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cloudninetonine · 1 year

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*insert generic and totally not awkward greeting here* Hey there, how have you been doing? Hopefully you’ve been doing well cause I haven’t and I’d like for someone to have a good day around here as a result.

Something something, warning for long ask, and briefly tossing my hat onto the Corrupted/Error Player here, the first time Player gets turned and when they’re killed (or maybe kill themselves if they snap out of it so they won’t hurt the Chain, the angst possibilities are endless), they scream like this (Possible Spoilers for Portal 2 if you haven’t seen it, even if it’s just an audio file)

https://youtu.be/aLB6irPFTRY

I feel like it would be fitting, plus they probably twitch a lot and move either mechanically from time to time or too smooth, like that uncanny valley of movement of something that seemingly moves normally, but there is something fundamentally off about it, or like those times when it looks like your game freezes due to FPS drops, you know like when your character movement is slowed down or sped up so it’s delayed? Something like that.

Also I just realized I haven’t explained how the Azura deal would probably look like in a Songstress Au if Player suffered the consequences for singing magical songs, so I thought I’d just show you here if you don’t mind spoilers, I feel like it would be like this:

https://youtu.be/NwNBPOBcptI

(Skip to 07:46 and stop at 08:27 to avoid spoilers from the other routes and game on the second link)

https://youtu.be/oIfYKm_vSfQ

Make the energy be like Malice or just corruption in general and you got a lovely recipe for angst, and the Chain doing their hardest to keep Songstress Player from singing too much.

I was honestly not expecting to have Lora shipped with Player after like three asks but honestly I’m chill with this outcome, I just hope Hyrule and Wild won’t murder my boy too much XD (I say, as I drop more content that will probably make him get murdered by them, but in all seriousness I’m glad you like the content, and yeah it’s cool if you want to use my stuff for Seraph or the Gerudo, just credit me for it yeah? One of these days I’ll probably reveal my Tumblr here so you can credit me there too or I can share with ya later if you want, I have way too many thoughts and theories about Seraph/Fia and am always ready to screech them to the world as well as general Zelda knowledge XD, but for now just credit the thoughts that are mine under Very Awkward Anon or VA)

Something something, Player and Lora reenacting this, either of these versions work:

https://youtu.be/0nkOCXtJtCA

https://youtu.be/ZUCxkflNJiM

On one hand, Dominant Player (Aka to the Chain ‘Hope this Doesn’t Awaken Anything in Me’/ “Oh.” Moment on both opposites of the spectrum, because that is when they realize that Player can sweep them off their feet in pure protag fashion), on the other hand “By Hylia I wish that were me”/”Lora you sly dog-“ Lora, who is literally just acting in character and probably doesn’t think too hard about it in the moment: “I haven’t done anything though? It’s for the role and they’re chill with it???” only to have the Realization later and just, screams into his hat after a while, or, plot twist, it’s not Lora but actually Octavo after one too many times seeing the Chain simp for Player and needled into it by both Cadence and Operetta (How I call Lora’s Zelda) and decided to take one for the team and also because he fits better as an antagonist protag than Lora and I headcanon both him and Lora have perfect pitch (aka the ability to recognize the pitch of a note or produce any given note) while Cadence and Operetta have perfect tempo (the ability to either instantly tap any tempo at will with perfect precision, or hear a tempo and instantly know the specific beats per minute, so basically they have perfect rhythm), So he can probably hit the JD notes with ease, on one hand, Lora is probably like “Look! Those are my besties! They’re killing it! Slay you both! You rock those roles!”, super supportive like the excited band/theater kid he is specially if Player also has perfect pitch or tempo or both (meanwhile the Chain is just like “Another challenger has entered the ring”, Four and the Colors + Shadow are specially invested in aiding Wild and Hyrule with the those graves now due to Vaati flashbacks/the theory that maybe Octavo is descended from Vaati, it’s even funnier if Player played Minish Cap and Four Swords but really liked Vaati’s design is spite of what he did, so Four has even more reason to be invested due to old beef and I personally headcanoning he can be spiteful when he wants), on the other he probably just turns to Hyrule and Wild and is just “... You know what, I get it, have room for one more in the planning? Cadence can help hide the body if we bribe her with treasures”, I feel like either option could work.

