Community ManagerI 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.
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 🙂
