David Greco's Handling, Driving and Setup Q&A (?)

First thoughts after having played F1 22 for 3 hours.

I feel like the traction is much better, as if I was using TC assist, which kind of surprised me, considering that there was talk of how tricky it is to manage throttle. In contrast, driving in the wet is really a challenge so far, requiring a gentle approach to throttle application, which is nice.

No lock ups whatsoever. Even when I outbraked myself, my front tyres hadn't dropped off the grip.

Slow-speed corners are no issue for me.

In high-speed corners, I feel like if you miss the apex or turn at the wrong time, you get a massive understeer effect. However, once the car has downforce, it is generally glued to the track.

So far, it seems like the car's behaviour is more predictable.

https://youtu.be/SDVs4YpW-QU?t=457

@Blackbird90 then you nailed it! I have opposite feelings, finding it very hard to traction out or corners and to brake like i did in 2020 and 2021 iteractions. This morning I went back to medium TC out of frustration but I am very slowly adjusting now.

@DavidG53 Physics seems to have taken steps as a giant but still seeing that you make a curve with 4 and 5 gears when they actually use the second is to be fixed please. It's the voice control from the ps5 headphones for over a year doesn't work.

I agree. I was expecting a car that was hard to control in the traction zone. But it is actually comparable with 2020 which is good. I was expecting a crazy amount of understeer too but it's not the case. I've only used the presets so far and haven't struggled with understeer so with custom setups these cars can definitely rotate a lot.

I love the autoloaded presets and the fact that (I suppose) the AI uses them too. I hated when we were running 11-11 at Monaco against the AI that was using 6-6. And the opposite on fast tracks where you could blow past them....

I feel like presets are finally what they should be. A F1 version of ACC's safe setups...

After some more laps I am getting adjusted to it, maybe I'm very sensitive to the setup. In Bahrain I was struggling with preset 4 but flying in Jeddah with preset 3 (balanced) and minimal tweaks. Now that I'm getting adjusted to it I can feel the huge step forward of the handling. Also I like that if you set the hard compound you can't push right away but you have to expect lockups and at least 1 lap to warm up the tyres. AI is still less affected from it than the player I guess

They're doing psgl live can't see the whole track 4 5 6 7march with crazy times... does that sound like normal? 

@Nellix82 well, there is an update that will come with the performance update that will make the torque/power at low rpm substantially less than it is now, so it should benefit running lower gears. probably not second but 3rd, max 4th yes. 5th should be too high for low speed corners with this update. I am afraid that after this, we won't be doing any more tweaks to general/base physics/handling.

Any updates coming for Controller handling? There is a massive struggle in change of direction for pad players, 2021 steering felt very smooth, I understand the cars have changed their heavy so they will be slow in slow corners but i dont think the handling should be as choppy as it is right now for pad players.

@DavidG53     Hi! Will there be a guide on what assists should be turned off and whether you will make a comparison of the times from the steering wheel and it is raining on the game F1 22