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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.

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?

@GazzaGarratt the complexity is more to do with having to write war and peace to explain the 17,653 different combinations of things. However if you want can give me access to it, I’ll post my ftb guides in there later.

That’s my point, the latest titles may not be able to run at 1080p60 but that is because the devs made the games / game engines that way. It is a choice the devs made to run at lower resolutions and or lower frames. If the devs made a game / engine with the limitation of the consoles in mind and with the aim to run at 1080p60 then the ps4 and xbone are both capable.

I think I covered most of the basics that I know of for the FTB mods. There probably are more I could add but they can start to get more complex. Though happy to re-post (of have the guides moved) in to the new section.

To further Robs post on buzzwords, it annoys me no end when you see people post things like the current consoles can’t even do 1080p 60fps. Of course they can but the devs decide to turn the graphic settings up to 11 so they only achieve 1080p 30fps. The only difference is on PC you can choose the graphics quality but console it is locked. So to that end I’d like to see some control over the graphics settings. I don’t expect to have the fidelity of controls like PC but when the supposed I don’t think 4k is the majority yet and they’re talking of 8k. I’d like to see even a simple graphics option of 1080p 120fps, 4k 60fps or 8k 30fps for example. I believe that Forza did this on the Xbox One X but I’d like it to see it more widespread.

For me, you have to breakdown open world games in to open world story games and truely open world games. By open world story games I am talking about things like Breath of the Wild, Assassins Creed, Fallout, Horizon Zero Dawn etc. Where they are open world but the open world-ness is limited to the route you take to get somewhere but they are still linear in the sense that you have to get to a checkpoint at a certain location which will move the story along. Take Fallout 4 for example, you could wander around the wasteland for hours but to progress the story you have to pick a home in one of a few certain locations, you have to visit Diamond city etc. Horizon Zero Dawn is another example, in the beginning you're limited to your little area of map and the only way to be able to get access to the whole map, the 'open' world is complete the story by going from mission at place a, to mission at place b etc. I think a lot of these fall in the time played = content when it doesn't. These type of games often appeal to me but ultimately never live up to the hype simply because of how fast they become repeatative. On the other hand what I consider more true open world games I do love. Now I'm thinking about it these are all survival games - I have and do play a lot of Minecraft simply because of the freedom it offers you. Though I do also include other survival games like 7 days to die here too. I presume The Forest and Raft are similar too but I haven't played them to know specifics. Where do you want to live? well wander the map and pick anywhere you feel like. What do you want to live in? A small house? A massive castle? an underwater base? a flying base? How do you want to protect your base - a simple fence perimeter? a giant hole? traps? a bridge? a button or code activated door? a drawbridge over lava? What food do you want to live on? Grow and harvest crops manually, breed animals manually or do you want to more extreme and build complex contraptions that automatically breed animals, kill them and cook the meat? Or do you want to take a break from the survival aspect? I've built all sorts of random things over the years - water slides, whole theme parks with rollercoasters, quiz shows. Simply because you can build whatever you want, whatever your imagination lets you. As for linear games - I do also love these. I see them as something similar to a TV series (I would say film but most linear games are longer than the typical 2 hour film). They're interactive unlike (almost all) TV shows but they are still a scripted story, designed to take you on a journey, for you to uncover things, find things out, experience the plot twists etc. Yes there's terrible ones out there as there are terrible TV shows but the good ones are so damn good - The Last of Us, Half Life, Bioshock, Deus Ex (to only name a few).

I’m happy to write guides for things I know like the Minecraft FTB guides I made. Though not so much researching something just to be able to write a guide.

Campaign? What is this ‘campaign’ that you speak of? I haven’t played a CoD campaign since the original Black Ops. Multiplayer is where it is at and what will sell the game to me.

So just a little update on the server so far; A few teething issues with the set up and getting people whitelisted but it all seems to be going well now. So far only Plumber Dave, Spacedeck and I have joined but the server can take more if anyone else wants to join up just let me know. I still can’t get the automated restart working – when it is supposed to restart, it says it is restarting but it shuts down and doesn’t restart. So for now I’m just manually restarting the server from my phone which isn’t a big dig deal. We’ve hit a couple laggy times which clearly I wasn’t to blame…….honest *whistles innocently* Though I found out what the cause was – Refined storage autocrafting. It works ok if you’re only crafting a few hundred items but trying to do high tier solar panels which is 100,000+ does cause some…well a lot of lag. So auto crafting is possible just be aware of how many items you’re crafting. On a side note of lag, there is 2 types of lag – server lag and client lag. You’ll get client lag from a number of things and is most noticeable by your FPS dropping or the game becoming choppy. If this is client side (i.e. just your PC) then it isn’t anything too worrying. It only becomes a problem if the lag is server side. To check this, you can type the command /cofh tps This will give you the TPS (ticks per second) of all the dimensions on the server. It gives a lot of information but basically what you’re looking for is that it says 20 tps (100%). Anything less and it means the server is lagging. If it’s over 90% then it isn’t perfect but it is playable but with the auto crafting I was doing, I had it down to 10-15% which definitely isn’t good – oops.

