Hotlap and overtake
I still believe that both should still remain available during qualifying, however should hotlap be available during the race? I feel like it's absurd the fact that we can just run hotlap pretty mu...
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@TomasSlb24 The problem with why you can run hotlap during the race so much is BECAUSE ERS harvests too much, if the energy recovery would be lower then youd struggle to run hotlap for 2-3 laps
@Meza994 Yes I agree, the energy recovery is too high. Just by comparing to past games the first season were always a lot more hard to recover the energy.
It's weird that we now get the None ERS deployment mode, but we never need to use it because we easily recover it. That's why I ask if Hotlap should just be removed, and we get only None, Medium and Overtake, but with less recovery so you get penalized for using too much Overtake.
It's weird that we now get the None ERS deployment mode, but we never need to use it because we easily recover it. That's why I ask if Hotlap should just be removed, and we get only None, Medium and Overtake, but with less recovery so you get penalized for using too much Overtake.
- @TomasSlb24 Afaik its forbidden to use none in the races - might be false info though. So that mode can be scrapped. Personally i like to have the option to just chuck it into Hotlap mode - when its not letting you do it every lap - like when you are doing an inlap for an overcut or such, concentrating on the driving not having to think about overtake and such situations
I cant use hotlap every lap if I want to use overtake as well otherwise battery is empty. I tend to run medium in the race with good amount of overtake. Medium is tuned for better traction as well. Hotlap i mainly use in qualy sometimes on longer straights in the race to avoid the clipping that medium does at high speed
I want to use medium during the race too, but the only way I can hold to the AI in the straights seems to be by only using hotlap. Like @Meza994 said, hotlap is indeed a good use for inlaps or outlaps for undercut or overcut, but than it's impossible to keep up with the AI. The recovery is broken and need's to be looked into. The way ERS worked before was way more balanced.
@Meza994 wrote:
@TomasSlb24Afaik its forbidden to use none in the races - might be false info though. So that mode can be scrapped. Personally i like to have the option to just chuck it into Hotlap mode - when its not letting you do it every lap - like when you are doing an inlap for an overcut or such, concentrating on the driving not having to think about overtake and such situationsUnfortunately I don't remember the exact race, but in one race Hamilton was about to set the fastest lap, while Alonso was the car behind, who in turn told his race engineer that Hamilton was using mode charge or strat 1, which is indicated by a certain pattern of flashing signals on the rear of the car. Either Alonso misunderstood those signals, or there's something else going on, like Hamilton's gap to the other car,allowed to use NO ERS in such a rare scenario.
- @Blackbird90 Id think it was just a mode that was cutting off deployment earlier thus the flashing lights, but completely no deployment for the whole lap shouldnt be allowed? I could be 100% wrong on this, have to dig up the regulations tomorrow!
