F1® 24 Official Gameplay Deep Dive

@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.

@Cpayne32 Grats on Champion, welcome to the club

@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 🫶

@TheRagebeardit’s not just a season 3 thing. As Career still is fundamentally the same with new bits added to it. This I’m sorry to say has potential to cause issues on issues.

I like my glass half full. But if nothing has been done to reworking and fully testing to upgrades. Added with more changes to handling physics. There will be a point where a upgrade with turn the car into 💩

To many times I’ve said “Nah it’ll be fine”

@Cpayne32   Champion 💪

@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"?

@ScarDuck14 *sigh* I know it's has to do with the upgrades, I just said season 3 because that's when it tends to hit for the average player.

Your second paragraph could go either way, because we don't know how the upgrades will interact with the new handling physics. They could cause the car to "break" sooner or they could cause it to "break" later, we won't know until we give it a go.

Why do all you old retired champions have to be negative 24/7 lol

I want to kudo your post for congratulating Cpayne but I can't because the rest of it is meh

@TheRagebeardExperience of playing Codemasters games for over 30 yearrs. Know they can drop a banger but these days it’s mostly clangers

I think I can survive missing out on a XP. Plus if I posted what I was going to you have been raging

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@TheRagebeard wrote:

Why do all you old retired champions have to be negative 24/7 lol

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Retired champions? Completely irrelevant descriptor.

As for a more fitting one, one that also includes @Meza994 who pointed out the same potential failings of the "all new" career mode, I'll be roundabouty and cryptic leaving you with just a hint: ask @ScarDuck14 the number of hours he logged in his least played F1 game.