We need more basic liveries! ;More customisation!

The answer is quite simple, they are not interested whatsoever in implementing any half decent customisation. We had about 5 decent helmets at launch and that's been it.

They would rather focus their attention on pointless unrealistic drivel like reverse tracks, live season rubbish and F1 world. All utterly useless and pointless.

While I agree with the premise that time is divested into avenues that aren't particularly appealing (such as reverse tracks and F1 World), I don't think that these are particularly the reason for the failing to reach the customisation potential.    Like I don't think they were in the planning meeting and thought "hey, we could do Zandvoort... but, get this,... backwards!  Although it'll mean we can't produce any decent helmets all year". 

It just feels like the appetite for customisation isn't there.   It's been that way for years where the customisation has been lacking but it does feel like it has progressively got worse over the years rather than better. Although the Decal editor is a step in the right direction. But, even that has caused issues as you have to use a particular sponsor or you can't use that livery. 

The tying of a sponsor to a livery is a big part of the problem this year but it is compounded by the weak liveries they created and have been creating since the 2021 game. Most to me are ugly and those I think have potential they limit the number of colour channels so you can’t hide their weaknesses.

The F1 World car has cluttered Podium Pass with things I don’t want since I don’t play it and the number of base liveries, suits (especially), gloves have significantly dropped off as a result. 

BUT this was out biggest complaint last year and nothing changed. If it weren’t for wet racing being a disaster it would have been our biggest complaint this year. 

Most of us have been calling for F1 World to be binned off for a while now and then use those recourses to improve the immersion and realism, but they have yet again either ignored it or just can't be bothered.

There is so much more they could implement into the game with little effort that would increase the enjoyment factor ten fold.

Why they seem to persist with F1 World and fill the live season with items that are beyond useless baffles me. They were told that F1 World wouldn't work out well and it hasn't.

Any other developer would have included a detailed helmet and livery editor by now and would also allow the implementation of a system whereby other players out there can share their work for downloading.

But let's face it, that's not EA's style is it. Their priority is to try and make even more money from the game using their absolutely awful pit coin system. 

Well that’s stating the obvious but that doesn’t mean it can’t be talked about or brought up.

Theres no point them putting time into improving modes like my team or driver career if everyone ends up with their team or driver looking the exact same, there’s absolutely no personalisation in the modes that makes the player feel like putting hours into them. The new liveries with sponsors are so restricting and suck all the drive you have to customise your team because they limit you so much. 

Also on the F1 world discussion it’s obvious that was only implemented as a way to include micro transactions somehow, if they actually created decent liveries and helmet designs people would actually buy pit coins. 

The decal editor is cool, but honestly, F1World isn't my thing. I'm only interested in more special liveries and helmets.

The only way to have a proper editor customisation would be if they completely copied the one from Gran Turismo 7. 
But I don’t think they’d be able to pull it off, and on top of that, they’d lose money from people buying liveries with pitcoin. 
At best, they could make something similar to the WRC livery editor, which is already better than F1’s, still nowhere near Gran Turismo 7

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feedback on this. I will make sure to pass on the information to the team. 

I have bought a few things, one livery and one helmet. I thought I’d stay with the sponsor in My Team for a few seasons but their offer was so much lower than others. I know have the option to sign with a fourth sponsor (in 4 years) that have a decent in store livery, butI keep thinking “Why would I pay for that livery if I might use it for 1 season and then only if I sign them?”

I don’t race on line so if it isn’t My Team season to season useable, where is the incentive?

@ EA_cuervo

Whilst it's very much appreciated that the feedback will be passed on to the team, I'm afraid to say it won't result in what everyone is asking for.

The helmets, or lack of in F124 was a disgrace to be honest, especially when compared directly to previous games. I started a discussion about it on the F124 forum that ran all year long with tonnes of replies all agreeing that it was unacceptable. The post ended up getting locked!

It's a racing game, therefore by definition the game should be "littered" with good and realistic helmet options and liveries for those who play my team and career modes. Not glittered designs with unrealistic looks.

Instead we have the live season filled with absolute drivel every year. If EA's priority is to make more money post release, then fill the live season with things that are actually decent and people would buy.  Even better bin the live season and F1 world and use the time to create better and more realistic designs. 

Even better, if it was any other developer the game would not only be released with many more helmet and general customisation options, it's likely it would be released with a proper editor where people can create realistic designs and share them with the community. But let's be honest there is more chance of platting fog than that happening.

F125 had a slightly more promising start with about 4 helmet designs in store that were an improvement on F124. The addition of fake sponsorship on the helmets are a nice touch and adds some very much needed realism in that department. And to be fair the 4 or so designs look closer to being a racing helmet than we have had previously.

But just creating 4 or 5 and then going back to normal service by following it up with awful cartoon like designs and hiding them behind a paywall isn't exactly what everyone is asking for is it?

So passing it on to the team is good to hear, but I would be absolutely flabbergasted if anything changes going forward.