I can’t play the game anymore.After fp1 my game stays at please wait…won’t go any further, what i have already tried,reinstalling game, repairing game, different base language installation.everytime i get this bug after 1 or 2 races.

@habdi045 wrote:I can’t play the game anymore.After fp1 my game stays at please wait…won’t go any further, what i have already tried,reinstalling game, repairing game, different base language installation.everytime i get this bug after 1 or 2 races. Same old EA. Coinciding with the patch, did you notice? It would be funny, but it's somehow just not....the umpteenth time.

oh and dont forget the massive issue if you start in f2 and select no practice you NEVER get the opportunity to change the weekend structure and dont earn any more experience, racecraft etc on full than you do on very short on pass. i completel forgot about this and so im now stuck on full races, sprint and qualifiers for the ENTIRE season because you cannot make changes once you begin practice and unfortunatly in F2 it literally goes straight from the end of race straight into the next session in my case end of first race no option to adjust settings straight into qualifier. i get that you kind of want to pace it up at F2 because well the lack of R&D and all the other elements other than levelling up but seriously atleast slow the pace down add a go into event bit like in f1 where you would have the oportunity to change the settings on that screen before entering the event. is it my fault there was a GAME BREAKING BUG that basically forced me to start over. and knowing how aweful it can be on first few races to skip straight to F1. no its all down to the devs not doing ANYTHING to improve the F2 part of driver career (i say driver career because other than F1 World its the only mode ive tried on 24). ontop of that please adjust the amount of exp, racecraft etc you get to vary on amount of laps, difficulty settings etc all being the same is ridiculous that smeone playing on say 0 diffuiculty with very short would level up the same as someone on say 70 difficulty and full. also maybe reduce the amount of decline. my first attempt went poorly started on 70 difficulty and cars were 5 seconds ahead in a split second perfect start.finished only 1 second behind and i lost close to 2000 RAC and with that 2 RAT i ended up rage quiting and deleting that and starting fresh on 60 difficulty of which i was able to win by almost an entire lap. kind of seems harsh youd lose almost 2000 Racecraft and 2 Rating in the slowest car in F2 and finishing in 22nd on 70 difficulty wih ai cars that literally got smashed off the track by other ai and just bounced back into place right infront of me causing me to hit the brakes. i dont care if there was a 200leveldifficulty ai should never just snap back to the spot if they were hit full wack on the side its unreal that car possibly both would be totaled but not in this game where ai can be hit you at 200mph and be unaffected while you go flying off track and are 90% of the time totalled. id say check out some of my past streams to see exactly what i mean but vods arent saving for some reason. id also like to see an individual rule option for hitting that would give them/me time deduction and or other penalties instead of it be locked into Rules on only and other ai difficulty options like its fine seeing player error options but wheres the ai error options etc. i mean in the save that got brokebefore i accidentally deleted it, i have those on regular in the space of 4 races i had to restart every one of them because i always seemed to suffer a dnf malfucntion right at the start of penultimate or fina lap yet ai never suffered any malfunctions infact only time i have is in F2 during the first race in both sprint and race 3 ai including my teammate (both times) i both. thats it never again after that until i restarted 3 times all 3 times the same happening.i do want to say however great work with some of the improvements the specialists are a great addition though its annoying some of them literally only last 1 race weekend and on the final race weekend you dont get any avaialable at all, obviously i got to experience team mate rivaly in that f1 bugged save and RAT Rivalry but never got a championship rivalry because well i won EVERY race in that not all of the sprints or qualifiers but every race until the final one where i couldnt get to it because of the bug, but i thought the improvements around that were good, the intro video for entering F1 is nice (if it was skipable even better) same goes for some of the other stuff or atleast an option to turn off things like that,, maybe turn down how frequently you see podium pass update like seriously do i need to see it every time i do a qualifier and only earn 25 podium pass points (even with xp boost). female drivers started to enter F2 this year yet not a single F2 team has a ''real'' female driver thats a big dissapointment and the fact neither my first name middle name or last name is avaialble so i always end up using stupid boring princess pitstop like seriously add some girls name and more surnames, i previously mentioned the lack of driver events so i wont go into that but thats a shame. there is other improvements i really like but right now all the negatives for how much paid keep coming to mind.but please seriously fix the infinite please wait bug id hate to get to F1 again (gonna take longer than a couple days this time) only to run into the same issue and just never play the game again

