NO. JUST NO. NO MORE.
Guys, I am flipping done. I gave the game numerous chances over its lifetime, but the most recent bug that I discovered has completely killed my confidence in EA and the entire game. I wanted to pl...
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@ScarDuck14 wrote:@LuckyNico92Every year they port over the previous years game and add and remove and make changes to it to update it for the current year release. As they do this year on year each year the game gets more and more conflicts in the code that cause more glitches and bugs. Until it gets to the point where we have a bug fest off a game. Each patch that tries to fix one issue and then has a knock on effect that creates more.
I never said it was your fault. But you keep saying EA develop the game. They don’t. Codemasters does like it has always done.This year all of the development budget quite clearly went into F1 world. Then that was shoehorned into the game using the same code and mechanics that career modes use. But it’s also quite clear the differences they have coded into F1 world has caused many issues with career modes
I doubt any bugs in career modes will be fixed this year as it will risk causing more issues in F1 world
Look, mate. If Codemasters did it like they always did, then these things would have been different:
- F1 2021 would have had a grippy handling model and no ridiculous damage model that takes away 90% of your front downforce if you minimally scratch the wing.
- F1 22 wouldn't have had this nifty crashing bug that existed at launch (I speak from experience) and the AI wouldn't have been so massively overpowered.
- F1 23 would never have had this many bugs with red flags, engine failures and graphical glitches.
You see where this is going? If Codemasters want to make a competitive successor to F1 2020, they need to take the said game as a base, remodel the cars, insert the driver roster for the current season, focus on the Career Mode experience, be creative with championships you can play in Solo mode (maybe giving us finally the chance to play races with Supercars), but most importantly, and that's what made F1 2020 such an amazing experience, sort out all possible bugs before the release. And even if they need to postpone the release, who cares? At the very least, the community wouldn't be met with loads of bugs. And even if say F1 2016 and 2018 have flaws that were never fixed to this day, Codemasters improved for the next game. But with a strict publisher like EA, all this creativity that I adored Codemasters for is just... gone. Just gone. And especially that is what makes F1 23 so boring to play. You can't see the love that Codemasters used to put in their games, the games are no longer unique... It's all just gone, and this is what's peeving me the most. The legit only good Codemasters racing game since 2021 in my book was GRID Legends, A CODEMASTERS PRODUCTION as the intro of the game clearly states, and I'm honestly thinking about going back to this beautiful game again. 🙂
I don't know what you think about it, but unless a new major patch comes out, F1 23 is dead to me.
- Codemasters keep on being the sole developers of this franchise. EA has nothing to do with it in any direct manner, acting as publishers and providing their in-house tools for QA and data analysis. Everything you do in this game, from the initial button press on the splash screen to missing the apex at Parabolica, are 100% coded by Codemasters.
- You've been told this countless times by countless members, both on this forum and the other.
- @ScarDuck14 has been veritably playing this franchise far longer than you.
- Setting Car Damage, Car Damage Rate, Fault Frequency and/or Fault Types to standard should not prevent engine failure. It's written in the tooltip on the right.
- Dom Quixote and his windmills. This is Codemasters' doing, and you're better off not revisiting the past with rose tinted glasses. Codemasters took the bend on to this road long before EA acquired them.
- You've been also told this countless times by countless members, both on this forum and the other.
@mariohomoh wrote:- Codemasters keep on being the sole developers of this franchise. EA has nothing to do with it in any direct manner, acting as publishers and providing their in-house tools for QA and data analysis. Everything you do in this game, from the initial button press on the splash screen to missing the apex at Parabolica, are 100% coded by Codemasters.
- You've been told this countless times by countless members, both on this forum and the other.
- @ScarDuck14 has been veritably playing this franchise far longer than you.
- Setting Car Damage, Car Damage Rate, Fault Frequency and/or Fault Types to standard should not prevent engine failure. It's written in the tooltip on the right.
- Dom Quixote and his windmills. This is Codemasters' doing, and you're better off not revisiting the past with rose tinted glasses. Codemasters took the bend on to this road long before EA acquired them.
- You've been also told this countless times by countless members, both on this forum and the other.
Then let me tell you something.
- If you're so certain about this whole publisher/developer relationship, how do you explain the huge downfall ever since EA bought Codemasters out? Best example is Call of Duty, with Activision being the publisher, giving orders to all development teams working on the games, and don't tell me you're not aware about that.
- Yeah, I know. But when there's something wrong with the game, especially when it's F1, it's VERY EASY to blame EA, as this never happened back when Codemasters used to be both developer and publisher, which was the case up until 2020.
- If @ScarDuck14 played F1 2011 and/or before, then you're right. My first Codemasters F1 game was 2012, and after that, I skipped to 2015. And then, I skipped 2016 and 2018.
- Fault Types on Standard explicitly says, and I quote: "Mechanical failures are disabled." Then how do you explain the engine failure I wasn't supposed to get? Or are you telling me that I'm playing F1 Championship Edition in 2023?
- I'm sorry, but F1 23 is not fun for me right now. Really, I would have much more fun playing the older games from 2020 and before, I'm not kidding. If I still had it, I would even go back to F1 2012, not gonna lie.
- Yeah, I know. But imagine EA never bought Codemasters. How much better could F1 2021 have been?
@LuckyNico9221 was locked into development before EA took over. I’ve explained to you the downfall.
- @ScarDuck14 Like I said, Codemasters easily could have used F1 2020 as the base and just arrange the cars, drivers etc. to match the current season, maybe rewrite a couple lines of code or add a few lines, but in the condition this code you mentioned is now, the downfall is inevitable.
