F1 2020 anyone?

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Leicester Loyal

4,547 posts

122 months

Tuesday 18th August 2020
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Been playing this for a couple of weeks now, the My Team career is a fantastic addition. I think I'm on race 17 out of 22, I've managed 13 points throughout the season, all of them have been due to safety cars and me getting lucky pretty much. There was one track where my car was actually good due to the aero downforce, which meant I was probably just as good as the Racing Points. My team is Jordan Honda, yellow and black bumblebee colours, I love it.

Big tip is to increase your Marketing department, bumps up your acclaim quicker which leads to more sponsors, and ultimately more money.

For practice I lower the difficulty, allowing me to get more resource points to upgrade my car more. On Qualifying and Race day I set the AI to 87 difficulty, that's just about right for me.

I haven't played one since 2018 and I barely touched that one, so if I'm enjoying this one so much, I definitely recommend others to get it.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Tuesday 18th August 2020
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Great team name idea, love that. Any pictures of the car?

I decided to create myself as Anthony Davidson which does seem a little odd when Davidson himself takes through the race on the grid hehe

I was tempted to create Super Aguri for my team name in honour of one favourite team or indeed Minardi. But for now Bentley it is....

gangzoom

6,298 posts

215 months

Wednesday 19th August 2020
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The AI is really quite fab, managed to get a good start with AI setting on 82, than spent the first lap trying to keep the RedBulls + Ferraris behind until Verstappen go fedup and literally drove me off the road, Vettel than promptly followed through.

Sadly I don't get enough free time to play the game at the moment, but its fab fun for anyone with passing interest in F1.


Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Wednesday 19th August 2020
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How do you get in game photos like that on PS4 or is your game on PC?

AJB88

12,421 posts

171 months

Wednesday 19th August 2020
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Any photos of peoples cars then? Photos can be done in the pause menu on Xbox, can't remember what its called.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Wednesday 19th August 2020
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AJB88 said:
Any photos of peoples cars then? Photos can be done in the pause menu on Xbox, can't remember what its called.
Apologies for the poor shots but this is Bentley F1



AJB88

12,421 posts

171 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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Cool! Guessing you just pick a "design" then can change the colours of it. So you couldn't just go for a fully green car?

Guessing you also pick up sponsors along the season and have no control over what the logos look like?

Leicester Loyal

4,547 posts

122 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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AJB88 said:
Cool! Guessing you just pick a "design" then can change the colours of it. So you couldn't just go for a fully green car?

Guessing you also pick up sponsors along the season and have no control over what the logos look like?
Not sure on the design, I picked mine ages ago.

Yeah the sponsors are picked and the logo is as you see it. As you improve your acclaim higher, you get the choice of having more than one sponsor (up to a maximum of four).

I've got 5 races left I think, should get them dusted off in the next couple of days. I've just got new regulations which means that all my durability and aerodynamic upgrades are at risk of being lost unless I invest more points into them, well annoying!

AJB88

12,421 posts

171 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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Yeh you have to do that on F1 2019.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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AJB88 said:
Cool! Guessing you just pick a "design" then can change the colours of it. So you couldn't just go for a fully green car?

Guessing you also pick up sponsors along the season and have no control over what the logos look like?
You could essentially have a pure green (or any other colour) but I wanted to have a slight change of colour and felt the black looked nice.

gangzoom

6,298 posts

215 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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AJB88 said:
Cool! Guessing you just pick a "design" then can change the colours of it. So you couldn't just go for a fully green car?

Guessing you also pick up sponsors along the season and have no control over what the logos look like?
Changing looks/color is quite easy, can be done at any point between races. I haven't got that far yet so not many sponsors. Am sure you can move the sponsor decals to make them less visible.

It's a shame there aren't actually any green cars on the grid at the moment in real life, though the pink of Racing point is interesting.

Am playing on Stadia/PC so screen shots are really easy to capture.


AJB88

12,421 posts

171 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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I agree with the green cars! I've been Ferrari fan all my life but loved the Jaguar liveries!

Always said I'd love to see a completely black or yellow Ferrari on the grid.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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AJB88 said:
I agree with the green cars! I've been Ferrari fan all my life but loved the Jaguar liveries!

Always said I'd love to see a completely black or yellow Ferrari on the grid.
I was keen on either creating Jaguar F1, Super Aguri or Leyton House. Settled on Bentley F1 in the end.

AJB88

12,421 posts

171 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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Bentley is good, I was born where Bentleys are made, I now live where the original Aston Martin factory was.. always surrounded by cars haha.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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gangzoom said:
Changing looks/color is quite easy, can be done at any point between races. I haven't got that far yet so not many sponsors. Am sure you can move the sponsor decals to make them less visible.

It's a shame there aren't actually any green cars on the grid at the moment in real life, though the pink of Racing point is interesting.

Am playing on Stadia/PC so screen shots are really easy to capture.

Guessing from the helmet design of the following car that you’ve got Schumacher as a team mate? I noticed that on version 1.07 Schumacher had disappeared from the choice on the PS4 ( he may appear on the following season I guess)

gangzoom

6,298 posts

215 months

Thursday 20th August 2020
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Found enough time to finish the Spanish GP half in the wet tip toed across the line, and now Monaco has arrived smile



First attempt the Loews hairpin was rather embarrassing.


LosingGrip

7,818 posts

159 months

Friday 21st August 2020
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I hate that track with a passion. I crashed at the first corner four times in F2.

Second season in Williams and I crashed on my first flying lap on FP1!

Skipped it all and won't do it again ha.

Moley RUFC

3,616 posts

189 months

Saturday 22nd August 2020
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Had a boring bit therefore great race last night in the my team. AI 90 qualified 16th one ahead of my teammate and despite running 4th at one stage (pit stops) I ended up 13th without much chance of points. Feels realistic and some of the early lap racing was just superb

gangzoom

6,298 posts

215 months

Sunday 23rd August 2020
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LosingGrip said:
Skipped it all and won't do it again ha.
My first thought was - no way, you cannot skip Monaco.......

....20 minutes of practice laps later and am still doing this smile

I can really understand now why sometime less than half the pack will finish the real race!!


molineux1980

1,200 posts

219 months

Tuesday 25th August 2020
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With the announcement of Istanbul Park (and Imola) coming to the calendar IRL, am I being naive to hope for these in a patch?