F1® 25 - Patch 1.12 Discussion Thread

I don’t know there is anywhere to go from here. If after 4 months they have no clue, I doubt they will in 8 months. The patch didn’t move the needle for me. Car feels worse in the full wet even with full TC and at Silverstone in the dry I saw the same acceleration difference out of 3rd gear.

It feels like I get rain in qualy or race 20% of the time. So they gave us (or at least people who play like me) 80% of a game. 4 months into a 12 month cycle means they owe 5% of the price paid. 8 months they owe 10%. Pretty sure we won’t see that added to our loyalty bonus off next year’s game. 

If that game does not include features like the ability to turn off weather in career modes, ability to restart a session and change difficulty or the ability to change difficulty mid session I don’t know how many of us will trust them with our money. 

I had high hopes this patch would get us somewhere even if it was not 100%. In my opinion it did nothing, which begs the question around the people who tested it or for whom it did work: are they elite players, are they Max Verstappen, are they using cheats or mods? Clearly the sub average schlep like me got no benefit. And since I am using full TC and brake assist and have the racing line on I am basically an AI car. How is it I am on pace dry but completely off the pace as soon as the DRS is disabled?

Agreed, whoever is testing the game internally hasn't got a clue, clearly.

Silverstone in the dry is actually now worse than before the patch. They are so much faster it's ridiculous!

Given the absolute mess they've made of the tyre wear on a pad, what chance do pad players like myself have at Silverstone. The outside left is obliterated after 7-8 laps and the AI just reels you back in.

Nothing has changed in this patch that offers anything significant enough to enjoy the game. 

I've been waiting for 4 months to start a 2 player career mode and I still can't now.

£90 again and the game is completely unplayable. It's in a mess! Never again will I pre-order.

Why did they add the haas livery instead of the RedBull Japan livery?

Leave the AI ​​as it was in F1 24. It wasn't great, but it's much better than the crap we have today. Or give up and focus on F1 26. I'm worried about next year, because it will be a year of new rules, and if they haven't managed to get the basics right, that's scary.

I just don’t know if it’s the AI or our handling model. Maybe both. For me if they had taken last year’s game and added the new my team I would have raved and only complained about the lack of base liveries and suits for My Team. 

Oh how I wish that was where we were now. 

I'm playing F1 24, and I have no complaints about it. It's a shame we don't have this year's drivers and liveries in it.

It doesn’t give them money

For career I loved last year’s game. For My Team it still has all the weaknesses that mode always had. But the racing was decent and you could drive in the rain. I am on the verge of going back.

I ran two short races at Silverstone, one on Dry and one on Very Wet.
I drove a Ferrari on Dry and barely managed to defend second place from Piastri. Norris couldn't keep up, finishing over three seconds behind.
While it's similar to real-world racing, I didn't struggle this much on difficulty 88.
I had a bit more trouble keeping up, and the car behind me easily caught up.
In Very Wet, I was over 1.5 seconds behind on each lap.
I don't think this is simply a problem with the AI ​​Wet race.
The wet racing feels awful. It's just too slippery.
I dislike wet racing, but F1 23's wet racing feels great and I didn't struggle.
I don't think the AI ​​needs to fix wet racing; the wet racing physics model itself is flawed. Even on wet tires, it feels like I'm on slicks.

For reference, at other circuits like Brazil and Miami, I felt the AI's exit speed was slower in some low-speed corners. However, at Silverstone, which doesn't have any low-speed corners, Silverstone feels a little different, as others have said.

In GP mode the car in the wet even with full TC is like riding rodeo on a hyper caffeinated squirrel.

In my team the car is less squirrelly than in GP mode (at my level of development) BUT is painfully slow when using full TC. Up to 2 seconds a lap depending on track.

The AI still have incredible 3rd gear acceleration in the dry but are harder to divebomb. 

Silverstone in the dry I had to decrease AI by 5 to be competitive again.