Animal said:

The pit stop bug ruined everything. I put so much effort in my practices, qualifications and my first couple of race laps and it was all thrown out the bloody window over this stupid bug. Very disappointed to say the least.

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jlevel13 said:

This is why I haven't even bother with the career mode yet, have just been doing time trials and learning the tracks and handling model. Time trials are actually really fun, watching lap times improve as I put the pieces together & climbing the leaderboards.

Any official word yet from Codemasters on a pit stop bug fix, or are they all on post-release vacations to the Bahamas?

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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.

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NHale said:

The pit bug has to be patched very quickly. Like I expected this will end up ruining career mode and online until it's fixed.

I still can't believe how Codemasters shipped the game with this bug...

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Lion Heart said:

Anyone in Canada able to rent this shit? No blockbuster near me has it, haven't tried Rogers but ...who the hell rents from Rogers.

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Mihku said:

I'm a bit disappointed you can't save during a race. I like driving 100% races, but sometimes you simply don't have the time to drive for 1h30m. Hope they patch it in.

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NHale said:

I still can't believe how Codemasters shipped the game with this bug...

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MiniBossBattle said:

AzRim & NHale add me to your PSN list. I will probably be terrible but it will be fun to play with GAFer (and hopefully have clean races).

I am gonna call my local BB and Gamestop to see if they got it after work. Fingers crossed.

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liger05 said:

Surely Codemasters know not everyone can do a full race in one sit in.

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TheAzRim said:

=D

I like to do some legwork and make a few calls to get my games. Never order online so I am not sure what's going on with that.

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1-D_FTW said:

Maybe it's because I'm rusty, but I'm spinning out a ridiculous amount of the time in time trials. I always babied corners when using analog triggers on a controller, but I'm keeping my foot down way too much coming out of corners. And I repeat the same mistakes over and over. Each lap is like a replay. I guess I'll get to grips eventually. Probably have less than 15 hours on my G27, so I'm sure I'll adjust to this whole wheel thing.

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Juicy Bob said:

I'm sorry to say, this game is just too easy.

Just got the game, doing a full race weekend in Bahrain on Expert with no assists and I've just put my Virgin into P11 on the grid beating Lucas by 5 seconds a lap. I was honestly expecting the driving model to be more difficult as well, but the car hardly even locks up under braking and doesn't get unsettled by the bumps in Sector 1. I did a 1:59.592 while Lucas did a 2:05.232. I can't find anything in the settings that could increase the AI speed. Am I missing something?

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Juicy Bob said:

I'm sorry to say, this game is just too easy.

Just got the game, doing a full race weekend in Bahrain on Expert with no assists and I've just put my Virgin into P11 on the grid beating Lucas by 5 seconds a lap. I was honestly expecting the driving model to be more difficult as well, but the car hardly even locks up under braking and doesn't get unsettled by the bumps in Sector 1. I did a 1:59.592 while Lucas did a 2:05.232. I can't find anything in the settings that could increase the AI speed. Am I missing something?

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Juicy Bob said:

I'm sorry to say, this game is just too easy.

Just got the game, doing a full race weekend in Bahrain on Expert with no assists and I've just put my Virgin into P11 on the grid beating Lucas by 5 seconds a lap. I was honestly expecting the driving model to be more difficult as well, but the car hardly even locks up under braking and doesn't get unsettled by the bumps in Sector 1. I did a 1:59.592 while Lucas did a 2:05.232. I can't find anything in the settings that could increase the AI speed. Am I missing something?

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AcridMeat said:

As for tracks/length. Ideally, I would love to have full race lengths. The problem with that is having the commitment of as many people as possible to put away 2 hours straight on the weekend for this. I was thinking 30 laps for each circuit which would be roughly an hour long race.

In terms of tracks, again ideally I would like a full calender but if we're racing once a week the issue of commitment comes up again. I was thinking a half season would be best.

Feel free to give suggestions though, this is our championship!

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lastplayed said:

OK so in time trials.. I go off the track and lap is invalidated. Fair enough. I try to get back on the track and it now says the next lap is invalidated. wft? How am I supposed to ever get a time if my next lap is invalidated every time I make a mistake? Am I missing something here?

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Juicy Bob said:

It only applies in the final sector. It's to stop people cutting last corners and carrying unfair speeds at the start of the lap.

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rhfb said:

My brother works at a USA blockbuster. He said he had to put in a special request to get the game to rent. They were not going to carry it without that request. No clue how long that will take though.

edit: apparently they are getting the game in on the 24th, it just didn't show up in the system until now.

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Frawdder said:

I think the race length should be a percentage rather than a static number, 30 laps on Spa is going to be much longer than 30 laps on Monaco, not that I personally have a problem with that it's just if people want to aim for say 50 minutes to 1 hour of racing time a percentage might be better.

And yes, a half season would be good, get rid of most of, if not all the Tilke tracks.