Or, alternatively, they manage to gather enough people between Player, Lora, Operetta, Candance and Octavo and reenact the entirety of the Twisted Musical, because it’s a musical that slaps and is hilarious in equal measure and I feel like it would match the combined gremlin/unhinged vibes of everyone involved perfectly (I’mma send the link here, it’s fully available on YouTube for free though I can understand it’s not everyone’s thing, your choice wether to give it a listen or not, I recommend leaving two full hours free and to be ready for a lot of laughs for maximum effect during those):

https://youtu.be/-77cUxba-aA

Cue Salty Chain chugging vinegar in the back if either Lora or Octavo gets to perform “A Thousand and One Nights” (39:28 to 45:15, bonus damage if Operetta changed the lyrics a bit so it changes Vizier to Hero or knight to cause chaos) or “Take off Your Clothes” with Player (1:27:55 to 1:31:20, also, consider, PLAYER being the main singer and not Lora, Operetta cheekily changing the lyrics also can apply here, poor boy is either flustered after the fact or right there on the floor with Wind, while the rest of the Chain can’t decide wether to choke or go green with envy to match most of their tunics), also I can see Lora, Octavo and Player performing “No One Remembers Achmed” (1:14:06 to 1:18:06) and the Chain being split between chocking/spitting out whatever they’re drinking, chugging vinegar and literally on the floor laughing, this musical is also probably the hardest try not to laugh challenge Wind has ever received in his life I don’t make the rules. If he lived in the modern world he’d definitely have a soft spot for Starkid Musicals.

I also absolutely love the dynamic between Player and Candace and you’re absolutely right, Lora is the shy theater and band kid that will not hesitate to sweep the floor with you in several if you test him or his people, Octavo is the sassy/unhinged theater kid with absolutely no chill and who slays the villain roles everyone inevitably simps for at least once and the guy who can and will break out into song at enough prompting, Candance is definitely the one beating people to death with her shovel and absolutely down to helping someone hide the body if needed be, while Operetta looks chill but will actually shank someone with a dagger on command as a warning if needed be and no one will believe she did it, Player and Lora are arguably the chill ones I don’t make the rules, plus they’re arguably one of the embodiments of besties to lovers if we go the shipping route or Lora is very supportive of whatever relationship they have, but is also ready to call in the rest of the squad if someone hurts Player (Legend beware, you have one Necrodancer, one other possible Descendant, a Grave Robber and a princess with a knife to deal with). Also the only Hyrule where Player can fight is Lora’s Hyrule due to rhythm games and the Chain gets to witness Player being badass for a change, probably the ones with the easiest time there will be Warriors and Sky, maybe Time too, I feel like between knight training and the Kokiri they’d probably have the best time there in the sense of moving to the beat and dancing to fight, Twilight, Legend and Wind are hit or miss but Hyrule and Wild are just horrible given their respective backstories, Hyrule probably never prioritized dancing much and hasn’t had enough people experience to get that experience and Wild is literally amnesiac and probably in the same boat, knight training he can’t even remember can only do so much as well as audio cues you get in the wildness of his Hyrule (like Guardians beeping being indicative of how close you are to one or how close they are to firing, or the way the Yigah talk because I headcanon they have a bit of a Sheikah accent beneath it all) so they’d probably have the hardest time fighting there and rely a lot on luck.

Also more thoughts, headcanons and possible theories on Seraph/Fia because why not? Though there will probably be less today and I’ll send more on another ask, kind of sleep deprived, haven’t gotten proper sleep in like two weeks so my brain is a bit tired, I’ll write what I can today and send more on a part three XD

• I headcanon that the slaughter of the Zonai was likely the breaking point for the Sheikah to split, can you imagine being a Sheikah and hear about all that going down? The Zonai were your allies, magic users and creators like you, they helped you implement and create a lot of technology, they understand better than anyone except maybe the Gerudo how it is to be ostricized by the crown for what you are well even though they need you around or can’t afford to get rid of you. The hero is one of them and helped aid the sealing of the Calamity and defeat of Ganon, they are the only ones who likely understand what it’s like as well as you do, and then suddenly you hear their hero is gone, either dead from sealing the great evil or died right after or maybe even executed after his duty was done and his people were saved, the remnants are scattered and the few who are identified hunted down and killed, and you get the decree that any and all technology from your people, your heritage and that they made with you should be disassembled, banished or destroyed. How do you react to that? You’d probably be furious too, my headcanon is that it was his death or news of his death that made the Sheikah, after many years of loyal service to the crown no matter the hardship or how harshly they were mistreated or slaughtered, finally snap, a group remained loyal because they felt it would be the best way to honor Seraph’s actions and sacrifice because the life of a hero is not an easy one and they won't betray Hylia after all that, while the other revolted and eventually got banished, forming the Yigah clan, maybe the original Yigah’s purpose was never to just be followers of Ganon, maybe their original purpose was to break the reincarnation cycle no matter the cost and if aiding Ganon, either the current or next one was going to do it then Hylia damnit they’d do it, they owed the Zonai and Seraph enough for that, and then the original mission would have been lost among the time gap of 10.000 years into what it is now.

