Proper gameplay finally out

[Cap10 23]

I like the engine sounds much improved!

[Britpoint 4]

Tourgott said:

@Britpoint 
Are there any actual new lines for the engineer? In the video above there was almost no engineer (just the well known "DRS available", "xx seconds in front", ...). I expected huge improvements to the race engineer since you have this "talk to the engineer" feature. Things like we have in real F1.

Yes. Tons of new lines. A lot of old ones are still there (although re-recorded with our new engineer), many of the other old ones were re-written, and there were many completely new ones written as well. I don't know exactly how many lines are all new but it's probably several hundred.

You'll start to hear more and more of them in longer races - you don't get many strategy updates for example in a three lap race. You'll also hear him a bit more in practice sessions

[Britpoint 4]

fIsince08 said:

mike96 said:

Engineer voice is same as in F1 2010 :p

No it isn't, I know a geordie accent when I hear one (and that isn't) :p 

Turns out our engineer is quite a talented and versatile fellow ;)

[Paul94 0]

Looks abso good. crowd now gives the illusion you're being watched!! What i wanna know is...did Lee finish with a point

[hola 1]

This is not the tech jump I was expecting. I know these are youtube videos that may be deceiving, but the graphics don't look that impressive to me. I can forgive that on consoles as long as 60FPS are rock solid, but will they, specially in the rain?.

Also:
- Engine sounds not improved from 2014. Nice job Britpoint...
- There's still the delay from your wheel imputs to the screen WTF!! lol. Shame.
- AI is right the same to the last previous two iterations.
- No new damage engine. Will be the same watered down thingy I'm sure.
- Physics DO look the same.

I knew this wouldn't be a new engine made from scratch. It's same fucking arcadish EGO all over again, with little lightning/shader improvements. It's so obvious..

Guess the media blackout makes sense now. Just what they did by 2014.

Foolish me for having the minimum requiered ammount of faith on you until the last moment.

[Rallycameraman 241]

You sure can tell a lot about the game from just watching the videos on YouTube cant you? Were you one of the people expecting a hardcore sim racer too?

[VDV23 0]

Another unrealistic thing I saw was that the McLarens didn't retire in the first two laps. 

[Joethe155 8]

Rallycameraman said:

You sure can tell a lot about the game from just watching the videos on YouTube cant you? Were you one of the people expecting a hardcore sim racer too?

I'd certainly expect better considering it's been worked on for a lot longer than previous Codemasters F1 games, it's new technology for the series, it should be a new start. But it looks like more of the same, graphics aside. The broadcast style was done by Sony for all Sony F1 games, it's nothing new and Sony did it better.

Only thing I'm interested is the interaction with the engineer.

[Chromatic 127]

I'm not impressed for two reasons,

First: the graphics and features are not as expected, considering it's X1 PS4 these guy's had well over a year timescale to make something impressive

Second : Steve Hood was absolutely right when he said the series was going nowhere  

[Dboyking1 3]

Tourgott said:

Chilza381 said:

There's also this video too. Lee Mather driving in the wet at Canada, it looks very tough!! 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6rpz5GLNCIg

So absolutely no improvements to the damage system. He slams into the wall and nothing happens. Race would have been over in Formula A in Project Cars.

I don't know but I think he didn't have damage on

[Chromatic 127]

Dboyking1 said:

Tourgott said:

Chilza381 said:

There's also this video too. Lee Mather driving in the wet at Canada, it looks very tough!! 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6rpz5GLNCIg

So absolutely no improvements to the damage system. He slams into the wall and nothing happens. Race would have been over in Formula A in Project Cars.

I don't know but I think he didn't have damage on

So many question's unanswered for example, we don't even know what the safety car is going to do, might take you out just like F1 2011. Is there more red flag's for extreme weather?? Does the safety car come out for debris in a sector?? nobody knows 

[ImDyingYouIdiot 0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxGW_CiOwk

[Chromatic 127]

 At 2.00 in a race that would be a red flag or a safety car at the least but since the damage is turned off it doesn't really answer my question bud. Thanks for gameplay anyway

[raggedrabbit 0]

The game looks beautiful in the rain, but then it always did. I hope it's easier to keep up with the AI in the wet than in previous editions, where the wet pace was all over the place. I also hope they've fixed the weather transitions bugs that used to make wet racing borked. 

Why is the Red Bull steering wheel wrong? It's still got the old design with the dash display. This year they have the proper Merc style wheels with the display built in. 

