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MatiasFCD
3 years ago

Re: Please.. These Personnel boosts..

Like others have said, Focus and Personnel boosts are going to end up ruining career mode.

In F1 2020 we were able to change difficulty between sessions and that way i was able to adjust the AI level, but for some reason they decided to remove that feature in 21 even tho nobody asked for it.

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  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago

    All last year a week didn’t go by without a respected member off the community posting on Codemasters forum asking for them to be scrapped. And every reply to those posts were in strong agreement.   Trouble is two members off the Dev team chat with us but they don’t do ai or gameplay….. funny how those are the parts most broken

  • Liaveal's avatar
    Liaveal
    Rising Veteran
    3 years ago

    Yup, we've been saying since 2020 that they needed to go. It was what was causing Bottas to be op Vs Hamilton for the previous 2 games and they still won't listen to us!

    Honestly, I don't even care now if they just leave them in, I just want then to add a stat editor. With that we could just reduce everyone's stats by whatever they're gaining from the personnel. On top of that we could fix all the wrong stats as well and in a very minor way influence team performance by making a teams drivers stronger or weaker. Would basically fix all of our issues... 

    If you're worried about "cheating" to get trophies/achievements and podium pass challenges then just make it so a player using edited stats can't make progress towards them! Just keep the lap count points active.

    So once again. Codies, EA. Please, please, please add an in game stat editor for us to use. Will be one of the best features you could add to the game that would make everyone happy!

  • Kamackeris's avatar
    Kamackeris
    New Rookie
    3 years ago

    OK.. So whilst I'm not new to the game this is the first year its actually grabbed me for longer than a few hours... Absolutely loving it... So is this game mechanic really as bad as I'm reading? If so I can't see myself playing more than one season? What's the point? 

  • Apophis-STR's avatar
    Apophis-STR
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @Kamackeris It really depends, the game itself have rough edges for sure, but definitely not as bad as 2021 when it first released.

    For me, I've already spent hundreds of hours in, and that's after I spent about 2000 hours+ in 2020, but that's of course because I was on PC, with mods and stuff I can literally play forever.
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @Kamackeris It’s fine margins. And anything slightly out notices especially to obsessive players off the game. A few tenths out from one session to next: especially as it’s up and down makes it hard to be confident off your setups when your accustomed to playing 90+ Ai. Last years game had loads more bugs but game was balanced although occasionally you’d have to change ai difficulty on some tracks but this year ai is fast one session slow the next. Practice programs look to have been fixed in patch so that will help.

    Then like apophis I’ve put thousands off hours into previous games so ai aggressiveness is massive this year so I cover the inside earlier and force the ai out wide. Well before braking point. But Because ai are op out off slow corners it gets to the point more often than it should that you have 3 or 4 ai cars swarming you going into ever Corner. And that’s when I get the hump cause I know if I don’t concede track position one off them will eventually shunt me hard
  • Kamackeris's avatar
    Kamackeris
    New Rookie
    3 years ago

    So I already use the acceleration mod and in general I find it not too bad now... But I will be annoyed if all the ai drivers just start maxing out their stats 

  • BadMayh3m's avatar
    BadMayh3m
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    If you can't boost your teammates then what's the point for the facility?

    What's the point in having more than 10 support AI's?

  • Apophis-STR's avatar
    Apophis-STR
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @BadMayh3m The idea here from the OP is to have the facility boost an exclusive thing for the player's team.

    Atm the AI teams all have boosts from their facility, and because of the already high base stats of the F1 drivers, very soon into the career, pretty much all the F1 drivers will have 100 stats. This broken the balance of AI difficulty, flatten the entire grid because everyone is the best driver, also made the actual purpose of hiring different driver completely pointless.
  • Hichel18's avatar
    Hichel18
    3 years ago
    @Apophis-STR To be honest I think it's past the time that they would implement more fluid ratings and make the training facilities an increase in potential or gains rather than straight up boost. Having potentials and declines depending on some factors would be hugely better to what we have now.

    Hopefully one day MyTeam/Career Mode will have better improvements sometime
  • AEF251's avatar
    AEF251
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    Season 2 my team, having started towards the front of the grid, my new rookie team mate is blistering fast compared to me and despite currently having the best car, I’ve had to turn down the AI by 5 to stay competitive. 

    They should change it so that the simulator helps unlock R&D points instead of bonuses, and dump R&D points from the individual departments.

  • Apophis-STR's avatar
    Apophis-STR
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @AEF251 Before the v1.06 update where the boost were not applied, I could run 100 AI through the entire season with some struggle on only a couple of tracks.

    Post patch I had to lower 5 - 10 even with the now more forgiving physics...that being said, this wasn't anything unusual. It's been exactly the same situation since F1 2020 where the further into the career, the harder the AI gets, and it's was always a significant jump of difficulty from season to season.

    For GP mode where boosts are not applied, 100 AI is still very much absolutely perfect for me post patch, so the culprit here is definitely the Personnel Boost.

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