In case you’re not a hardcore racing fan, chances are you’ll not have been conscious that this yr’s F1 vehicles have seen vital redesigns to adjust to the most recent laws for the racing class. Certainly, each crew’s vehicles look and carry out fairly in a different way this yr, and which means large modifications for Codemasters‘ newest entry in its aptly-named simulation collection, F1 2022.
Moreover the updates to all of the automobile fashions for the brand new real-life designs, F1 22 features a bunch of different new and up to date content material. Miami Worldwide Autodrome joins the observe listing, whereas Circuit de Barcelona, Melbourne Grand Prix, and Yas Marina Circuits all obtained up to date to match the present real-world layouts. There is a new F1 Dash mode, and this yr’s revision additionally provides an Immersive characteristic that, amongst different issues, enables you to utterly management your automobile throughout Security Automotive durations.
F1 22 expands on the sport’s options outdoors of the core of F1 racing simulation, too. You possibly can customise your driver and even your dwelling house, together with informal clothes, furnishings, lighting, and a private automobile. You can too take these supercars onto the tracks in a particular “Pirelli Scorching Laps” mode.
F1 22 continues the custom, so this is a preview of Dave’s upcoming evaluate that employs the brand new racing sim for his gaming system benchmarks:
A lot of the efficiency distinction may be chalked as much as the higher-detail vehicles and environments in addition to just a few improved ray-traced results. Certainly, the ray-tracing places the harm on our take a look at system’s Radeon RX 6950 XT, which skirts the border of playability in native 4K. The sport reasonably proudly helps NVIDIA’s DLSS; hopefully somebody can persuade Codemasters to drop in AMD’s FSR 2.0 upscaling as effectively—supposedly, it solely takes 5 minutes.
You possibly can seize F1 2022 on Steam for the same old $60.