Senaste recensioner av LuckyRichardHUN

Tough game. Takes a lot of effort to get used to unfortunetaly dont have a good wheel and with a pad I can't do much. its a good game, very hard. nothing like dirt 3 handling

So far out of the Zup series the ones I did this one was completed the quickest. and only 2 times i needed help. fun game. try it

Hello, I am reviewing this game again as my opinion of the game changed recently.

I recently started enjoying the game out of nowhere, after disliking it for half a year pretty much. I didn't enjoy driving it, I found it too oversteery and things, but suddenly my pace changed and I think I found out how to be quick.

Anyway let's get onto the review (will contain parts from the last review)

Positives:

-Spectator cam: During sessions when ur in the garage during the session u can spectate also when u retire u can have an even better cameras, it doesn't lag too much its good. In my opinion the F1 2017 spectator cam is better but still this is a fairly good one.
- AI Pace: (not behaviour) the ai's pace is good especially ultimate ai.
- Career mode, immersive career mode with teams performance changing u can become a top runing car with time even with a manor.
- R&D Engineer and Agent: I like Chris a lot I dont know he is a cool guy and Emma is nice too..
Paddock. Its not the same feeling as f12010 but its ok.
- Engineer: Not the most exciting engineer not as emotional as f12010 engineer (i know i keep comparing the 2 games), but a plus point is how detailed the engineer is, you can get a lot of useful information, fuel weather, team mate, driver in front, behind, full race update box this lap, im not gonna continue there are many things u can ask
little annoying when it says they dont have information.
-Formation lap and Manual starts. Both are cool new features, obviously when this game came out it was new I wish u could park your car on the grid though as it feels pretty wierd driving most of the lap then where the best bit comes the ai takes control and the tyres and everything resets. It kinda makes the whole formation lap pointless for me.
However at least u can start manually, by releasing the clutch etc.
- Multiplayer system: You can have a full weekend pretty much, full practise full quali absolutely everything, you can setup the weather and time of the day which are also awesome things. You can script the weather xD
BEST NEW OPTION for league racing - " If you disconnect,- the ai will control your car and you can rejoin the session and you can GET BACK AND CONTINUE racing. This is an amazing feature which now new f1 games have. I have to worry less about disconnecting then on old gen where if I disconnect there is NO coming back unless the lobby restarts.

That's it for really positive. now let's discuss the handling.

I used to really hate it. It seriously demotivated me from enjoying the game, in fact probably cause of that I didn't play it much for a while..
Imo this handling is, quite tricky on the rear end and has a bit of understeer. However. Upshiftig really helps you with wheelspin, that strategy is what made me faster by a mile, since the rear has so much spin, when u upshift and ur on low revs it still gives you a good speed.. and understeer, you just need to adjust to it.
A con which I need to mention is, with a pad I have to use abs and medium tc to be fast but you know what I don't care, since I'm not used to the crazy amounts of wheelspin it gives u with off. And I don't wanna be used to that... Im tc off on 6 other racing games you can give me a pass :D.
The way I suddenly got used to it by the way is lot of time trial practise round malaysia which payed off and ended me in the top 100.

Negatives

- Strict corner cutting: As much as its a helpful thing, I don't like it, I feel its unfair, in my opinion if i go off the track it should give me a DELTA as to how much time I need to lift off or it will invalidate my lap, meanwhile if i even slip off the track having full brakes on or anything, it invalidates, doesnt matter how i went there, i totally disagree with that.
With a pad its also hard to aim at a good turning point so then u will understeer naturally, and in order for u to take it clean due to the strict cutting u lose a lot to wheel users. Also my definition of track limits is different. Also I just prefer if I have more room for error, so I can make a few mistakes.
--Important things missing: Player statistics, Helmet design changing (u can go around it in multi if u adjust your pro career driver), Multiple save game spots.
Readying up online: How come that the host can't start the lobby? why does a certain number of people have to be ready? the host should be the boss
- Vote to kick: well im a bit uncertain whether its needed or not needed, at least it should be there as reccomendation to the host if u dont want the lobby to have the permission to get rid of trolls
-Online ranks missing , i know its not there since 2012 but it would be nice to know how well some people doing with their profiles or what can u excpect, like with grid with the level system. this isnt a negative this is more like.. why not putting in there :)

So overall. I always though this game was decent but I couldn't like it cause of the driving experience however it changed, this is probably the best next gen f1 released as overall. It's tight between this and F12015 at the moment. I can't decide. But 17 is way worse I'm not a fan of that handling much either, it has so low grip in high speed corners, its been made so weird..

So overall rating 8,7/10

Reccomended? I think yeah. But it took me ages to get used to, so don't be disappointed if u suck at it first I did too. It took me like, a lot of months XD I got this May 2017.