I have this issue, and as i saw on steam workshop, others have the issue too.But, we know at least how we ended up having this bug.So basically, in career mode, after you played one of the practice session, and went back to the motorhome ( in front of the PC) to select the participation of the next practice session, AFTER YOU CLICKED "GO TO NEXT SESSION" , you are NOT ALLOWED to select the "BACK" option. If you did, you will find youself that you can't select anymore, whether you want to Play or Simulate the next practice session. After you restart the game, and select the career mode option, you will find yourself in the car, in the practice session you wanted to join in the first place. After the end, or after you retire from the options, you will have the infinite "Please Wait...." loading screen. And you can't even play career mode after this anymore, because if you quit the game again, the same will happen (you join the the FP you wanted to join, retire/play till the end and so on...)As I saw from the previous patch notes and the list of issues that are known, and they are currently working on, this bug does NOT appear there. Even though, I hope they will read this, and try to mitigate this issue, because we can't even play the game anymore, only Online. And I did not buy this game to play Online, I bought this game to play the "all new Carrer mode" which, of course is filled with bugs....

Have this issue myself on Xbox Series S. reached the Final Race of Season 1 in F1. completed Practice 1 everything to 100%, advanced fine to practice 2 and run that as quick sim and instantly ended advanced to practice 3 and thats where i hit issues i tried to quick sim it again it did nothing, i tried to drive it it did nothing, so i quit to main menu reloaded and it went into practice 3 but with 3/5 complete on everything just the R&D stuff showing as completed so i ran through them all AGAIN had like 15mins to spare to i sped it up and got stuck on Please Wait 1hr i waited NOTHING. fully closed the game reloaded SAME, fully closed and restarted Xbox SAME, Uninstalled Same, Uninstalled for a 2nd time SAME. i cant believe ive just spent a week running through F2 and all but the last race of season 1 in F1 and now game breaking bug which probably means this save is Broke. too late to get a refund the update earlier this week literally broke the game prior to that it ran nicely no bugs at all. very dissatisfied with this its basically £100 flushed down the toilet with a bug like this from an update that broke things that were not only fine but lovely there was maybe 1 small issue i noticed and thats still there. never ran into this myself on 22 or 23 but from what ive seen this has been an ever present issue for a lot of people every release.I only brought this because the VERY few improvements seemed nice and the trial ran lovely albeit about 2 and a half hours short of what it was supposed to be, events i loved in 23 are no longer in it i get some people didnt like the drift events and stuff but it had the option to turn it off, why not just have it as off by default with option to enable for anyone who does enjoy a break from F1 every now and then when they pop up for those R&D and Reputation increases.Anyway ive literally spent most of the past 24hrs looking at a please wait screen. Please EA/Codemaster FIX THIS

I said, that i will create another carrier save, so I will start from scratch again.However, the issue still exists.Somehow, this weird bug corrupted my main save file, and even if i create another carreer, after completing the first session, it will keep me on the Please Wait screen.Very Very disappointed, my luck is that I did not purchase the whole game, only the ea play pro. But this is unacceptable, a company that is this big comes out with a game that has been promoted as a blockbuster, and now the outcome is a piece of crap like this, which is not even completed. And this is only one bug, among all the other bugs, and let's not talk about the other game crashing bugs that have not been discovered yet. The handling...it is what is is, i don't want to go into that now. But these bugs, make the game to become literally UNPLAYABLE. I hope this will be fixed, even if the possibility of the developers to know about this issue, is extremely low. My part has been done, I posted about the issue, now let's see the other end of the bargain.One thing I know for sure, is that this will be the last EA game that I have played with. Wake up, don't be a money obsessed company, that comes out with same game every year, and than pays the entire gaming influencers to promote it as a whole new game. Even if you do, at least make sure that the game is bug free. And you really expect people to pay 60 $, just so after they have bought the game to witness these issues. Really disappointed. No words.

