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At full length, the gaps in the field really expand, such that making an additional stop but using softer (faster) tires is a viable strategy with a stronger car (thus neutralizing a fewer-stops advantage for the strivers). Then the treads: I rarely paid much attention to tire wear or their temperature at half-distance or less, and with one of the backmarker teams I could easily snipe a points finish making just one pit stop if I qualified 11th through 15th.
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At full length, even a full tank isn’t enough to get the car through the Spanish Grand Prix in standard fuel mode you’ll have to race lean for several laps to get yourself back on target, and that dictates a lot of the strategy before the first pit stop - both for the human driver and the AI. At shorter distances, fuel management is even less of a concern.
For example, in a half-distance race, I can overfuel the car at a very, very modest cost in time, but have plenty of gas to fend off challenges and make unlikely overtakes in rich fuel mode. With more laps, there will be more scope for mistakes and overtakes, all these things go together to mix things up further.” Screw you, Romain. Over the longer runs you’ll really experience the detail in the way the tires wear.
“However, the much wider window for things to change and evolve will always create more varied outcomes. “In theory, playing a 50 percent race distance compared to a 100 percent distance should give the same experience, as we scale all our elements,” Lee Mather, the game’s director, told me via email. And, as I’ve said repeatedly, the sports video game that helps fans understand or relate to the sport better is the one that is really doing its job well. But racing full length has deepened my understanding of the sport, particularly in how the car’s systems and tires are managed. That’s a lot on a gamepad, especially if you’re taking Monaco’s inscrutable Hotel hairpin 78 times. It’s a lot to ask - you’re talking about 90 minutes, roughly, for one race (although the ability to pause certainly helps).
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Codemasters’ F1 series is the rare sports title that gets better when you play it in real time - and that includes baseball, which has no clock, and where most MLB The Show devotees play only portions of games in the career. And 90 minutes of FIFA 20 would produce a score more resembling American football.īut a full, Formula One race weekend - three practices, three rounds of qualifying, full race distance - has been my most engrossing and immersive sports video game experience of the year, hands down. NBA 2K20 with 12 minute quarters would make Paul Westhead’s Denver Nuggets look like a church league team. If I played Madden NFL 20 with regulation, 15-minute quarters, I’d probably pass for 500 yards per game.
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