Constant AI DRS train

DRS trains are definitely not fixed. In fact there is absolutely zero difference than before from my own experience.

I can not believe they released a patch to say it's improved when clearly nothing whatsoever has changed.

There is not one single aspect of this game I'm enjoying right now. It is absolutely miles away in terms of being even remotely half decent.

Hey there,

Thank you for calling out this situation happening to often. I have escalated this again to the game team. Could you share a video with us so I can add it to the report?

Thank you,

-Groguet

Adding my experience - this is *slightly* better, but my experience has also been what others have seen.  Now instead of one long DRS train, there are two or three separate ones, and those groups stay really close the entire race.  That being said, I have been seeing more AI attempting overtakes, but most of the time they still back out of it or cause an incident from AI bunching up in corners after a DRS straight. 

However, even in these incidents, there hasn't been any damage or DNF due to damage with the AI.  The only DNFs I continue to see are from mechanical failures.

WOW, since I uninstalled the game 3 weeks ago, they have still not fixed this!?! Quarter through its cycle now and looks like still unplayable for most.

Surely you should be offering refunds soon?

Hey folks,

thanks for your continued input and feedback. I just wanted to give you a quick update to let you know that the team is still looking into further improvements for the DRS trains.

-Vendera

People are overreacting it’s not even that bad anymore and let’s not pretend like drs trains aren’t a thing in real F1 sometimes it’s just the way it is 

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@Meza994 wrote:
@joeroberts444Depends on track and yes its pretty bad for some.. DRS trains happen IRL but they are rarely anywhere near as long as ingame nor do they stay for as many laps as they do ingame.. The AI is just completely broken in regards of race dynamics.. Tyre temps? Dont matter.. Engine temps? Dont matter.. Dirty Air? Never heard of it.. Those things are the major dynamics of the sport and arent reflected AT ALL in the AI and barely for the player, so its no surprise that the race play out drastically different to real life

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I mean fair enough but I’ve still been able to enjoy the game it’s not ideal I understand but it doesn’t make the game unplayable 

Ok EA, you can stop trying to improve the game as Joe is having fun.

what are you trying to achieve here? 

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@Meza994 wrote:
@joeroberts444Not unplayable but for people who played the game for many years and it barely ever changed in meaningfull ways for that period its just too broken.. Its 100% playable and its nice that you enjoy it, there is no sense in trying to talk it bad to people who enjoy it, personally i want more improvement than they achieved as in quite a few regards there hasnt been an improvement at all which is partly due to complaining players too though!

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Yeah I understand people are extremely frustrated it does still need to be improved obviously what I probably should have said it’s not unplayable but still needs to be fixed I apologise 

I think it's over guys. They either don't know how or don't want to fix it for this game. It's been out for nearly 3 months with barely any improvement. Dev will be back over to the next game, probably just livery/model/stat updates from now on.

It is now clear that they are absolutely clueless how to fix the most broken F1 game ever made.

EA, F124 is pathetically poor, I have literally wasted £90 on this absolute garbage.

The list of issues is ridiculous and all you care about is profit.

You don't deserve to have the F1 license.

It has been 3 months EA and you are still investigating the AI. How is this possible? How have you not fixed this issue in 3 months? It makes me wonder what are you doing? There is little to nothing in terms of customisation, no F2 update, no fixes to bumps on tracks, no car updates, and still awful AI. It’s just not good enough. 

I hope your lack of results in fixing the game is because you are putting everything into F1 25 so that it releases as a game should do - a tested, bug free game.

Go ahead delete this comment because you don’t like the criticism, as you have done it before. But it will only show how the doesn’t deserve the rights to the F1 licence.

Would more varied strategies help here? Especially at 50% where pack 1 pits on one lap and pack to on the next. If more cars varied tire strategy would that not make it easier for some to brake away? It isn’t the real problem, but a bit of a bandaid. 

@Comet928I honestly don't believe this will be addressed again.
This game has been nothing short of a train wreck, so I wouldn't be surprised if updates slow to a crawl, up until 25 releases in a horrendous state.

At this point, it feels like an extremely safe bet that the AI will stay the same. The AI are probably OK enough for a 5 Lap race, so that's enough to pass testing and get passed over as "acceptable" for people who have never touched a racing game before.

Edit: Lengthy Addition;
What gives that away for me (Sunsetting 'F1 24' Game Development), is that the "Investigating" section of the "Community Raised Issues" page, hasn't REALLY changed in about 2 months.
Equal Cars, the bump issues have been there for months.
And the F1 World Boosts were broken since launch, and are only NOW being fixed in an unknown timeline patch.
It seriously feels like the Dev Team has moved on from 24, and are only pushing patches to update Paid in-game content (Micro Transaction Updates), and throwing in an actual bug fix to say they fixed something, as per the EA standard practices (Micro Transactions > Functioning Game).

I'm NOT blaming the CodeMasters team.
I'm yet again, like a broken record, blaming EA's horrendous mishandling of major IP's.
The CodeMasters team deserves SO MUCH MORE than what they're getting.
I want to acknowledge the ones from the team who are actively working on trying to fix this mess.
And I seriously hope they can make 25 a Masterpiece, because my god... they need it.

@BeatdownRacingAbsolutely, but that shouldnt just be a thing for DRS train fixes, should be same fo F2.. Just give them a with grid position increasing chance to do the reverse strategy and it will even be realistic, so P1 has lowest chance and P20 highest, best range 25%-65% or so so that P15-P20 are not guaranteed reversed