This is probably just crazy headcanon or theorizing, but I feel like if Seraph connected the dots or he figured out what’s going on that he’d feel awful for that alone, because both Flora and Wild suffered as a consequence of his death because of the Yigah hunting them and I feel like he’d probably feel responsible for it even if in the more indirect way possible. Kind of would add up to the guilt of not being able to aid his shield brother.

• Because of this one unused/cut art of Wild with someone who’s most likely his Aryll/Linkle and someone who might be his dad or grandfather, I personally headcanon that Seraph also had a sister because I like making history repeat itself and healthy doses of angst, and I also headcanon that she was the Zonai Queen/Chieftain by right of conquest because since the Zonai are a warrior tribe it would make sense that they value skill more than bloodline or anything else when chosing a leader, why? Because I can headcanon that, and the idea of badass ancient warrior/magic user queen Aryll brings me incredible amounts of delight, I call her Macha (after one of the warrior goddesses in Irish myth) and my main belief is that she probably used a spear, learned and took a lot after her Gerudo Warrior mom in fighting style and that Seraph is incredibly proud of her, just the proudest big brother there is because look! That’s his sister right there! She is amazing and he adores her to death, I also headcanon that she probably survived when Seraph didn’t and that Wild is descendant from her specifically, so Seraph probably is very glad to have Wild as a descendant running around and being himself because in a way, it’s like knowing his people and his sister live on in someone and he’s fine with that even if the customs of the Zonai are gone and/or not present in Wild in a visible way, it’s in the way he cooks, in his looks, in the way he smiles and laughs and fights even with the Hyrulean knight teachings and he honestly couldn’t be prouder because he did his best, and even if he didn’t get it right in the first time he did good and succeeded and most importantly survived even more so than banishing the Calamity something even he couldn’t do and he’s Wild. And that’s enough for him to be glad he has him as a descendant (also probably thinks that way about Calamity, those are HIS great something nephews and he’ll challenge anyone in single combat if they say anything bad about them).

• Wild: I’m not good enough because I failed in beating the Calamity the first time and let Hyrule fall, I had no idea what I was doing but that doesn’t excuse that I could have done better. I apologize for dissappointing you and not being enough to live up to yours and everyone else's legacy.

Seraph, who also had no clue how to deal with the Calamity in the first time before his Zelda, likely his Aryll and Impa suggested creating the Guardians and Divine Beasts because clearly just Fi and Hylia’s Blessing wasn’t doing the trick and he ended up losing an arm in the process and likely died later: And you think I did? Faoil (wild wolf/dog) if anything you did it more smoothly than me even if it took a power nap and having your mind scrambled like an omelete to do it. You’re fine and I’ll fight you if you say otherwise. Meet me in the ring.

Like, can you imagine being Seraph back then? Sure they were expecting for Ganondorf to return eventually (even if they thought they’d be skipped over or that between him and Una they could help him, I mean it happened in Cadence of Hyrule technically, Young Ganondorf that's Wind's age and just vibing with existence is a thing, just throwing that out there), he always comes back due to Demise’s curse, insert William Afton saying I always come back here and all that for the meme. But you think any of them was ready for the Calamity? That is Demise’s curse and rage and fury and thirst for the blood of Sky’s descendants (or First’s, because I doubt he forgot when First sealed him the first time around, the rage probably started from there) and the wish to see Hylia herself suffer, it is pure divine fury that was left to fester for years upon years cycle upon cycle and across timelines, pure will given form and having given up trying to play human because clearly that approach wasn’t working so it evolved, it adapted. That is some eldritch horror/Greek/Irish/Norse/Actually a lot of mythologies type of stuff, I doubt anyone was prepared for it hence why the Beasts and Guardians were built, it was their way of adapting to such a drastic change, Sheikah Towers and Slates to better control and monitor the situation and coordinate Guardian attacks against monsters and heck maybe even soldiers brought back from death since the Calamity was a corrupting force with Zonai runes for self defense and new means of attack for soldiers, Sheikah Shrines not only tests and ways to prepare the next Hero but also as shelter for those who can’t fight, the Divine Beasts, the Magnum Opus of the races, built in record time to be able to aid Hylia’s reincarnation and the Hero with the Champions to pilot it because they couldn’t defeat Ganon and it at first, that was their way of adapting because the usual didn’t work. They knew some details, but they couldn’t imagine those details would change, they were just lucky to shift gears accordingly and be able to seal it for a 10.000.

