My Team 2.0

I’ll update a bit now that I’ve played a bit more. 

While you have more tasks to do, managing is not much different. The R&D tree is identical but now you develop the part separately. There is some drama around who gets a part if only 1 is available but not enough. Contract negotiations are a bit more drawn out and it’s nice drivers come to you for a ride. 

But in the end it is all too easy. Reg changes provide no more shock to the pecking order than before, maybe less, and from what I can tell if all the cars max out they would be in the same pecking order as they start in, so the developments sort are meaningless in the grand scheme. 

It is all fresh paint and fun but not revolutionary. 

The lack of customization is actually as bad as it was just hidden behind you moving decals around. There are 2 useful base liveries and then a bunch of unusable sponsor related junk. You can’t influence your driver’s helmets. The team wear is the same as it always was. The pit crew is still the LA Rams in disguise. The pit boxes don’t move based on results. 

For some, no custom driver drags it down. I prefer it this way and have found I have bonded with my drivers. It would be nice to customize one as an icon for me to use. It would be nice if my team had a nationality. It would be nice if I hired department heads to get bonuses instead of buying facilities. 

It would be great to have to develop a new car if there is a reg change instead of adapting the old one. Even deciding what % of our efforts go to the new vs current car with the prize money mattering to our survival. 

Over all MyTeam is better than last year, but it is evolutionary. 

I don't see much changing in the grand scheme of things for 3-5 years (it didn't really change much at all since its inclusion like 5 years ago) so this is most likely the version of MyTeam we'll have for a little bit.  And, so far, my impression has been... okay.

It's the customisation that's really letting it down.   The cars look shabby and fake still but there's a plaster you can put on it with the decal editor.  It can make your car look passable if you choose the right sponsor but everything looks out of place outside the car when it comes to team members and pit crew.   I thought I could get around it by using Konnersport as they have a car, and staff members, that look genuine.   However, I found it really hard to get invested in it. Quite literally in fact as I went with the lowest in every category so i'm pure backmarker but the target for the season investment is still 150 points.  I'd be lucky if I get 5.    Plus having to drive as Callie and Aiden for the first year is not for me (i'm assuming they're replaceable at the end of S1).  I haven't played BP3 so maybe they'd grow on me if I had played it but I left BP2 thinking they're some of the most unlikeable characters in video game history so i've had limited interest.   Sure I could sim the first year before I bin them off but then that'll mean i'm even further behind as i'd have no money and few resource points and would only be able to attract drivers who want to finish last. 

I share the opinion that the mode feels evolutionary.  It feels like there's so much scope and potential for a mode that offers alot more than it currently does, but it also feels like there's no drive (no pun intended) to go in that direction. 

I think they will add the option to be owner/driver.  Other than that your right it'll be the same for next few years

I like having owner and driver split, the trying to sign two drivers for the team, but I understand those that want to have their custom driver without being limited to career mode. 

If they do include them, I hope it can work like the icons or something. Driver salaries are supposed to be out of salary cap so maybe a portion of team budget needs to be reserved to sign yourself?

In any even I never liked the driver/owner concept, and I know a number of players who prefer it the way it is now. 

I also prefer the split between the two, but I do think there should be a option for those who want to have a created driver in their lineup but have it as entirely optional.   I don't think it should be owner/driver but owner/son-driver makes more sense from a believability viewpoint.  

I guess they'd think that only being able to use a created driver in Driver Career would mean that mode would be used more.   Kinda feels like they intended one to be a Driver Championship-centric mode and the other to be a Constructor Championship-centric mode but I'm not sure it really comes across that way. 

If i'm honest, the moment they fix the two main issues with MyTeam (being the sub-standard customisation and incredibly shallow driver pool) then I don't think Driver Career will be all that popular a mode in comparison. 

What kills My Team this year is the lack of women. Come on EA its 2025 there are women all over motorsport, if I'm going to be absurdly restricted to being the owner only then at least let me run a ladies only team ffs. Callie Mayer is a complete flog (Thats an aussie term, means shes a complete idiot) and shes the only woman and fictional!!! Where is Jamie Chadwick? Where are one or two of the current f1 Academy drivers? This is a complete slap in the face to your female fans imo, its actually bordering on insulting tbh. For years in the CM F1 series I had to race as a dude, before we finally got female avatars (which have been total rubbish until this years game, this year I can finally be the (somewhat) redhead I actually am) btw where are my friggin hips? most girls have curves please!!!! To be vulgar hips and **bleep** please! And F1 Academy drivers and Chadwick!!!

This all said the actual racing is really good and I';m really enjoying my Driver Career, I have 2 going, one as Ferrari and one as Williams. 

More WOMEN!!!

I mentioned the lack of women in the german thread. The answer was "You can drive as Callie Mayer". Yay, an arrogant, low extured fantasy woman. What about real women? As this game is technically the same since 2018, there are still Tatiana Calderon and Jamie Chadwick in the games files. And what do we get? **bleep** Callie Mayer. We absolutely need more women!

About MyTeam 2.0: A move in the right direction but still too many missed opportunities and flaws.

Still no strategy for second driver.

Player controlled driver gets no stats progression

No driver+ manager

It still lacks the feeling as if you are the boss and have any influence. You are still just to passive

MyTeam 1.0 was "My half of the team and the other driver, who does whatever he wants", myTeam 2,0 is now "their team and the second driver, who still does whatever he wants". It is still not MY(!!!)Team.

And for god's sake: kick Jeff!

Seems they could kill two birds with one stone if they let us create say 4 icon drivers. We could create ourselves and/or other drivers of different nationalities and genders and then let us choose if they can be signed by other teams or tethered to just My team. Let us set the stats for them so they fit in and off we go. Then those of us who want the owner and driver to be separate can keep them that way with different avatars and names, and those that want to have it be the same character just uses the same avatar and name. 

What does get me on this one, is that we get e-sports drivers instead of Academy or other female drivers from motorsports. Maybe I’m wrong but does anyone care about e-sports drivers in the official F1 game?

I wouldn't even be able to find my interest in esports drivers with the most powerful microscope we have in my univerties palaeontology lab! 🤣