F1 2010 Impressions (PS3, 360, PC)

[Sundown2600]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Let's hope thay have a patch for this pit stop bug or it's pretty much a game killer. The fact there was no demo doesn't guarantee that there will be a patch. Has Codemasters issued patches for thier past games? I just don't get it. How do you not find a glaring bug this big in testing. The quality control issue with games has become so bad that they can't find a bug that would be obvious about an hour into playing career mode. It seems they spent countless hours putting all these features in and mere minutes to see if it works properly. If they missed a bug this big then who knows what other bugs are lurking as you get deeper into the game. This game is a definate pass until a patch comes thru and hopefully it doesn't take months. Glad I didn't pre-order. For a F1 driving experience I'll stick with F1CE from Sony for the time being especially since there's not a hint of frame rate or stuttering problems.

I think this could be a blessing in disguise because I was frustrated earlier about the release date inconsistencies, but I'm gonna hold out and wait until the reviews come back from console owners. Just called another Gamestop in my city they aren't sure when it's coming in. Doesn't matter now because I'm gonna wait to hear more consumer feedback after the 'honeymoon' phase ends.

[Flamehead]

A response from the game designers regarding the pit-stop issue:

"Many thanks for the rapid feedback on this. We really appreciate the details and, now that the team are returning from their short holiday, have started an immediate investigation into the cause. Just to clarify that this is most likely a bug with the pit stop release system being overly cautious, which is compounded by the limited pit stop strategy window in short race distances, rather than any form of intentional rubberbanding. Here’s a workaround for now, while we investigate further: -

Altering Your Race Strategy
By interacting with the ‘Tyre’ stack menu in the garage prior to a race you can adjust your default pit strategy. By making any of the following changes then this problem will be significantly less likely to occur as you will stop yourself from pitting on the same lap as the majority of the AI:

1) Increase or decrease your first pit stop by a lap from the pre-set default

2) Reverse your strategy to start the race on the prime tyres rather than the options, which will allow you to get significantly later in the race before having to make your pit stop (you’ll notice a recommended number of laps for each tyre compound, which will help you determine what lap to make your pit stop). This will require you to alter the both tyres which you start the race on and the pit stop tyres as well as your intended pit stop lap.

3) Alternatively you could also carry on with your default race strategy but choose to ignore the lap where the Race Engineer calls you in and select to pit on the subsequent lap. This is what I tend to do.

Altering Your Race Distance
The more you increase your default race distance up from 20%, the less likely this will occur as the AI will have much larger windows in which to make their stops rather than all coming in on the same lap, as well as the distances between the field becoming much more widely spread.

This issue is almost certainly less likely to be an issue in Multiplayer since the problem’s frequency is a function of how many people are in the pits at once, and your position in the garage line-up.

We'll be back when we've got some more details on this but rest assured we are looking into it."

http://community.codemasters.com/for...top-issue.html

[Kully]

Quote:

3) Alternatively you could also carry on with your default race strategy but choose to ignore the lap where the Race Engineer calls you in and select to pit on the subsequent lap. This is what I tend to do.

That's why I didn't get this bug. I always ignore the engineer and come in to pit whenever I want.

It is a pretty nasty bug, hopefully it gets fixed.

[bhurst99]

Great impressions guys!

[bluengold34_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kully

That's why I didn't get this bug. I always ignore the engineer and come in to pit whenever I want. It is a pretty nasty bug, hopefully it gets fixed.

Yeah it is, I always pit early or wait later anyways, I guess thats why I never truly encountered it. These things happen, and with the amount they tried to get into this game, its not suprising something like thia happened.

The good thing is you have a developer and a lead producer who are F1 fanatics, and play this game also. They will get a fix, just hopefully soon. The shipping fiasco for the consoles is already a huge black eye.

[LingeringRegime]

Totally forgot this was coming out. I can't wait to pick this up tonight!

[Behindshadows]

I absolutely love this game...when Youtube finally gets done processing my videos...I'll post them in order....

Haven't did any Career videos yet, just regular. Man the weather effects are insane on the viewing eyes. And replays are incredible, you can actually respect the level of detail of everything from cars, logos, tire detail, environments, lighting, etc.

This game is just an absolute gem!

[bluengold34_OS]

Agreed Shadows,

I just did a TT at Australia, then watched the replay. Half the time I had to keep telling myself it was just a game, and not real.