And ten thousand years is a lot of time for information to be lost or altered, we never hear what happened to Seraph/Fia, or Una, or the previous Champions, we never hear what happened to the Zonai or even how they really were, we just know that they won and sealed it away.

... But what was the cost?

In summary, I believe that what happened 10.000 years ago was a Phyrric victory, and that the crown probably altered it or purposefully let the knowledge die out to give people hope and likely as much information to be able to fight back as they could without stretching just how close it was like how they practically erased the Twili, because it’s strange isn’t it, that Zelda using Hylia’s power was recorded, but not how she managed to do it to give the next generation the best fighting chance? It’s because it was knowledge that died out or was purposefully hidden, maybe how Una got her powers was too awful and traumatic, and so no one would want to repeat the circumstances and that’s why Rhoam only makes inferences, which in turn led Flora to suffer under pressure and being unhappy, no one knows how Seraph was really like, so they create an imagine on their head and push it onto Wild and Calamity who are forced to live up to it and even quit speaking as a result of being the ones to pull the Master Sword from the stone.

In summary it wasn’t that it was easier for them, it was because no one knew just how hard it was and sadly for Wild and Flora and the Champions and everyone 10.000 years ago, the Calamity learned how to adapt too after it regained it’s strength.

It would refuse to give them a fighting chance.

So if anything I bet Seraph would be really proud of Wild and Calamity for managing to do it anyway, no matter how long it took.

(I also headcanon that the way the Calamity was unleashed maybe was as a side effect of Seraph/Fia and Una trying to aid Ganon, but that’s for another post, this is getting long so I’ll save it for when I have more brain power as well as possible Zonai customs Seraph/Fia shows or uses and how I headcanon about the Cú Chulainn/Beowulf/Grettir deal)

• I honestly think that we play as him in ToK, at least in some sections or through his memories or with Wild kind of backseating his consciousness so he can find where he needs to go and to repair Fi, it’s possible I’ll be wrong later about this that’s just me making crazy guesses due to outfit changes, but in the trailer you see Wild not using the slate to use stasis (which makes sense, Flora was the one with it after all and it fell down with her or got damaged from the fall), but from Seraph’s possible arm and the Zonai were strong warrior magic users, which makes me think that the runes in the Sheikah slate were possibly not Sheikah, but translated and repurposed from Zonai spells if we go with the theory/headcanon they worked together, which also makes me draw the connection that either A: Either when he lost his arm (possibly via combat with Ganon or one of his general’s at the time, or history repeating itself and made it so that it got corrupted by the Malice and he had to chop it off before it spread and he became a Blight, which I also have a lot of thoughts about but I’ll save that for another ask) he gained the abilities to use the runes from it but it took his own stamina/magic reserves to make it work, OR, that he already could use runes like that normally and simply got so used to using them normally the arm acclimated to it or was made to accommodate it because I feel like the Zonai probably unconsciously used magic to be more durable and stuff or that was their entire thing, Zonai warriors being very strong because they have a lot of magic and it makes their stamina reserves bigger the more they train and build up their strength. In summary: not only was this man likely as healthy as a horse, strong as a bull or ordonian goat in his prime, built like he could wrestle and suplex a bear or lion and likely hit like a semi truck due to his Gerudo Gladiator life style and his Zonai Warrior upbringing, but he may possibly be the second most prolific/strong magic user we see in the series out of the Link’s like how Twilight, Hyrule and likely Time, Legend and FD are (maybe also Sky and Four?), But also the only one outside of maybe Hyrule who can or could do it without any assistance from a magical artifact and how insane is that? Leave some of the talent for the rest of us like sIR- Can you imagine this man just straight up freezing enemies with Stasis without assistance from his own raw power or just straight up summoning bombs or attracting weapons out of folks hands? I feel like we don’t talk enough about this possibility, it would make him a nightmare to face if you’re on his bad side, like I think he probably could give FD a good enough run for his money if that’s true like this man just snatched the protagonist halo and ran with it. Though I also headcanon he doesn’t do that often unless it’s too serious that he can’t help but use it because it likely ends fights too quickly and he likes fighting too much for that.

And that’s that for now, apologies if I rambled on, hope I didn’t bother you and hope you’re having a nice whatever time of the day is it! :D

-A Very Awkward Anon.

First off I hope you're having a good day to VA! Thank you for sending more of your ideas and also thank you for giving me permission to merge/use them with my own! I promise to give credit back to you once I do eventually use it!

