I think I bought an F1 game years ago but that was before I had a wheel. Decided to get this one because it looked promising and I now have a wheel
. It is taking me a bit to get used to the game. My video card doesnt hat the HP to do triples....I may try to lower some settings and try again tonight though. On a single screen, I can't really get the FOV I want and to have mirrors. I don't want to have to press buttons to look left/right...I am too busy concentrating on the road to do that
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I dont know what it is...but I am not liking the placement of the onscreen display stuff. In cockpit mode, I want to have the miniHUD stuff they have on the other views, but I you don't get that (Did I hit DRS or not? not sure!). For the stuff that is there, it seems to be really tough to read. I have no problems with reading the info on AC/AMS and other games, but the stuff in this game is either too wordy, not bright enough or in an inconvenient spot to read/understand at a quick glance. And you only have a quick glance with these fast cars. I got a call to change strategy and it wanted me to confirm, but I couldn't read how to do it because my concentration was on the race. The menus on the bottom right are not bright enough and are too small to read and to manipulate going at speed around the track...and are too far away from the center of my vision. Might have to do some practice races to get used to using it though.
My first race weekend (I was using the abbreviated stuff 30/30/30 25% race was interesting getting used to things. I tried to do all three goal thingies in FP1, but the tyre management and quali ones were a disaster 0 pts on each. I got the tyre management one down on FP2, and the quali one on FP3....I think it was all due to the track gripping up as the weekend went along. Then it was onto the race itself at Albert Park.
I outqualified my teammate Gutierrez in 14th....but on race day, it figures....is raining. And of course I had done no stints on Inters at all. Got a decent start and decided to dive towards the apex on T1 since everyone was queuing up. Bumped Bottas a little, took a little wing damage, and found myself in 9th place now. I slip slided through the course for the next 5 laps and was still in 9th, but like 15s back from 8th. Because the AI doesn't want to pass, I had a nice conga line of cars behind me.
On lap 6 got a radio call to change tyres and finally figured how to confirm. Hop into pits and it took forever for them to release me from the pit stall. On replay I realized they decided to change my wing. I wish they didn't, it wasn't damaged that much and I would have rather had the track position (I need to find out if I can tell them NOT to fix damage). After they fixed the wing I was held while at least 6 cars passed me....looked like there was room. Because of this I was released into something like 18th spot. Hopefully the next race will go better.