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Yoritomo said:

Yeah.... there needs to be another ai difficulty thats even harder. Even on legendary I get pole by over a second while in a virgin car.

And I just looked it up. I beat the lap record of the real life track in the virgin...

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AcridMeat said:

Since there's been more talk about how we're going to do things, I've got an updated list of players. Because we will need the qualifying (pole position) session, I was thinking of having it during the weekend of October 1-3. That way those getting the game this weekend have time to get themselves oriented and such.

THE LIST!

1-D_FTW
Animal
Foliorum Viridum
AcridMeat
TylerD
Leunam
Frawdder
Stop It
Lucius86
Valru
jambo
Dilly
Slamskank
Vehn
Salacious Crumb

If you would like to participate, you have plenty of time still just let me know.

As for tracks/length. Ideally, I would love to have full race lengths. The problem with that is having the commitment of as many people as possible to put away 2 hours straight on the weekend for this. I was thinking 30 laps for each circuit which would be roughly an hour long race.

In terms of tracks, again ideally I would like a full calender but if we're racing once a week the issue of commitment comes up again. I was thinking a half season would be best.

Feel free to give suggestions though, this is our championship!

edit: I will say I'm overruling everyone, we're going to have Monaco. We can put it towards the end though, so people get used to the game and hopefully aren't crash enthusiasts. That is, until we set it to wet.

edit 2: Or we just make it the first race and get it over with

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Fortinbras said:

The game is disappointing on a technical level. At least the 360 version is. The framerate and the tearing are annoying as hell. I'm quite surprised by this.

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almokla said:

anyone facing same issues on PS3?

while I still have the option to switch

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Juicy Bob said:

I'm sorry to say, this game is just too easy.

Just got the game, doing a full race weekend in Bahrain on Expert with no assists and I've just put my Virgin into P11 on the grid beating Lucas by 5 seconds a lap. I was honestly expecting the driving model to be more difficult as well, but the car hardly even locks up under braking and doesn't get unsettled by the bumps in Sector 1. I did a 1:59.592 while Lucas did a 2:05.232. I can't find anything in the settings that could increase the AI speed. Am I missing something?

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We wanted to let you know that there is an unexpected delay with your video game order (Order# XXX) you placed on September 12 2010. Unfortunately, we are unable to ship the product(s) as soon as we expected and need to provide you with a new estimate of when they may be delivered:

"F1: 2010"
Estimated arrival date: September 29 2010

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this delay.

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isamu said:

I'm playing using the new ECCI wheel and pedals so it aint the controls :lol

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almokla said:

anyone facing same issues on PS3?

while I still have the option to switch

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amar212 said:

Let's say it his way - PS3 game is certanly not execling in graphical area - EGO is just dot performing well on PS3 as it does on X360 or PC. I did a comparation with F1:CE because I wanted to see how titles stacks together and I was pretty surprised with some revelations.

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isamu said:

Wow...where is the :ROLLEYES: smilie when you need one? Dude, take your ego off the stage. No one is impressed. Just because you play a shitload of F1 games for living doesn't mean the rest of us do. I am new to this particular sub-genre of racing and I'm finding F1 2010 to be hard as fuck.

I was playing the game yesterday for a couple hours in the afternoon, and all I can say is that the game is excruciatingly difficult! I know I'm new to F1 games, but damn. I was having a hard time coming in anything but last even on CASUAL, with TC turned all the way up! I'm playing using the new ECCI wheel and pedals so it aint the controls :lol Feel like it's gonna take me 20 years to be just decent at this damn game. Anyone other n00bs having a hard time?

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amar212 said:

Let's say it his way - PS3 game is certanly not execling in graphical area - EGO is just dot performing well on PS3 as it does on X360 or PC. I did a comparation with F1:CE because I wanted to see how titles stacks together and I was pretty surprised with some revelations.

However, one thing is importatnt - game is lots of fun (G25 here) and while it have LOADS of graphical issues when today standards are taken into, I find force feedback support beter on PS3 than on 360 so I'm pretty sastisified.

It will be a nice Saturday/Sunday fun prior to qualy/races.

But yes, framerate can be just disasterous in some occasions.

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Like I said before the framerate is also a big issue in the PS3 version. Sometimes it's random while there is a couple of corners where the framerate will always drop a lot (2nd chicane of the piscine in Monaco).

It's very annoying especially because in the next corner (Rascasse) the framerate is very smooth and you notice the abysmal difference. It's really a shame.

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Wax Free Vanilla said:

and now we know why there was no demo.

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Fortinbras said:

I don't get it. Dirt 2 and Grid ran great on the 360. I'll put the game on ebay.

I just HATE framerate problems and tearing in racing games.

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tyler said:

Maybe as F1 has 24 cars vs 12?

Can anyone comment on if the drops happen in TT when you're the only car or in MP with a max of 12? I've read that even in practice the other 23 AI cars can be in the pitlane so that causes drops in certain sections of the track.

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