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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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" 🙂
EA_Groguet
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Community Manager@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
-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!
@EA_Groguet: It looks like I was wrong about Mercedes sometimes being mistaken for McLaren and Red Bull sometimes being mistaken for Alfa Tauri, because here's an instance where Elvis says "Piastri's in first place" when you can see on the map that Verstappen's leading (and I can tell that he has been since he took the lead from Leclerc on lap 7).
But also notice how Norris (just in front of me) is coming into pit. I wonder if that triggered the wrong message, like Elvis was supposed to say "Norris is coming into the pits" but not only did he get the driver name wrong, he also got the message wrong? Like I said, I've seen plenty of variations of this (wrong driver name, wrong team name, saying somebody's just taken the lead when it happened many laps ago, etc.)
