Unlike DiRT Rally, which was dropped on PC racing sim fans completely out of the blue to overwhelmingly positive reception and has an extremely bright future ahead as a spiritual successor to 2004’s Richard Burns Rally, F1 2015 has been absolutely shitcanned by everyone who’s touched the game.
Two YouTube personalities have condensed what you need to know about the atrocious Codemasters release into a combined fifteen minutes, and both videos completely slaughter the game for being an unfinished piece of shit.
They’re both pretty much spot on. As much as the absolute most basic part of the game is arguably better than PCars, everything else is just as disastrous, the biggest difference being the complete absence of PCars’ shills defending the game and the devs to the death.
Hell, even the highly praised AI is extremely flawed (as a different reviewer pointed out – the AIs now stack up in the pits and sometimes make kinds of moves that you’d usually see in iRacing) and it only stands out because it’s at a higher level than the buggy and absurdly aggressive likes of GRID Autosport and PCars, which is in no way a big achievement considering even something like GP2 for DOS had, in many ways, a better and more realistic AI than this a whopping 20 years ago. And that’s without even mentioning anything about the restrictions FOM have imposed on the series
If I wasn’t so godawful and inexperienced with my new G27 and deeply uninterested in the multiplayer side of things, I’d be looking at GSCE or other games right about now.
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Whats the best PC version of F1 currently? Features I look for are: stability, physics, AI, tracks, sounds etc..
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I would say Project Cars with “Formula A” is the best F1-like sim you can find today.
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I hope you’re not serious…
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Thanks, that was the funniest and most ridiculous thing I have heard in quite some time.
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Wait wut?!
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You SMS shills are very funny. I enjoy reading the utter nonsense you guys and girls post here and elsewhere on the internet.
The F1 car in Project Bugs is from 2011 and most of the current F1 tracks are missing. Read the comments on NeoGAF and then tell me how great F1 in your sim is. Having changeable weather is about the only decent aspect of pCARS.
The best sim for F1 remains GP4 with mods. AC or SCE with add-on cars and tracks are also a viable alternatives presuming you don’t like wet weather driving.
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I’d give Game Stock Car Extreme a look. It’s got a ‘F1 car’ for the 70’s, late-80’s, mid-90’s, recent F1 and current F1. And we might see another for the V10 era if the fundraiser goes well.
Plus it’s gMotor-based, so modding is abundant to an extent (usually just rF1 mods spruced up)
If your looking for graphics & official licenses, it might not suite your interest though. If you want good FFB & AI, it’s pretty decent given the age.
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Yes, if you have a 600×480 monitor and you want to play on a 486. Please!
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Still, from what I’ve played from F1 2015, it’s not half as bad as people is saying it is. It’s better than Formula A from PCars, for example. The graphics are good if you have the rig to pull it and the physics are so-so. Better than PCars… but that’s not really a hard feat, right?
People are being hard with this game but the others F1 from 2010 to 2014 are far worse for me. They are pretty much “undriveable”, with hardly any relation to reality in its physics. This game does resembles a car at least.
Again, the game is not really that bad. Try for yourself before joining the band wagon criticizing it. And GamerMuscle, he have no credibility at all after being a cheerleader for Ian Bell since 2012. Or am I linking the name to the wrong person? Whatever anyway.
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This is the impression I’ve gotten. It sounds like 2015 is better than 2014 in terms of just putting in a lap.
2014 felt terrible to me, mostly dead FFB.
I’m fairly disinclined to ‘demo’ the game like I usually do when I’m considering a purchase. The truth is it would have to be a fantastic simulation of modern f1 for me to consider buying it. Modern f1 just isn’t something I want to race all that much.
That said, I am curious. I really do not believe this game is as fundamentally broken as pcars. Still unacceptable condition for release, though.
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Don’t be silly, pcars formula A is tons and tons better. Read all the review please, they are taking pcars to compare F1 2015 to.. and the common conclusion is: “..there’s no reason to switch from Project Cars to F1 2015…”.
They must be all wrong.. or it must be you?
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“There is no reason to play pCARS”
There, i fixed it….
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Not sure if that was a joke or not.
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Project Cars Steam positive users reviews: 77%
F1 2015 Steam positive users reviews: 33%
Numbers. No more words are needed. ;)
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^^ how many times are you going to push that useless stat in the comments? ^^
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One trope to describe this issue: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheProblemWithLicensedGames
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It’s probably a little too realistic for the group of readers here, but the formula corsa mods for AC are pretty epic.
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Project Bugs sucks really hard, it should be called Project Money.
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