Thx for reading. Leave a thumbs up so more people can see this. Have a good day,

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Hi my opinion changed of it in 2016, after league racing I find the game is pretty broken online and is not fun

After Zup 5 I tried this. it was easy at first for a long while then i got stuck.. and then continued, on, completed this around 114 min. then i was like what?? lot of achivements were missing,, it took me time to find all achivements. its a bit more challanging than zup 5 on that xd hidden achivements.
fun but annoying game, cheap so its worth it

Similar game to OIK 2 which i tried before. I wont go into details on what the game is thats not my part. This game is fun i am gonna be honest I 3 times cheated by watching a youtuber who did it but wanted to earn all these crazy achivements so yeah its a tough game sometimes the physics are annoying and just something doesn't go right that can be annoying. Overall a fun game, good on achivements and very cheap even when not on sale.

Came from ets2 where fps is stable here this doesnt go beyond 30 fps... ets2 can do 60.
I tried this game because it was cheap, because of sale. for me it wasn't fun, and the contact system can ::: off honestly for 1 touch of the wall it beeps and penalises 3 times. Only enjoyed the reaction test, but this is unplayable for me somehow. yes i know my equipments fault? well no if ets2 runs in 60 most times.

Ok tried it again in 2020, for some reason force feedback goes nuts on this game with logitech g920, I have similar settings in ets and ats and no issues there.
Not much else to say, I decided to not keep the game again like last time that money will be better off for other games.

- This game is decent
- I am a total begginer.
- I get told that I like arcadish games, well not this one xD this game has no realism, I think it's obvious to say and I don't expect this to be realistic.
-This is like an imaginary world, it reminds me to games like mario kart.
- I don't like that most achivements are dlc related, even on a steam sale now that i picked up the game I don't feel they are worth it

I'm refunding this game now, because I tried it for fun during the sale to play it for a little, but I'm not keen on keeping it in long gevity, Right now I have many other games to get better.
I thought about giving it negative rating, but I have nothing against it, I am just not interested that much so I give it a positive, let Codemasters be happy xD. (I prefer this game over f12016 and 17 they suck :P jk , well their gamepad handling :P)

Overall 7/10

DELETE THIS DLC IT CORRUPTS THE SAVEGAME!
Despite how cool the tracks are and the mode too it has a deadly problem.. Me and my friend played it and the day after we found or profiles corrupted, I could recover with a slight loss not sure about how my friend did.
Its been proven that this causes the savedata corruption since last time my game corrupted i did a sprint pack race with it, and now again out of nowhere.
Avoid using this.. Go on Grid 2 if possible it has these tracks without dlc and crashing.
There is a little uncertaincy in it though. is it just the sprint option? is it online or offline is it both? and is it avoidable if its time attack of race.

Also if u think its my problem not the content then its wrong because i heard this before that i should avoid this dlc but I badly wanted to play it, and well now here is what happaned so you can trust me on this review

I played this game first from a friend who shared their games to me, I just had a go at it since my favourite game is Grid Autosport thought its worth a go.
My first impression was terrible I thought I will never play this game again, it was lagging and i was slow as well.

But I continued on and honestly it become one of my favourites and then later on when it was on a lower price i bought it and then continued on with the dlc-s slowly, sadly there wasnt a season pass like grid autosport

This game is waay different from grid autosport, but in order to break it down to points lets go and start with the positives.

Positives:
- Drifting. I love drifting on this game I'm very good at it, In online sessions I beat level 99 players Im very happy with the drifting of this game

- Music - Awesome music and soundtracks, i have them downloaded and on my phone

- Just like Autosport in this game we have a lot of cars to race on which are collected in different tiers, from tier 1 to tier 4, and indycar and demolition derby.

- Lot of Games modes more than Grid Autosport! It has modes like Touge (i cant pronounce that yet by the way :D) Overtake, and face off.Now personally Touge is my favourite and prefer it over faceoff because u dont need to complete the full race if u pull away 5 seconds or drop back 5 seconds behind ur rival of course if u drop u lose lol. Touge is usually on tight tracks around cliffs same with faceoff.....

Overtake events are when u have to go against very slow ai cars which aren't racing, the point is to overtake as many of them and meanwhile score points, the points at the top are going up after an overtake and always getting smaller and smaller if ur not overtaking, a scale from 100 to 1000. if u crash or leave track it goes down automaticly to 100..
Also an event type called liveroutes which are mostly on street tracks and that means the track layout keeps changing and u have to adapt, there are arrows to help you
- Followers! On grid online, this is a feature which autosport doesn't have, here u can compare ur score of followers to other players, u get followers based on global challange or beating ur rival or completing an objective.

