So I drove these last night when I got home and I have to say, the work from Reiza is great. Anyone thinking of getting the pack, or wondering what the cars are all about, I've created this video below where I've given them all a short drive. Video is time stamped so as not to force you to watch and skip the whole way through etc. Enjoy, these cars are a blast.
The L98T feels and sounds great. At least if you turn up the engine sound I think I have found a new favorite. Sorry F-Reiza
Just finished test driving all of them a little earlier today, and I concur: They are a blast! The McLarens are all great - the MP4/4 just seems perfectly balanced, the MP4/5b feels heavier and more brutal, and also probably has the most insane sounding engine out of most if not all formula cars, and the MP4/6 is great fun as well. The Lotus 98T is another absolutely amazing and fun ride! A great addition to the other turbo monsters. Possibly my favorite in the F-Classic G1 class. Lust but not least, I am somewhat disappointed by the Brabhams for now. Though I admit I will need to spend more time both with the BT49 as well as the BT52. The BT49 seems sort of... okay-ish? But not that special or exciting, at least with the default setup. The BT52 has that amazing engine sound - whoa! - but when I took it for a spin around Brands Hatch GP I was really struggling to get comfortable with it. You can definitely feel the rather extreme rear bias of its mass (more than 67% in the rear, as opposed to 60/40 in the generic models and ~58/42 for the McLaren MP4/1C), and it feels sluggish into and through the turns to me, on top of having what feels like no brakes at all (but maybe mine weren't really up to temperature yet). And that turbo lag... My goodness, I know I should not have been surprised, this being a small 4-cylinder engine with an early era turbo and all, but it pulls like a tractor - slow but steady - and then suddenly turns on the solid-fuel rocket booster when you least expect and off we gooo to the mooon! But yeah, overall this is a great DLC, not just if you're a fan of the teams and drivers, but also if you just enjoy formula cars in general. And speaking of Formula cars - I *really* hope we'll see the F-Vintage classes (particularly the Gen 1) as well as all modern Formula classes more fleshed out in the future; the differences between different cars may not be as huge as it used to be in past decades, but I'd still love to see several models with slightly different stats and appearances in F-Reiza, F-Ultimate and others, even if the general concept is the same.
