F1® 25: 2026 Season Pack - Patch 1.25 Discussion Thread

Why aren't the driver ratings being updated?!

It makes absolutely no sense!

I just don't get it!

Bro what are you even talk about. I can agree on league racing terms (doing it since 6years). But talking about Controller Players when the Controller players have 20-25% more damaged tires per 50% Race stint is insane.

Since at least 25 Controller Players are hit with this insane tyre degredation and we cant flick around on a controller like maniacs.

Where is McLaren's winglet on halo. quite bad I know it's a DLC, but this is quite disappoint.

There is still no option to start a 2026 career in F2. I am not talking about the 2026 F2 cars, starting a career in F2 uses the previous year, in this case 2025, which was already in the game before the 2026 DLC. The option is available for 2025 career, there is no reason it shouldn't be available for 2026. 

In Driver Career mode, completing an F2 season will now give you bonus Recognition when you start your first season in F1.

Evidently the team is still aware that starting in F2 is an option for 2025. Why isn't it in 2026?

Williams still the second or third best car on this game. Absolute unbelievable.

For the love of God please fix the driver ratings (again), the INSANELY OVERPOWERED Williams, Aston Martin and Cadillac cars, and all of the wrong SM zones. Thanks.

So we're just going to completely ignore the fact that Williams are always in Q3? Horrendous communication from the Community Manager and devs, and apparently horrendous QA testing if Williams being Q3 made it into two patches in a row in at least Career Mode (starting with 1.24). Whether this is in an Exhibition race or not, I don't know. It shouldn't be on the player to test this regardless.

It annoys me so much, because QA or CM are jobs that I would give an arm and leg for, but because of the qualifications, I can't reasonably get hired. So, why are there day-one intern level mistakes from what should be highly qualified positions?

The CM needs to COMMUNICATE the issues from the playerbase to the devs, because this performance bug from 2-3 months ago hasn't been NOTED somehow. Does the CM just pick and choose what gets sent to the devs, or not play the game, anything?? Is the job just to update the main pinned posts and that's it?

If resources are being pulled for F1 27, higher management desperately needs to allocate better. Play the game like the rest of us, because it sure doesn't seem like anyone is. Incredibly disappointed.

Why have you reduced the amount of energy we can harvest over a lap? Battery management is ridiculous now. Maxing out your harvesting so quickly has just removed any form of skill gap. Now everyone is just running on empty. Back to the dreaded 'none' mode racing that is unrealistic and untrue to IRL that has plagued these games for years now. 

Ruined this title. This was the first time in a long time I was actually engaged with one of the F1 titles. You need to walk back these changes. 

I was optimistic for next year's game. This removes that faith. 

Good lord! I reach the harvest limit way sooner now. And from lap 1!!! Why did you guys do this?

Before the patch, I didn't reach the harvest limit during a lap until my tyres got really degraded. That's normal. But now, I hit it like three quarters into a lap from the beginning of the race. This makes battery management way worse! It was okay until now. Why "fix" something that is not broken?

I am trying to make this as clear as possible:

FFB on Simucube is way better. way more details.
clearer, smoother. better  curb feeling, better road textures. its gotten lighter, but thats okay. 

but the battery is worse. why did you overhaul it at all?
since miami battery deployment has gotten way better IRL, for us its gotten way worse.
boost is not the same on all straights. sometimes it uses battery when i push until 90%, sometimes it randomly stops. 
why is there a hotlap mode if its totally useless. you get like 3% more performance, but it uses like 20% more.

just give us a hotlap mode for qualifying.
and the battery like before for the racing. cant be that hard.