I downloaded and started playing FM6 Apex on Saturday. The system I’m playing it on has an Intel i7 gen 7 processor over-clocked to 3.8Ghz, 16GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GTX 970 with 4GB.
My first impressions are positive. The program installed fine and appears to have detected my systems settings correctly. I was able to run the first race with the Ford GT and everything went smoothly. I got message that I had earned a new badge. I forget the name of it but it was the one for completing the first race.
I continued to do a few of the career races. I turn offed some of the assists and increased the drivatar setting. I also changed the setting to make the drivatars less aggressive. I think I’ve completed the first 5 races. I’m guessing I’ve played between 2 and 3 hours and haven’t checked everything out.
I noticed something at the race as Yas Marina. I took one of the corners too wide and went off the normal driving area. I noticed when I was in this area the car didn’t drive smoothly and was a little harder to accelerate. I don’t remember that being the case in FM6. In FM6 I thought the car behaved like it was on normal pavement in the same area. I like what happened in Apex. It was enough of a penalty that I didn’t want to do it again but not such a large penalty that I was out of the race.
I love the sound of the Lamborghini Huracan. The sounds in Apex seem richer than they do in the XBox version.
The control of the cars seemed to match well when compared to the XBox version. It was easy make the transition.
There are some minor issues.
The game froze once for about 5 seconds. I thought it was completely frozen but then it started again. That was the biggest issue and I’m not worried about it. The computer may have had something interrupt it.
A message pops up when you earn a badge but not when you get an achievement. The achievement does appear in the rewards after a while.
I can’t earn the badge for reaching tier 1 even though I’m tier 9 or is it because I’m tier 9? This badge problem has been around a while. I’m unsure of problems before FM5 but since FM5 the badge issues rarely get fixed. You would think this should be relatively easy but I think the game only checks for the tier badge when you gain a tier. Since I’m at the maximum tier, I will never get it. It would seem to be a better idea to check this every time you loaded the game.
The game isn’t fully implement. Since this is a beta and was I free I can’t complain. I will say the game has a lot of potential.