My Team 2.0

The Myteam 2.0 should get rid of unnecessary stuff( F1 life ) and focus instead
on providing better visual customization( not just liveries, but also nose style, front/rear wing style, steering wheel style, 
engine cover style, sidepod style, suspension type: front/rear pushrod/pullrod ). 

I guess I still nee to know if they gave us liveries, team emblems, control over car number colours. Obviously no custom helmets for my team. I suppose the icons included now matter too. 

But what about the polos and pitcrews. Are we still stuck with just one design or will we have better customization there too?

Yep polo shirts look to still be the same design.   We won't get a proper livery or helmet editor. As that's their best chance of milking a little extra cash from us.    But the decals will be fully customisable.  watching  the deep dive it appears from some off the decals not only can you move them around. You can sketch and skew.  Increase and decrease their size and shape them to  fit the contours of the car.    As for changing their colour as they now have multiple colours (Grid legends already had the same multi coloured decals in game when that released back in 2020 or 21) , I'm not sure.  I'm guessing we can as it's something we can already do to the single coloured ones. 

I know it’s early days but I did notice the My Team emblems they showed in the deep dive are less then inspired and was it only 1 livery they showed us? That was the biggest mistake they did for My Team last year, lack of options.  

I hold out hope but maybe foolishly. 

I would assume we will get more liveries but for a price.  All the decent ones will either be locked behind VIP podium pass or in store for inflated price 

I'm happy they've looked at it as it's been a little stale for a few years.  I still liked it due to the new drivers coming through F2 every year and i'd give myself a different task each year to keep it a little fresher.

However, last years F2 field was pretty dry.  The main drivers I was interested in hiring as my teammate (before they announced you'd actually have to hire two)  had the gall to already be called up by real teams already.   
I've never been a fan of the Owner/Driver dynamic.  I always advocated having two fictional characters. One being the owner and one being the driver but this new dynamic of two real drivers is better, just not something I expected they actually would do.
Sadly, it's come on a year where i'm just not bothered by the F2 drivers. Or the Icons.  My Hail Mary was the F3 drivers as I would have hired Montoya, Beganovic, Lindblad, etc.  Instead they searched the dregs of what could be scraped off the barrel so that's disappointing.  If you can hire other F1 drivers straight off the bat then that would be a saving grace, but I don't see that happening.

I've always hated the starter player liveries (and still disliked the later ones that were easier to work with) so i'd have been happy to get the pre-order just to get the two realistic-looking ones... but then they supposedly make the player liveries better so now i'm torn on that until I see how it turns out. I expect you'll still get the one lousy starter livery and then you have to pay, or heavily grind the podium pass, to get a second that you can work with.  I don't see that aspect of the start of the game changing. 

Having not played the game, nor watched much of the MyTeam deep-dives and discussions, i'm not sure what this new revamp actually entails. I think it'll be okay in terms of the idea of how it's supposed to work.  Whether it works as intended is questionable.  Alot of changes / new things (in all game series, not just this one) are glitchy and prone to errors but I feel like the key focus is the F1 World aspect of the game so they'll not be too bothered about improving the MyTeam experience, as long as it is functional. 

The game is not even out yet, so a lot of the criticisms may not be fair. I see they left the 10 year cap in place, no idea why that is a tough nut to crack for them. They also won’t let us turn weather off, again why is that so hard? My friend suggests poor initial coding that would be hard to undo, so maybe I don’t understand how hard those 2 things would be. Same for better team wear customization, emblems and liveries. 

While I like separating the driver from owner, a custom driver would have been a cool option, even if you need to pay him/her to keep her. 

I do think this year will be still be an evolution rather than a revolution, so it'll be more of an aesthetic facelift in terms of things looking new and shiny but not being too radically groundbreakingly different behind the veneer.  Not that it's necessarily a bad thing as my main disappointment is that the F2 field is thin (not their fault) and the F3 Icons are abit lame (kinda their fault). 

Since the last-gen games aren't supported this year, i'm presuming that the following game (2026) is purely aimed at current-gen and with most game cycles being about 2ish years, that's when the bigger changes will come in. 

In terms of created driver being available, it would have been nice for them to have the option.  Then those that didn't want to use one didn't have to, whereas those that did are still able to.  Then it could have even been a slider (yes/no) that stated whether the created driver was able to move teams. 

Codemasters, if you’re listening: let me drive as myself. This design decision is unacceptable. I’ve been playing F1 for years and being an owner/driver is my greatest pleasure. I can indulge in my childhood fantasy… alas no more. How hard would it be to simply give this option to players that want it. Please patch this and make your fan base happy. There’s a reason it’s a fan favorite… did you not wonder why? Clear lack of understanding.

The R&D tree is the same. If you remember what leads to what you’re set. There are tweaks to how secondary sponsors are used, the decal editor is good but not great, you can’t change the color of the name of the sponsor for example. Base liveries are bad. Emblems are half rubbish. 

Development has slots. As you expand each part of the team more slots open up. It is a bit clunky but better than previous years.  You manage activities in four streams between races, but the system is basically the same in new clothes. Since you have two drivers the OP second driver might be fixed in later years. 

It is a big evolutionary step but not a revolution by any means. 

Much of what we complained about last year is still there. The AI races better but is a mess in terms of traction, lack of mistakes, and wet/dry and track to track balance. Helmets for the career driver is rubbish. Suits, emblems, liveries are VERY disappointing. 

Only the 24 tracks for career modes. Fewer icons. No ability to turn weather off. Podium pass is the same. Store has nothing worth buying. F1 World seems to be their focus. 

But the car has more understeer and dirty air is noticeable. 

I’d say pass for now. It needs work.