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SomaticCoast375
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4 years ago

Make DRS less powerful in F1 22

In real life the drivers can take 10’s of laps to overtake a similar pace car with DRS. In the game 80-90% you only need 1 or 2 attempts.The only way to defend against a similar pace car is to drain all your ERS on the straights which will only for work 1-4 laps depending on the track until your ERS has ran out

Drs being so powerful makes you have to be a lot faster than the car behind car behind to break the DRS since they will gain 7-9 tenths on every straight. The car behind also saves up so much ERS making it impossible to break away from any car that is close to your level without a mistake being made.

In Real life we see DRS trains of cars not being able to overtake the slower car even with DRS. In the game we see DRS trains on 60% of tracks where the faster car can’t break away due to the DRS dragging the slower car towards them.

F1 22 needs to make DRS less powerful and also not make ERS drain as easily especially since there’s no none or low mode like we had in previous games. 

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  • Meza994's avatar
    Meza994
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    4 years ago
    @SomaticCoast375 Sorry but you cant claim things just like that.

    In F1 we still got worse dirty air than in the game.
    In F1 the trains most often are trailing cars with good top speed. Good top speed makes it harder to overtake.
    In the game cars can stay more easily with a faster car due to less dirty air.
    DRS is pretty much spot on ingame, ERS was draining a bit much on the preview build but that can change, shouldnt be too much though as we had too much of it in 2021 on many tracks..
    Your setup also plays a major role in how easily they overtake you with DRS.. Especially in 2020 and before the AI rarely went with more aero than the player and therefore had higher top speed. When you go with more aero for better laptimes you will be slow on the straight though which is the reason that teams sometimes not go for the fastest setup but for a setup that wont make them an easy target on the straights.
  • SomaticCoast375's avatar
    SomaticCoast375
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    4 years ago

    In the game you can overtake a car with lower wings pretty easily on a straight unless it’s short straights 

  • Meza994's avatar
    Meza994
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    4 years ago
    @SomaticCoast375 Referring to AI? Multiplayer? Of course you can overtake, again the dirty air is a third of real life dirty air in length and intensity.. You cant compare the overtaking difficulty between game and life.
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    Meza994
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    4 years ago
    @SomaticCoast375 The game is meant to be fun. If it was 100% realistic in multiplayer with equal cars you wouldnt be able to overtake at all in most cases due to the dirty air keeping you from getting within even 2 seconds. Im sorry you dont like the approach of Codemasters but its the best for the majority of players
  • SomaticCoast375's avatar
    SomaticCoast375
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    4 years ago

    @Meza994irl they can follow closely within a second. They just find it harder to overtake which would make game much better and still fun 

    The majority of multiplayer players would find making it more realistic much better. Career mode players I can see find the current approach better

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    Meza994
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    4 years ago
    @SomaticCoast375 They only follow closely when they are much quicker.. Hamilton himself said last year for Brazil you need to be over 1s faster to overtake. They mean by that to get close enough for DRS and slipstream to have a big effect, most couldnt even stay close when only 0.1-0.3 faster.

    I think its exactly the opposite, multiplayer guys want to race each other, which is not happening a lot if you go for realistic dirty air.

    Anyway we wont find consens here, dirty air is the same in F1 22 as in 2021 from what i heard and DRS will be like it is IRL (like it was in 2021) and everything else i up to Codemasters
  • SomaticCoast375's avatar
    SomaticCoast375
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    4 years ago

    @Meza994 The 22 cars are very different to the 21 cars. The 22 cars are easily able to follow cars as shown in the races so far this year and the drivers have also said they can follow very easily 

    The multiplayer guys want better racing instead of a push to pass button which drs is made in the game. In a lot of races where there’s a lot of good drivers together no one can be bothered to overtake until the last lap because they would just get overtaken again by the drs after the pass. This happens in f5 laps races 25%, 50% and 100% races. So that’s a wide range of players

  • Meza994's avatar
    Meza994
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    4 years ago
    @SomaticCoast375 Drivers say its easier.. Of course with likely less than half the dirty air of 2021😂

    Again you dont understand what the real problem is in the 2021 game.. DRS is realistic, the rest isnt.. You want them to make DRS completely unrealistic in F1 22? That wont happen😂

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