First off you really are starting to make me ship Lora and Player much more, the friends-to-lovers thing? Perfect beautiful, fantastic, also him being shy until he's in song and dance? Definitely Disney Prince material, someone draw him as a Disney Prince (Actually someone should totally draw Disney style Chain for reasons I will not be giving)

Also-

I FUCKING LOVE PORTAL 2 AND THE GLADOS SCREAM WOULD MATCH THEM SO MUCH

Honestly Player just with the GLaDOS voice, montone and cold, but then they have those moments with such raw emotions that it makes everyone uncomfortable.

Also the royal family rewriting history makes so much sense, because come on- honestly I like to think that Seraph/Fia was made to be a very stoic hero, a man who got the job done and have history very fine and cut because they want Ganon done, they don't want emotions from the heroes or what not, they want the following Links to do what they were 'made' to do and that's it.

#cloud answers #Anon asks

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dustedmagazine · 2 years

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Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia (Partisan)

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The video for the title cut of this third full-length from Fontaines D.C. intersplices quick visions of folkloric violence into footage of a crowded, fashionable bar. You see flashes of a woman trampling grapes, a wicker man bouncing off a trampoline, ritual headdresses and a sacrificial animal (the “skinty fia,” or damned deer of Irish colloquialism), as Grian Chatten weaves among the beautiful people at a London watering hole. It’s a song — and a video — about being Irish but not in Ireland, steeped in the country’s moldering traditions even as you shrug them off for work and sex and 21st century opportunity.

And in a way, that’s what Skinty Fia is all about. It’s the first Fontaines D.C. album since all the principals moved out of Dublin, but also the first to incorporate Irish language. It’s a dark, muttering, murky album, uncomfortable in its own skin and defiant of comfort, wandering urban streets with a chip on its shoulder and an inarticulate emptiness where home once was. You could squint and find a good-time rock and roll album in A Hero’s Death, but this one is slower, moodier, more prickly and gorgeously disconsolate.

It starts with the Celtic titled “In ár gCroíthe go deo,” a phrase taken from an Irish epitaph requested by an émigré family in Coventry and rejected by local government because they were afraid it had IRA implications. (For the record, it means “in our hearts forever.”) That happened not during the 1970s, but just a couple of years ago, and demonstrates the scorn and suspicion still routinely aimed at Irish people in England. The song layers elegiac, crisscrossing vocals over Chatten’s strident shout-sung vocals; a synthetic rhythm pulses from somewhere distant. “Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day,” he sings, in tender, modally mournful tones. The song is eloquently wounded and god-damned beautiful, more like These New Puritan’s epic orchestrations than post-punk or garage rock.

There’s something nocturnal about these songs, the way the bass slithers viscously like a loose rubber band, the way the drum shots echo against dank, bunkered walls, the way that Chatten’s voice turns hoarse with ragged emotion in the spoke-sung cadences. Even “Jackie Down the Line,” the club-rhythmed single, has a midnight growl and croak to it, as the verse describes the worst kind of boyfriend in the sexiest possible way. “Bloomsday” is maybe moodiest of all, borrowing Joy Division’s most desolate bassline for a slow-hammered goodbye to the Irish capital. “There's always fuckin' rain and it's always dark,” snarls Chatten, as guitars clang and rattle like chains, and indeed, this is one unsunny listening experience.

And yet, it’s undeniably powerful, uncoiling as it does at moderate pace in cavernous spaces with slow, inexorable violence. “The Couple Across the Way” clears a space, sonically; the song is performed acoustically with just an accordion, but it’s just as lacerating in subject matter, as a young couple watches a neighbor couple fight and wonders if that’s ahead for them, as well. Fontaines don’t romanticize lifetime love or even Ireland. The song “I Love You” blisters with rage, the personal and the political. “This island's run by sharks with children's bones stuck in their jaws,” chants Chatten in a rant like the Fall stripped of every sort of illusion, but you love what you love, don’t you?

Jennifer Kelly

#dusted magazine #album review #jennifer kelly #fontaines dc #skinty fia #partisan #ireland #punk rock #post punk

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gamerszone2019-blog · 5 years

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F1 2019 Review - Pole Position

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F1 2019 Review - Pole Position

Unless you’re a Mercedes fan, you might feel that Formula 1 in 2019 is a bit stale with the team’s dominance of this year’s world championship. But Codemasters’ F1 2019 is anything but stagnant, presenting an exciting, if idealized, version of the world’s premier motorsport. It sticks mostly to the familiar cadence of previous titles with its massive career mode and loads of classic content. However, big additions like the FIA Formula 2 World Championship and scheduled online racing add even more to an already burgeoning title that’s filled to the brim with enjoyable things to do–all revolving around driving some of the fastest racing cars in the world.

