F1 2017 Worth buy it at day one?

[Giovaneveterano]

I always appreciate the Codemasters' F1 series, I spent a lot of my free time there, but I'm not a huge fan of this type of "arcadish" games.
I already have F1 2016 and that was a great game!

Is F1 2017 a must buy right this Friday at full price? (55€ on PC) or it's better to wait some time (how much? Months?) to buy it on sale?
The FFB and car handling (compared to 2016) can make the difference in my choice.

Let me know what you think about it and what you'll do this year.
Cheers

 

[Graham Laing]

What I didn't like:

• Max fuel allowed per race is wrong: 100% race is 100kg, so at 50% and 25% races should be 50kg and 25kg, instead in 50% races you can put as much fuel as you want and the same do the AI.

I am assuming here that this is actually correct and as it should be.

1. You always start with 100% fuel
2. @50% you burn it twice as fast
3. @ 25% you burn it four times as fast

The same goes for tyre wear and component wear (ignoring the apparent 25% race component wear bug). This means that every race starts (no matter what length) with full fuel, and the weight and the effects of that weight will be more or less the same at any given point in the race.

So at lap 32 in a 64 lap 100% race, the car will be carrying the same amount of fuel, and have the same amount of wear & tear as :-

Lap 16 out of 32 in a 50% race, and Lap 8 out of 16 of a 25% race

 

[Giovaneveterano]

I am assuming here that this is actually correct and as it should be.

In 50% races you can actually put more than 50kg of fuel (63.7 in the picture below), but the fuel burns 1x fast.
This should be fixed as fuel management has a key role in modern F1 and not everyone have the time to play a 100% career mode

 

[Graham Laing]

In 50% races you can actually put more than 50kg of fuel (63.7 in the picture below), but the fuel burns 1x fast.
This should be fixed as fuel management has a key role in modern F1 and not everyone have the time to play a 100% career mode
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Ah OK ........ I guess they've changed the game a bit, approaching the fuel simulation from a different angle.