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  1. Posted

    46 minutes ago, Fhd19 said:

    I can't see why they wouldn't be able to have a livery creator like the one in Forza where you can create your own and download liveries from the community without mods. I mean I don't know anything about licencing restrictions but If Forza can get away with it I surely Codemasters couldn't do something similar.

    Absolutely! Even if it had the livery options like on Race Driver: Grid it would be much better.

    I can understand a new F1 team having the worst car and being limited as to what it can invest in at the start, but there shouldn't be a limit to livery creation.

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  2. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    Does anyone else think that YouTubers such as Aarava, Tiametmarduk and Tom97 are being used by Codemasters as free advertising? Forgive me for being cynical, but it just seems to me that they're being allowed to broadcast footage of the game nearly a week before release so that they show off the ins and outs of My Team without Codemasters having to spend time and money doing so?

    I know it benefits the YouTubers to be able to show the gameplay before anyone else, but surely it benefits Codemasters far more.

  3. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    I'm going to be starting my next career race at Mexico in last place after using three new power unit components. It's the first time I've had to do it in this career at McLaren, as my first career was at Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, so the power unit was more reliable. I upgraded reliability early on at McLaren, but I've not managed to go the whole season without changing parts.

    I didn't bother with Q2, so I have free choice on tyres. Should I start on softs and pit for mediums at just over the halfway point or start on mediums, go later into the race and finish on softs? If you need an idea of my pace at Mexico, in Q1 I came 8th on 76 difficulty. I do 25% races.

    Thanks.

  4. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    Just to confirm, if we pick 16 or 10 races, will the ones selected in the video be the races we have to do? Or can we choose them? Can we do double headers?

    Also, if we want to do 16 races in the first season (hopefully there are this many in real life) can we then pick 22 for season two?

  6. Posted

    4 minutes ago, 1henryw said:

    Perhaps I was a bit lucky that my Weber got signed for top teams. My last season battle with him in the Mercedes was epic. Butler never got promoted from Toro Rosso despite finishing as high as fourth with them. Still think they were a great addition but perhaps could have been implemented better.

    When Weber stayed with Williams year after year I thought the game would be programmed to jump them and him up the grid so he could go up against me. I think the upgrade which reduced the number of driver moves came at the end of my first season, so he never got the chance to move around like some other players saw.

  7. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    I've done four seasons but neither of them have been that great.

    Butler started at Toro Rosso and did okay in the first season. Nothing spectacular but he was solid. He moved to McLaren at the start of season two but was pretty poor. 

    Weber has been at Williams from the start. He did about as well as you'd expect in the first season, but got slightly better as the seasons went on. He had some decent results in the middle of season four when their car was upgraded more. They slipped down the performance ranking nearer the end of the year and his results got worse.

    I was pretty disappointed with how they did. I thought one of them was going to set F1 alight!

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  8. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    2 hours ago, KittyFit90 said:

    My 2 cents...the BLM movement is great and kudos to Mercedes and Hamilton for supporting it and it is not just a US based issue, here in Australia the last 30+ deaths in police custody have been Aboriginal men! 

    But what about the 50.2% of the population that is not proportionally represented in F1 (drivers wise, the teams have diversified with female engineers etc well in the last decade or so but there's still a long way to go), where is the push to make F1 accessible to female drivers? I can remember when I was a keen karter as a girl (and a pretty successful one which the boys I raced really hated!):classic_tongue:, I was sneered at regularly by other drivers, organizers, engineers and so on. Things like this were regularly said, girls can't race, best drop out now because girls can't take the physical strain of more powerful cars, car racing is not a girly thing or my personal fav all female racers are lesbians!:classic_laugh: 

    Frankly people get too hung up on race when the biggest discrimination in F1 (and the world as a whole) is based on gender! Ok I'm heading back to the safety of the off-topic forum now haha:classic_biggrin:

    It could easily be argued that the biggest discrimination in F1 is class. How many working class racing drivers do you see? F1 was set up by rich people for rich people. It's never changed and probably never will. Lewis Hamilton's dad had to work multiple jobs just to get him to karting, but so many racing drivers have had it easy because of their parents money. I'm not talking about people like Stroll or Latifi, but kids with moderately well off parents who can afford every step in the junior categories. Yes, they need to be fast to get anywhere, but being given a huge leg-up really helps. Who knows, there might be someone who can't afford to go racing out there who is quicker than Hamilton?

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  9. Posted

    11 hours ago, Aef251 said:

    Ferraris should be red, except when Surtees won a title in a blue one. McLarens should be red and white but they haven't been in a while. And Mercs should be silver which is exactly why this years shouldn’t be. 

    The McLarens are in their original colour. Red and white might be their most iconic livery, but it was only ever for the Marlboro sponsorship. 

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  10. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    I set a time on Time Trial in Brazil, but even though it was five seconds off the top ranked time, the leaderboard shows me as equal first. When I set a quicker time, the orange and blank banner appears at the top of the screen to tell me that I'm top of the leaderboard. Is this an error or just the way the game works?

    It's annoying that without spending ages scrolling through to find the times similar to mine, I can't select a ghost a bit faster than me to try and compete against.

  11. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Finja482 said:

    The main problem for me at the minute is the fact that ai can get them and I can't. I've been in a really good championship battle with another driver throughout the first half of the season and then they get 2 back to back dnf's and the battle is ruined and it feels such a hollow victory. I've also had this disappointment in just a race where I get a great result in a car, only to realise that some of the top drivers dnf and that was probably the only reason I did as well as I did. I think we at least need the option of dnf's for the ai but ideally they should really give the option to the player on if they want dnf's as at the minute I get very little joy from the victories as it can usually be chalked up to the ai being unlucky

    I've had exactly the same thing happen to me. I was battling with Leclerc at Ferrari - he got a couple of DNFs and it felt like I was being handed an advantage. It has to be optional though, so we can turn it off for the AI and/or ourselves.