Anyone familiar with the series will feel immediately at home with F1 2019. Functionally the menus are borrowed from previous years, so finding the mode you want to play is thankfully easy because there is just so much here. Solo play consists of the brilliant career mode, Grand Prix weekends for single races and time trials for leaderboard junkies, numerous championship scenarios–extra if you’ve got the Legends Edition–and the official F1 and F2 World Championships. And that’s before you dig into multiplayer, which adds player-made leagues and scheduled event racing. Amazingly, none of it feels like filler, with each mode offering something different and enjoyable overall. But like in previous years, it’s the career mode that gives you the fullest and most rewarding experience, venturing further into the realm of sports fantasy than it has in the past.

In previous career modes, you’d simply select an F1 team to race for, set some contract goals, and go. But F1 2019’s career opens with more of a throwback to Codemasters’ Race Driver series, allowing you to start in the newly added Formula 2 Championship before making the step up to the big time. It’s not a full season but a series of scenarios where you clash against two fantasy rivals, Lukas Weber and Devon Butler. While this opens the career with a series of cutscenes developing the competition between the three of you, once you all enter Formula 1, those personal moments don’t come back; they’re replaced with the comparatively lifeless email transcripts of their media interviews. It would’ve been nice to have more of these characters around to add some more flavor.

Another big addition to the career mode is driver changes between teams. All the drivers on the grid can trade places, doing so automatically based on their prior performances. Early in my career, both McLaren drivers found themselves out of a job thanks to their poorly performing car, with Carlos Sainz booted partway through and replaced by Kimi Raikonnen, and Lando Norris making way at the end of the season for a then-jobless Pierre Gasly. It leads to some fascinating shifts in the power dynamics between current F1 teams, leading to some surprising results and a consistently intriguing run to the title. While it’s jarring to see drivers replaced, especially by fantasy drivers, it adds more to the game than it takes away.

You can choose to not have the fantasy drivers, but that means skipping the feeder series entirely, and the Formula 2 cars are way too much fun to do that. Smaller, less powerful, and easier to drive, the Formula 2 cars in F1 2019 are surprisingly enjoyable given their comparatively slower pace. Over-drive them and they’ll slip and slide, teaching you how to find the edge of grip. As such, they make for a perfect place for beginners to grasp how to race a light and nimble car without having to step straight into the might of an F1.

There’s a reason they only let the best drivers in the world behind the wheels of these carbon fiber beasts; modern F1 is about much more than just driving fast. You have to manage tires, hybrid deployment, fuel usage, race strategy, and the gaps between your competitors–there’s not a moment’s rest for the mind, if that’s how you want it to be. But the option for hugely robust assists makes it possible for both ardent fans and inexperienced players to get something out of a race. For sim fans, there are layers of strategy and car management while jostling for position, on top of driving these beautiful cars at unimaginable speeds. For everyone else, there’s the thrill of close racing against their favorite drivers because of AI that gives space when needed but also fights hard to pass you when given the opportunity to pounce.

The AI in last year’s game was already racy, pushing for gaps and fighting back when it thought it had a chance. But F1 2019’s is a further refinement of this, reacting in ways that feel like you’re racing against other human players. They’ll go wheel-to-wheel and defend their position by driving you to the edge of the track, sometimes making mistakes and causing incidents, and sometimes pulling off incredible overtakes by getting into your slipstream and out-braking you into a corner. F1 drivers aren’t pushovers, and it’s great to have that reflected in the on-track action.

The cars themselves feel great to drive with both a racing wheel and a gamepad, with both feeling fast and responsive. When you’re in the cockpit, it’s captivating. The race engineer will talk to you during a race, keeping you informed of all sorts of important information. With a microphone you can ask them questions about pit stops or the condition of your tires, or simply tell them to shut it and they’ll keep updates to a minimum. It works flawlessly, offering lots of pertinent information at the end of a button press. The weather can roll in and soak a dry track, then dry out again, adding a further layer of drama to the mix. There’s a lot that can go on, especially during a longer race. A quick five-lap burst can be fun, but the longer races are where things like race strategy can really play out in satisfying ways.

For sim fans, there are layers of strategy and car management while jostling for position, on top of driving these beautiful cars at unimaginable speeds. For everyone else, there’s the thrill of close racing against their favorite drivers.

