Yes, I agree, the sounds of the cars are terrible, they went back at least to F1 2018 and in F1 23 they were really good and close to the real ones, all they had to do was improve them and you decided to replace them with the sound of a coffee grinder. Does your company employ the same bad sound engineer as SCS?
Agreed, the new engine sounds are absolutely awful. How is it possible to make the engine sounds much worse than the previous game?
Once again completely unacceptable!
I myself don't understand. It's just incomprehensible to have this on a game that is so-called "Official" with real developers who cannot push the games towards evolution but independent modders manage to modify a game which becomes realistic in sound, livery and much more. And that only in a few days
I cant really agree to this hate for the sound of the game, many mods for AC sound A LOT worse but there are definitely some things that the good mods for AC do way better than the F1 games but there are also reasons for that..
The shifting is definitely by far the weakest point for F1 games, sometimes almost unaudible and just a change in RPM sound, massively better in AC mods
The pitch of the engine itself seems a bit off on some but nothing mega crazy..
The Ferrari engine sound in itself is a lot worse and has been for multiple years, the AC mod that i heard recently is miles ahead in that regard.
However the reasons for the sounds and liveries and what not to take long or not change properly at all are quite obvious: First it has all to be licensed, aspecially the visual changes need to be approved by each team.. then it need to be approved by FOM, basically any change afaik.. Next that Codemasters are not allowed to use the F1 microphones audio for the game - at least a few years ago they said so - makes a HUGE difference on the core material the audio guys of Codemasters have to work with.. Even FOM * up with the engine sounds this year, i think with a ferrari powered car, dont remember which, it gets a rattling tremolo on the actual audio, thats just the placement inside the car and when Codemasters have to use a completely different placement its hard to get 1:1 the same results..
Could they do better in some regards? very likely, would all changes be faster and better if it wasnt for the reasons i stated above? Absolutely..
Its not like this game sounds like the "f1 games" from the 80s but some of you make it out to be the worst car sounds ever in a game😂 Just relax a bit, constructive criticism achieves more than just plain out calling someone bad😄
Thank you for your feedback 👍 Obviously the present sound is not the worst in the franchise but remains very far from the real sound of the engines. This is valid for the 4 engines present in F1. And of course it is also a question of licenses and the FOM as always and this is unfortunately an obstacle to the significant improvement of the games both in sound and in livery as you said. Despite this, for me and many people in the community, the noise of the engines is quite far from reality. I'm not making it up, it's real. There is obviously hatred in the community, especially at the moment but it is not only for the sound as you say but for a lot of things which are in no way heard by Codemaster or changed by their developers. I find that somewhat logical as a lot of people are angry. It's not Max or Lando or even the Esport players that we are shown on the networks who keep the franchise alive. This is only a small percentage of the community. It's you, me, everyone present in the forums, the comments on all the networks that keep the games alive. 😄
Yes I agree with you on the fact that this post remains quite negative but despite this in no way aims to bring hatred towards the developers or destroy the games 😁 But just something that has been pointed out for years by a lot of people and which tends to have very little evolution and it is obvious that it is not that simple. But if no one really talks about it, the chances of it changing are very slim. This forum is dedicated to this kind of thing if I'm not mistaken 😃 You know for my personal case I started working on the F1 franchise since "Formula one 2003" so for a few short years already. And every year I own the game whether it is good or not. Except this year for the first time in my life. I remain an F1 fan and it is not very difficult to identify the problems or faults that have persisted for a long time. This post is only one point among many, and it may not be part of the immediate priority but I think it deserves to be exposed 😉
I also really hate the engine sounds but I can deal with them. The sounds that I can't deal with are the external sounds, it sounds so bad. It is almost as if it is a video playing in the background, I'm off the engine, yet it still plays an engine noise and it is just so bad.
@Meza994What on earth are you talking about?
Regardless of licenses and approvals, it shouldn’t be worse than before.
At least it must improve every year to get closer to reality. But not.
It's moving away from the real thing, but it also mentions that new real engine sounds are recorded every year.
The current engine sound is not at the official game level.
Point Is you expect things to improve and not to become worse. When you think f1 21-22-23 (apart from Merc engine) all have good engine sounds...
It's like they've just thrown any old rubbish together with no thought. Extremely disappointing!
Codemasters TeamFlying to Bahrain to record the engines is massively appreciated and it's great to hear that such effort has been made. Of that there is no doubt.
The feedback regarding mainly the Ferrari engine sound on this forum however is not great. The Ferrari in real life has that usual characteristic of the turbo whine, which has always been a distinctive trait of the Ferrari engine. And in addition always been implemented to a degree into recent games such as F122 and F123.
The Ferrari engine sound in the game does not sound great as highlighted by many other players.
Codemasters TeamUnderstood thank you 👍
The cars sound like weed wackers. 👎
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@IanM282"The feedback regarding mainly the Ferrari engine sound on this forum however is not great. The Ferrari in real life has that usual characteristic of the turbo whine, which has always been a distinctive trait of the Ferrari engine. And in addition always been implemented to a degree into recent games such as F122 and F123.
The Ferrari engine sound in the game does not sound great as highlighted by many other players."
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It's like they've just thrown any old rubbish together with no thought. Extremely disappointing!"
Thanks for being constructive in your most recent message. We can work with comments like that.
I always want to be constructive because I want so much this and every F1 game to be the best and the closest to what we see on TV as possible. I gotta say that in F1 24 you can't enjoy driving a Ferrari powered car with this engine sound. F1 22 was so much better, so please make the sound as close to that game as possible if you can or otherwise just make it less high pitched and introduce more turbo whine especially during downshifts. I hope this could be of some help. Cheers
Iv been to a number of races this year and i can tell you without question, the sounds of the cars in this game are not even close to the real thing. this is a huge problem for me and many others, it is enough for me not to play the game until its fixed.
Listen for yourself , what the cars sound like in the real world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n80zq3bKaFk
It’s not quite the deal breaker for me as it seems to be for others and the Merc engine seems fine to me which is the one I have mostly used but I will say this for the Ferrari- it sounds like it was recorded from inside a helmet
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