I've been impressed so far. Well done SMS. Probably the most productive patch to a game I've seen! Although having said that, how many of these patched features been in the game in the first place if it was released 2 weeks later?
Loads of nice new tweaks where they matter to the UI. I noticed the pitstop progress indicator today. Also You get countdowns in lobbies for races. You can preview a race format without having to join first (L1 IIRC). You can invite people in sessions now too. Menus are very fast. Car selection in menus is still slow though.
Saving setups no longer clashes, although I have noticed the descriptions are sometimes wrong and you can't save a setup with the same name to a car when at a different track - so you kind of still have to name it by car, track, wet/dry/race/quali, setup version. There's not much text space do come up with a good naming convention yourself. You shouldn't have to do this surely? I would expect a setup to be saved with track information as well as car, so for e.g. I should be able to call a setup for a car "v1" at Silverstone and use the name "v1" at Brands.
Loads more useful changes that I can't remember right now.
As for FFB (G29), only been trying GT3 cars so far. The NSX and R8's appear to work! But the Ferrari doesn't, well not completely. I can feel the braking now on all cars to a degree, but the Ferrari an Aston are very light on the steering and not much feel if anything for the rears. So I had a good race in the NSX but a disaster in the Ferrari tonight. My performance was totally FFB dependent.
However some issues are still apparent. The frame rate still really skips horribly with online races with people joining/leaving. And some new issues seem to have appeared. I got booted out of 2 or 3 sessions in a row to the point I thought it wasn't working at all. That lowered my rating from E to U.
Does the NSX have downshift protection? Because I was really struggling to get it to register downshifts a lot of the time. It was a new problem.
Also is it me or have the cars become less stable with assists off and more stable with them on? Particularly when trying to trail brake.
All in all, definitely a big step forward, but more steps still need to be taken.
Loads of nice new tweaks where they matter to the UI. I noticed the pitstop progress indicator today. Also You get countdowns in lobbies for races. You can preview a race format without having to join first (L1 IIRC). You can invite people in sessions now too. Menus are very fast. Car selection in menus is still slow though.
Saving setups no longer clashes, although I have noticed the descriptions are sometimes wrong and you can't save a setup with the same name to a car when at a different track - so you kind of still have to name it by car, track, wet/dry/race/quali, setup version. There's not much text space do come up with a good naming convention yourself. You shouldn't have to do this surely? I would expect a setup to be saved with track information as well as car, so for e.g. I should be able to call a setup for a car "v1" at Silverstone and use the name "v1" at Brands.
Loads more useful changes that I can't remember right now.
As for FFB (G29), only been trying GT3 cars so far. The NSX and R8's appear to work! But the Ferrari doesn't, well not completely. I can feel the braking now on all cars to a degree, but the Ferrari an Aston are very light on the steering and not much feel if anything for the rears. So I had a good race in the NSX but a disaster in the Ferrari tonight. My performance was totally FFB dependent.
However some issues are still apparent. The frame rate still really skips horribly with online races with people joining/leaving. And some new issues seem to have appeared. I got booted out of 2 or 3 sessions in a row to the point I thought it wasn't working at all. That lowered my rating from E to U.
Does the NSX have downshift protection? Because I was really struggling to get it to register downshifts a lot of the time. It was a new problem.
Also is it me or have the cars become less stable with assists off and more stable with them on? Particularly when trying to trail brake.
All in all, definitely a big step forward, but more steps still need to be taken.
One place in particular that the AI was smashing into me was at the end of Conrod Straight at Bathurst. I anyone else has had this problem and now has the patch I would be interested to see if it has been fixed.
