Community Manager@c62a35f65d81694fAgreed some great ideas there. I'd also prefer a more sim orientated game. But unfortunately with EA now at the helm, I can't see that ever happening.
But even though we probably won't get that, there are still so many basic things that can and should be dramatically improved.
Without doubt, they need to turn their focus on improving the core base of the game. Get the fundamentals right in the first place and forget about the pointless gimmicks!
It's good that the handling has improved for wheel players and I'm honestly happy it has. However for controller players (majority) including myself it has now become awful. It's barely enjoyable to drive. Just feels so unrealistic and detached from the track compared to F123.
A more realistic experience is needed for sure. If for F125, they implemented more helmets, testing sessions prior to a season start. Better overall sounds, improved handling for all players and better AI. Then everyone would probably take that right now. Throw in a more realistic wet weather experience too.
This entire thread was intended to gather people's feedback. I really hope it's being listened to and not just dismissed whilst they counjour up more unrealistic nonsense for F125.
I don't have a glorious idea. Separate pads from wheels? Optional? With or without assistants, it would amount to the same thing.
I can only speak for myself. I just really like driving and it should feel as real as possible. Yes, I have Dirt Rally as well as CMR and I'm currently playing WRC.
And I like looking at how and why I flew into the bushes somewhere. But as usual, nothing is together. WRC has still totally screwed up with the night driving, especially again since 2.1.
F1 with the sound.
Unfortunately, you can't watch it. Worse still, I find myself adjusting my driving style more and more often so that it sounds halfway believable in the replay. Completely the wrong way. I drive a little differently to the blueprints. From then on, it's no longer really fun, although there is some potential.
Apart from that, Career is a total mess in this case alone, because the rear-view mirrors are so far apart that you can't even see them on a 21:9 monitor and all the AI cars are still driving around with uniform white paintwork.
Yes, rain looks lousy this time, there is still no spray like in GP4 or F1 99, although the wet tracks have almost reached the level of GP4 (release June 2002). Just without drying tracks.
I don't know, I'm actually pissed off to have spent 90 Eur on this for a completely flawed game with zero content.
I know, ACC comes damn close to a sim. But something is missing there too. But you can't blame the creators, they're always developing, fixing bugs and, above all, they don't charge orbital prices. But they don't have a license for WRC or F1 either ☹️
@c62a35f65d81694fGP4, GP3 and GP2 where great back in the day. I played them all and drove in some of the best leagues around (with a wheel). These days I'm just a casual player using a pad with a friend on two player career. We are currently half way through our season in F123 at the moment. We also did F121 and F122 as well.
I'm actually dreading our F124 two player career when we eventually get there. It's something I'm just not looking forward to given the endless list of debacles with it.
I'm really hoping by then a lot more has improved with patches. Handling for controller for me is huge, it's just absolutely awful currently. And of course the AI being still terrible even after 4 months.
Yes, the wet weather is massively lacking in realism. Like you correctly said, not much better if at all than GP4.
And this is the frustration, why don't they just concentrate on fixing and improving the basics first. The base game could be so much better even on this older game engine.
You can clearly see the direction EA are going with it though. They are much more focused on this live season garbage and challenges to win real driver helmets. I along with a lot of other could not care less about this. I want my own helmets!
For all of us playing an F1 game, we want to fully immersive ourselves into our sport and have as much realism as possible.
They are operating in a different place completely to what we all want. After F124, I have lost all confidence in their ability to actually produce a game that offers a more realistic insight into F1. Instead we will have more gimmicks like F1 World and Fanzone which is utterly pointless and unrealistic.
If they do not bounce back with a good game in F125, I'm done!
Yep, simply driving for the sake of driving is no longer an option.
Instead of getting something new with every franchise, we get less and less. Or the whole thing goes really slowly with pressure in “the sims”.
F1 25 could then be full of leisure wear and Ikea furniture, a bunch of speech bubbles and similar garbage.
It's a pity, I still enjoy (unfortunately only the lonely one in TT) the feeling of doing laps, F1 as well as WRC, but you don't have to invest 90€ when you can get much better service elsewhere with 19€. I think the 29.99 was the last investment (WRC 24 addon), I'm really disappointed with EA and CM alike.
Annoying, spent a lot of money on Fanatec for Rally and F1, a new graphics card in the hope that we'd get really cool sims.
But no, I could have spent the money on “The Sims” for all the parts and saved some for a rainy day.
Then I would probably have bought some furniture and clothes last year.
Even when they drop a livery into the store it is just not done properly to my eyes.
Take Voyager Rose and Fresh Strike as examples. Both could have been great classic liveries but for Voyager rose they made the stripe very thick at the back. It’s still useable but not quite right. Fresh Stike would have been useable if they didn’t clutter it with the stripes going over the pods.
I know they are trying to be unique and creative but there were great liveries in past editions. Maybe if there were more colour options so you can make the stripes dissappear but I feel a slow close but no cigar reaction to both these otherwise good liveries.
The helmets suits and gloves are the same problem, no thinking what would a real team have on their car that is classic looking
That says one thing to me only. They haven't got a clue how to fix it! F124 is getting worse. A complete and utter shambles throughout!
To be fair, My Team and Career work, just not better than before. I think Brazil is fixed and I do get safety cars.
On line may be a mess and they have not given customization options and for at least 4 of the 16 tracks I have to turn down the AI 10 lower than the other 12 tracks and the engineer disappears for some races and after I return to a save game my tires are cold again mid race but I wouldn’t say an utter shambles
