Hey drivers 🏁
The team wanted to share some information relating to a couple of community topics that have been discussed recently.
Equal Performance
Rigorous internal and external testing has been completed to determine that all equal performance cars have identical mechanical and physics characteristics in F1® 24.
To alleviate any concerns with geometric/physical differences between the cars, F1® Sim Racing participants will use vehicle models with identical geometric shapes for LAN competition.
3rd Party Software
There has been some discussion recently about an alleged exploit regarding the use of third party tools and peripheral manipulation to trigger certain gamepad/keyboard assists.
Following some extensive internal and external testing, it was determined that there is no advantage to be gained from this apparent exploit. Any assists that are enabled for keyboard and/or gamepad users are disabled once a wheel is introduced, regardless of how peripherals are assigned in the settings. Furthermore, the on-screen display showing buttons as 'unassigned' is unrelated to any alleged exploit and is expected behaviour based on specific custom button mapping.
Several third party tools - such as those that can spoof peripherals to run as other devices, like JoyToKey - are blocked by F1® 24's anti-cheat system, making them unusable when running the game.
Input manipulation of the game outside the confines of its design is considered cheating and will be addressed accordingly. We do not condone speculation of driver/team integrity publicly or otherwise, and ask that all competitors are treated with equal respect.
Thank you.
Codemasters Team