I'll ask him and see if we can find a decent time where we are free for some Q&A action.
We'll it'll be David, not me. Anyone can drive in the midfield every Friday. I'll look to move a lot of the stuff we are used to seeing into EA Answers as we escalate transition.
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@MisterJohnny420 wrote:
Hi @DavidG53 , really appreciating this Q&A thanks for that.
What I'm wondering most is what will happen to the brake balance in the future.
At the release of F1 2021 we had more realistic brake balance options for the first time, meaning you could not use 50% BB all the time without having any rear-lockups.
That sadly had to be reverted to the "old" 50% BB meta due to the drifting with rear-lockups around corners being faster.From what I've seen so far from ingame footage, and according to Marcel Kiefer we still have the same 50% meta as we had in the past and I suspect this due to some kind of deep-rooted "things" in the engine which you guys sadly weren't able to solve.
Will it stay like that for the entire lifecycle of F1 22 or is there any chance for an update for that?
Since I sadly have to guess it won't happen with this release, can we maybe get our hopes up a little to see something new, more realistic in that area in F1 23 with the (regarding to the rumors) new game-engine?
You probably can't tell me too much about it, but I'd be happy about any information here since the reverting back to the old model has been a huge disappointment to me and others in my league in the last game. The new BB was actually the most exciting thing we had regarding handling/setup changes for me personally, so seeing something like that coming back would be great.
Thanks for your time 🙂
BB is actually a lot more complicated than we think. I need to improve a lot of other things and add BB migration to the physics model before we can actually get more realistic BB values. Initial 21 handling, was done in a way that is not correct, and that resulted in the drifting technique by the esports guys. I cannot have that happen again, so, it needs to be done the right way and takes time to be honest. But now that we have an improved physics model, we can go and look at these kind of details.
Hello @DavidG53,
First of all thanks for the information regarding brake balance and the plans for BB migration, looking forward to any future updates in that area.
I guess you are also responsible for the handling model for F2, is that guess correct?
Are there any specific changes to the F2 handling that change the way these cars behave on-track?
I really enjoyed driving F2 in Leagues in the past games and I'm looking forward to see how they behave within the new handling model.
In the past the F2 cars were really snappy and drifting around corners actually sometimes was faster, probably due to the rear-lockups that were possible in F2, but removed in F1 due to the esports guys bending the games physics there.
Overall I'd say driving on the limit in F2 was, to some extent, harder than F1 in the past whilst also somehow being easier due to the speed difference. Are the F2 cars still as hard to drive or can we expect big changes to the understeer&oversteer these cars induced in past games?
And also, does the new setup system for the wings affect F2 aswell?
Looking forward to hear from you.
Best regards,
Mister Johnny
