F1 24 Frustrations
I bought this game today and while some of it is fun, for the most part it's a drag.
For starters, the initial experience is as bad as F1 23 was. Every single time you launch the game, you game to specify if you want the regular or VR version. Why? I don't have a VR headset, and I don't think I ever will. It's not in my plans. So why not just remember the choice the first time, then have a setting in game to change that to VR if needed?
Then, just as F1 23, it launches in a weird window tha
t is not a window and takes up the left top quart
er of the screen. It launches in 1920x1080, completely disregarding the system's resolution of 3840x2160. You have to go into the video settings, set it to the larger size, which the first time it simply ignores, and you have to do a couple more things I forgot. But if that was all, I wouldn't care that much.
I appreciate the level of sophistication the game has when it comes to all the career stuff, which seems to have many ways of going through tournaments and whatnot, but I don't have eternal life and still have a lot to do with it, so I can't spend weeks to advance through the 1,000,000,000 different stages this game seems to have, each and every one with the lady explaining to you what they are and etc. I keep pressing A in my game controller every time I hear her voice and she starts talking again, and I keep pressing the button an so on. Really annoying.
All I want is simple. I just want to have fun. I want to have a simple mode where I can choose a car, a racetrack and just go in. No rules, no guy telling me that if I keep up this behavior I'm going to get disqualified, which makes me go on a car wrecking rampage until I am. 😆
If anyone here is familiar with Forza Motorsport, I want something like that. You have all the career things if you want them, but I can also go into a simple mode where I can choose any car I want, and any racetrack I want, and go into the race. Now, one thing that sucks about FM is its handling, which is actually excellent in F1 24. I can go 340 Kmph, hit the brake, make a hard turn and actually turn, while the same thing in FM would mean skidding off the track as if there was oil all over it.
After spending several minutes going menu by menu,
I found an "arcade" type of race. Hallelujah! Well, it turns out there's nothing arcade about it. First off, you only have one track, which is Australia, and after playing a few times in it, I'm ready for another one. But I wonder if Codemasters have an idea of what the term "arcade" entails, but we all know what it means. So when I start racing in this supposed to be arcade mode and the team captain or whatever he is keeps telling me that I'm getting seconds taken out, and that if I don't improve my behavior I'm going to get disqualified, that seems to me more like something you would hear in career mode.
So I think, there's gotta be a way to turn that off, and I don't mean the audio, but the "feature". So I get out of the race, and keep going back until I find a way to go into settings. So I see a section called "Rules & Flags". I think great, this is it. So I see that is set to on, piece of cake, I try to turn it off. But the thing doesn't move, it's stuck in On and that's the way it is. In the "arcade" mode. So this doesn't make any sense to me.
So I start exploring the other modes, and I got to one where I could choose the car and track, but it was dependent on finding other players online:
Even though I had set the game to have 10 AI players, this wouldn't start until some random players online joined, so at this point I just pressed Alt+F4 to close the game because I was beyond fed up with it.
So, is there a way in this game to just have fun and play? I'm criticizing that there are so many options for career modes, I think it's great if other people have plenty of time and are into the world of Formula 1 racing. But I just want to have a bit of fun, not spend weeks or months unlocking this and that.
Is that possible at all in this game?
