely CM's fault because I think driver transfers and choosing our own number would be done if it was allowed. Most of these things I'd suspect would be very easy to implement and obviously are incorporated into a lot of games like Fifa/NBA/NHL because obviously it's been allowed there. I do find it strange that the FIA/FOM would behave in such a way because a lot of the ideas that have been put forward on this forum have been pretty good ones, and could be implemented easily if the license wasn't so strict.
    You say that, yet we have lost career mode. So it might not be restrictions from FOM keeping number changes from happening. We'll never know, unless it winds up in the game one day.

    I do agree with that and I'm not saying CM are completely blameless as I don't think that they are but a lot of the problems I think that CM are having with  a lot of suggestions on this forum is going against what  the FOM are allowing them to do. We'd only know for sure if we knew what the license entailed. But I do think that if FOM eased up on the reins and allowed CM to use some creativity we might actually get a better game all round.


    I do find it strange that the FIA/FOM would behave in such a way because a lot of the ideas that have been put forward on this forum have been pretty good ones, and could be implemented easily if the license wasn't so strict.

    codemasters don't help themselves SJ, we have to trust in what they say as we cant read the license.  each time I take codies at there word and each time a few months later the words change. last year for example luke spring made a big point of telling us the new game would not be called F1 2015, few months later its called F1 2015. funny how luke is now gone! 


    Maybe but what exactly are CM supposed to do? It's not exactly easy for them to do anything about it. The only other option wou8ld be to forget about doing an F1 game in the first place. I think they're only going along with it as they know a lot of people do want to play F1 games. I admit that a lot of excitement has gone out of it thanks to 2014 and the lack of career mode in 2015 but it is what it is. I'm pretty sure they'd give us moer if they could but in this instance I fear it's CM's hands that are tied


  16. ive never heard as much tosh, no other game blames the license as much
    It's because the FOM tries to rule everything with dictatorship.

    I'm starting to hate FOM compared to other racing series. At Youtube, for example, DTM posts full race recaps and onboard sessions, which is amazing of course in case you missed the race or want a replay from a different angle. FOM, however, hides all footage on their website - only accessible when you pay regularly to view a few selected videos (from the massive amount of footage that is recorded during a Grand Prix weekend).
    Yeah I think that's the problem. I think it's their insistence to being control freaks is the problem here after al a lot of the stuff thaqt has been asked for here isn't in the game. I don't think it's entirely CM's fault because I think driver transfers and choosing our own number would be done if it was allowed. Most of these things I'd suspect would be very easy to implement and obviously are incorporated into a lot of games like Fifa/NBA/NHL because obviously it's been allowed there. I do find it strange that the FIA/FOM would behave in such a way because a lot of the ideas that have been put forward on this forum have been pretty good ones, and could be implemented easily if the license wasn't so strict.

  17. Platy said:
    Just done my first race in the Clio Cup. The AI isn't very good, as in they don't seem to drive like a person would. They seem to have a fast-in, slow-out approach to corners; unless things are different higher up. The game also suffers from the simulation bug that the F1 games has, AI makes up random lap times during qualifying if you skip to the end. Its fun though, hopefully they work hard on the AI because it takes a lot of fun out of the game.

    Also not being in control in the pits? Pretty lame. Weather looks nice though.
    Not so sure about that :p This is the ending of a race I did 2 or 3 nights ago, I was flabbergasted by the blatant cheating and the fact that if I'd pulled the same move I'd have been given no chance to recover before flying well off circuit, but also impressed because I didn't think an AI would drive like that lol. Loved how close it was across the line, 0.030.

    Though this doesn't happen often, seems like certain track and car combinations give you better AI racing than others do.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEG4UH6LJw



    Agreed plus with all the various different cars each handling differently too means that every race you do is a different challenge. I haven't played the game today but that's what I've felt about the game so far based on the practice races and first season that I have done. I have enjoyed it and intend on doing more but so far it's been great fun. I've not found too many bugs in it other than sometimes on the replays where al the cars don't take off the same time as you and stay on the grid. So far though that's the only real annoying bug I've found. This only happens sometimes though

  18. Lukedfrt said:
    Had my first go earlier, love it! 
    Bloody hard to control though haha
    Yeah it's a bit tough at first I felt that too but after a while I figured it out. The key thing to do is make sure you don't push too hard to early and allow your tyres to warm up then it really starts coming to you then

  19. coolieboy said:
    To those who have played Pcars, are there any differences in the Formula A teams or are they all equal?
    I think their pretty much equal but not sure as I'm not driving the Formula A's atm My first season was at Formula Rookie level and I'm racing in the Ginetta Junior championship in my next season.
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