F1 2012 Solution to understeer!

[Mariano]

Hello everyone, after playing a couple of hours to F1 2012, with all assist off except for gearbox in automatic, it was really hard keep the car on the track in some spins, and after watching a lot of real F1 videos, and some F1 2012 game videos on youtube, I found that in those videos the the were not playing in automatic but manual.
So the thing is that in automatic takes much more time when down shifting and takes more time to reduce velocity, so the car slides a lot in turns.
What I try was to play with manual gear box, so i could make the down shifting faster, and guess what, the understeer was gone!!!

I think that that is what may be happing to all who have that problem, try to play with manual gear box

Sorry for my english

 

[Peter Hooper]

Personally I have had no issues with the braking, I actually think it is much better in 2012 than 2011 where you could slam them on without really suffereing adversely. Have you tried adjusting your brake pedal settings to try to find that sweet spot.

 

[Riesig]

F1 2011 now feels like a rally game whereas F1 2012 demonstrates the precision required in driving these things.

You can do crap and nail everything to your car in '11, takes some getting used to, a few hundred laps in a balanced track and you're set to go for 2012.

I currently (by Racenet, the top 130 something in Suzuka with all assists off, and I think that's a good start for someone who played the game with less than 15 hours)

I am just 7+ seconds away from Vettel's 2011 quali pole!

The solution to my understeer issue is for my to chop off my lead foot because it's an arse sometimes, but that's not really applicable.

 

[Leonardo Chaves]

Personally I have had no issues with the braking, I actually think it is much better in 2012 than 2011 where you could slam them on without really suffereing adversely. Have you tried adjusting your brake pedal settings to try to find that sweet spot.

It's at 0 currently, If i raise it a little nothing changes, if i raise it a lot it makes it worst, a lot worst.

 

[Peter Hooper]

So what exactly is the problem you are finding.. are you just too easily locking up the fronts?

 

[Leonardo Chaves]

Just bad feel for the brakes (it's worst at some tracks than others, no problem in Australia or Singapore for example), but on other tracks i'm very tentative on the brakes, sometimes i release it too early and overshoot the corner, next lap i go too hard or too deep and lock up.

Just feels very alien to me for some reason, i can sacrifice speed for feel going with medium brake pressure, but it's too much, i have to brake almost 30 meters earlier.

And stop bringing up F1 2011 cause i haven't played that crap in six months or more, it has nothing to do with it.

 

[Gerardo Abal]

What? I tried TT in Monaco in an attempt to learn how the F do I keep slamming the walls in Spa (which was my favorite track in 2011)

I went slower than usual, 2012 has differentiated mechanical and aero grip. It's for the good of the simulation.

Try turning on the racing line, they give the best estimation of what speed and angle to attack a turn, then complain.

Can I complain here about my lead foot though?



[youtube]

sorry man, i was too angry with the game cause i wasn't to familiar with the new setups, but now i can surely say it's the best damn game i've ever driven... and the learning curve is fantastic. cheers mate

 

[Bye_Ya]

Took me a while to adjust. I do like it, but I feel that the braking is still not strong enough. Otherwise, I am much happier to see more realistic lap times. I guess if they let you brake later and more realistically the lap times would again be much too low.

 

[Happy gilmore_1976]

you suck stop swearing

 

[Riesig]

Nobody was.

If you were referring to the video, that wasn't me.

 

[ENDR]

So the overall tip here is to slow down enough, to keep control of the car and not slide out of the corner... which is fine, if one keeps overshooting corners.
I however usually suffer from the "other" side of the problem - if I get distracted (which isn't that hard to do) then sure, I miss the braking point and go wide, but most of the times I brake just fine... Or even TOO fine. From my few online races I learned that the other people somehow can take corners/chicanes while carrying quite a lot more speed than me, while I barely squeeze through between the apexes and the grass.
So... just how much is "enough" while braking?

 

[Riesig]

What's the highest ranking you've done on any time trial?
What I did on 2011 and 2012 was bump up the difficulty a notch, and then attempt to just follow the pack.

Lo and behold, I beat my previousd wimpy Intermediate qualifying time with a meager legendary (16th++) race pace (that's waaay off the fastest lap of the AI)

 

[joe pineapples]

I wish everyone would use the real measurement of speed....ie 'MPH' - I keep having to recalculate how fast you guys are going into corners in the vids .

(waiting to read reply to ENDR's question)

 

[Piers Cleveland-Copeman]

I don't think the understeer is a problem, i just adjusted my setup and bad driving habits.

A bad worksman always blames his tools... I'm just sayingggggg

 

[Riesig]

The tools got sharpened by Codemasters.

Or they got dumbed down. I was getting to grips with that awful unforgiving grip levels back then, then bam! Everything felt easy-ier.