Workaround if your and Ai cars don’t get damaged

In My Team despite having Car set to simulation damage and all other settings adjusted so you would expect would create an accident or two that led to cars crashing out.   I did nearly two full seasons at 50% with just one Ai car and me crashing out and not a Ai front wing repair in sight.   I raised the issue a couple off months back and  the problem couldn’t be replicated even though others have had the same issue.  It only affects My Team career. My   Driver career and GP mode work as you would expect.  Also it may be only on console.  As I’ve seen many YouTubeer  my team careers work fine on PC.

So I’ve narrowed down after a suggestion from a dev: That during formation lap even if  you have the lap turned off.   That damage is turned off.  And damage doesn’t turn on until the lights go out and the race begins.  It would appear in my team career.   Damage wasn’t being activated when race starts  

So the workaround that works for me is.  I have To do immersive  formation lap.   Once car is in grid box and then the race starts.  At your own convenience.  I do first sector for some reason.  Pause game go to settings menu and restart session.   You will restart already in your Grid box after formation lap as the 5 lights count down.   Begin racing as normal just be careful, I become so accustomed to no damage when hitting other cars.   It’s taking a minute to get myself back to being cautious into turn one 😂😇

There was also a suggestion that flashbacks turned off damage. I’ve been told that was fixed and can confirm now I get damage,    That flashbacks don’t turn  off damage. 

I’ve passed on the workaround to the devs so hopefully it will help identify why damage isn’t turning on and hope to be fixed at some point: As I don’t want to have to keep restarting race session every time.

Hope this helps anyone else having similar issues.    

Now if  Codemasters just provided me with a sim rig and all the wheels that have issues and illl knock them out in no time 😂😁

Edit you don’t have to do immersive formation lap.  Seems to work ok with broadcast also 

Also I think but can’t be 100% sure.  If you use multiple flashbacks during race. I don’t know if it’s an exact amount but at some point it disables damage again during race.