China and Portugal
Why aren't China and Portugal included in the actual game after being advertised in the features trailer?
You can see them both here on this video
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without money, no tracks
- @Camza2013 Those will be DLC tracks, AI probably still being trained, potentially paid DLC but nothing confirmed yet.
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Hi @Camza2013 ,
Both China and Portugal aren't on the calendar this year. That's why they are not in the game.
The build shown on the video was an early build (probably the calendar wasn't even announced). The game is constantly evolving to look more like real life F1 Championship.
You can also see that the cars are completely different now.
- @EA_Hux Joke
China wasn't on the calendar either last year and was still in the game. That excuse doesn't really stick. Pretty sure you guys didn't make the Portimão track just for one game.
- So they should have excluded China, Singapore and Japan from F1 2021, if that is to be true.
I'm going to go back on my purchase for now, even more paying almost R$ 350.00 here in Brazil. Despite enjoying the game during my 10 hours of testing. Thank you for the answer.
However I do not believe that is the actual truth. As the Chinese GP was cancelled for 2022 back in October 2021 which was when the official 2022 calendar was announced (without China or Portugal) yet they included on the this list of tracks in the video meanwhile the Russian GP was cancelled on 1st March 2022 and is missing from the list. So unless you are telling me that the early build was from before October 2021 and you somehow managed to predict that the Russian GP would be cancelled, you are just simply incorrect.
If I were to have a guess why they are missing from the game now it would be due to someone's bright idea of instead of giving them away for "free" they could charge extra for them later down the line.
Yes I did notice that the cars are completely different now but that happens every year with the trailers
I know you want to make the game as real as possible...... An example is that the incorrect tire rules are correct in this F1 22. You can choose up to 7 tire sets for the race, you don't have to just return them all anymore tires used in free practice. So we can take two medium and two hard for example. I hope this is fixed urgently as the race strategies are very restricted like that.
@ArkaniaDante wrote:China wasn't on the calendar either last year and was still in the game. That excuse doesn't really stick. Pretty sure you guys didn't make the Portimão track just for one game.
That's exactly what happened with Vietnam though.
@Meza994 covered my guess: Portimao and Shanghai will be post launch DLC, free or paid for.
Edit: China was in the last game because of Braking Point.
- Making a new track (Portimão) and releasing it in October 2021, to just throw it away now, would be stupid.
