F1 2016 Available Today, Post Your Impresssions Here

[Solidice]

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ran first race of Career as 2nd Haas driver.
Qualified 17th, Romain 13th, but we both got extremely lucky in the race.
we both were on a 1-stop strategy, I was doing a 50% race(29 laps), Expert AI. This strategy, thanks to a safety car that happen right after we both pitted, allowed us to both contend for the win.

Perez was also on the same strategy. he lead for a while, but Hamilton who was on SS tires, chase us down and blew past us both. I mean, he passed us and won by 19 seconds in 5 laps.

me, Perez, and Romain battled it out for 2nd, ended up with me and Romain both hanging on to podium spots.

Hass 2-3 in first race, and current constructor point leader.

now it obviuosly wont stay that way. we were 10-12 place cars in pace.

Spoiler

me with my tophy

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I know they're different racers, but does this handle better than Project Cars? I never could find a setting that worked on that game. This game has my attention. Kind of want to run with Hamilton.

[Tribe1]

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I know they're different racers, but does this handle better than Project Cars? I never could find a setting that worked on that game. This game has my attention. Kind of want to run with Hamilton.

This handles so much better than Project Cars. It's not even close. I've been able to get some decent times even with a controller

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[JMD]

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Interesting video review of the game from Inside Sim Racing. Covers PC, PS4, X1 If you don't want to watch the entire video you can go to the 26:20 mark and get the recommendations for which platforms the game runs best on. Further back you can see it run on each platform and he gives the good and bad. This guy recommend staying away from the X1 version for now.

https://youtu.be/O8E0vtQCN8A

[Rules]

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Very in depth review. Happy I bought the pc version.

[Godgers12]

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Welp, it didn't come today, have to wait till Monday fml.

[Solidice]

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I had a great Bahrain GP finishing 4th, with my teammate 6th, had a great tire strategy that gave me a good finish, but I minimized the game and that ended up crashing the game, losing the race.

don't think this game has borderless window, which i normally would use.

the differing tire strategies the AI use makes for a good race.

I flipped my strategy to start with the medium tire*+(hardest for the event), lead most of the first stint due to most AI pitting early, I used the clean air to take it easy and made my tires last a long time, then using soft for middle stint and finishing with supersoft with rich fuel mix to finish it out. nearly took 3rd at the end as Riccardo was on Mediums.

hopefully can pull off a similar finish in the redo.

[Solidice]

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not as good on 2nd attempt.
apparently that crashed messed up the qualifying order. me and Romain qualified 13th and 14th, but after the game crash, we started 21st and 22nd?

I just played it off as a grid penalty.

had a great start, getting most of the position back and getting around where I should have started.

video

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/tU7ZQci-2gk

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similar to before, I started with Medium tires. after 5-6 laps, was by myself cruising in 2nd.
pitted on lap 14, came out in 12th, passed a couple of cars with the fresh tires, then the other pitted again ahead.
lead for a couple of Laps, Rosberg and Vettel came up fast, I just let them go. took my last pit stop at lap 25 to take Supersofts.
luckily the safety car came out right after coming out to bunch up the field, unfortunately, the reason for the safety car was that Romain blew an engine.

video below was the restart and finish.

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/bNndAe1gbgI

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[lnin0]

Re: F1 2016 Available Today, Post Your Impresssions Here

Interesting video review of the game from Inside Sim Racing. Covers PC, PS4, X1 If you don't want to watch the entire video you can go to the 26:20 mark and get the recommendations for which platforms the game runs best on. Further back you can see it run on each platform and he gives the good and bad. This guy recommend staying away from the X1 version for now.

https://youtu.be/O8E0vtQCN8A

PC master race...blah blah blah. Got it but what exactly is wrong with X1 version? It doesn't look as pretty as his maxed out PC? He had some problem with a wheel config that seems to be a bug across more than the Xbox platform? I should have known for a video titled "Should You Buy F1 2016 on the PC, PS4 or Xbox One" that talks about nothing platform specific until the last 4 minutes that it would be a worthless review.

Guess I'll just have to wait for DF to give me some real facts on how the game actually performs on the various systems.

[extremeskins04]

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What about the engine sounds of the cars? Do they sound like their real life counterparts?

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Picked this up at BB today after some trade-in goodness got me out the door for 17.50

But after playing the game for almost six hours, I'd gladly have paid pop for this. It's really damn good.

I've played this series every year, and this one is by far the most engaging and polished. The Career Mode is fantastic so far, and quite addictive with the whole earning points for R&D scheme. Everything counts, and it really gives a great point to Practice. This in turn means you'll practice more to run the gates, do the Tyre Challenge, and hit all of your team goals (not to mention the rival stuff!) and will make you more familiar with running the tracks, which will make for a better racing experience. Freakin' genius and well-implemented.

If you get this, just jump right in to Career mode and have fun. If you're brand new, watch all of the tutorials, and then run some time trials/practice laps and a couple of quick races before jumping in to Career so that you can set your assists and difficulty settings to what is good for you.

Usually Madden dominates my fall months once it hits (next week), as I'm a football-first guy. But this year, I feel certain F1 will get its time in.

[Godgers12]

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Does this have local multiplayer?

[Solidice]

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I found out that if you push the tires too much, they will go flat. made for a terrible Chinese GP. that may have been in 15', but I didn't play it. Don't remember that happening to me in 14'.


also, the gap between Expert and Legend AI is ridiculous. I attempted to do Legend, but in the qualifying laps research thing, I was 2 seconds off the pace after 2 sectors, and that was with a great lap going for me.

I will need to get better and/or play around with custom setups first.

[Earl1963]

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Got the PS4 version and so far I'm loving it and playing it non stop, lol. Great graphics with vivid colors, and the tracks are very detailed.



Bye

[brandon27]

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Glad to hear this is much improved. Always have loved this series even as a not huge F1 fan. I was going to wait on picking it up because Madden is playing so good this year for me early on, but reading here, I can't wait. I'm just going to get it lol