F1 2021

Anything to do with games at all.
User avatar
Vermilion
Gnome Thief
Joined in 2018
Location: Everywhere
Contact:

PostRe: F1 2021
by Vermilion » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:59 am

2GB so far downloaded, looking forward to this one as i always liked racing at Imola in the old F1 games.

User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Thu Oct 14, 2021 4:48 pm

Managed to grab half an hour on this just no, Imola and Portimao are two of the best tracks on the game now :wub:

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Vermilion
Gnome Thief
Joined in 2018
Location: Everywhere
Contact:

PostRe: F1 2021
by Vermilion » Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:41 pm

5GB done, will hopefully get it done tomorrow when i have time.

User avatar
GrinWithoutaKat
Member
Joined in 2009

PostRe: F1 2021
by GrinWithoutaKat » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:01 pm

I was saying just a few days ago that I hate Circuit of the Americas in games, but that was in Forza in a road car. I was playing it last week in Forza 7, using a Dodge Charger and I just feel like I'm always on the breaks. Spent a while just doing hot laps in this earlier and it feels so different in F1. Very enjoyable track!

Image
User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:32 am

I’ve never got any degree of consistency round COTA, I can have the odd very good lap but most of the time I make a mess of sector 1, reasonable sector 2 & 3. It’s not Mexico levels of bad for me but not great either.

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Mon Nov 15, 2021 1:32 pm

Last track has been added to the 2021 game,

twitter.com/formula1game/status/1460216015153946636



Looks utterly boring :dread:

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:10 pm

What a poor track Jeddah is, it’s not anywhere near as bad to drive as Hanoi (which will forever immortalise F1 2020 as the only place to ever drive the Vietnamese track, unless for some bizarre reason someone wants to put the worst track in recent history into another game?) as that was astonishing how poor that was. It’s just constant high speed after high speed corner, if you’re close behind someone you just grip in the dirty air. Unless the vastly faster car is behind this will probably be a very boring pole to win when the F1 goes there in a few weeks.

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
GrinWithoutaKat
Member
Joined in 2009

PostRe: F1 2021
by GrinWithoutaKat » Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:57 am

This is currently £9.99 on Steam until the end of Tuesday. I know the season is almost done, but that's a huge discount.

Image
User avatar
Cuttooth
Emeritus
Joined in 2008

PostRe: F1 2021
by Cuttooth » Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:30 am

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:This is currently £9.99 on Steam until the end of Tuesday. I know the season is almost done, but that's a huge discount.

I got it yesterday for that price, I think it's normally £24.99 but you get another £15 off if you have some other F1 game in your library.

User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:16 pm

It’s a really good buy for £10, I’d find it hard to say it’s worth the standard launch price of £60 or so though, hard to say it was worth the upgrade over 2020 barring the cracking tracks of Portimao and Imola.

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Vermilion
Gnome Thief
Joined in 2018
Location: Everywhere
Contact:

PostRe: F1 2021
by Vermilion » Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:52 pm

Have been able to download the update without any issues this time, haven't tried Jeddah yet but have just started a new season on myteam and so have added it to the roster.

User avatar
Memento Mori
Member
Joined in 2008
AKA: Emperor Mori

PostRe: F1 2021
by Memento Mori » Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:18 pm

Jumped in for £9.99, not played it properly yet just had a couple few laps on the tracks I've not driven before. (Netherlands, Saudi etc).

I can't see the Saudi track being an entertaining race to watch.

User avatar
Cuttooth
Emeritus
Joined in 2008

PostRe: F1 2021
by Cuttooth » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:49 pm

I'm so gooseberry fool at racing in this! My career at Aston Martin so far has been getting good qualifying results and just having no chance in the races themselves, often punctuated by radio calls saying my engine has gone to gooseberry fool.

User avatar
Cuttooth
Emeritus
Joined in 2008

PostRe: F1 2021
by Cuttooth » Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:26 pm

I keep seeing suggestions that the AI is quite interesting in this, in that they make more natural mistakes. I'm just not seeing it. They're quite good against me but I don't think I've seen any kind of AI on AI incident in 16 career races so far.

Is it linked to the difficulty rating at all?

User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Wed Dec 08, 2021 9:36 pm

I imagine the rate the AI make mistakes is probably linked to the overall difficulty in some way, probably just a hidden slider that ups aggression and mistakes alongside overall pace? I could well be wrong though :lol:

Anyone else planning on loading this up at the weekend? Think I might go for a 50% or 100% race round Abu Dhabi and then relegate this to a hot lap game, time trials are just plain addictive, especially round the properly decent tracks :wub: The career mode is fine but it just feels lacking? Braking Point was a very welcome addition looking back at it.

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Cuttooth
Emeritus
Joined in 2008

PostRe: F1 2021
by Cuttooth » Wed Dec 08, 2021 10:15 pm

I'm nearing the end of my first season but I might restart it as I'm using a save from earlier in the year when the game was free for a weekend, and I think updates since then add things like the Saudi GP. I've mostly used it to get used to each track and find my overall AI level.

Career mode is definitely shallow but I'm not sure what they else they could really do? I automate the R&D and PR stuff because I don't find it all that interesting and then you're left with the GP weekends, which I guess is all I really care about F1 anyway.

I suppose they could include F2 as a starting point in the Career mode since it's there for the rest of the game?

User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Thu Dec 09, 2021 4:10 am

You can start in F2 and then progress into F1 if you want, might not have been an option on the free weekend you tried it on?

Image
Image
Image
User avatar
Cuttooth
Emeritus
Joined in 2008

PostRe: F1 2021
by Cuttooth » Thu Dec 09, 2021 8:01 am

Robbo-92 wrote:You can start in F2 and then progress into F1 if you want, might not have been an option on the free weekend you tried it on?

Ah I must have just jumped straight into F1 at the time.

User avatar
Memento Mori
Member
Joined in 2008
AKA: Emperor Mori

PostRe: F1 2021
by Memento Mori » Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:11 am

Robbo-92 wrote:You can start in F2 and then progress into F1 if you want, might not have been an option on the free weekend you tried it on?

Is that only if you don't do My Team? I didn't see an option for starting in F2 the other week.

User avatar
Robbo-92
Member
Joined in 2018
AKA: Robbo-92
Location: South Yorkshire

PostRe: F1 2021
by Robbo-92 » Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:15 am

I’m sure it’s an option for a standard F1 career as well, will have to have a quick look later.

Image
Image
Image

Return to “Games”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 323 guests