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Community ManagerF1® 24 Official Gameplay Deep Dive
Hey everyone,
Check out the first F1® 24 Official Gameplay Deep Dive today at 15:00 UTC!
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@mariohomoh Call me Naive but the new R&D scenario's such as "High Inflation", "Chip Shortage", "Minor Upgrades Only", "Balancing Out the Field" would seem to make it much harder to max out and break the car by season 3. Chip Shortage in particular seems rough as it limits you to 1 upgrade per month, so probably 10 for a season. Presuming regulation resets are still a thing you could lose a good chunk of your R&D.
The video never showed what effect "Balancing out the Field" has, but I assume it acts as some sort of soft reset with the intention of rebalancing and extending career saves. But like I said maybe I'm just being optimistically naive.
@TheRagebeard by "broken car" we mean a car that has a worse handling than before. After a certain point, the car becomes a pain to drive. That's been one of the staples of both single player modes, as our resident single player expert @ScarDuck14 can attest to.
That's a fundamental design flaw.
Those features you mention would address the issue of not having a level playing field after a few seasons, or the AI being unable to keep pace with your R&D output. They just indirectly address that flaw - and would do so just by postponing it. Unless the game constantly resets you back to an unbroken state, but then we'd be bordering on FIFA "now your De Bruyne crosses like nanny" levels of scripting.
The R&D tree is unbalanced at its core, and the Deep Dive did not instill any confidence in me that the issue has been finally taken care of.
@mariohomoh Yes, although I probably don't play as much as duck, I primarily play career mode so I'm aware of the "season 3" issue if you will. And while I would agree it is a fundamental design flaw I think your being a bit negative and looking at this glass half empty style. Maybe the issue remains unfixed but surely postponing it to season 5 ,6, or 7 is preferable to season 3?
@TheRagebeardWell, we are both discussing it over a 5min clip on Youtube, aren't we? You say I'm being negative, then I'll call you on your offer and indeed say you're being naive that after 4 years or so of full priced $60-70 titles their featured "chip shortage" and "high inflation" is going to do enough to redress their fundamentally broken R&D system 😉
And as I've said, postponing is indirectly addressing it so obviously it is better than doing nothing at all. But, stone me for daring to say it if you will, after so many years I'm expecting more from a "all new career mode"?
Sorry for being a downer. We're both extrapolating on a 5min clip and I am doing so on the negative pole of the spectrum. But those are my reasons for not getting excited, and I believe them to be reasonable 🫶
@mariohomoh You don't have to apologize for being a downer, your certainly entitled to hold whatever beliefs you choose. Me I choose the path of the optimist and maybe that makes me naive, but that also gives me something to look forward to and be excited about for the next month.
I believe stoning was outlawed a long time ago so I'm not going to do that, but I am going to and ask your to explain in detail what you were expecting from an "All New Career Mode"?
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