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I just think there needs to be a sizemic shift in the general direction of a more immersive and realistic experience in general.

First and foremost it's a game and I think they have the balance pretty much perfect with regards to it being not too overly towards a racing simulation.

I played Geoff Crammonds GP2 GP3 and GP4 back in the day. I know games have moved on a lot since. But the prime example with that game was absolute focus on its main intention. Formula one racing.

I just think collecting stickers and fanzone is a complete waste of time. Those efforts could clearly be used elsewhere in the game.

Personally if it was up to me I'd have as hard a simulation as possible. But it has to be suitable for all types of players. And I do think EA and Codemasters have it nicely balanced in that regard. So that works well for me and many others.

I'd just love to see less focus on the more \"gamey\" aspects, like I previously mentioned in relation to stickers, fanzone, F1 world etc.

Instead a more realistic experience and better focus and attention towards the racing aspects.

I think for example the weather could be massively improved and less scripted. As mentioned before on this thread, have a dry line appearing rather than just wait for the call from the engineer to say a new strategy is available on the MFD.

I think the race engineer chat is totally awful and incredibly repetitive. It could be improved a lot, again that's adds to the realism and immersion.

Make race weekends more realistic and immersive from a team perspective. So more debriefs with the team, maybe just a simple Q and A menu etc.

Why not implement after the end of the race, driving around picking up rubber and driving the car back to the podium enclosure manually etc.

I'm not saying all of the above can be implemented in one go. But surely things like this would be so much better for any player rather than the pointless gimmicks like what we have now.

Add in a helmet editor and wow, you have a proper F1 game. 

I just think there needs to be a sizemic shift in the general direction of a more immersive and realistic experience in general.

First and foremost it's a game and I think they have the balance pretty much perfect with regards to it being not too overly towards a racing simulation.

I played Geoff Crammonds GP2 GP3 and GP4 back in the day. I know games have moved on a lot since. But the prime example with that game was absolute focus on its main intention. Formula one racing.

I just think collecting stickers and fanzone is a complete waste of time. Those efforts could clearly be used elsewhere in the game.

Personally if it was up to me I'd have as hard a simulation as possible. But it has to be suitable for all types of players. And I do think EA and Codemasters have it nicely balanced in that regard. So that works well for me and many others.

I'd just love to see less focus on the more \"gamey\" aspects, like I previously mentioned in relation to stickers, fanzone, F1 world etc.

Instead a more realistic experience and better focus and attention towards the racing aspects.

I think for example the weather could be massively improved and less scripted. As mentioned before on this thread, have a dry line appearing rather than just wait for the call from the engineer to say a new strategy is available on the MFD.

I think the race engineer chat is totally awful and incredibly repetitive. It could be improved a lot, again that's adds to the realism and immersion.

Make race weekends more realistic and immersive from a team perspective. So more debriefs with the team, maybe just a simple Q and A menu etc.

Why not implement after the end of the race, driving around picking up rubber and driving the car back to the podium enclosure manually etc.

I'm not saying all of the above can be implemented in one go. But surely things like this would be so much better for any player rather than the pointless gimmicks like what we have now.

Add in a helmet editor and wow, you have a proper F1 game. 

Reading the posts it seems to come back to customization options.

Someone complains the AI is not aggressive enough, the next might say its fine. What about a slider to set aggression?

One person wants the wet experience to be “real” and the next wants the cosmetics of rain but feel like they are Senna at Donnington. Is it possible to make a slider?

I thought for the way I play the handling was fine and the curbs more realistic, others hated them. Slider?

I use expert level, but and AI of 77 over 16 tracks and full assists except steering, DRs and ERS and am happy not wanting to do ore than sit down and race as if I were Mansell or Prost, the next person wants to grind away and learn the handling and complains the game is too easy. That in theory is just AI.

I know the race experience modes, whatever their called, is meant to help but the adaptive AI for casual never lived up to the hype, I was lapping cars at 50% distance and shut off features I wanted to use. Expert is the correct experience for me with the right AI but every so often in the past a patch would happen and destroy my ability to compete in the wet, or in transition, or at 1 particular track etc.

The ability to customize the experience player to player in solo modes I think is a huge part of the problem.

I just want to sit down without a lot of grinding and after a tough day full of stupid meetings and unrealistic deadlines, lose my self in an F1 fantasy where I am one of the best ever without having to grind for hours. I grind enough in my life.

Reading the posts it seems to come back to customization options.

Someone complains the AI is not aggressive enough, the next might say its fine. What about a slider to set aggression?

One person wants the wet experience to be “real” and the next wants the cosmetics of rain but feel like they are Senna at Donnington. Is it possible to make a slider?

I thought for the way I play the handling was fine and the curbs more realistic, others hated them. Slider?

I use expert level, but and AI of 77 over 16 tracks and full assists except steering, DRs and ERS and am happy not wanting to do ore than sit down and race as if I were Mansell or Prost, the next person wants to grind away and learn the handling and complains the game is too easy. That in theory is just AI.

I know the race experience modes, whatever their called, is meant to help but the adaptive AI for casual never lived up to the hype, I was lapping cars at 50% distance and shut off features I wanted to use. Expert is the correct experience for me with the right AI but every so often in the past a patch would happen and destroy my ability to compete in the wet, or in transition, or at 1 particular track etc.