I’m going to go against the grain here and say I actually enjoyed this season. It was far from perfect, it was rushed, there were a few wtf moments but no more so than other seasons. However overall, the actual plot points, I enjoyed and was happy with the ending. Now where’s that change my mind meme when you need it.

I do enjoy the daily races, they can offer some good competition. Though some tracks I really don’t know well enough to be competitive. I think I’ll have to accept that I am stuck in DR B, I can climb to high B but never make it in to A nevermind getting in to A+ or S @GazzaGarratt Yes they scale. What lobby you end up in is determined by your DR - Driver rating and SR - Sportsmanship Rating. Your DR is based on how fast you are and where you finish races. Your SR is based on how clean you are. You will generally get matched with people with similar DR and SR as you.

That's my bad, the way you do it for complete mod packs is slightly different and I'd forgotten about that. I'll update the main guide in the other thread when I get chance but that will be another day. So to add this mod pack, Download the FTB Beyond zip file In MultiMC click Add Instance Then on the left hand side there is an option to import from zip Click browse and find the zip file Give the Instance a name at the top Click ok and it should download all the relevant files When it's finished, click Edit instance and up the memory and change any other settings you want Then it should work

It should be 191 mods (I think). You need to go in to Loader mods on the left hand side and add the all the mod files. They should all be .jar files

@SpacedeckIt looks like it isn't letting you join due mod incompatibility. Have you got the mods installed properly? They should be this pack: https://www.feed-the-beast.com/projects/ftb-beyond/files/2468604

@Spacedeck Yeah just PM'ed you, I saw you try to join but it rejected you as you weren't white listed. I've whitelisted you now so you should be able to join

Technically the max player limit is 99 but there is no way the server would cope with the mods and that many players. It should be alright for 4-5 people on at the same time I think maybe 6-8 but I think it would start struggling at that. I’ve never run a modded server so a learning curve for me too. It’s all good mate, I’m happy to cover it for the first few months and we’ll go from there, if its worth renewing, how long for etc.

It’s a paid for server so available 24/7

Haha no, I am out all day today and most of tomorrow too so no MC for me I did squeeze in a couple hours after CoD last night so have a tinkers smeltery and access to the mining world already I just headed south from spawn and I’m in the plains biome. I think around z 700 - somewhere round there if you want to see my most excelent (read shitty) starter base I didn’t change it to keep inventory on death. I didn’t think about it but I can change the option when I’m next on. It will sometime tomorrow now though so if you go on today be careful

So we have an FTB Beyond server now You can access the server either with name: FGBeyond.minecraft-crafting.pro or IP: 188.165.208.54:25414 I've only finished setting it up tonight and I've logged on and it seems to be working. The server is similar specs to one I played on previously and it was alright with a small number of players so assume it will be alright for us too but it is easy enough ot upgrade if necessary. You'd probably notice some lag if you're exploring and generating new chunks but I've flown ~500 blocks in each direction from spawn so around spawn should be fine. Other Server details: Mode: Survival Difficulty: Normal Seed: -696216977807959 Seed map: LINK I went through a lot of seeds to find one with a decent selection of biomes near-ish spawn. We have most, the only ones we don't really have that close to spawn are jungle and ice but they aren't all that important really. I've also left the claimed chunk limit as 100 as I don't believe this impacts server performace but chunk loading does so I have limited the number you can chunk load to 5. It is easy to use a lot more than 5 so we'll probably need more than 5. I'd think the server could cope with more however to begin with I'd rather go low and see how the server copes as it is easy enough to increase it at a later date. It is a whitelist server so @Plumbers Crack I've added you as I know you MC username. @Spacedeck I know you posted in the ftb guide thread but I can't remember if your MC username is the same as your forum so if you can confirm I can whitelist you too. Any questions or problems, let me know. IMPORTANT INFO The Ender Storage Ender chest item transport does work on a server but we have to ensure we have different colour ones else we will get each others items. To change the colour of an Ender Storage Ender chest, I believe you can craft the chest directly with the colours. Else, make a default white white white chest and click the white strips on the top with the colour dye you want. To avoid confusion, I will list players and their colours so we don't have any conflicts; Greboth - Green / Green / Green. PlumbersCrack - White / White / White Spacedeck -

Damn that’s cool. Now I want a magic doorway You can build hidden piston doors but the animation isn’t anywhere near as cool.

The ‘official’ way (for lack of a better term) is to use the twitch launcher. MultiMC was created to be a launcher for everything all in one place - different vanilla versions, different mod packs, different mod launchers, different texture packs etc. I just prefer MultiMC as it’s easier to set up, use and set options like RAM usage etc. than the Twitch launcher. I haven’t used the Twitch launcher though in a long time so they may have improved it.

No worries, happy to help. Now we just need a few more people to get in to Beyond and we’ll have a nice little community going

Is there anything else you’d like to see a guide on? I’m aware I’ve missed a number of mods out, especially the magic ones but that is because I haven’t played with them that much to know how to use them properly. At some point I do plan to learn blood magic and Botania but I’m too busy building at the moment

@Plumbers Crack After chatting last night, I've added a guide in the OP on extreme reactors too The automated on/off part is the bit Chosen Architect did weird, the way I posted is much easier and simpler