[Chilza381 0]

raggedrabbit said:

The game looks beautiful in the rain, but then it always did. I hope it's easier to keep up with the AI in the wet than in previous editions, where the wet pace was all over the place. I also hope they've fixed the weather transitions bugs that used to make wet racing borked. 

Why is the Red Bull steering wheel wrong? It's still got the old design with the dash display. This year they have the proper Merc style wheels with the display built in. 

Steering wheels will be corrected in an update. 

[vtidixon 0]

ImDyingYouIdiot said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxGW_CiOwk

AI are still easy to overtake at turn 1as no one is defending the inside then he passes 2 cars off track at the top of eou rouge and doesnt get a penalty (although they must be off as he wipes a car out that then drives through the wall lol) havent seen 1 curb that unsettle the cars yet in 5 vids and this is even in the wet! Looks on rails again as not once did he have oversteer on turn in and im sorry but in the wet that just doesnt happen, It looks like the only time you will get oversteer in this game is if you put the power down to early or to much. So dissapointed that the best codemasters can come up with is basically the same game they gave us the last 5 attempts :( On a positive Batman arkham knight is released in 24 hrs!!

[hola 1]

No Codie will comment on the steering wheel imput lag still there?. Wasn't this a new engine?

[PiperAlpha 0]

Chromatic said:

Second : Steve Hood was absolutely right when he said the series was going nowhere  

Did he really? Because in interviews I've read on his decision to leave he's always been very positive and gracious:-

Steve told fans in his farewell post, “I decided to resign even though F1 could be on the cusp of being bigger than it has ever been before…The handling is where I had hoped we’d have been with the initial F1 2010 game”. He also said in a separate discussion “It’ll probably be the best game yet and I’ll look like an idiot for leaving!”

[AMSKRR 3]

The graphics look nice, but it does not look hugely different. He didn't really defend against Grosjean so you  can't really classify that as improvements.

[AMSKRR 3]

PiperAlpha said:

Chromatic said:

Second : Steve Hood was absolutely right when he said the series was going nowhere  

Did he really? Because in interviews I've read on his decision to leave he's always been very positive and gracious:-

Steve told fans in his farewell post, “I decided to resign even though F1 could be on the cusp of being bigger than it has ever been before…The handling is where I had hoped we’d have been with the initial F1 2010 game”. He also said in a separate discussion “It’ll probably be the best game yet and I’ll look like an idiot for leaving!”

It is not really CM's fault that it is not going anywhere though, the license holders are too strict, they're so stupid it hurts my brain. I'm sure CM would do a lot more with it if they could, but their hands are tied as far as I know.

[VDV23 0]

AMS97KRR said:

PiperAlpha said:

Chromatic said:

Second : Steve Hood was absolutely right when he said the series was going nowhere  

Did he really? Because in interviews I've read on his decision to leave he's always been very positive and gracious:-

Steve told fans in his farewell post, “I decided to resign even though F1 could be on the cusp of being bigger than it has ever been before…The handling is where I had hoped we’d have been with the initial F1 2010 game”. He also said in a separate discussion “It’ll probably be the best game yet and I’ll look like an idiot for leaving!”

It is not really CM's fault that it is not going anywhere though, the license holders are too strict, they're so stupid it hurts my brain. I'm sure CM would do a lot more with it if they could, but their hands are tied as far as I know.

Do you have a copy of the contract detailing the restrictions? No? Don't use it as an excuse then. 

[ImDyingYouIdiot 0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMls1Gtcjwg

[RedBantha95 0]

The one thing that I'm really annoyed about having watched a couple of videos is the ridiculous race targets the game is still setting. For example, the video linked in the opening post has a Red Bull starting 8th with a target of finishing 3rd... I don't understand how these targets are calculated, but some new formula needs to be made so that realistic targets are actually set.

[scottishwildcat 187]

RedBantha95 said:

The one thing that I'm really annoyed about having watched a couple of videos is the ridiculous race targets the game is still setting. For example, the video linked in the opening post has a Red Bull starting 8th with a target of finishing 3rd... I don't understand how these targets are calculated, but some new formula needs to be made so that realistic targets are actually set.

Maybe that's just an indication of how easy it is to overtake the AI into the first corner again :wink: 

[Berad88 0]

If there is no career mode will the race targets even matter?  I wonder what actual effect they have if any.