Bring back ability to adjust difficulty once session has been loaded

I agree as well. The AI level difficulty has been an absolute mess for far too long now. It's just laziness on codemasters and EA's part. I've never played another game where the difficulty level changes from one event to the next in such an extreme way. It should just be a set number and once you improve as a player, you increase the number.

The AI difficulty button in the menu was at least a good work around but for some reason they don't agree. It HAS to be patched in. 

I think it's not the difficulty that changes but people's competence on the track

all the things are a fraction of a second small mistake, or bad interpretation of a couple of curves can be the difference between 5-10, even 15 levels

we are not as consistent as AI, so I suspect the problem is mostly player-driving skill/consistency 

But that doesn't justify them removing the ability to change the level at any time the player wants! Especially because of how difficult it is to be 100% consistent with AI in all tracks

@pekish79I'm talking about between Practice 3 and Qualifying. P3 I was within 0.300 of Albon, which is how I like it, and then in qualifying, I was over 2 whole seconds ahead of him and able to keep up with the Ferraris and Aston Martins without a struggle.

We had this menu from 2017 to 2020 and then out of nowhere, it was removed for 2021. It's a real quality-of-life thing to have, otherwise it can ruin a weekend when you suddenly realise you're too quick or too slow, and there's no way to change it.

I've got absolutely no issue with the ebb and flow of difficulty from track to track, but when things like this happen, even when it goes just a little bit too far, it would be nice to be able to correct it like we used to.

maybe it's because you got used to the track, or maybe the difficult you are using has something weird

because in my case 75-80 in all 23 tracks (I tried them all did 2-3 full my team season) whatever is in the practice reflect in the qualification

obviously, 1 or 1.5 second faster than practice (sometimes even 2)

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@Pekish79 wrote:

maybe it's because you got used to the track, or maybe the difficult you are using has something weird

because in my case 75-80 in all 23 tracks (I tried them all did 2-3 full my team season) whatever is in the practice reflect in the qualification

obviously, 1 or 1.5 second faster than practice (sometimes even 2)

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@Pekish79 For me there is a massive difference in AI between practice, qualifying and the race. Yes you can change between sessions, and that will get you a long way in the right direction - but it’s still useful to be able to change in the session (and restart) to make fine tune adjustments if needed - you cannot do that once you have started the session as you cannot get back to the “team base/ workstation” setting screen so you’re stuck in the session no matter what you do.  100% agree with @s00zster  on this one.

Of course, the option should always be there not sure why they removed it between sessions since it is a single-player game; we should be able to do what we want.

But I feel 1 sec 1.5 sec between practice and real qualification is normal in practice unless you are testing qualif. time you have much more gasoline on the yellow or white tire (especially if u want to save a red one). And when you are using red, you are probably testing setups. I think they are balanced.

I personally set one level and never change it for the all-season because I suspect when it is easy is because I know the race very well, and when it's hard, I feel I need to improve myself instead of lower the level. Don't get me wrong, Devs make a mistake like qualification-challenge in practice (awfully wrong by a lot), but overall, tweaking the level too often, I feel it is more because of our inconsistent capacity than their problem. Then again, each one play however they want!

@s00zster it deserves to be added to the section https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Suggestions/bd-p/f1-23-drivers-lounge-en 😉