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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- 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.
- @LuckyNico92 They can’t just write a couple of bits of code. Why? Because they have fall into the trap off being criticised for not offering anything knew. So they swing for the fences by making huge changes which I grant you is the problem.
I’m firmly in the camp where I’d like to see improvements to the core features year on year. Even if they are just minor. But that’s not how it works. They look to add a big new feature every year and that screws up the code and creates the bugs. We’ve had My Team added, then Breaking point and then world etc etc.
