F1 25 Ranked multiplayer races experience.
I'm writing this post because of recent events in the game that have left me quite dissatisfied. I could be wrong, but after reviewing several replays after each of my ranked races, I can say the pro...
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Ranked multiplayer is such a joke. As long as it is possible to drive 0-0 wing settings when you put all assists on it will never be a decent ranking system, and I don't even wonna talk about dive bombing, unfair behaveour, false overtaking, ridiculous penalties (or not).... The right solution from EA and Codemasters would be to make it almost impossible to race on circuits with wing settings which in real F1 you could never keep the car on track. The easy way to do this is to take the assists out of the ranking and make it fair for everyone who realy wonna race.
For players who think they are doing very well hitting me off the track in ranked multiplayer first of all you will not receive ranking points yourself and second of all I just play ranked, not to reach any silver, gold or elite, but only to get data I can use in the garage to upgrade my car. Only fast and fair drivers, luckyly, receive ranking points.
I can attest that knocking someone off won't necessarily mean zero points. For the first time, I was in a lobby with someone in my same tier. They did the old brake check taking off my wing, they scored 6 points that race. The next race that player was in the same lobby again, I was prepared for the brake check but as I passed by he did the fast swerve knocking me out again, again they got 5 points that race. Now maybe they would have gotten more but I doubt it given it was the elite level. My question was how in the world did they get to Elite? Also, I have finished first out of several races, second on many, no incidents, and scored zero points. It is very confusing. Sometimes Ranked is worse than open lobbies.
The whole ranking from bronze to gold and Elite doesn"t tell anything at all of the driving skills from the players. Answering your question how in the world they get to Elite is simple. Any race you drive with 0-0 wing (which is impossible in real car except for some circuits), you enable all assists so you have only to steer and hold the full throttle, and if possible you enable the best scripts for example in Cronus Zen and there you go to high ranking. You just let the AI do as much as possible. Let me put it this way: I will never be as fast as you guys who drive this way (I reached tech level 1000 long time ago) but you will never know how fast you realy are when you have to drive yourself without all the assists, it's like driving a Tesla.
Ranked multiplayer should be no assists full stop. You can't have a fair ranking system if some are assisted. There are social races if you want assists.
That is the only possible correct answer.
That is a smart proposal to fix ranked multiplayer, but the only problem is that there probably aren't enough no-assist drivers logged in at the same time...even during the busiest times of the day and week. Plus, given human nature on the internet there will be a significant number of people who will learn to drive without assists just to troll serious drivers.
I'm sure someday AI will become smart enough to better regulate the complexity of cross-play lobbies, but until that day I would just join a league where human stewards can properly penalize amateurs using assists and remove troll drivers.
EDIT: removed a bad and confusing take about the AI in career mode and custom races