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  12. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    31 minutes ago, marioho said:

    You can take all three new parts in the same GP, bundled it all in a single massive penalty thus starting only one race at the back of the grid.

    I know you can do that, but in terms of fairness to the game, would it be better if I did what the AI does and take them one at a time?

  13. Posted

    As AI drivers only take single power unit penalties, unlike real F1 where they might take two, three or four to get a near-fresh power unit, would it be fairer if I did the same and just took one at a time? I need a new ICE, MGU-K and Turbo Charger, but if I take the new components in the same way the AI does, I'll be near the back for three races, rather than just the one as a real driver would be.

    Do you take penalties in one go or individually?

  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Scrogs said:

    My F1 2019 mojo has returned. My dejection and exasperation has changed to progress is being made.....and the enjoyment factor has returned. I'm managing more consistent laps on Silverstone on Time Trial. I even reckon that I have improved my fastest lap time by a few seconds ( now down to 1'42'......still slow......but an improvement) but it hasn't been saved in game. Technique wise it has suddenly dawned on me to brake earlier and turn steering into corners much earlier! And that over braking, although not good technique, on some really tight corners is probably better in losing less time compared to going  in too fast and spinning off.

    I've adjusted the steering, throttle and braking configurations to numbers that will probably make you seasoned drivers despair.....but they seem to be working for me at present. Anyway.....I'm rambling on a bit........but the lowdown is I'm enjoying the game......again.

     

    I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it. I can relate to your struggles from other racing games. Just keep practicing and you'll get faster. 

    You're right to brake and steer earlier. You'll be amazed at how much of an impact a good technique can have on your driving than chucking the car into corners!

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  19. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    I've started a McLaren career and noticed that my power unit has worn quite a lot after the first round. The ICE is at 22% and most of the other parts are at about 15%. I used standard fuel mix and low or medium ERS in all sessions except qualifying. The ERS drains too quickly as well.

    I started a previous career with Alfa Romeo and the wear was nowhere near as bad. I assume the Renault power unit is just a lot worse than the Ferrari one.

    Will upgrades fix my problems?

  21. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    8 hours ago, DarkRedslayer said:

    The lack of difficulty control is why I don't play the career mode at all, and just run custom championships. Really disappointing because I love playing career modes, but I like to find a difficulty I can play on and just have fun, and stick with that, and that just isn't possible with DR 2.0

    The whole "just practice and get better!" is fine for people who only play one game, or have no life lol, but it doesn't work for me, I'll play the hell out of a game for a few weeks and then not touch it again for 6 months, and then come back and play it again. This isn't viable with Dirts career mode, because on return I'll just get destroyed if I don't waste a bunch of time trying to get back where I was in free play before continuing... By which point I move on to something else anyway lmao.

    Its a terrible way to set up a career mode. A shame too, because other than that, this is one of the best rally games ever made imo, which is probably why even without a proper career mode, I've still managed to put a lot of time into it playing alone lol.

    I started a custom championship yesterday and I'm already enjoying it more than career. I've put the difficulty at a level where it's a challenge to do well, but I'm not always in the bottom half after doing what seemed like a decent time, as was happening on Pro.

    I dig your "have no life" comment... 😂

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  22. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    16 hours ago, UnderclassGDfan said:

    Excuses. Lots of excuses.

    I play with a controller and I am able to beat Masters and there is still room for more.
    And I am not even close to the top leaderboard guys.

    Don't waste your time with excuses and complaining, focus on getting better.
    If you have trouble getting better, focus on a specific car.

    "Focus on getting better" doesn't help when you provide no advice on how I can get better. You might as well have just said 'git gud'

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  23. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    15 hours ago, PJTierney said:

    One basic question: Are you in a new car after you get promoted?

    If you have switched, you may be comparatively slower because you've gone from driving a car with a few upgrades to driving one with none, in addition to the bump in AI difficulty.

    I've used the same car for all my attempts at Clubman and Pro, so six championships.

  24. Posted

    32 minutes ago, blodinho said:

    The difficulty exists to be overcome, Dirt Rally is the dark souls of racing games, the game has to be really hard, otherwise it would not be fun

    There's a point where it ceases to be fun if you can't improve. It's a video game after all, so it's meant to be fun. Obviously the concept if 'fun' is objective, but when it feels like I have to be perfect just to get 10th place on Pro, then it's no longer fun for me.

    I got to Master on Dirt Rally and came 7th on it. I only needed one attempt at each tier to get promoted, so it was probably a bit too easy. The way I drove on Dirt Rally isn't quick enough for Dirt Rally 2.0, so I've had to learn to be faster whilst maintaining control. I use a controller and it feels like the game isn't designed to be played with one, whereas Dirt Rally did. It might have been too easy, but at least I enjoyed it.

  25. Posted · Edited by WestHam66

    The jump in difficulty between Clubman and Pro is rather large.

    I got promoted from Clubman after several attempts, but I can't get in the top ten on Pro. I've done three and a half rallies and I usually finish stages between 12th and 20th, with a few 10th places.

    So far on Pro I've finished 12th in Argentina, 13th in New Zealand and 18th in Spain, but on Clubman I came 1st, 2nd and 7th on the same locations.  

    Dropping ten places on the same rallies seems like quite a big jump in difficulty. It's a bit disheartening to be so far down the order and it feels like I've gone as far as I can go in My Team.

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