The F2 series is a great way to discover how much of a challenge you can really take.īut the F2 series, which can be run with last year’s drivers and teams in a single-season campaign, is a great test bed. It’s hard to benchmark what the best difficulty is for a driver of my middling talents when I’m supposed to be blown away by Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas. That’s where the intrigue of Career mode’s long game, developing and building up a car, is so much fun and so rewarding. This is key, because part of F1’s realism is that certain teams simply have no chance at qualifying in the top 10, much less finishing on a podium. (The liveries are also more appealing to my inner hipster.) But adjusting the game’s opposing driver AI (which runs up to 110) leaves me swinging from I-shouldn’t-be-able-to-do-that success to why-am-I-bothering setbacks.
Like many armchair drivers, I join one of the lower-tier racing teams when I start, because it seems more engaging to the emerging narrative that the mode supports. See, one of the worst feelings I usually get in my standard F1 career is that I’m performing unrealistically, whether good or bad. This way, I can understand what the upper limit is of an opposing AI challenge where I still reasonably have a chance to win.įerrari’s Sebastian Vettel, leading the pack at Bahrain. The focus is squarely on driver skill determining a race, in other words. This covers structural features and the type of tires and the amount of fuel carried, removing the construction arms race that determines half the field before a race is even run, and eliminating strategic tire changes and fuel management. But for midlevel racers, gamepad drivers, and all-around tinkerers - and I’m all three - F2 racing is a great calibration tool for making sure I am properly and realistically getting my ass kicked in the early going of my F1 career.į2 is a spec racing series, meaning everything about the cars is standardized across the field. It’s true that the feeder series only cosmetically figures into F1 2019’s robust-as-ever career mode. The appearance of Formula Two racing in F1’s game for the first time is the series’ big addition this year, and it spotlights what I mean.
By “right” I mean “realistically,” and by that I mean more than just accurate track layouts and impressively complex vehicle physics.
F1 2019 is the perfect video game for players who really enjoy motorsports gaming’s richest payoff: not only feeling like you’ve done something well, but feeling like you’ve done it right.
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