by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 08/24/2017 at 19:14
by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 08/24/2017 at 19:14
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Last year I dabbled back into gaming a bit after not having done so for many years. F12016 got my attention, so I picked up an Xbox one to go with our new 55" TV last Christmas and got busy. I ended up enjoying myself enough that I pre-ordered F12017. I downloaded it onto the Xbox over the weekend, and it tells me it will be available to play at 10PM MDT. I’d like to think that I’ll only mess around with it for an hour or so before going to bed and then get up and going to work tomorrow, but we’ll see what happens. I do have 230 hours of vacation time and about 400 hours of sick leave on the books right now, so I can’t imagine an “I’m sick of you day” wouldn’t be too big a deal.
The expanded career mode is primarily what interests me. For nostalgia, I’m tempted to pick Mclaren-Honda and see what the car can be developed into, but I’m not sure if I really want to have to engage in that much blocking defending to get race results.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
08/24/2017 at 19:24, STARS: 0
I managed to develop the Manor into a championship winning car in F1 2016 so I would imagine it would be possible to do the same with the Mclaren in 2017.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
08/24/2017 at 19:46, STARS: 0
I’m sure it is possible, but I’ll have to decided how much time I’m willing to put into it before really getting results. I did HAAS in F12016. From what I can tell from the beta testers on youtube, it looks like it may take more than one season just get a back-marker car competitive with the mid-field. At the 50% race distances I did in F12016, and all the practice time that goes with getting resource points, that will be a lot of time actually playing the game.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
08/24/2017 at 19:50, STARS: 2
Look at it this way: it’s not going to take long to get through the first couple seasons when you blow up every 10 laps.
Edit: wow I am bad at making sentences while walking the dog.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
08/24/2017 at 19:52, STARS: 0
I foresee a lot of grip spot penalties for new power train components.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
08/24/2017 at 20:11, STARS: 0
As do I. I’m downloading it now and feel obligated to do a Mclaren career because it is my favorite car and they deserve to be at the front.
"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
08/24/2017 at 21:39, STARS: 0
I’ve never played any of the F1 series.
I think you and The Turbocharged Squirrel just cost me, like, three months of my life. Lol.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
08/24/2017 at 21:49, STARS: 1
I frequently (read, daily) watch a couple of very good F1 YouTubers play these games. So far Kimi is completely OP, and the McLaren Honda dev program is shit. It looks like even for teams like STR you will need to put in a couple to maybe three or four seasons on a car to possibly bring it from backmarker to podium status.
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
08/24/2017 at 21:50, STARS: 0
Also, are you racing with a pad? Let me now how this goes because if it works out ok I will be joining you.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
08/24/2017 at 23:28, STARS: 0
I’ve just been using the controller. Once you get used to it, it works. For me, what I really dig about it is the strategy aspect of developing a car and executing a race strategy more than any realism that might be there. I’m sure the controller costs me some time and increased tire wear.
I keep looking at various wheels, but then I start looking at a whole rig setup with a seat, and then how cool a proper gaming pc setup with three monitors would be... and then I decide that money would be better spent getting my real life racecar back on the track.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
08/24/2017 at 23:38, STARS: 1
That is how I got started on the series. I think I saw something about the 2016 game on the FP, and then I checked out YouTube to see what the gameplay looked like. I found a couple of those F1 YouTubers and then realized I had to buy the game and something to run it on. I’ve been watching those guys again this week since some of them got early access to this year’s game to promote for codemasters.
The handling model is complex enough that it took me a considerable amount of time with the controller (probably the better part of a day) to really figure out how to put together any kind of a real lap time. There is definitely a learning curve to the game.