Another vote for KOTOR, especially as you're on an older machine.

I'm not a big fan of RPG's, but that had me totally hooked.

Quote from southamptonfc :

Are you aware that over 50% of F1 teams use rFactor in their SIMULATORS?

They use heavily modified versions of rFactor Pro, which has nothing in common with the retail rFactor whatsoever.

He was only 200 miles out....it was close

Quote from The Very End :

Shouldn't it still cause the ass to spin out when you stand on the brake in a slide like that.. or?

Of course if it had anything resembling a physics model that would be correct, but it's about as sophisticated as pole position when it comes to physics.

I span about 120 degrees the other day, hit the brakes and it turned me facing forward again! It's complete nonsense.

Quote from danowat :

Aren't they one of the least travelled people in the developed world?, according to the stats,isn't its something scary like 80% of people in the US don't have a passport?

I actually thought it was worse than that. I read that only 7% of Americans had a passport. Who knows what the real figure is though.

All I know is wherever I've been I've met people from all over the world in those places, but I've only met 3 Americans in total on my travels.

Then again why would they want to go anywhere when they already live in the greatest country in the world

France , Spain, Italy, Holland, Tunisia and India.

On the 'to do' list... Alaska, Canada, Thailand and a lot more trips to India.


Nice to see the Americans in this thread living up to their reputation.
I would like to make you guys aware of a document called a passport.. it enables you to leave your country and see other places in the world!!!

Quote from Shotglass :

you do realise youre talking about/to a guy who liked expendables avatar transformers and armageddon?

Enough said.

So if he's recommending Buried then I can safely give it a miss then?

Quote from cyclo :

iracing sucks we have to pay hahahah

Thanks for your useful contribution to the thread.

obvious troll is obvious

Great pic Jibber. More people need to read that a few times any truly digest it.

Anytime I'm feeling that my life is a sack of shit all I have to do is think back to what I saw and experienced in the slums of Bangalore and Mumbai and you never forget just how lucky the huge majority of us westerners are, however dire our circumstances can seem to us at times.

Funnily enough most of those people I met were 10x happier than most of us pampered westerners as well

Nice..been using the better lighting mod since yesterday and it's 100x better than the crappy original lighting. The new camera views are the best yet.

Now all we need is someone to sort the FFB out and we'll be getting somewhere. Tried one modded FFB file but it wasn't very good. Hopefully well get a few more in the near future.

I found it fun to begin with, but now the bugs, the crappy handling and the piss poor FFB has taken the shine off of it.

After going back to iRacing and nKPro for some laps I fire this up do 3 or 4 laps and turn it off again. Pity, it had a lot of potential, but as usual Codies rushed it out before it was finished.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Should I just leave everything in CCC on "application decides" or whatever it's called?

Yup, just do the settings inside the game, leave it an application control in CCC


Agree with your summary above. If you look beyond the surface it's shit (from a sim racers point of view) but it's still surprisingly compelling and fun.

It's the only Codemasters racing game since the original CMR and TOcA that I haven't deleted within a day.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

I'm guessing this would be most fun played on keyboard (no elitism here). Honestly, Codemasters games were always great and made sense with keyboard, at least the CMR series.

It's absolutely shocking on a keyboard, and pretty bloody awful on a joypad as well. Once you fiddle with the settings enough it feels very good with a wheel.


The physics are surprisingly fun. The only thing I'm really not happy with in this game are the canned recoveries. If you start going into a spin the whole spinning and recovery has almost nothing to do with you. It's weird and very disconcerting when it happens.

I wish at the highest levels with no aids they'd left that completely in control of the user. Still, it gives you more incentive not to get into a spin in the first place

This really is the most F1 fun I've had since GP4. I ony wish we could get something with this gameplay and the physics of Ferrari Virtual Academy.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Well, what did you expect? Most of this community plays LFS, some of them iRacing too. These are proper sims and you wonder "we" don't like this F1 thing.
Why should we stop "crying"? As far as I know it's a public forum, I think it's fine to have our opinions, even if you don't like it.

Call me elitist, I don't care. There's a standard I won't sink below.

Ohh FFS, what is wrong with you? Your penis wont shrink if you play a slightly more arcade based game you know.

At least no one can call me elitist now I've sunk below the 'standard' that the true hardcore racers like you have set

I'm not sure how you know its so poor when you deleted it after 10 mins

I dunno what all the iRacers are going to do when they realise they've sunk so low . I might have to head off to the iRacing forum (where theres a massive thread about this 'game'.. and a very positive reaction to it) and let them know they are just not worthy of their iRacing subs any more and should all cancel immediately

F1 2010 strikes a really nice balance between arcade and sim, I've had a fantastic day with it so far. Time for round 3 of my championship..must dash.......

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

My goodness, the last part of this thread makes me want to delete LFSforum from my bookmarks and log out for good.

I'm going to buy F1 2010 and enjoy it.

