So, my 1st career in Red Bull saw me retiring twice in 4 races due to mechanical failure and same went for my 2nd career.
I know that mechanical failures happened often both to Ferrari and Rb in real life but...
Is this normal? Have any of you experienced the same issue? Should we post a bug report?
Looking on real season, it looks realistic, but it's probably your bad luck.
Comparing to my 1st race of the season on career:
Leclerc have mechanical failure on 3 lap closly followed by mine. Then game jump to results and just look at that photo. It's speeks by yourself 🙂
It make me laught so much, but definilty something broke im my game.
I had 5 failures in 6 races. No, it's not normal. I'm all for it but that's a bit excessive. And it was on fresh components as well and while focusing on durability tree.
@goodhand12 wrote:So, my 1st career in Red Bull saw me retiring twice in 4 races due to mechanical failure and same went for my 2nd career.
I know that mechanical failures happened often both to Ferrari and Rb in real life but...
Is this normal? Have any of you experienced the same issue? Should we post a bug report?
Ive played through an entire driver career season with Mercedes. I had an ERS fault twice during a race that caused me some reductions in speed/laptime while they sorted out the issues. Both were resolved without me having to DNF; and I got a R&D reward for them after the race. In my My Team mode I'm only 3 races in, again using the Merc engines and I've had no such faults.
Seems like just your bad luck.
That being said in my Mercede's career when I started it I used the initial R&D points for 3 upgrades, all three failed the day before the Bahrain race. I had a fourth in development later that also failed. So all four of my first R&D efforts failed; I was furious as you can imagine but after that I only had one or two other failed upgrades through the entire season. It's just random, maybe you're seeing it more with the RB car because their durability/reliability stat is lower than the Merc engine I was using. I'd hate to see what it's like with the stats on the Renault engine as I think reliability/durability is only about 78 on their engine. When it comes to reliability/durability the ranking is Ferarri, Mercedes, Redbull, Renault/Alpine which may explain why you've seen more faults; the RB engine has a low rating in durability to start; and most people usually ignore that department when using R&D in career mode because they want the performance gains from Aero, Engine and Chassis. That has a bit to do with it too I suspect.
@Zv1k0 wrote:I had 5 failures in 6 races. No, it's not normal. I'm all for it but that's a bit excessive. And it was on fresh components as well and while focusing on durability tree.
What team are u driving for, or are u in my team?
@Zv1k0 wrote:
@Douglas673My Team. With Renault Engine so that might have something to do with it but still...
I agree it’s excessive but ur right u do have the worst engine.
@goodhand12 wrote:So, my 1st career in Red Bull saw me retiring twice in 4 races due to mechanical failure and same went for my 2nd career.
I know that mechanical failures happened often both to Ferrari and Rb in real life but...
Is this normal? Have any of you experienced the same issue? Should we post a bug report?
OK, now I'm with you.
I started a new driver career with Aston Martin. My first 5 R&D projects ALL FAILED. I suffered a CE mechanical issue in Bahrain leading to a DNF. An ERS issue at Saudia Arabia that killed me for 2 laps speed wise but was resolved. Australia was another DNF due to a ICE issue. Imola another ICE DNF. So now I'm down two ICE's a a CE box 4 races in. My next two R&D items also failed.
Literally everything in this career mode has failed. That's not bad luck; that's bad programming.
Same thing has happened to me, I’m doing a McLaren save and I’ve had 8 DNF’s in a 23 race season 🙃
it’s got to be a bug because it happens every time I change to fresher components, also coincidentally always happens when I’m on for a win or at least 2nd place 🥲
I’d be fighting for the championship with Verstappen but I’ve had to settle for 3rd place.
I have the setting on high as I want some sense of realism by having mechanical failures but the amount I’ve had is just too excessive.
I’ve never had this many in previous F1 games so it can’t be down to skill issue or something.
No doubt EA won’t fix this, if they even can.
