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That is incredible. I had some earlier versions like you @Greboth and a later version on my Xbox 360 which I loved. I love the simulation of these games, unfortunately I have a tendency to want to play the full race, practice and some qualifying. My sister-in-law's kid bought a wheel, gearstick and pedals for his birthday. He even bought a frame for it and in total it cost £280 he said. It looked super impressive when he was playing Forza on his Xbox One. I'm with you @phil bottle, if there's a way of getting one I'd love the ability to jump in to the seat, it clearly will make you a better driver if used regularly. Would you say theres a difference between PC and PS4?

So i picked this game up on steam on sale and my god, it is one of the best games i have played. Im getting destroyed regularly, its frustratingly hard at times and yet i keep playing it for hours and hours. the depth is incredible, the enemy variety is amazing and the options are endless. Currently traipsing through farron keep and getting pissed off with the poison mud.

I can understand that @GazzaGarratt I decided against doing the full sessions. Still going for half distance though so a decent number of laps to race. The frames look good and I’d love one but I don’t have the room for one. Still most wheels allow you to clamp them down to a desk which is what I do. It isn’t perfect and I can’t place the pedals quite where I’d like. However a wheel does add so much to racing games and it is easier to drive more consistently. If you’re interested in racing games then I’d recommend a wheel to anyone. I think the only difference between console and pc is graphical. I haven’t really looked at the console as I wasn’t really paying much attention to the game but it does look lovely on pc.

So I haven’t read anything really about this game and I don’t think we have a thread on it already. However as I got given it (on PC) for my birthday I thought I’d check it out. I feel I need to prefix this with I haven’t played an F1 game since first or second codemasters ones (2010,2011?) So I can’t do any comparisons to what is better or worse than last year or really what content has been added. First impressions are good though. It took some setting up on my wheel to get the wheel rotation to match and ffb and vibration to where it felt comfortable. Which does lead me to my first complaint - there aren’t many ffb and vibration options. You get vibrations when travelling at high speeds which is accurate I guess but the wheel clicking and banging is annoying. But the only way I could find to tone this down was tone down all vibrations so now I don’t much vibration even running over kerbs. Sometimes these things can be sorted out by manually editing the ffb files though so I might be able to work around this but more time and investigation is required. Outside that though the ffb feels nice and the option to boost the feel of understeer is a useful option to know when you’re pushing too much. On to races, I only did two 5 lap races so not much but first impressions are good. The game looks really good and even on mostly high settings I was easily maintaining 60fps. The ai are damn quick, I had the slider set to 80 (out of 100) and could barely keep up. I’m sure I’ll get quicker with more practice and as I get more comfortable with the game but I honestly don’t ever see me having the ai at 100/100. The ai drive as you would expect racing drivers to, they will block and defend corners if you’re close to them. They’ll try to take the inside to overtake but will also try the outside if you defend. Tyre wear is in the game as far as I know but I didn’t do long enough races to test this so will have to update once I have. I have to say though it is hard work racing the cars. Managing fuel levels, fuel usage, ers usage etc. while trying to drive takes so much effort. I regularly ended up sticking it in the wall trying to change a setting. I’m sure it will get easier though with more time. I think I will try a few more quick races but then will hoping in to the full career mode as that looks to be fun.

I already have 16 (2x8) GB of RAM and I thought mine would be powerful enough now to not adjust the settings?

First is the hardest and best overall for me.

It is a great game, the first is still my fave. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

To be honest a good run can be done in approx 20 minutes (give or take).... It’s not really going to be life changing if you have to actually complete another two runs!! I’m sure they’ll get over it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Enjoyable night last night all. Good to get a few menagerie runs in, nearly nailed a few complete sections which was ace considering it was a couple of people's 2nd or 3rd go with around 700-710 Power. Crucible was worse than usual and I can't think why as they were all randoms 😂 Nice try for both Thorn and Outbreak Perfected missions @techno @Bluebear @Shucker @crispymorgan. I have renewed faith both of these challenges will be nailed by the end of today. Also great to see the Scottish Mundungus @Nutcuttlit coming back to the partay. Hopefully, it won't take you long to catch up after that Inzanami Forge ballache of a mission. Bloody crystals 😄 Keep jumping in each other's parties everyone. Its great to see how people are helping each other lately, even if we don't ultimately nail the end bit. We'll get there eventually 😉 we always do.

Ah well remembered😀 I'm tempted to get the 2019 anniversary edition as it's only £25 on CD Keys.

I assume the video you saw was Super GT’s? You do and you don’t have to be, coming in to heavy braking zones with all the downforce, you can stamp on the brakes no problem. It is as the downforce comes off and you turn in that you really need to be careful with the brakes. While just trying to learn Albert Park, I left TC and ABS on. Though I want to do a proper season so I’m going to try with no aids at all. A wheel you say, do it 😉 you know you want to, give in to your temptation 😉

I've seen a video on it and it does look really good. I hear you need to be much more gentle on brakes etc compared to Gran Turismo. Fucking hell I really would love a wheel, so jealous [emoji1] Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

The nether region? I believe you mean the shadow realm 😛 Nice one Phil, I’ve always found driving without ABS too much of a pain so kudos to you learning to race without it. Interlagos is a good track though one I’m not even close to being fast at. I assume you’re doing the daily races? How is your dr and sr coming along?

Funnily enough, I had a minor eureka moment tonight while watching youtuber GT Sport streaming the daily races. I've been struggling to understand how I'm losing time in corners and even watching videos of the top player fastest laps (a nice feature of the game) I've been baffled as to how I'm losing time. So, during the stream a viewer asked him which order to switch off driving aids. Here's the thing. I forgot I still have ABS enabled. I have TCS down to 1 or 2, depending on car and tyre and completely forgot about ABS. So I switched it off and tried Interlagos in the Audi. First couple of turns and I thought "fuck this". Breaked hard, locked and couldn't turn. Off into the nether region. Impossible. But then I worked out how to do it properly. Feels so good, like I've gone up another level. Learning to stop breaking before turning is something new for me to master and that's awesome. I can already see how driving in this way helps take a better line and I just need to watch i don't cut the corners too much[emoji16] Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

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