Now, I know it's always a very personal view. I've been on this since they introduced their free content week and I'm getting mixed signals from this game.
The Single Player mode is good but that wouldn't be a deal closer as I already own more racing sims then I've got time to play. So the selling point would be the multiplayer. Now, I've only done six races so far but there is a trend. The first one being me being way too slow. And that's not me complaining I can't win every race, I shouldn't. But I'm up to 8 sec per lap slower. That can't be all me. I'm playing on an old g25 and I know that's not the best hardware around. But I don't have the budget for something else and I've watched people playing with Logitech wheels who are well in the upper echelon. Everywhere I look people are saying the base setups are good and I know I need to practice more - but that 8 second gap seems a rather steep mountain to climb. And I don't see where I can even gain a second, let alone eight.
Another thing I noticed is that a lot of players come late to a race during Q and don't drive any laps. Among those are usually the ones that are way faster then anyone else. Again, I don't want to win each race, I'm looking for some fun and tense racing. But in one case I felt taunted. I was racing with someone for 4 laps and it was very tight, neither of us being able to put much space between the two of us. Seemingly. After he spun of the track by his own doing and being behind a good 15s he suddenly turned laps 3-5s faster then me. At that point I felt toyed with and once I saw him in the mirror I downright stopped at the straight to let him by. Oh, and the other guy in the race who build up a 45s lead had a mysterious incident in the panultimate corner from which he didn't recover at the same time.
I checked after the race and both of them didn't participate in ranked races in over half a year.
I like what I see from the game in general. It looks alright on my outdated machine. The sound is great and I think the FFB is really good. Depending on the discount they offer in their upcoming sale I might consider buying a big chunk of content, maybe even the whole shabang.
So, I'm asking those who played this a lot. Would you buy it again ?
The Single Player mode is good but that wouldn't be a deal closer as I already own more racing sims then I've got time to play. So the selling point would be the multiplayer. Now, I've only done six races so far but there is a trend. The first one being me being way too slow. And that's not me complaining I can't win every race, I shouldn't. But I'm up to 8 sec per lap slower. That can't be all me. I'm playing on an old g25 and I know that's not the best hardware around. But I don't have the budget for something else and I've watched people playing with Logitech wheels who are well in the upper echelon. Everywhere I look people are saying the base setups are good and I know I need to practice more - but that 8 second gap seems a rather steep mountain to climb. And I don't see where I can even gain a second, let alone eight.
Another thing I noticed is that a lot of players come late to a race during Q and don't drive any laps. Among those are usually the ones that are way faster then anyone else. Again, I don't want to win each race, I'm looking for some fun and tense racing. But in one case I felt taunted. I was racing with someone for 4 laps and it was very tight, neither of us being able to put much space between the two of us. Seemingly. After he spun of the track by his own doing and being behind a good 15s he suddenly turned laps 3-5s faster then me. At that point I felt toyed with and once I saw him in the mirror I downright stopped at the straight to let him by. Oh, and the other guy in the race who build up a 45s lead had a mysterious incident in the panultimate corner from which he didn't recover at the same time.
I checked after the race and both of them didn't participate in ranked races in over half a year.
I like what I see from the game in general. It looks alright on my outdated machine. The sound is great and I think the FFB is really good. Depending on the discount they offer in their upcoming sale I might consider buying a big chunk of content, maybe even the whole shabang.
So, I'm asking those who played this a lot. Would you buy it again ?
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