Laters.

Just stick the knobends on your ignore list and have fun with F1 2010. It's a bit of a faff getting to feel good, but when you do it's a riot.

Last edited by The Moose, Wed 22 Sep 2010, 17:34.

Well I'm a sim racing snob of the highest order ("if it aint netKar Pro or iRacing it aint worth driving" is my usual stance), but i have to admit I'm having a blast with this.

It took a good few hours of tweaking to get the FFB feeling decent, and once i started playing with setups I got the car feeling good. (forget the 'quick setups' they are gash)

Initially I had that awful gear change lag, but it turns out it wasn't the gears themselves but the sound lagging. As soon as I switched from their 'rapture' sound to 'software' it improved massively (and i got a few extra FPS as a bonus)

Anyone who deleted it within 10 mins is an idiot. I thought it was pants after my first 30 mins, but now I've tweaked a bit it's transformed the game completely.

It's no sim, that's for sure, but considering it's a Codemasters game I'm pretty impressed.
As long as they release a patch soon to fix a couple of annoyances I'll be having fun with this for quite a while.

All this talk of "bad aids" and sex means it's the perfect time to bring out this programme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjLkbP5Xg3E&list=SL

• Aintree Motor Racing Circuit, Aintree
  
• Anglesey Circuit, Aberffraw, Anglesey
  
• Bedford Autodrome, Bedfordshire
  
• Birmingham Superprix, Birmingham
  
• Brands Hatch, Fawkham, Kent
  
• Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire
  
• Castle Combe Circuit, Castle Combe, Wiltshire
  
• Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire
  
• Donington Park, Leicestershire
  
• East Fortune, East Lothian
  
• Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit, West Sussex
  
• Knockhill, Fife
  
• Llandow Circuit, Vale of Glamorgan
  
• Longridge, Preston, Lancashire
  
• Lydden, Canterbury, Kent
  
• Mallory Park, Leicestershire
  
• New Brighton, Wirral
  
• Oliver's Mount, North Yorkshire
  
• Oulton Park, Cheshire
  
• Pembrey Circuit, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
  
• Rockingham Motor Speedway, Corby, Northamptonshire
  
• Santa Pod Raceway, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
  
• Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire
  
• Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk
  
• Top Gear test track, Surrey
  
• Thruxton, Hampshire
  

Courtesy of wiki


EDIT..just saw the link in Forbins post:doh:

Better qual vids of Alain Robert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPY0qkkViuk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zARGr1Zsst4


The full documentary Alain Robert - The Human Spider can be watched online on 4OD http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-human-spider/4od (probably Brits only)

Quote from jibber :

This guy isn't bad either...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPN3gLVDsOY&NR=1

Whoa..wtf is that all about when he spins himself upside down half way up the wall? Incredible!

Quote from Bob Smith :

I thought that was him unhooking the bag of tools so he didn't have to support the weight while he rested?

Hmm, maybe, but there is only one bag of tools and at the end you see both guys clipping themselves on.

I'm sure I heard the narrator say they dont hook on all the time when they are climbing because it takes to much time constantly hooking on and off.

At least he gets to clip himself on every now and then.

Still no one beats the free climber Alain Robert in my eyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0wmLzS3dt4

(sorry for the low qual footage...i'm sure there's a lot better stuff on youtube, i just couldn't be arsed to look)

20Mb cable from Virgin.

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Last edited by The Moose, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 06:53.

Quote from Shotglass :

i could show you an irc log of peri (someone who afaik has no past history of bashing kunos) going on and on for about an hour how rubbish the basics (ie interface graphics engine etc) are
and he didnt even have to pay for it himself

Graphics engine is rubbish? He's having a laugh!

Don't bother with the log. I'm fed up with hearing from whiners.

Quote from Shotglass :

judging by past merits and peris rant on #lfs last night on the quality of this id say expecting people to pay any sort of money for a kunos produ...alpha is ripping them off

Judging from the huge thread on the iRacing forums where the response has been overwhelmingly positive I'd say you're just up to your usual pointless Kunos bashing.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Laser scanning, laser schmaning... whatever you want to put it, it still comes down to that it IS a game. You honestly will be able to tell the difference in couple of centimeters.. on the tracks you will probably never drive in real life?

Have you actually driven on an iRacing track?

Before I tried it I thought laser scanned tracks were just a gimmick. Now I find it impossible to drive any other sims, including my favourite, netKar Pro, simply because of what a massive difference laser scanned tracks make to the experience.

I've driven the tracks iRacing have in other sims for years. The difference is huge!

Knowing you are driving on a perfect recreation of a track makes a big difference to me. Anything else is a step backwards. You now have the chance to drive on perfect recreations of your favourite tracks... why wouldn't you want to do that?

Obviously you couldn't care less about them, but for me and many others it's easily worth paying the extra premium for laser scanned tracks. A no brainer.