Leagues are a welcome inclusion, allowing you and a group of like-minded folk to take part in a multiplayer season of your own making. Community leagues have formed around the F1 games for years, but having it included directly in the game is a welcome nod to those who’ve been running these leagues externally. Scheduled events are also a nice new feature, letting you practice and qualify whenever you like, then running races around scheduled times to encourage competition. Also new is player customization that lets you tweak your car livery, racing suit, gloves, and helmet. Some designs are free while others can be unlocked using an in-game currency earned from racing online, though annoyingly, the most interesting options will cost you real money.

Where F1 2019 falls short of other racing titles is in its track accuracy. Graphically, courses are superb, with some lovely trackside details and fabulous new lighting that helps the night tracks look eerily realistic. But in terms of accuracy compared to the real-life tracks, they’re still missing a lot of the character in the road surface, like the small bumps and cracks you get from a laser-scanned track. The final chicanes at Spa and Montreal are wrongly profiled, and there’s a really nasty bump entering the front straight at Suzuka that’s definitely not there on the real circuit. Most players outside of a handful of hardcore sim racers would never notice this, but with titles like iRacing and GT Sport offering high-fidelity versions of many of these tracks, these inaccuracies begin to stand out more over time.

F1 2019 is yet another strong step forward for the now decade-long franchise, with a ton of refinements over last year’s game as well as some great new features to help elevate it to a new level. The Formula 2 cars are superb to handle, and the new additions to career mode, like driver swaps, add some much-needed drama and excitement that real Formula 1 has been missing for some time now. F1 2019 is a masterclass in how to make an engaging and alluring racer, and once again stands tall on top of the podium.

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2019 Jaguar I-Pace Review: From London to Berlin in an All-Electric Jag

Jabbeke was the making of the Jaguar XK120. On May 30, 1949, a prototype of the iconic English sports car was timed at 132.6 mph along a closed section of freeway just outside this Belgian town.

Seven decades on, Jabbeke looks like the breaking of the Jaguar I-Pace—the all-wheel-drive electric crossover that’s as significant a Jaguar as the XK120. We’re plugged into the third fast charger we’ve found in the area, but energy is trickling into the battery. We arrived with 12 miles of range left. We could be here all night.

Why are we here? In the 1960s, Denis Jenkinson, the “continental correspondent” for Britain’s Motor Sport magazine—and the man who’d ridden alongside Stirling Moss en route to their victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia—drove his E-type across Europe from grand prix to grand prix. A half century later we’re attempting to drive more than 700 miles from London in a different type of e-Jaguar to an e-prix—the ninth round of the Formula E championship in Berlin. It’s been five hours since we arrived in Jabbeke. The romance is wearing thin.

We’ve learned a lot in those five hours. Many of the smartphone apps designed to find fast chargers in Europe are inaccurate and hard to use. There’s no easy way to pay for a charge—different suppliers require credit or debit card information on different apps, and some only accept a prepaid card. And our pre-production I-Pace will only take a trickling 22 kW from the Efacec chargers in this part of Belgium. A software issue, apparently.

Jaguar technicians advise us to look for newer fast chargers. One of the apps shows an ABB 50-kW charger at an Audi dealer in Ghent. A call confirms it’s the right charger, that it’s working, and that we’re welcome to use it. But, we’re warned, the power shuts off at 6 p.m. It just turned 5 p.m. The dealership is 32 miles away. We’ve managed to get enough charge for 41 miles. Time to roll the dice.

With 9 miles of range remaining, we pull into NAM Zuid Audi in Ghent at 5:48 p.m., where service manager Johan de Vos offers to keep the power on for as long as we need it. We plug in, and the I-Pace starts sucking down precious kilowatts. An hour and 45 minutes later, the instrument panel shows the battery at 98 percent and range at 231 miles, near the 240-mile max claimed on Jaguar’s U.S. website. We’re back on the road in the most revolutionary Jaguar in history—one that could wrest the EV conversation away from Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors.

As BEV platforms go, the I-Pace’s skateboard layout is conventional. There’s a motor at each end, one driving the front wheels, the other the rear, and in between is a liquid-cooled 90-kW-hr battery pack with 432 lithium-ion cells that also provides structural integrity for the chassis. The Jaguar-developed motors are synchronous permanent magnet units with concentric transmissions that align the motors with the axles. Total output is 394 hp and 512 lb-ft.

The multilink front suspension is from the F-Type; at the rear is an evolution of the integral link suspension used in the F-Pace and E-Pace. Height-adjustable air suspension drops the ride height 1.6 inches for entry/exit and 0.4 inch at speeds above 65 mph to further reduce drag; it can raise it 2.0 inches for off-road work. A sealed battery allows it to wade through water almost 20 inches deep.

