Race engineer never says "14"
When you ask your engineer for a race update that includes numbers (like e.g. lap times) he never pronounces the number 14. The number is not even included in the subtitles. Hopefully this bug will ...
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@EA_Groguet Hi, Groguet! Yes, you can see the bug I'm talking about here at 17:38 https://youtu.be/Nz5OVByVOg0?si=KvT4uHVIQPKFkyoC&t=1058
I've had missing numbers as well when Elvis reads out lap times, gaps to the other cars, or gaps to your team mate.
There are plenty of other instances where he incorrectly says things like "Tsunoda has just taken the lead" when Verstappen is leading (and has done so since the start of the race, so the leader hasn't changed at all). Or "the Mercedes car has just come into the pits" when a McLaren has pit. Or shouting the "go go go!" message (or whatever he says for a quick pit release), but you're already half way round your outlap.
If they're going to investigate these missing number errors can they also look into all of these other issues as well? It really breaks the sense of immersion when Elvis is saying gibberish most of the time.
The funniest one isn't a bug but more of a grammatical error: when Elvis says "rain is still 3 lap outs", instead of "rain is still 3 laps out" 🙂
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@geezw Thanks for the extra info! If you have any clip of those errors I could add them to the report so they also get checked ^^
-Groguet@EA_Groguet : Okay no worries, I'll keep an eye out for them and post them here as I encounter them. I had an incorrect leader name and wrong team name when pitting yesterday, but frustratingly I wasn't recording. I could be wrong but I've noticed it's usually Elvis confusing McLaren with Mercedes, and Alfa Tauri with Red Bull.
I can also confirm that @BeatdownRacing is spot on, Elvis definitely refuses to say "14". I did a medium length race at Brazil with the AI set to 95, and by the end of their first stint on mediums most of the lead drivers drop into the 1:14s. So it's easy to reproduce. Just wait for their lap times to drop and ask Elvis about the car ahead/behind.
As for other Race Engineer glitches, here's another one. I'm on lap 10 and my team mate (Verstappen) has just pit so his last lap time was over 2 minutes. I ask Elvis what my team mate's status is and he gets the gap wrong (he says "6.1 seconds" when he's actually 15-20 seconds ahead). You can then hear him start to read out my team mate's last lap time: "Time last lap was a two minutes...", but he cuts off mid sentence and instead says "okay the last lap was a one, zero, zero, point five".
His lap time on Lap 9 was actually 2:00.587, as shown in the end of race standings...
- EA_Groguet
@geezw wrote:
@EA_Groguet : Okay no worries, I'll keep an eye out for them and post them here as I encounter them. I had an incorrect leader name and wrong team name when pitting yesterday, but frustratingly I wasn't recording. I could be wrong but I've noticed it's usually Elvis confusing McLaren with Mercedes, and Alfa Tauri with Red Bull.
I can also confirm that @BeatdownRacing is spot on, Elvis definitely refuses to say "14". I did a medium length race at Brazil with the AI set to 95, and by the end of their first stint on mediums most of the lead drivers drop into the 1:14s. So it's easy to reproduce. Just wait for their lap times to drop and ask Elvis about the car ahead/behind.
As for other Race Engineer glitches, here's another one. I'm on lap 10 and my team mate (Verstappen) has just pit so his last lap time was over 2 minutes. I ask Elvis what my team mate's status is and he gets the gap wrong (he says "6.1 seconds" when he's actually 15-20 seconds ahead). You can then hear him start to read out my team mate's last lap time: "Time last lap was a two minutes...", but he cuts off mid sentence and instead says "okay the last lap was a one, zero, zero, point five".
His lap time on Lap 9 was actually 2:00.587, as shown in the end of race standings...
Thank you very much for this. I have now reported this issue and the team is investigating it.
Thanks again for your reports!
- @geezw Something else I've noticed is that the game doesn't seem to discriminate between the various reasons why the engineer is suggesting a mid-race strategy change. If I do a good job managing my tyres, he'll say something like "don't worry mate, it happens" or "we've picked up some damage," when the strategy suggestion is actually to extend the current stint.
It seems like new audio was added to this year's title, but it was all put in a single "new mid-race strategy" bucket.
