F1 2012 F1 2012 The Game: Latest News & Discussion

Bram Hengeveld · Apr 4, 2012

Please use this central sticky thread for posting the latest news about F1 2012 - The Game. Comments and discussions are very welcome as long as they are on topic.

Breaking news stories about the game will also be posted on our news section of the site

d3fl3xion · May 30, 2012

That's not true. There is no 'additional time' required to get into F1. You simply do the young driver 'tutorial' and sign a contract. It will be 5 seasons again. People overreacting.

Chris · May 30, 2012

d3fl3xion said:
That's not true. There is no 'additional time' required to get into F1. You simply do the young driver 'tutorial' and sign a contract. It will be 5 seasons again. People overreacting.

Okay, well yeah, i wasnt 100% sure as it hadn't been referenced to anything legit.

But how are you sure that its going to be 5 seasons again? they could go back to 7.

d3fl3xion · May 30, 2012

Because T4RG4 commented a thread in CM forums. He said the test team need time to balance the career mode and the longer the career the more time needed to refine it. His words.

f1superracer · May 31, 2012

guys check out f1 the game offical facebook page there is some really cool things on there ..............

Alex Brumpton · Jun 5, 2012

As most of you will know, F1 2012 will be featured at E3 this week, i just thought id post the schedule for people that are interested in seeing what day it will be on.

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2012/06/04/e3-2012-schedule.htm

Juul Knoops · Jun 5, 2012

here is the first gameplay footage of F1 2012

Ho3n3r · Jun 5, 2012

Thanks for the vid.

Will all 2011 owners be able to download it as a patch?

Looks the same.

Darren Bentley · Jun 5, 2012

Dewald Nel said:
Thanks for the vid.

Will all 2011 owners be able to download it as a patch? Looks the same.

True but I really don't care about the graphics I mean does Fifa really change in graphics every single release. Anyway I am glad to see Adjustable Brake Bias, I think the leagues on F1 2012 are going to be a little bit more like real F1 with adjusting things on the wheel often, Engine, Brake, DRS, KERS which is going to be some fun

but yeah it does look the same

Marcus Lindblom · Jun 5, 2012

Inside sim racing has a video on f1 2012 on their site.

Victor Ivanov · Jun 5, 2012

THe most important is you can edit the bb but not like in other sim games. And it seems like the handling is a bit reworked but again I can see the car over the grass like it's not a grass.

Zoltan Hadadi · Jun 5, 2012

Juul Knoops said:
here is the first gameplay footage of F1 2012

For me the most important thing is at the end of the video. When Steve goes wide and leaves the track with 4 wheels he gets a warning for that!

It looks like we say bye-bye to the corner cutters.

Scott Webber · Jun 5, 2012

you mean this?

Trebor901 · Jun 5, 2012

But it still has the horrible limiter buzz and i bet its still got loads of input lag. The only game recently that i found not to have input lag on pc from Codemasters was Dirt2 that was really good with a wheel but Dirt3 was awful

Alex Avdyushin · Jun 5, 2012

Interesting track... It kinda seems like an anti-clockwise version of Korea+India to me. Very long too, I was expecting the lap to end at around 1:20 but it went on past 1:44 or something.

Other than that the game so far looks exactly the same, same graphics and ui elements. I know its WIP. I wish they would add some sort of spec for the asphalt though. It looks very flat in Codies' F1 games, does not respond to light at different angles.

T46D · Jun 5, 2012

Markus Neumann · Jun 5, 2012

The car physics look a little strange. The car has way too much turn-in but still a lot of grip. He's getting through the "esses" way too easily. And gaining traction, which in my opinion was one of the most poorly simulated elements in '11 still seems way too simple. I hope that when they said "the physics is going to be somewhere in between '10 and '11", they didn't mean difficulty, because '12 really seems too easy again. Then again, it's difficult to tell, because the driver clearly hasn't figured out the circuit all that well.
On the positive side: engine sound is better, adjusting break bias in the car is implemented and it seems that crossing the boundaries of the track isn't tolerated as much as it is in '11.

Chris · Jun 6, 2012

It looks great. Improvements ive seen:

Slightly updated graphics
KERS doesn't sem to be as powerful or make your car loud. Which Is a massive improvement
On the fly brake bias adjusting - thank f***
The rear end looks a lot more stable on high speed corners
it just looks in general harder to play, which is a good thing, and I'm seriously hoping that I won't be able to do 1:32's at Singapore ahah