- Rivals. You can race against weekly and social rivals and over 1 week perioud. whoever gets more xp will get more grid followers

- Career mode. with cutscenes, Fans, (a number going up, and u will have more than 20 milion followers after 5 seasons) I think this career mode is better than Grid Autosports career, the better u perform along with ur objectives and results the more fans u will get, and more fans unlock new tracks. I like that ur in a paddock it gives more to the feel.

-Global challanges. You get 9 challanges per week more than Autosport which gives 5!! usually they are tough and annoying and require a lot of effort but its worth it. Also with the friends leaderboards u can see how u stand with ur other friends doing the challange and becoming first will give u a lot of xp.
- Just like in Autosport u can edit liveries however here u can edit them in single player too.


Now lets go to the meh. before the negatives.

Handling.. Not realistic obviously its an arcade handling ur literally flying through corners drifting the rear end like ur doing doughnuts. its faster to drift also, its a disadvantage if u have a front wheel or 4wd, except a few ones.

Custom event is connected with career. u can't drive with cars u havent unlocked in career. it meh cause on grid u can drive any car in gp mode.

Now Negatives.

-The most annoying and ridicolous thing for me is the CAR SELECTION ONLINE. It makes me angry. You only get 20 seconds to choose your car right before the race and the bloddy timer goes so fast... unlike ANY other game i played here ur under pressure to select ur car because for some reason you CANT SELECT IT from the menu before the race
NOW 2ND thing is connected to this which is EVEN MORE ANNOYING. When u join a custom event and ur the middle of championship lets say its event 2 and you're waiting for event 3... What's wrong?? It puts you straight into the event WITHOUT GIVING YOU ANY CHOICE OF CAR SELECTION. YES REALLY. THIS IS BEYOND ME. WTF IS THIS CRAP. 7

-AI - They ai in general is,ok, sort of but the AI DURING THE OVERTAKE EVENTS is a disgrace I cant stand them at all, they turn into you, they squize you like mad and then you get a collison and that removes your points, hate them with a passion, its a constant battle in global challanges.

- Global challange always gives bloddy impossible things like. yeah overtake with tier 4 around a track tighter than my a$$ im not even kidding. like it just annoys me. then when i wanna pass the ai guess what? they turn into me. many restarts, many angry moments.

- Sprint tracks? I don't know the name, those cliff tracks where 1 wrong moment and u literally fall into your death.. I hate those tracks.. tracks like Hong Kong or Okutama. u know...u make a small mistake and u get flipped over and flipped off. Also they're so damn long some are 10 kilometers and take 3 or 4 minutes come on I hate that, after a while just by pure boredom I lose concentration and bang. regardless even with tier1 cars I hate those tracks.. its not flipping dirt rally come on. put these tracks there.. i know its tarmac but still..

- There a lot of useless cars which are rarely used.. mostly because they aren't drifty or they're crappy in general I dont see how I will use those cars unless there will be a global event which stricts it down to that 1 car. example. mclaren's in tier 3 and 4. i won't name them. This might invalidate my previous point that Im happy that there are a lot of cars but oh well..

- Moneywh0ring and level limits.. In order for u to have full achivements like in other games u will need almost all dlc's, in order to unlock all cars for example online u need a dlcs. in order to play 1 track and get 2 or 3 cars u need to spend like 7 euros. it might not be a lot but come on why couldnt u just put it in the full game?

Level limits. So just because ur not a level 25 or something u cant upgrade a car from like tier 3 to 4. so until then everyone else will use caterham in tier 4 for overtake events for example meanwhile u have to use something else, why cant u just make it more expensive why need to level up that much for that.. now this might sound a bit like crying but its unfair kind of, but its debateable it might not be. anyway that's my thoughts
- small thing, Indycar is slower than Pagani Zonda Revolucion??? indycar can do 452 in grid autosport but here its slower than 370 and u can't even upgrade it, and why is Zonda 376 with 7 gears when its 6 gears on autosport?
- no upgrades for DLC veichles..
-no driving line or assists
- No time trial,
- NO global leaderboards on racenet ingame, u have to go out there manually to codies site all the time, and u cant go through the list of people only ones who are near you.


Overall I would give this 8/10 and Autosport 9/10

I personally prefer Autosport but this game the way it is, is fun too except the annoying things.
Why autosport? 3 reasons. handling, multiplayer and smoother fps.
To all friends who have autosport, go and try Grid 2 as well pls. thanks for reading. Goodbye.

Tried this car at bathurst and on the straights it was like 344 or something, compared to Pagani Zonda which is 376... this is already wierd, and no 7th gear for this car,
with the Zonda I was 3 seconds faster. so sadly not a great car.
The track layouts around Brands hatch will try it later, but since it adds more racing I think thats a good part of the dlc.

Im really in between reccomending and not reccomending, I clicked no cause the mclaren is slow