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This is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:
This article was published by Jimmy Broadbent (@Jimmy B) on December 9th, 2018 in the F1 2018 category.
You joining the gtplanet team is the best thing to happen to gtpThis is the discussion thread for a recent post on GTPlanet:
This article was published by Jimmy Broadbent (@Jimmy B) on December 9th, 2018 in the F1 2018 category.
Yes and quite often, people think that "more difficult" equals "more realistic". Reminds me of a German forum in which a professional GT driver used to post and told people that the rFactor endurance mod actually makes cars too difficult to drive and that the "easier" Race07 add-on GTR Evolution is actually more realistic.One of the problems that I have with the sim racing community as a whole is that there are a lot of people talking about the realism, or lack thereof, of a title. without actually haven driven the real cars in question on the real tracks.
OK for some lower end cars there are likely to be people who do have this experience and are therefore qualified to comment, and by qualified I mean people that have actually driven their cars on track and in anger, not those that own that same car as in game but have only use it to pootle around in.
As for F1 cars, I'm guessing that absolutely zero people here have actually driven one for real, let alone at race pace, so the truth is we don't actually know how far away F1 2018 is from the real thing. We take some pretty good educated guesses, and I think most people would agree that F1 is "sim-cade", but guesses are really all that we have.
As for F1 cars, I'm guessing that absolutely zero people here have actually driven one for real, let alone at race pace, so the truth is we don't actually know how far away F1 2018 is from the real thing.
We take some pretty good educated guesses, and I think most people would agree that F1 is "sim-cade", but guesses are really all that we have.
**IF** GTPNewsWire (or anyone else for that matter) can beat Lewis's qualifying time then I would guess the game is pretty dumbed down ;-)
**IF** GTPNewsWire (or anyone else for that matter) can beat Lewis's qualifying time then I would guess the game is pretty dumbed down ;-)
@TT92 I don't want to hurt his feelings, but you do realise that @GTPNewsWire isn't a real person, and that the article was written by @Jimmy B?
@TT92 I don't want to hurt his feelings, but you do realise that @GTPNewsWire isn't a real person, and that the article was written by @Jimmy B?
I dunno - there are some insanely skilled and talented people behind their FFB wheels that possibly in another life, given the opportunities, and being the the right places at the right times, could have become dominant racing drivers.
For those not quite so up there, then I'd say beating Lewis' time is not out of the question per se, however the question would be how many times did they bin the car before they finally did it. Remember in a sim you don't suffer any consequences financially or injury related, meaning you can take risks that you would never dare to in real life.
What is a "real person", @daan?@TT92 I don't want to hurt his feelings, but you do realise that @GTPNewsWire isn't a real person, and that the article was written by @Jimmy B?