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Hello kids, today I'm gonna show you how to play F1 Online: The Game without actually playing it.
First, go to the Official F1 mode
Second, turn on the Brake Assist
Let's enter a race to demonstrate the strategy.
I'm gonna pick one of my favourite drivers, Narain Karthikeyan
Okay, so, here's the plan. Place the cursor in the middle of the screen, and hold throttle.
The Brake Assist will take care of braking so you don't have to do anything.
It cannot be simpler. You can play without having to do anything.
It's gonna take a while till the lobby finishes and the game loads, so let's talk a bit about the game.
F1 Online: The Game is the official F1 browser game developed by Codemasters who also did the latest official F1 PC games,
as well as a couple of nice racing simulations in the past - such as Colin McRae Rally. Does anybody still remember that?
Anyway, in this game you build a team - you build buildings that unlock components that you use to build your car.
Then you can go and compete against other players in the car you've built, or go into the Official mode and drive a licensed F1 car.
Being a small arcade game, this game is addictive enough to have taken some 100 hours of my summer.
There are few funny parts about the game. For example the name. I lose whenever I see it.
Another hilarious thing is the controls. As I'm going to demonstrate.
Wohoo! The game has finally loaded.
Let's go!
I'm gonna use KERS down the long straight.
Out of the way you fool! I'm not allowed to steerl. I ran into the back of the Lotus and it slowed me down :\
Let's tackle the corner.
Ha! Somebody reset. I'm not even last lol.
The Brake Assist makes me horribly slow in this part of track.
Oh snap! I reset. The cursor was not perfectly in the middle of the screen. Let's nudge it a bit.
Oh come on.
Finally through.
Onto the grass a bit. The method is not perfect ;)
It looked as if I'm gonna reset at this corner, but I emerged safe. The rest of the race shouldn't require my assistance.
Wroooom!
Perfect.
As you can see, the game is... (not) really challenging. You can drive around like this without actually driving around.
Of course this method is really slow.
Even though I just made a 16 seconds better time than on the first lap where I reset multiple times,
I'm gonna be more that 10 seconds off pace of the other players who drive seriously.
As you can see, it's too slow. I'm not gonna reach the finish in time. There's not much more to do in a HRT anyway.
Oh noes! I'm in the green. They're ruining my great lap ;)
So, that's it.
I did not reach the race target :(
I hope you enjoyed this video. Peace.