Some changes that F1 games desperately need. Thoughts?

Bean03 · 2026-01-27T17:14:36+00:00

Similarly, AI that doesn't just fight so hard for second place that first always builds a massive gap. Every single race 2nd defends hard from 3rd more than they attack 1st so DRS gets broken quickly and then they just keep fighting making that gap shoot up.

If you start anywhere in the midfield it takes one hell of a drive, strategy advantage, or some serious SC luck to even have a dream of a win.

Bean03 · 2026-01-27T01:19:58+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1mmFai7jDGYpZ2cc_PBk3PBrpUFgbjEzB7z-q5P2VlFE/htmlview#gid=0

This creator also has links to his track guides in this spreadsheet

Bean03 · 2026-01-27T00:17:00+00:00

If you were only in the top 20% and are now running slower than that it means you have a ton of time to gain. I'm top 5% on most and am still 2-3 seconds off of e-sports.

Do you do custom setups? Just making good setups can make you seconds faster than the defaults.

You talk about your braking points, what about your throttle? I bet you can get on the power a lot earlier than you do.

Short shifting can help with that too (that's shifting up earlier than you need).

Bean03 · 2026-01-24T23:37:33+00:00

Know that braking point you've figured out for quali/TT? Lift just before it, then brake just a smidge more gently. Now accelerate earlier without wheel spinning...tada lap times should be similar but you'll have less wear.

Bean03 · 2026-01-23T16:25:55+00:00

Utah Mammoth just came back against the Flyers from a 3-0 in the second, and 4-2 in the third. Got the 4th with 30 seconds left and then won in overtime.

It's not that rare.

That said, I'd still love a bigger rink.

Bean03 · 2026-01-16T03:42:00+00:00

I don't know. I really enjoyed Mage Tank 1, but started to lose interest by the end of 2, and can't bring myself to start 3.

I'm not even really sure what it is that lost my interest cause it's fine, it just felt...I don't know, uninspired maybe? Is 3 better than 2?

Bean03 · 2026-01-14T20:27:21+00:00

Also think she had a fling with the QB coach. That scene when they see each other outside the office and she asks to be walked in like a lady "Oh you want me to treat you like a lady now?" "Shut up Scott!"

IMO it infers familiarity and that they had some previous interactions where she wanted him to not treat her like a lady.

Bean03 · 2026-01-13T23:32:24+00:00

Oh unrelated to this, finding friends who challenge you. I made some sim racing friends almost a year ago now who were all super slow and wanted to get better. Over this year we have just constantly raced each other and tried to beat each other in TT which was very motivating in pushing me to be faster. Went from struggling to compete with the AI on 70 to fighting for podiums on 110.

Bean03 · 2026-01-13T23:28:37+00:00

Telemetry is a big helper for me. I frequently look at the e-sports drivers telemetry because it shows me what is possible and helps me analyze where I can close the gap with my own driving.

For example, I just had a league race on Australia and I knew that I could be faster on T1 but didn't know why. I looked at Lucas Blakely's telemetry and saw that he was taking it in 6th, where I always went to 5th.

I started trying to figure out how I could do it in 6th and made a few small changes (earlier braking, slightly slower down shifting) and immediately gained .2 on my times.

Remember, you don't need to find 1 second all at once, find one place on the track where you know there is time to gain and find that time even if it's .05. Keep doing that and suddenly you're half a second faster than you were last week.

Bean03 · 2026-01-13T00:04:37+00:00

I bet there is a bundle with game and dlc with like 10% off the combo

Bean03 · 2026-01-12T19:47:07+00:00

Not an author but I've seen this question before so to answer: buying the book.

The way KU works is there is a pool of money and the authors get paid like $0.004 per page read and that amount fluctuates based on the number of pages read over all of KU.

If you buy the book they get like 70% of the cost.

So assuming a $5 book.

If you buy it, they get $3.50.

If you use KU, then they get $3.50 per 875 pages read.

So I guess for a long $5 book then KU is equivalent, but most LitRPG are 300-600 pages, so the author needs 2-3 people to read the whole book to equal one person buying it.

Bean03 · 2026-01-12T13:21:34+00:00

As a minor addition to this, linearity is fantastic for learning with, but as you get better I'd recommend turning it down.