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15 Replies

BUBAshaft
2 years ago
Seems many of us are having this issue unfortunately. Game is unplayable
JigglyEmz1990
2 years ago
Have this issue myself on Xbox Series S. reached the Final Race of Season 1 in F1. completed Practice 1 everything to 100%, advanced fine to practice 2 and run that as quick sim and instantly ended advanced to practice 3 and thats where i hit issues i tried to quick sim it again it did nothing, i tried to drive it it did nothing, so i quit to main menu reloaded and it went into practice 3 but with 3/5 complete on everything just the R&D stuff showing as completed so i ran through them all AGAIN had like 15mins to spare to i sped it up and got stuck on Please Wait 1hr i waited NOTHING. fully closed the game reloaded SAME, fully closed and restarted Xbox SAME, Uninstalled Same, Uninstalled for a 2nd time SAME. i cant believe ive just spent a week running through F2 and all but the last race of season 1 in F1 and now game breaking bug which probably means this save is Broke. too late to get a refund the update earlier this week literally broke the game prior to that it ran nicely no bugs at all. very dissatisfied with this its basically £100 flushed down the toilet with a bug like this from an update that broke things that were not only fine but lovely there was maybe 1 small issue i noticed and thats still there. never ran into this myself on 22 or 23 but from what ive seen this has been an ever present issue for a lot of people every release.
I only brought this because the VERY few improvements seemed nice and the trial ran lovely albeit about 2 and a half hours short of what it was supposed to be, events i loved in 23 are no longer in it i get some people didnt like the drift events and stuff but it had the option to turn it off, why not just have it as off by default with option to enable for anyone who does enjoy a break from F1 every now and then when they pop up for those R&D and Reputation increases.
Anyway ive literally spent most of the past 24hrs looking at a please wait screen. Please EA/Codemaster FIX THIS
JigglyEmz1990
2 years ago
oh and dont forget the massive issue if you start in f2 and select no practice you NEVER get the opportunity to change the weekend structure and dont earn any more experience, racecraft etc on full than you do on very short on pass. i completel forgot about this and so im now stuck on full races, sprint and qualifiers for the ENTIRE season because you cannot make changes once you begin practice and unfortunatly in F2 it literally goes straight from the end of race straight into the next session in my case end of first race no option to adjust settings straight into qualifier. i get that you kind of want to pace it up at F2 because well the lack of R&D and all the other elements other than levelling up but seriously atleast slow the pace down add a go into event bit like in f1 where you would have the oportunity to change the settings on that screen before entering the event. is it my fault there was a GAME BREAKING BUG that basically forced me to start over. and knowing how aweful it can be on first few races to skip straight to F1. no its all down to the devs not doing ANYTHING to improve the F2 part of driver career (i say driver career because other than F1 World its the only mode ive tried on 24). ontop of that please adjust the amount of exp, racecraft etc you get to vary on amount of laps, difficulty settings etc all being the same is ridiculous that smeone playing on say 0 diffuiculty with very short would level up the same as someone on say 70 difficulty and full. also maybe reduce the amount of decline. my first attempt went poorly started on 70 difficulty and cars were 5 seconds ahead in a split second perfect start.finished only 1 second behind and i lost close to 2000 RAC and with that 2 RAT i ended up rage quiting and deleting that and starting fresh on 60 difficulty of which i was able to win by almost an entire lap. kind of seems harsh youd lose almost 2000 Racecraft and 2 Rating in the slowest car in F2 and finishing in 22nd on 70 difficulty wih ai cars that literally got smashed off the track by other ai and just bounced back into place right infront of me causing me to hit the brakes. i dont care if there was a 200leveldifficulty ai should never just snap back to the spot if they were hit full wack on the side its unreal that car possibly both would be totaled but not in this game where ai can be hit you at 200mph and be unaffected while you go flying off track and are 90% of the time totalled. id say check out some of my past streams to see exactly what i mean but vods arent saving for some reason. id also like to see an individual rule option for hitting that would give them/me time deduction and or other penalties instead of it be locked into Rules on only and other ai difficulty options like its fine seeing player error options but wheres the ai error options etc. i mean in the save that got brokebefore i accidentally deleted it, i have those on regular in the space of 4 races i had to restart every one of them because i always seemed to suffer a dnf malfucntion right at the start of penultimate or fina lap yet ai never suffered any malfunctions infact only time i have is in F2 during the first race in both sprint and race 3 ai including my teammate (both times) i both. thats it never again after that until i restarted 3 times all 3 times the same happening.
i do want to say however great work with some of the improvements the specialists are a great addition though its annoying some of them literally only last 1 race weekend and on the final race weekend you dont get any avaialable at all, obviously i got to experience team mate rivaly in that f1 bugged save and RAT Rivalry but never got a championship rivalry because well i won EVERY race in that not all of the sprints or qualifiers but every race until the final one where i couldnt get to it because of the bug, but i thought the improvements around that were good, the intro video for entering F1 is nice (if it was skipable even better) same goes for some of the other stuff or atleast an option to turn off things like that,, maybe turn down how frequently you see podium pass update like seriously do i need to see it every time i do a qualifier and only earn 25 podium pass points (even with xp boost). female drivers started to enter F2 this year yet not a single F2 team has a ''real'' female driver thats a big dissapointment and the fact neither my first name middle name or last name is avaialble so i always end up using stupid boring princess pitstop like seriously add some girls name and more surnames, i previously mentioned the lack of driver events so i wont go into that but thats a shame. there is other improvements i really like but right now all the negatives for how much paid keep coming to mind.
but please seriously fix the infinite please wait bug id hate to get to F1 again (gonna take longer than a couple days this time) only to run into the same issue and just never play the game again
2euoxqb272hq
2 years ago
@habdi045 wrote:
I can’t play the game anymore.
After fp1 my game stays at please wait…
won’t go any further, what i have already tried,
reinstalling game, repairing game, different base language installation.
everytime i get this bug after 1 or 2 races.

