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russw1952

Seasoned Rookie

1 year ago

Drivers Needed

The endless squabbling over car handling and performance needs to stop. Almost none of us know what an actual F1 car feels like to drive. That is why Codemasters should bring a couple of retired F1 d...

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russw1952

Seasoned Rookie

1 year ago

I agree with many of your points about the handling. My word choice was not the best; there is no squabble. But there are a lot of contradictory criticisms that make it more difficult for Codemasters to decide what to focus upon. That is why retired F1 driver consultants would be such a huge improvement (retired drivers can give honest feedback) and provide knowledge based first hand feedback. The clarity of a single professionally defined handling would hopefully end the yearly merry-go-round of handling tweaks and upgrades that usually do little but upset those who are happy and fail to satisfy the disgruntled, all while wiping out hard fought TT times or, like now, keeping TT times that are no longer relevant and near impossible to beat with the upgraded handling.

Just to add another wish, I would also like the pro consultants to offer a set-up for each track and I would like a driver's TT setup for a track to automatically be available in all other driving modes (Career, Multi-player...).

Neil_RS60

Rising Veteran

1 year ago

I think the remodeling of the suspension tires etc was a worthy effort so they deserve some credit though the tuning of it still needs work

Agree that there are too many conflicting voices regarding how it handles. Without a trusted reference to tune against the complaints are never going to die down. Former F1 drivers could be a valuable addition. Current pros like Lando or Max would never have enough time for more than a quick take for marketing purposes and Max’s preferences would likely be at the edge for most anyway

But the wheel FFB also needs work as well as its not very communicative and has been so for a very long time. The compromises needed for pad vs wheel makes it more complicated and likely biased depending on the amount of time spent for each

Unfortunately the amount of resource in these areas has been small vs all the rest of effort put into the gameplay modes, add ons and fluff in recent years

SDGMatt
Seasoned Ace
1 year ago
Older games in the series had some valuable feedback from Anthony Davidson who is STILL the Mercedes sim and development driver. There are so many young test drivers that they could call upon for guidance though.... Credit to them for the direction they wanted to take the game with the remodelling of suspension and virtual wind tunnel, but it just seems that the execution has been a disaster!! The game isn't a sim... but there needs to be a balance between realism and arcade and this handling model seems to be more mobile game. It doesn't even visually represent what we see from the real cars. They seem disconnected from the track surface. Far too floaty! It feels like I'm steering a hovercraft at times.
The number of patches now is getting silly, and I personally think they're making the handling worse with each one. It's so far from the launch spec now that there was no point pre-ordering, 2 months in and it still feels like we've all paid £89.99 for a beta test. The constant leaderboard resets are annoying to all those who invested time into settings laps at every track.
The rest of the game has been badly neglected, too. One of the biggest complaints on here is the lack of content and customisation for Race Wear. Only 1 helmet at launch, 3 in the store, and 30+ Puma shoes to choose from..... and today's patch brought even more Puma nonsense! Listen to your players EA!! Sales are in a massive slump, and you're annoying the ones you have left...
- russw1952
  Seasoned Rookie
  1 year ago
  I don't disagree with your complaints about the handling and inconsistency. We do deserve better than what we have gotten for years from EA/Codemasters. As far as value added goes, they can really up there game there with more than custom helmets and furniture. Here what I would find a meaningful addition:
  First all of the EA Play telemetry data should be included with the purchase of the game and should be built into the game itself (the wonky EA website is a joke). They should also include an analysis of a player's best TT time for each track. That analysis should break the lap time down by fast, medium, and slow corners and Speed trap. Then, they should offer set-up recommendations/explanations to address the weakest areas in the lap. I believe most drivers would find great value in that. There are on-line websites that do something similar, but they never address the setup aspect of the cars.
  I don't know if these suggestions are taken seriously by EA/Codemasters, but they need to invest in this game if they want to keep it going. As it is, their sales are way down and F1 2024 is still sputtering on the launch pad.