The ability to customize the experience player to player in solo modes I think is a huge part of the problem.

I just want to sit down without a lot of grinding and after a tough day full of stupid meetings and unrealistic deadlines, lose my self in an F1 fantasy where I am one of the best ever without having to grind for hours. I grind enough in my life.

@AEF251In theory options and sliders are ideal for games like this with so many different opinions and wishes, sadly that isnt entirely possible..

AI aggressiveness? Should be doable and definitely something they should consider!

If one wants to feel like Senna at Donnington they should just use lower AI - bring back the loading screen AI slider!

Slider for kerbs could be rather difficult but if they can implement grip sliders for different things like kerbs and how green the track is at the start of the weekend id like that! But i doubt they would go through all that trouble..

If you want easy fun and no grinding there are assists and things like only surface temperature no? There is no shame in using assists if thats how you enjoy it!

Ideally they would make it so you only have to chose your settings once (changeable whenever you want) and then it will be used as default whenever you boot up the game so you have to once set it up right and then can have all the easy fun you want. Plenty of people want a game the can grind in and forcing it casual mindless is not the way to get the game sales up but rather make it (easily) customisable so either world of players can enjoy the game!

@AEF251In theory options and sliders are ideal for games like this with so many different opinions and wishes, sadly that isnt entirely possible..

AI aggressiveness? Should be doable and definitely something they should consider!

If one wants to feel like Senna at Donnington they should just use lower AI - bring back the loading screen AI slider!

Slider for kerbs could be rather difficult but if they can implement grip sliders for different things like kerbs and how green the track is at the start of the weekend id like that! But i doubt they would go through all that trouble..

If you want easy fun and no grinding there are assists and things like only surface temperature no? There is no shame in using assists if thats how you enjoy it!

Ideally they would make it so you only have to chose your settings once (changeable whenever you want) and then it will be used as default whenever you boot up the game so you have to once set it up right and then can have all the easy fun you want. Plenty of people want a game the can grind in and forcing it casual mindless is not the way to get the game sales up but rather make it (easily) customisable so either world of players can enjoy the game!

 @Meza994 

I agree not all of it can be implemented but what is and isn’t possible is not something I can discern. When I say sliders, I suppose I also mean on of switches. They implemented in casual mode where being off track has the same grip as on track, not something I want. So presumably curbs or wet tarmac can be adjusted.

I find their casual mode, whatever it is called, to be too baby with a frozen AI that is supposed to be adaptive but doesn’t adapt.

Ideal world maybe is that after you do 3 practice sessions of race runs and qualy attempts the AI sets for the actual qualifying and race session. The game would be very tailored to each player then. Weather would be the tricky part, the game would have to ensure we get a practice session that will represent the weather in qualifying and in the race.

But the biggest feature they had and took out was the ability to change the AI when restarting a session.

The best feature they could add but never did was the option to turn weather off in solo modes. 

Those 2 features plus good custom content in helmets, and MyTeam liveries, suits, badges, team wear would get the game to a 90% score for me. 

To get to 99% they need to extend career to 20 years, make MyTeam more playable with facilities needing to be replaced and staffing changes effecting teams, drivers retiring and new ones, even fictional ones, stepping in. 

100% requires me to earn and lose seats based on my performance in career mode. 

And I miss having a real rival like they did with Butler and Weber and I miss Claire asking me questions after a race. 

 @Meza994 

I agree not all of it can be implemented but what is and isn’t possible is not something I can discern. When I say sliders, I suppose I also mean on of switches. They implemented in casual mode where being off track has the same grip as on track, not something I want. So presumably curbs or wet tarmac can be adjusted.

I find their casual mode, whatever it is called, to be too baby with a frozen AI that is supposed to be adaptive but doesn’t adapt.

Ideal world maybe is that after you do 3 practice sessions of race runs and qualy attempts the AI sets for the actual qualifying and race session. The game would be very tailored to each player then. Weather would be the tricky part, the game would have to ensure we get a practice session that will represent the weather in qualifying and in the race.

But the biggest feature they had and took out was the ability to change the AI when restarting a session.

The best feature they could add but never did was the option to turn weather off in solo modes. 

Those 2 features plus good custom content in helmets, and MyTeam liveries, suits, badges, team wear would get the game to a 90% score for me. 

To get to 99% they need to extend career to 20 years, make MyTeam more playable with facilities needing to be replaced and staffing changes effecting teams, drivers retiring and new ones, even fictional ones, stepping in. 

100% requires me to earn and lose seats based on my performance in career mode. 

And I miss having a real rival like they did with Butler and Weber and I miss Claire asking me questions after a race. 

In few words what I look for in a Formula 1 game is (in order):

1) handling of the car, as similar to the real as possible,the main focus cannot be other than on the steering wheel;

2) AI with better speed balance between straights and corner + behaviors as simulative as possible;

3) updated and most accurate tracks possible;

4) weekend formats and regulations more close to the real and updated promptly;

5) more speed and effectiveness in bug fixing (including non-regression testing!) or simple request (like add save slots!);

6) historical cars as in F1 2020 would be very appreciated.

Full stop.

No matter at all on collecting points, money, various stuff, etc., or anything that isn't racing

Nuv 🙂