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moogleslam's avatar
moogleslam
New Scout
4 years ago

Two Remaining Questions: Equal Cars & Force Cockpit?

For years, I've been waiting for 3 huge items to be addressed before buying this game again.

The first is VR support.  Great to see we're getting that.

The other two are League focused issues. 

  1. Will we be able to use the Equal car setting in single player with any car?  This is key for practicing in your assigned car for leagues.
  2. Will we get an option to force cockpit for online races?  Alternate views offer a huge/unfair advantage.

Note I said league, and not multiplayer in general.  I want these to be options, and not mandatory for all online races.  I know not everyone wants to be racing in cockpit view.

Thanks!

EDIT:  Found out thanks to a reply on the youtube announcement video that Equal Cars in single player is already in the game!

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5 Replies

  • CAPTAIN_1RAFAEL's avatar
    CAPTAIN_1RAFAEL
    New Traveler
    4 years ago

    When you saying force cockpit , do you mean cockpit camera only ?
    Very surprised with that part as most of the F1 esports world only use tv pod 

  • moogleslam's avatar
    moogleslam
    New Scout
    4 years ago

    Yes, cockpit camera only, like all sims do; iRacing for instance. 

    If any esport is using a tv pod camera, that's a bit of a joke.  No drivers eyes are where the tv pod is.  It's a huge advantage vs cockpit.

    I used to own/run a website that hosted, probably a few hundred F1 201x championships, across all parts of the world and on all formats, and the camera was always a huge point of contention for drivers because of the advantages that certain cameras provided.

  • Alastre's avatar
    Alastre
    New Traveler
    4 years ago
    @moogleslam totally agree. I'm used to play like this with TrackIR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-YoFx-dcrc

    and could never use Pod Tv like pro driver does. Infact it gives you a quite big advantage with the fov and you can see a lot around you (barking points, etc).


    @CAPTAIN_1RAFAEL I see your point, but in that case even the VR would be a no sense, as majority of F1 players use the Pod Tv...Vr make sense only in cockpit mode...
  • Ultrasonic_77's avatar
    Ultrasonic_77
    Hero
    4 years ago

    Cockpit cam makes far more sense with VR than on a TV/monitor. For the latter an in-game cockpit view is more challenging that real life due to the lack of stereoscopic vision for depth perception. The use of the T-cam view is partially to compensate for this, although I suspect it probably does go further into making it a bit easier to spot apexes etc. 

    I'd agree that a feature to ensure all drivers in a race are using cockpit cam would be a good addition for those who want this. 

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