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Hughesy

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  1. @RevolvingPrawn There's a tiny spider inside my PC monitor, I thought it was on the outside as you would, went to get rid of it, but it's underneath the screen..... It's obviously got in through the bit that's opened up, can't do anything until January time when I can buy a new one....  :(

  2. I see they haven't fixed the ******* ai during a safety car since previous versions then. Catching up to the safety car and behind me on the straight was Hamilton, and he pissed past me. I was like I'm not having that, so overtook him, it then told me to give the position back, like WTF! Thankfully I could rewind, but this time I had to weave on the straight as he was still trying to overtake me. Come on Codemasters, you've had years to fix this! Also during a restart at Mexico the cars all slowed and pretty much stopped, leading to me and some ai cars ghosting and getting overtaken. I think I'm going to disable the safety car even though I like the authenticity, I can't put up with this crap.

    Edit: I got my revenge, on the restart he tried to overtake on the outside into the first corner at Brazil, which is the the inside, so I turned in and he hit my rear wheel and span out, result, sorry Lewis but you ****** me off. With that result it looks like McLaren will finish ahead of Sauber, Toro Rosso and Renault even though my engine upgrades don't work.  B)

  3. Indeed it is. I had a hospital appointment today and then the rest of the day off,  plenty of time today play F1 with my broken Honda engine. :D

    Edit: Well I didn't expect this, I loved it on PC so will definitely buy it for the Switch. It obviously won't look as good as the PS4 X1 versions, but that doesn't bother me. People said the Switch wouldn't get 3rd party support, but that's being proven wrong.
    http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/crime_classic_l_a_noire_is_sleuthing_its_way_to_switch_this_year

  4. Oh ffs, I've only done engine upgrades, I was wondering why I was so slow still, Codemasters trolling Honda 100%. I guess it's realistic :joy:
    Im still getting great results though, came 5th at Mexico which is a power circuit, got slightly lucky with a safety car which helped a lot as my strategy was wrong. If anyone wants a kick ass setup for Mexico let me know, obviously I'm using Honda, but it could work with other cars.

  5. Just came second in my McLaren at Texas, in what was a crazy race. The whole race it was raining, but it wasn't wet enough for inters, so it was a low grip race. I started on super softs down in 13th and was struggling for traction, as well as being slow on the straights. But when I pitted for softs everything changed, I suddenly felt comfortable and with 8 laps to go I was chasing down Max for 4th. Just as I overtook him a safety car came out (my first as it was switched off without knowing). On the restart I overtook Hamilton for P2, and managed to hold him off for 3 laps even though I was very slow on the straights, as in the fast and tight corners I was quicker. Great race at a track I don't like so much.

  6. I was wondering why after 14 races I'd never seen a safety car come out even with cars stopped on the track, it's turned off for some reason :joy: . Annoyingly you can't change any settings mid weekend. I also need to turn up the difficulty as I'm out classing Alonso by a lot, so I'll go up to 90-92 I think once I've finished Kuala Lumpur.

    Edit: Who thought it was a good idea to have the settings grayed out in career menu, but if you quit then load back into it and press start whilst on the loading screen, you can change the settings, seems stupid to me. Still at least I now have the safety car on and difficultly turned up, can't believe I've gone 14 races without checking why the safety car had never come out lol.

  7. I'm at your favourite track bud, Singapore lol. I love it even more with these cars. As for Monoco, I did well and enjoyed it. I don't quite understand some of you saying it's harder this year, for me it's a lot easier, especially with the extra traction. I have a major engine upgrading for the next race I think, it's still going to be the slowest by quite a bit though, baby steps.

    New patch is out, still nothing to sort the AI qualifying times out.

  8. I didn't know there was a classic car championship, I'll have to check it out. My favourite classic car to drive is actually the 2004 Ferrari, not a Ferrari fan but driving it around Brazil is amazing. It puts the current cars to shame, plus it makes a good noise.

  9. Oh I think it was actually my fault. I think I actually changed gearboxes and didn't realise it has to do 6 races, so it now has me wondering  if the other people reporting the issue have done the same thing. I'm not sure how I missed this rule, the game even warns you, but I skip the warnings lol, big fail on my part.

  10. Looking forward to buying Rocket League on Nintendo Switch. For some reason I haven't bought it on PC even though I love football and I love cars. It's a shame it's not out before I go to Silverstone, so I could play it between races lol.

  11. fIsince08 said:
    Can't help but feel the gearbox wear on F1 2017 is a bit overpowered. 50% wear and I've already lost a gear!
    It comes back, it doesn't last the whole race, try losing all proper shifts like I did. I'd say it's fine how it is, 50% wear means it's likely to develop a fault, just like 50% tyre wear means you lose quite a bit of performance. It's also quite easy to drive around losing 1 gear without losing much time, thankfully the ai also suffer the same wear, plus it gives you a reason to upgrade the gearbox. Also bear in mind a worn control electronics means other components wear faster and are more likely to develop faults.

  12. So this happened, somebody explain how. So yea Montreal is my best track, but still. I'm in a McLaren, I have the worst car as I've mainly done reliability upgrades as seen bellow. I got to Q3 for the first time, which is surprising considering the car I'm driving at a power circuit and broken qualifying. My car was the slowest in the speed trap, yet I qualified 1st.

    Car rating, look how slow it is compared to the Sauber lol.


    My pole time in a McLaren.


    My main issue was I wasn't expecting it, so I used an old gearbox. Once I came 1st I didn't want to change it. In the race all was going well, I lost 5th at one point, but with 3 laps to go I was 3rd, but then it went. Shifts went really bad, so it would take like 2-3 seconds to shift up or down. Going up was ok as I'd just anticipate it, but downshifts I couldn't do that, as it would only downshift one at a time every few seconds, so I'd go into the hairpin in 6th. In the end I came 7th, which was still my best result. I still can't work out how I  was so fast.


    Also something cool I just heard over the loudspeaker in game, there's a shout out for Billy Monger, nice touch Codemasters.


  13. Destiny 2 looks amazing on PC, also plays great. Just being able to play at 60fps makes such a big difference compared to 30fps on consoles, plus precision because I'm using M/KB. I was waiting until I could play it before deciding in case it ran crap on PC, but it runs perfectly, for the life of me I can't see why it's not coming out at the same time as consoles, when it's already so polished.

    Just did a strike mission with two randoms, it was great, I wasn't so great but luckily for me my two partners were awesome :joy:
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