aarava's critique of the game

@DavidGG53 I believe I misplaced where my frustrations with the R&D truly lie. Yea it's been turned from that glorious branching tree to this uninspiring tile-esque linear progression presentation that robs me of the aesthetic feeling of accomplishment, but what I meant was when they replaced the old workflow of having to do five practice programs across the three FP's to this truncated version where you only do the three programs that they pre-assign you for discounts to upgrades that you have zero input on.

That's what I meant by simplifying what didn't need to be simplified. Stop shoehorning how I develop my car and give me back my practice programs dammit!

@Meza994 @Meza994 What I hate is that they removed certain things from the old games. They used to show what your upgrades did back in the day. I'm quite certain at least that when you did a weight upgrade it would say you reduced the weight of the car by x amount, increased downforce by x percentage and so on. (I don't remember which game they removed this)

Now we have very little information on where the car is and how big an upgrade actually is. In certain teams it's much better to upgrade the drag rather than downforce because the drag upgrades give you a bigger increase for the same price or vice versa for other teams.

I also hate how they lock certain teams into terrible upgrade paths that make the car really bad to drive and basically make it underperform until fully upgraded like the Aston Martin car from last year that had a Ultimate rear downforce upgrade really early in the tree that locks you out from rear downforce upgrades and makes the car really bad to drive.

You can sort of fix this yourself with setups but it screws your teammate and means even verstappen could not perform to where the car was in the performance chart. While the mclaren car had a really good upgrade tree that seems to have any AI driver be able to drive well in that team even with bad driver ratings. (And from what I've seen in this years game so far it's exactly the same were certain teams have much more favorable upgrade trees.)

I wish we could see a performance chart for each area rather than just chassis, aero and engine as a whole. In real life the teams have to inform FIA of all the upgrades they put on the car so I think this would be fair for the game to reflect that somewhat.

Like who have the lowest weight, lowest drag profile, most downforce, best engine, best ERS and so on.

The game just lack a lot of information, just like we still don't have speed trap list, that can't be so hard to implement. All you can do is go onboard and watch every AI car to see their speed to know who's fast in the straights. I know you can see speedtrap of cars if you spectate the AI in qualifying but yeah...why not just give us a speedtrap list?

And yeah like you said the upgrade tree is still exactly the same just invisible and even harder to know how to unlock certain upgrades. I don't like the way they remove my freedom to upgrade the car how I want. If I basically want a Williams car that is really fast in the straight but bad in the corners that is really hard to achieve because you often have to upgrade a certain downforce upgrade before being able to reduce drag again.

Is that realistic maybe, is it fun not really. Some upgrades being locked because of not having the required facilities I have no problem with, but locking us into very set paths for how the car is upgraded is what I dont like.

@DavidGG53 That is a very good take IMO. I've dropped the hate towards EA because it's pointless and immature, and if something needs to be called out, I do so constructively. But most people just hate because it's EA. Also: Let's not forget that EA isn't the developer, they're responsible for marketing, branding and publishing (to put it simply). Codemasters are the devs, and for all the critique they receive, we do need to remember that they have no easy job to do.

With that out of the way: Yes, Aarav's schtick is MyTeam. Others try to at least do some more variety, like Ben Daly doing things outside of MyTeam with coop and Creator Series, same with Alex Gillon, or Tom Martínez (who's doing a McLaren RTG right now). Even I got the taste for F1 World while doing also career (MyTeam and Driver Career), regular GP mode 50% races and the yearly F2 RTG. What I take exception with Aarav is that he literally scripts his careers like Vince McMahon micromanages WWE and scripts matches that need to be followed to the letter. To me, with his content, Aarav has jumped the shark.

@bundesautobahn7 Curious what you mean by scripting his careers. I've got my gripes with his content aplenty but it never occurred to me with any of these youtubers how they would go about manipulating the results of their races beyond gimping the difficulty--which I'm convinced Aarava in particular does as he goes out of his way to never show the difficulty screen at the start of his MyTeam playthroughs.

These days the only two I follow are Tom and Matt212--former because I find him the most legit driver without being Jarno-levels of OP and the latter because he's the most genuine, entertaining, and races the AI with the most dignity and respect.

@Neomo Press F for our poor console brothers.

@AquaOrenji If you look at his careers, you will eventually realise how scripted it feels. It's just not organic to me and others. If that hasn't changed, I dunno because ever since he used a very "problematic" thumbnail (I'm not going into details, but I called him out/scolded him for it because it involved a uniform from 1933-1945 Germany) for his Reddit section IIRC, I unsubbed him, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was still scripting his careers.

@matty0blobber I was only mentioning this here. I don't dwell on how scripted his content is, I just watch different content instead, so let's move on.

As for the hate, it isn't a recent common theme, it's been going on for years but escalating with each day. And I don't want to make any excuses for any glitches and bugs (and I am a big defender of QA departments in gaming), but this is unfortunately a common issue with any yearly release. See e.g. COD and how glitchy the game tends to be because the Powers that Be want full compliance with the release date they gave so they can take in all of the €€€.