Community Manager@IanM282
I would say that just because the handling is fine for you in career doesn't mean it's good for other people's use cases. There's a large league racing community for these games and making the handling feel like crap with fast setups just means that leagues are gonna continue to struggle pulling people in.
F1 22 almost killed the league racing community entirely. I saw several thriving leagues killed during that game cycle and saw plenty others continue as a shell of their former selves.
F1 23 was an improvement but it's all relative and people were just happy to have a game that didn't feel like trash to drive.
F1 24 at launch had a solid foundation and all they had to do was fix a few small issues but with the update they somehow managed to give us a handling model that feels almost as bad as F1 22 and just because you can throw on a crap ton of rear wing and stunt on the 90 AI doesn't mean the handling is perfect. In fact, having to do that just shows how broken it actually is.
It would be one thing if it was like this from the beginning but it wasn't. We've traded one set of issues for a different and arguably worse set of issues that I think will ultimately be detrimental to the league racing community which is already struggling but has been slowly regaining users over the 23 game cycle.
I have seen at least 5 people in the leagues I run in say that if this is the handling model we're gonna be stuck with then they're calling it quits on F1. I don't blame them and I feel the same.
If codemasters only care about making a game where the cars are unrealistically hard to drive to appease the esports people at the expense of the rest of the competitive online community then I'm not interested. These cars are the pinnacle of motorsport and they have immense levels of down force and are absolutely able to take corners flat IRL that you can't take flat in the game following the update. Making the cars more realistic doesn't mean they're harder to drive and Casey Ringley even said this himself in the F1 explained podcast prior to launch. Id love to see him come in here and tell us how this update made things more realistic in any way.
I've been playing with controller settings for my elite controller for the last 30 minutes. Getting on the throttle through the esses at COTA or Suzuka and you spin out. Touch the throttle in a low speed corner now... spin instantly. Complete disaster of an update for pad players. So typical of EA/Codies. Fixed the pushy front end, flat out destroyed handling and traction while at it. The game once felt fun, now it's just a disaster.
@shery_a_coleslawyou brake hard and as you turn in you bleed of now only for some corner for example at stowe in Silverstone I brake entirely in a straight line then get get on the throttle and have what I describe as massive balls for the rest of the corner,but in turn I believe it is 3 since exit is not as important you trail brake but be sure not to go too deep into the corner because it will mess up your turn 4
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