F1 2016 Available Today, Post Your Impresssions Here

[Lieutenant Dan]

Re: F1 2016 Available Today, Post Your Impresssions Here

Hey guys quick little survey here.

Since F1 now has an extended career mode, would you all like a stickied career mode thread where we could post stats, thoughts and our individual results of our careers?

If so just post a "like" on this post and I will get one up if enough people are interested.

Great idea. Always fun to read how people are getting on.

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[Fraser G.]

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I've been spending a lot of today preparing and racing the Bahrain GP.

I was determined to recover from my lack of management skills which left me in 21st position in the first GP.

Practice starts off rocky. I destroy my tires once again as I fail to perfect the delicate nature of handling. But, I finish with an excellent qualifying pace, which I replicate in actual qualifying, finishing on pole position!

Race management suggests I make 4(!) pit stops during the race. Forget that. I head off in 1st and try and make my supersofts last as long as possible. I try and push it for one more lap, but I get a puncture right in front of the pits. Lucky.

Everything's going smoothly until they recommend I stay on the supersofts for my third stop. At the rate I'm destroying them, I'm going to end up making five stops if I'm not careful! I tell them 'no', and switch to softs instead. This keeps me going until lap 19, where I make a final switch to mediums with the hope of holding out.

I'm back in 4th, and the leaders want to make a final stop. Oh wow - I'm in 1st! The last few laps arrive, and my tires are getting destroyed. I do everything I can to try and finish with a delicate approach, and it works. I win the race!

I'm starting to get the hang of this management thing. I was impressed with myself that I actually came up with a good strategy that wasn't dictated to me by the CPU! I'll have to up the difficulty soon enough. Oh - and learn how to protect my tires!

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Nice work, Fraser! That Tyre Management feature available during practice sessions is great for assessing your style and wear.

[Fraser G.]

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Nice work, Fraser! That Tyre Management feature available during practice sessions is great for assessing your style and wear.

Yeah, it's really helping in terms of assessing my needs before a race. The big downside is that I'm constantly in the red when I do it! I just need to get better at being more delicate.

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Yeah, it's really helping in terms of assessing my needs before a race. The big downside is that I'm constantly in the red when I do it! I just need to get better at being more delicate.

Yep...off the gas and roll through your turns.

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[Bullit]

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Great idea. Always fun to read how people are getting on.

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I will get one up in just a bit. Thanks guys

My update. I actually got the pole at Bahrain by .103 over Vettel. I am not ready for that pressure! Well I will see after the next race if I need to modify my difficulty. But I'm almost 100% sure it's just the track suits my style I'm sure I will go back to sucking fumes at the back next race.

[Lukin4]

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I will get one up in just a bit. Thanks guys

My update. I actually got the pole at Bahrain by .103 over Vettel. I am not ready for that pressure! Well I will see after the next race if I need to modify my difficulty. But I'm almost 100% sure it's just the track suits my style I'm sure I will go back to sucking fumes at the back next race.

I've always loved that track and had good pace there. Didn't even mind the little extended section they added on that one year either

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Well Canada was a hoot. Qualified 14th and out-dueled a Mercedes car (can't remember which driver) coming off the final chicane and in the final straight, about 100ft from the finish line for 2nd place. Wow.

The more I play, the more this game cements itself in to my All Time list. At this point, I'd have to say for RACING games (as opposed to car games in general), this is among the top 2 or 3 I have ever played, and it is gunning for the best.

I specified 'racing' game because games like Gran Turismo, Forza, PGR, etc all scratch a different itch compared to pure racers like an F1 game, NASCAR game, Moto GP, etc.

[Mysterious]

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curious if anyone is not racing with a wheel.... I was pissed to find out my logitech wheel was not ps4 compatible.... still haven't bought a new one yet

[Lieutenant Dan]

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PS4 here, controller.

I have played racing games for decades, never owned a wheel. If I'm going to do all that, I might as well hop in my car and go speeding.

("Breakin' the law, breakin' the law")

[Rules]

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I got the PC version so I could use my G27 with no worries. There is nothing in comparison when you feel the force feedback with a rival car next to you. It raises my heart rate ten fold lol.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I never got a racing wheel because it seems like a lot of effort to use one. With my fight stick, I just sit it on my lap and play. With a wheel you need to buy or setup a station so you can actually use the thing. I'm not that hardcore of a racer.

[Rules]

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Did I mention how addicting this game is? It is already my all-time favorite racing sim. Too bad I have to go to work.

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Did I mention how addicting this game is? It is already my all-time favorite racing sim. Too bad I have to go to work.

Right?? I think it's actually getting a little more time than Madden in my rotation.

And while the rivalries are great, and racing the pack is amazing....my thing is to try to 'beat' the track. Some I do very well on; Bahrain and Shanghai I'm dominant, and solid on Russia and Canada.

But others beat me like a dirty rug; Monaco I hate you, but I WILL solve you! Catalunya gives me fits as well.

[AceFan84]

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I've had the game since launch on pc, it really is the best f1 game ever made. It's not without faults but man overall is it an extremely solid racing game! My one complaint is the difficulty settings, there are a lot of them (which is good) but the time delta between them is far too great. Too many people are somewhere in between difficulties, there's almost a 2 second gap between each one, that is just way too much. Some kind of difficulty slider would take care of this problem, but I doubt that will be patched in to this year's game so the best I can do is hope for next year (if there IS a next year, I think Codemasters contract was only thru 2016).

Glad to see so many of you enjoying the game, seems like 2016 has pulled in some new fans which is a great thing!