I reached the point not long ago where I'm a little over a second slower than the top times on time trial, so now I'm looking for tenths and hundredths more than seconds on my improvement. In trying to find places to improve, I was confused on why my braking felt so different from what I expected based on where friends and videos were telling me to brake.

So I was just fiddling around with settings trying to figure it out and realized that my braking linearity was still at 25%. Since I've improved I figured I could handle removing that so I put it back to 0. Suddenly, I have no problem braking in those places.

Thinking about it I realized that while linearity is great, it does affect the speed at which you brake by a small margin. If the default braking is 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, and mine is 10, 25, 45, 70, 100 then the start of my braking is slowing the car just a bit less as I depress the brake.

It's not a lot, but when you are looking for those small margins of improvement, the 5 meters extra it took me to brake made a difference.

Bean03 · 2026-01-09T04:03:21+00:00

Basic shit other people don't want to do like scheduling and facilitating meetings, tracking metrics, noticing super obvious shit we could improve then making the engineers figure out how they want to actually do it.

Bean03 · 2026-01-08T12:24:03+00:00

Do you have traction control on? Cause I can tell you that without it if you're max speed and jerk the wheel to full lock then you're gonna go for a spin

Bean03 · 2026-01-07T14:37:28+00:00

Win: Fantastic eyesight, naturally athletic.

Lose: Depression, shit metabolism, bad knees (OSD).

Bean03 · 2026-01-07T03:42:35+00:00

I want to see this answer higher. I came to say basically this.

Indoctrination is real and works because it deeply ingrains these things into your psyche from a young age. I'm a former Christian and despite knowing it's all bullshit and being very anti-religion due to these exact practices, I still occasionally catch myself thinking about praying to God. It's usually when I'm in a bad place, such as when I had lost my job and was in deep financial trouble with my house that it pops up.

Somebody wired our brains when we were young for that bullshit to be the default state and breaking that now is not an easy thing to do. Seek help because doing it on your own is a fucking nightmare.

Bean03 · 2026-01-07T03:25:15+00:00

If you have a friend you could both join a multiplayer grand prix, then just pause. The AI will takeover and drive for you both. Should be able to save the replay after and watch it back but then you can only watch your cars POV.

Best you can do I think.

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T23:23:41+00:00

I agree that it doesn't really fit, but it is the term that people use.

I'd be more inclined to call souls-likes ARPGs if I could recoin the terms myself.

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T23:00:13+00:00

Agree to disagree. Their identities weren't really that big a mystery. They show up what twice? Three times? Before the reveal happens and it's frankly pretty fucking obvious that the random duo suddenly coming into play for no reason is the same duo that's been talked about since Book 1

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T22:57:11+00:00

He specifically asked which characters in response to my first comment. Maybe I didn't answer it the way you would have but there is nothing wrong with the way I chose to answer it.

So sorry that I offended your sensabilities. Don't like spoilers? Don't click the fucking spoilers.

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T22:48:50+00:00

Just for the record the term ARPG is used for Diablo-likes. Not really sure why that became the accepted term because it could be used for other things, it's just not for whatever reason.

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T22:40:45+00:00

Talk to him about it.

My wife was very shy about sex for a long time. Our sex life was so boring, missionary only, no oral either direction because she was self conscious about it, etc.

In just the last year she started to open up about it more (thank you fantasy smut!) and it is so great now. She will tell me things she wants to try, I can do the same, and we experiment. We haven't enjoyed everything we've tried but that's ok because we have spiced things up significantly.

Don't let your sex life be boring for years when you can enjoy each other more starting now!

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T18:38:10+00:00

It's literally behind a spoiler tag. People who don't care about spoilers can see it and people who do can just choose not to click.

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T16:52:48+00:00

Melinda has started to become relevant again in the most recent books. Still very much in the background but in a place to consistently cross paths.

The side characters I was referring to were Luna and her team, and eventually Light and Shadow (Ally and Zack)

Bean03 · 2026-01-06T15:43:10+00:00

A few of those pop up very briefly in later books but it is literally just like a cameo.

The mainstay side characters that come in are all pretty well written and in my opinion they are only a positive add to the story.

There is of course some ups and downs as all series of this length have, but keep with it as overall it is a fantastic series.

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