What is everyone looking for in F1 25?
As the title suggests, what are your hopes for the new game, and what do you hope will go well! Me personally, would be a more in-depth career mode but I can only dream!
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I don't understand why people want a mode to cycle/walk around the track/paddock. For the amount of time and resources that would take to build, what would it really add? This is a Formula 1 "racing"" game, not an open-world RPG. There should be more of a focus on the on-track side of the game, not off-track! We still don't have a proper weather system i.e a realistic radar to forecast incoming rain or a dynamic track surface that can be dry in some corners and wet in another as rain approaches the circuit from various directions with differing intensity, a feature that was in F1 2011, only to be quietly removed over time and downgraded 2 console generations later! We don't even really have a drying line. the track is either wet or dry and has an instant cross-over time, which your engineer tells you, taking away any skill in judging the conditions yourself or by watching tyre temps.
We don't have race strategy plans that can be switched up on the fly mid race, i.e preset plan A-C or even Plan Z for Ferrari.... We don't have a realistic tyre model that can be flat spotted or show signs of graining/degradation. We don't see tyres go through phases like in real F1. It's all purely down to a percentage wear, meaning that 99.9% of races follow the exact same Medium-hard 1 stop strategy with no incentive to try anything different.
Think about the 2 races you've watched on TV so far in 2025, BOTH of those aspects were the two biggest factors in the races, and yet they're not represented in-game as well as they could be.
So d we really need to walk around the track? What for? It never differs in condition or layout, so what are you looking for? What would you really do in the paddock? Bring back the 2010 static paddock menu as a method of navigation for immersion? Yes please! But there is no purpose in a free-roam mode when the on-track side of the game has not seen any real improvements or features in quite a few years!
I'd love to walk around the track. All the drivers do it every weekend for track familiarisation.
It sounds like you're a 'racing game' fan that likes F1 and I'm an F1 fan that likes racing games.
It's a racing game, not a walking simulator, therefore it would make sense that most of the development time goes into making the racing experience as good as possible.