We cruise at 70–75 mph across the flatlands of Belgium and into Holland, battling blustery winds off the North Sea. The optimum setup for freeway cruising involves selecting Eco mode, which optimizes HVAC and other settings for maximum efficiency, and setting the regenerative braking mode to low, which helps maintain momentum when you lift off the accelerator. As we pull into our hotel in Eindhoven for the night, the trip computer shows the I-Pace’s energy consumption is averaging 41.8 kW-hr per 100 miles (80 mpg-equivalent).

Next morning, over the border in Germany, we find an ABB 50-kW charger that brings the battery back to 96 percent, giving us 221 miles of range. That’s more than enough to get us to a VW dealership in Hannover, 145 miles down the autobahn, where another ABB 50-kW charger should give us enough juice for the final stint into Berlin. With our charging strategy figured out and range in hand, there’s time for some fun.

Much of Germany’s autobahn is subject to speed limits, so we spend a lot of time at 75–80 mph. There’s not much wind today, but the higher speed boosts consumption to 43 kW-hr per 100 miles. On one derestricted stretch I wind the I-Pace up near its 124-mph Vmax. It gets there easily, but I burn 6 miles of range in the process (and yes, a gasoline version would also burn fuel with such a surge). Feeling guilty at the extravagance, I back off and settle down to 75–80 mph again.

Like most electric cars, the I-Pace doesn’t have a relaxed highway gait. Even gentle cruising requires more pressure on the accelerator than you’d need with an internal combustion engine to keep it rolling along. As soon as you lift off, the Jag hungrily starts harvesting energy.

As we approach Hannover, we encounter the first of a number of traffic jams that will blight our run to Berlin. I turn off creep mode, which makes the I-Pace act like a car with a conventional automatic transmission, and switch the brake regen back to high. Configured this way, the I-Pace can be driven using one pedal; you use the brake only if you have to stop in a hurry. It’s the optimum setup for city and urban driving, and it helps overall energy consumption. Stop-start shuffling and prolonged cruising at 50 to 60 mph saw the I-Pace use 28.9 kW-hr per 100 miles (117 mpg-e) for the final 50 miles to our Hannover stop.

We luxuriate in our first 100 percent charge and celebrate by heading onto a winding road. The I-Pace is fast and fluid, its instant-on torque delivering a creamy surge of acceleration. But it also feels heavy, and not just because of the big wheels and wide tires. Steering requires more effort than expected. Although the mass is low in the chassis—the center of gravity is 5.1 inches lower than that of an F-Type—there’s a zaftig cadence to the I-Pace’s primary ride motions that is unlike any other Jaguar. As on the freeway, it’s best to have the brake regen switched to low; the I-Pace flows better down the road, and you can more precisely slow the car on corner entry.

Fun over, we pop back out onto the A2 autobahn. With an indicated 202 miles of range and 160 miles to go, it should be a piece of cake. Germany might have the fastest roads on earth, but the A2 isn’t one of them, with long sections under repair and jammed with trucks heading to Poland and Russia. Four hours later, we pull into our hotel’s parking garage, not far from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, with 20 miles of range to spare. We arrive dog-tired but ache-free—the I-Pace’s seats are supportive and comfortable.

It’s been an epic 734-mile road trip, a journey that at times had us feeling like the crew of Apollo 13, calculating energy use and contemplating points of no return. But this much we now know: The strikingly styled Jaguar I-Pace is the real deal, a genuine Tesla fighter. It feels plusher to live with and more organic to drive, and it fills the white space between the P75D versions of the Model S sedan and Model X SUV that are its nearest rivals. All it needs now is for the charging infrastructure to catch up.

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Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy: The Tradition Continues

Jaguar has a long motorsport tradition, highlighted most famously by notable victories at Le Mans but also wins in other forms of sports car and touring car racing, as well as road rallies. It even had a Formula 1 team.

The Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy takes that tradition in a new direction. The eTrophy has been developed for a one-make race series that will support the 2019 FIA Formula E championship. It will be an arrive-and-drive series, with competitors paying about $530,000 to show up and race fully prepared and maintained cars. Bend it, and they mend it—however, the price doesn’t include the cost of crash repairs.

The eTrophy cars are stripped-out and strengthened I-Paces. Removing most of the interior has reduced weight by 500 pounds despite the addition of a full roll cage that ties together the front structure and rear suspension. The suspension has been modified, using parts from the XE Project 8 sedan. The brakes have been replaced with AP Racing units with steel rotors and larger calipers.

The powertrain remains standard, as does the battery pack, but the control electronics developed by the engineering arm of the Williams F1 team are new. They will allow race engineers to tune brake regeneration and power and torque splits, plus pull power more aggressively from the battery.

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