Same old EA. Coinciding with the patch, did you notice?
It would be funny, but it's somehow just not....the umpteenth time.
simonandris20034
Rising Novice
2 years ago
I have this issue, and as i saw on steam workshop, others have the issue too.

But, we know at least how we ended up having this bug.

So basically, in career mode, after you played one of the practice session, and went back to the motorhome ( in front of the PC) to select the participation of the next practice session, AFTER YOU CLICKED "GO TO NEXT SESSION" , you are NOT ALLOWED to select the "BACK" option. If you did, you will find youself that you can't select anymore, whether you want to Play or Simulate the next practice session.

After you restart the game, and select the career mode option, you will find yourself in the car, in the practice session you wanted to join in the first place. After the end, or after you retire from the options, you will have the infinite "Please Wait...." loading screen. And you can't even play career mode after this anymore, because if you quit the game again, the same will happen (you join the the FP you wanted to join, retire/play till the end and so on...)

As I saw from the previous patch notes and the list of issues that are known, and they are currently working on, this bug does NOT appear there. Even though, I hope they will read this, and try to mitigate this issue, because we can't even play the game anymore, only Online. And I did not buy this game to play Online, I bought this game to play the "all new Carrer mode" which, of course is filled with bugs....
simonandris20034
Rising Novice
2 years ago
I said, that i will create another carrier save, so I will start from scratch again.

However, the issue still exists.

Somehow, this weird bug corrupted my main save file, and even if i create another carreer, after completing the first session, it will keep me on the Please Wait screen.

Very Very disappointed, my luck is that I did not purchase the whole game, only the ea play pro. But this is unacceptable, a company that is this big comes out with a game that has been promoted as a blockbuster, and now the outcome is a piece of crap like this, which is not even completed. And this is only one bug, among all the other bugs, and let's not talk about the other game crashing bugs that have not been discovered yet. The handling...it is what is is, i don't want to go into that now. But these bugs, make the game to become literally UNPLAYABLE.

I hope this will be fixed, even if the possibility of the developers to know about this issue, is extremely low. My part has been done, I posted about the issue, now let's see the other end of the bargain.

One thing I know for sure, is that this will be the last EA game that I have played with. Wake up, don't be a money obsessed company, that comes out with same game every year, and than pays the entire gaming influencers to promote it as a whole new game. Even if you do, at least make sure that the game is bug free. And you really expect people to pay 60 $, just so after they have bought the game to witness these issues.

Really disappointed. No words.
habdi045
2 years ago
Still waiting for an update EA…
i have bought the champions edition to play early and since then i can’t play the career!
c’mon this is just insane!
simonandris20034
Rising Novice
2 years ago
Well, i am extremely sorry, but i have to say it: get used to it.
Very few people have this issue, the chance of ea fixing this is extremely low. They are too occupied with the handling i think.
My suggestion is to ask for a refund, and buy the game on the other market (steam or EA) if you are on PC, and desperately want to play carrier mode, because the save file is ruined, the only fix right now is to buy the game on another account (as i said earlier, if you bought the game on ea, then ask a refund and buy it on steam or the other way around)
BUBAshaft
2 years ago
I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. I refuse to start a new career knowing this will eventually happen again. They're aware I'm sure, I just dont know how game breaking bugs aren't the first to get patched.
BUBAshaft
2 years ago
@simonandris20034 That's definitely what happened to me. Maybe if I am careful I can restart and be mindful not to do that. It still is ridiculous though. Thanks for the walk-through of that.