F1® 24 [Megathread] Handling Feedback after patch 1.3

@HansenhausAgreed, the steering inputs are miles away from being anything but compliant.

I too am also experimenting with the steering rate, lock and linearity.

i set my steering linearity to 40, steering rate to 160, and steering saturation is 50.  

Might be too sensitive for some.

Okay, I feel with some extensive testing today I now have a really good feeling with the handling model. I think my mistake was to use very stiff ARB both front and rear as this seemed initially the way to go looking at the at the TT leaderboards.

However for me using a controller I simply found the input and sensitivity way too much. By having the ARB so stiff gave me a really twitchy front end followed by some instability with the rear and a lot of mid corner understeer.

Playing round with car setups a good starting point on the ARB setup for me was 13 front and 9 rear. This at least for me almost eliminates that horrid sensitivity of the initial turn in. It just feels so much better. Not sure it's faster, but it definitely has improved my enjoyment by a huge amount.

By running with the ARB around 13 front and 9 rear makes it feel much closer to F123 than ever before.

I've also tried some testing with steering lock and steering rate. 

I'm happy with the steering rate at around 90 to 100. I have the steering linearity at 0 and steering lock at 320 for now.

For me at least this is a massive improvement. May not suit everyone, but I can definitely work with this.

For me it feels worse the traction coming out of turn 2 at Bahrain is just awful, it spins way to easily, once the car is completely in a straight line though there still seams to be infinite traction, I can't tell yet if I notice a change in braking but as I play more I will probably be able to notice more stuff.

 I just lurk, but I had to chime in after doing a sprint quali/sprint/quali in austria in career. This patch is a huge step backwards for me. More understeer and less traction out of corners, why am I wheel spinning in fourth gear? I thought the launch handling was great and all you had to do was fix the exploits and the curbs....this is just a huge disappointment and makes me not want to play the game anymore. I'll wait to see if a setup meta develops that makes the cars driveable but the traction out of corners is as bad as last year now. I just dont understand why you would do this

It’s hard for me to truly judge as I was in parc ferne conditions when the patch installed so couldn’t adjust my setup. Having said that, given the setup I had and how it was I can say that there seems to be a little more understeer through lower speed corners and longer fast corners while the rear is very twitchy under acceleration, I turned on throttle diff down to 10 and still found it twitchy out of slow to medium speed corners.

Now this could have a lot to do with my setup as I couldn’t change it before the race. Overall, as much as I didn’t have an issue with the old handling model, this one feels like it may be better if I had a better setup. We’ll see how it is in the next few races where I can play with the setup.

Unfortunately, for a casual player such as myself who didn’t have an issue with the handling model to begin with, there are far bigger issues (wet weather tire issue, etc) that needed to be addressed first.

This I think was a step back. I have less feel for the car overall, I get wheelspin in the dry in 5th gear, (even easing onto the throttle), the car feels disconnected from the track. It also feels like someone put a heavy weight on the front. Things feel like they conflict with each other. Also while going full lock, or close to, the car just loses speed instead of losing grip. Not sure what is going on with that. It's from one extreme to the other. The wheel can get away with some of this and seems better, but the controller side feels worse. This was a comparison with the same/similar setups, so this may change after modifying them. May not though

Hi there , first of all I play on XSX and use a TX thrustmaster base , I am a kinda competitive player on the F1 games on recent years usualy playing with the IA on 105 or more depending the circuit and I've done around 350 hours racing on F1 23.

I must say than the feeling I have with this year's game is horrendous , tons of front grip being super disproportionate and I just don't get it. I am playing with 450 ° of rotation and even though the car feels exponentially responsive but the other way around like the first degrees on each side are super saturated and as you go on with the turn in it eases on (I hope I had explain well enough lol) , playing streets circuits its a nightmare on tight turns like hairpins (as I have a formula style wheel is really uncomfortable to get the 450° to get the car around) and I'd really love to see a change on that and if you guys want to focus the game on a sharper front end thats perfect but please don't get it this way , it feels so odd , even counter-steering Its way waaay to easy and responsive but getting to unreal levels , literally you are able to recover the car every time no matter what (360° rotation as default and feeling good like older games that way would be *chef's kiss).

As on the second thing I'd really like to point out the Kerbs as they are mostly flat. Last year they were pretty good actually with exeption of a few of them being a bit to agressive (like Jeddah S) , I'd definitely like to see some real kerbs than penalize you if you get the floor and wood plank to touch them but not as much as to skate a rail not being able to steer out of them at all.

And lastly the third thing I got as feedback is battery and engine braking , I feel than the Hotlap mode has a lot of torque and makes really difficult exits on low speed corners at times and reminds me a lot the release version of F1 22 , getting that a little more scaled on the first 3 gears would be awesome (23 felt great tbh) . Talking about the engine braking I like it as an addition but I'd definitely change a couple things as on 100% EB It decelerate the car so much but I feel there is not punishment for having it too high (like 90 or 100%) on mid speed corners , just find the car more unstable on the low speed ones.

I've just done TT and few 5 lap races to see how the handling was after the update and after a few hours I didn't want to race any more , my main concern is with the exagerated grip on the fronts and the super flat kerbs , even though I like an unstable car on the rear and the front to bite quite a lot I cannot get along with this, feels too unreal.

I enjoy playing on leagues and with colleagues on the F1 games but I'm definitely not playing the game anymore as it is rn but I hope it gets better in the near future. 

Thanks for listening to the community and for giving us this space for giving feedback , hope this helps