Community ManagerI only play solo career and my team, I have no interest in the rest. F1 Fan Zone seems frivolous. If I wanted to take part in those sort of things there is F1 voice and other sites for that sort of thing.
The game overall is 70% there but what is missing matters to me which would be OK if the game had been half the price. I want to love the game but I am having trouble liking it. So I feel somewhat cheated. From the way podium pass is handled with the ridiculous stickers and parts for the F1 World mode I never want to play to the inability to set me favourite drivers and cars into the menu scenes instead of looking at a driver or two I dislike the game feels like it never follows though on any of its promise.
The game also is completely dissengaged from the history of F1 other than the icons. If the icons included some test drivers or other academy drivers it might be worth it to me, butI don’t want to be some old guy driving in modern F1. If I am going to be them it would be in a classic car scenario.
1. Customization
Woefully inadequate. This is 25% of my frustration since you took a step backwards. The availability of helmets to choose from for your driver is poor to say the least and the number of colour zones on most of them is also poor and the matte vs gloss prechoices are also poor.
Liveries are also lacking and when they do arrive look completely unsuited to represent a real F1 team. With so many historic liveries to draw inspiration from why do we get clock work patterns and camouflage? Race numbers should be colour editiable with each being different based on car location so they don’t disappear.
Race suits are now shiny and nothing like what the teams wear. The sponsorships disappear if the part of the car is the wrong colour to the suit.
Race team wear could also be customizeable, maybe using your casual clothing lime for that. Same with pitcrew helmets and firesuits
Weather in career and my team should also be customizeable or at least turn it off if and when a patch ruins the AI wet/dry balance.
Track order should be changeable within seasonal reason with classic F1 tracks.
Pit box order needs to change with finish from the previous year.
Spring races should be something you can turn off, and also pick the 6 races at the start of the season after season 1.
AI should be changeable on session restart at a minimu, mid session would be better.
Menus should also be theme selected, a Ferrari fan sees Ferrari cars and divers, etc.
2. Career Mode
Specialists are OK but not great, Secret meetings are great. The ability to walk into any team is not immersive, should be an option to allow player to get a seat based on merit or to pick it. Especially coming out of F2.
Rivalries are good but without media asking questions they go stale. By the way, animated characters with teethy grins look scary, not happy, rethink the smiles.
Pit box order changes season to season.
Careers should go 20: and be in context of some of the records like wins, win %, poles, pole%, titles, etc. Just not points which is a meaningless stat.
Get rid of the house cut scene or let me skip it. If it stays then have the trophy room represent my trophies and the race suits represent my career.
3. My Team
You dropped the ball here with total lack of customization as above but the mode had more potential than was ever realized.
Split the owner from the driver. Have a character for both (or same if chosen by the player). Sign two drivers and allow for a hot seat mode, or for a player to choose 1 of the two to be that weekend.
As drivers come out of F2 to take seats in F1 fantasy drivers could be generated to fill the F2 void allowing for more diverse drivers to enter the sport.
Budget cap would be nice, with having the key personel plus factory facilities in place to give bonuses around speed of development, resource points etc. Team need reputation to hire the best as well as money.
The mirrors need to be brought in to be useful in cockpit mode.
4. AI
Both great and awful. There is little variation in the way they drive, the strategies they use or pit strategy. The AI is inconsistent track to track and Qualy to race. Sit down and drive all the races with full assists except steering and you’ll see how some tracks they are faster than others for no reason. Maybe it is linked to fuel loads at those tracks where the player can’t lower the laps worth of fuel low enough.
The grip the AI in full wet conditions is unreal at times, hence the request to be ab,e to turn of weather or weatherneffects.
The lack of pit strategy advice coming from my race engineer as in previous games means I am doing it on the fly, surely he knows if I should switch to mediums or hards after my inters come off. Suely he can suggest the under cut from time to time if he sees a gap jn the traffic?
5. Braking Point
I don’t care for it, I know some do. If it detracts from fixing the game and improving the experience then get rid of it.
6.
Practice programs
This is the chance formus to get the AI right through Race Sim and Qualy Sim. We get the one but the other is random. Why?
Finally why do I have the avatars of people I don’t know ever showing up anywhere in my game. I guess that is how you sell the casual clothing merch but I just find them horribly annoying.
2025 is an anniversary year, time to celebrate the past and present. The game needs to be worthy of the moment The kore control the solo player has over how they play and what they wear the better the game will be.
