Are we sure driver contracts were fixed?

I'm just going to leave this here, skip to 15:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8amzelxHQ8

As it pertains to this specific thread, there is a comment that shows that the driver contract fix does not affect saved careers. As I suspected really. Just too much to ask for from the Masters of Code. 

Anywell, I'm going to turn off driver transfers and finish out the season, then turn them back on immediately after Abu Dhabi and see what that does. I'll decide then whether to start a new MyTeam as a midpack car since that's where I'm basically running anyway in S1 with the godawful AI this year, even with mods. But yea, starting a new career at all is a treacherous proposition. Will that bug get fixed? Maybe, but don't expect it to work for your saved game. But on the other hand, if you wait for it to get fixed, you may never get to start a new career at all. 

This game, this dev, and this publisher are all so, so very toxic. 

Tom97 career video before Abu Dhabi….  Driver transfers has NOT been fixed.  For your current career, My team season.   It should be ok for following season.  But can’t be sure.  Can’t be sure to this point if starting a new career will work🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Hyuzo7aUE&t=276s

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@ScarDuck14 wrote:

Tom97 career video before Abu Dhabi….  Driver transfers has NOT been fixed.  For your current career, My team season.   It should be ok for following season.  But can’t be sure.  Can’t be sure to this point if starting a new career will work🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Hyuzo7aUE&t=276s

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Now my issue becomes whether we're certain that it gets fixed the following season. The logic I've read behind how the contracts work and therefore would fix themselves seems sound but...Codemasters has trained me to expect the worst at all times. Between the awful AI, the finding my difficulty level all season, the contracts, the race suits, the inverted resources, the red flag fiasco, the driver ratings being too high and biased against the best drivers and the personnel giving too many buffs (did I forget anything?), it would just make more sense to heavily mod my game and start completely over. Like, right now--do not advance to the next race weekend, just start right the F over.

Of course, a non-masochist, self-respecting individual would just shelve the game until December and wait til at least 1.3, but...tH4T dR1v1nG m0d3l!!!

Although I'm looking into this cheat engine and toolkit that's available and wondering if it'll solve most of my problems. I don't remember having this in 2019 and didn't get invested enough in any game since to install mods.

@AquaOrenjiI completely feel your pain… Every painful word.

However as I’m on PS5 i hate you for at least having the option to be able to use mods😤😂

I just nuked the whole lot game save and game. Fresh install and new save.   Nothing I’m not used to. On F1 22 I did the same to hundreds of my team career stats. Wasn’t until 3 months after game release and a ton of patches that I decided to it was ok to do multiple seasons.   700 hours last year and 900 hours the year before. There isn’t a way I haven’t played a myteam career.   Which just saddens me this years as apart from new bugs nothing in my team has changed 🤷🏻‍♂️.  How they managed to put more bugs into a mode they havnt done anything to is unbelievable.  But at the same time I’m not even a little bit surprised 

@ScarDuck14I honestly don't know how you console guys put up with it year in and out. I haven't bought F1 on console since 2012. It feels like one of those awful marriages where the only reason I keep going is because the kids (mods) make it bearable. But if this year is anything to go by, EA will eventually kill off modding and that'll be the true final straw for me.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder why I still bother. There's a contingent of people on Assetto Corsa who dedicate themselves to bringing a compelling, near-authentic F1 experience. One team does the cars and they drive so much better, and even have in-car systems that the official F1 game doesn't replicate. A few guys do the liveries and rosters and they're almost always up to date--no need for any "mid season updates" when the ratings get updated after every event. Another group does amazing modding things to bring as many official F1 circuits as they can in a timely manner--no waiting 10 years for an updated Spa. And another guy has recently been making a spreadsheet that tracks the WDC and constructor's championship to a T so long as you don't mind punching in race results. Unlike the guys with the actual F1 license, you can tell these people are genuine F1 fans, genuine fans of the game they're working on (and didn't even create), and truly care about their work and efforts--and they get paid far less for their troubles, bless them.

The only reason I continue to do business with Codies is because the original Grid and Dirt 1/2 are still on my pantheon of racing games, and they kinda got me into F1 for good with 2012-14 and I feel like they still give the most authentic F1 experience out of the box--if not the most polished and convincing. But if I didn't care about a couple tracks and layouts missing here n there, the lack of between-race admin and the RPG-esque research/upgrade dynamic, or an even worse AI that is literally inhibited by the 13 year old game engine from engaging in proper pit strategy, I'd be on AC right now and over this pathetic franchise. TBH I think that once I finish rounding up and updating the AC content I neglected over Spring, I'll drop F1 23 and go radio silent again until I hear of a massive overhaul to the Career mode and a scaling back of the ongoing dumbification of the F1 brand.  

In the meantime, I implore you to get yourself a pc and at least try one of these F1 games modded to see what you've been missing. Nowadays not much because the game is just soooo irredeemably bad, but it's definitely less painful than going in bone-dry. If you can log that many hours vanilla, you'd be over the moon even with a modded '23.