Please can an admin (developer) say what snow means because there is no answer or confirmation that it has been changed. This is important as races can be ruined because nobody has been given full confirmation about what snow count's as (light rain, heavy rain or dry)
I'm very annoyed about this, if this was a bug, then I could understand and wouldn't be annoyed as I know this is a new game, however, this is incompetence.
This won't be an issue after the Q1 patch, when there will be no more snow or vague condition names, only dry, rain, heavy rain etc.
As for now, it sounds like it is a bug. Andrew has already stated it is treated as rain, and that is correct. Though it sounds like (if they are wearing at -20 per lap) that it is behaving as if it is dry weather. This could mean that the simulator weather icon or reading of conditions is misbehaving. I have sent this thread to Andrew to take a second look at.
The weather is a joke on all accounts. It makes racing a lottery. Why can't you implement a GPRO-based weather system ? This persistance is just beyond my understanding. It creates a lot of problems and no benefits.
It should just override the snow weather with 'rain' weather (if that's easily possible), until something better is implemented. Afaik it's already done in the back-end (with simulating the race), but for the user it just shows as 'snow', which is pretty confusing indeed.
Look, I am not stupid, I checked forums when I saw snow. But I got conflicting information. On one side, Andrew said it should be threatened as rain, although he didn't said light rain or normal rain. But people also complained they got -20 tire usage per lap when using full wets. So, since it's a lottery and I am terrible with luck, I just am furious it all comes down to luck, due to some unresolved bugs. Sorry, I am very furious at the moment, although I realize it's just a game. It's just I put passion and wouldn't want my effort to flush by some randomness.
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I'm sure the developers mean well with this kind of "realistic" weather, but it's not "that" realistic in real world. F1 cars don't race at -18 degs, on snow, etc. Something must be done, something to smoothen the situation when it's too drastic.
Ok,what is onetostick to..... Yesterdayin this race,https://igpmanager.com/play/?url=race-live/19814/2d,hadlightsnow,butthey droveon softtires, inttirecould not keep upwith soft, so the trackmustbedry andnot wet.justsowe understand whatis right... wetinsnowordry insnow...?? :)
Hmm. Snow...do we get spikes tires. I didn't see any snow race in F1. OK, the weather with lower than 10 Grades is also unrealistic ,but what this mean for the tires is another way. I like, how it is impmented here ;).
They raced on lower temps than 10 degs in F1, but certainly not negative. Especially testing earlier in the season suffer from low temps, but I do remember one race in Germany, when they had really low temps (still positive though, but not by much).
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There actually have been cases of racing in snowy conditions in F1. At least once.