F1® 25 Q&A - Gavin Cooper (Creative Director)

AlexanderPD wrote:

Hi Gavin

Have you ever considered a career mode where you're only a driver?
Personally, I’m not very interested in R&D, team management, or skill points.

I believe a career mode focused purely on being a driver shouldn't be underestimated. Every aspect will be seen in a different way!
R&D: the team will progress automatically in research and develop. As a driver you can give your feedback on witch area should be developed, and the team can hear or ignore you, maybe based on the faith it has in you.
SETUP: you can build your own setup (like now) but with the help of some enginner, maybe Jeff, powered by AI and your drive style
Reputation: your reputation with the team, fans, follower, other drivers change based on your decision and your drive style. It should affect stuff inside and outside the track: other drivers can be more aggressive with you, and your team can be favourable to hear your feedback
Negotiations: you can negotiate contract with other team (like now)
Budget cap: your incidents and crash will affect the R&D budget and development speed
Radio: an improved speech-to-text and an AI engineer that actually tells you something usefull can be a game-changed. You can ask stuff like "is the undercut effective in this track? can i pass verstappen undercutting 2 laps?", "whats my championship position if i get second in this race?", "i have a water leakage", "the brake feel inconsistent", "upshifts are crap", "tell my team mate to let me pass! i have the pace to reach the podium!"

The experience can be really immersive! 

PS: its offtopic.. but could you give us a feedback about the PSVR2 compatibility? Will be ever be developed? Some tecnical issue are preventing it from being implemented? The management decided that its not financially sostenible? We have 0 official declaration about it and its a little frustrating 

Thank you!

Hey there,

Gavin is currently having issues with his forum account, so I'll be posting his answers on his behalf, so we don't keep you waiting 😄

Broadly speaking we have lots of ideas, some very similar to a few of the ones you've raised here. But delivering on those ideas is the real challenge - and picking the right features to complement each other and deliver a coherent overall experience each year. Every game we look to deliver a broad feature set that delivers new experiences for all our different kinds of players - for example this year the My Team changes obviously deliver for the career-focused players, but the decal editor that supports My Team also gives something new to those players who prefer to focus on multiplayer and their online identity. 

Ideas like yours are valuable, and while we have more ideas in our backlog than we'd ever be able to actually pursue (especially because the ideas that come from the community can also often be contradictory!), having that rich seam of ideas available to us is a great foundation for future development.