I have about 1 day and 20 hours til I can play the game but I saw a lot of videos that showed the AI to not be too much of a challenge. Is this true or are they faking it by saying they were on expert but really weren't?
I have about 1 day and 20 hours til I can play the game but I saw a lot of videos that showed the AI to not be too much of a challenge. Is this true or are they faking it by saying they were on expert but really weren't?
Having put in a couple hours on career mode, I feel this game is 85% arcade 15% sim.
In my first career event on expert mode and no driving assists I qualified 9th in a Lotus, and even had the fastest 1st sector time of all drivers in Q3. that's with zero effort put into the setup... I just picked the farthest right quick setup. the other cars had a lot faster acceleration and higher top speed, and it didn't matter. During the race I made overtakes that were just absurdly unrealistic, words can't even begin to describe. The game turned almost every corner at Bahrain into a passing zone.
People will have fun with this game, but it only has a hint of PC sim flavor.
AI too EASY you say? That's laughable.
I have tried one full race against AI on Bahrain (in the Lotus, career race). I found them to be a real step up from past games. They defend, in qualy and practice if I was on a hot lap cars on out laps moved over ( big +) and I have seen them make mistakes, even saw one given a drive through for not getting out of the way for a blue flag.
As for difficulty, that depends on your driving skill. I did a 2:01:xx in qualy which was enough for 14th, and averaged about 2:05 in the race and finished 15th. I found for my skill, it seemed to be a realistic pace. If you are better then me, then it would probably seem a bit too slow.
*edit - Just checking the real pole time, it was 1:54.101 by Vettel although he hit a 1:53.883 in Q2. I think the pole time in game was about 1:55, 1:56 so maybe a sec or so off real life.
Way too easy for me also. I started my career with Virgin, no driving aids and the hardest AI mode (Legend). I made it fairly easy into Q2, Q3 and ended up on the first row just a few hundreds behind pole position.
(In the race I was heading for a podium finish until I forgot to select the correct tyres and had to come in again.)
So I wonder what happens when I move up to the faster teams..
Also, the real life laptimes are 2-3 seconds faster than what the AI did, so they should be around 3 seconds faster on the hardest setting. That would put me somewhere aroun P18-20 what would be perfect for a Virgin car
AI too EASY you say? That's laughable. I've been playing F1 2010 for a couple hours this afternoon and all I can say is that this game is hard as hell! I'm new to F1 games but damn. I'm having a hard time coming in anything but last even on CASUAL, with TC turned all the way up! I'm playing using the new ECCI wheel and pedals so it aint the controls lol. Feel like it's gonna take me 20 years to be just decent at this damn game