Opinion F1® 22 | Feature trailer

The main positive for me is it looks like Portimao will be in the game going by the Portuguese flag. And China.

@Meza994Norris has done nothing to be called better than Bottas

Seeing no updates for Multiplayer, it being announced as "Splitscreen & Multiplayer" (online seems like a huge priority lol) and a delayed patch for crossplattform..

I'm already scared of the patch breaking the game, really hope it doesn't happen this year but I don't have much hope left after the 2021 desaster.

I don't wanna complain too much before release though, so lets hope for the best.

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@ajobling1983 wrote:

It looks the the OP departments boosts will in the game again this year which is a shame.

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I cannot emphasize this comment enough. The lack of driver quality differences were by far my biggest issue in the driver carreer/my team mode. It really destroyed all the immersion for me to see Bottas and Perez constantly finishing in front of Hamilton and Verstappen.

I said this before. For me this is actually a bug (why should you implement driver stats and then render all differences above 84 meaningless?), which must be fixed and i would be quite disappointed if this is still in the game the same way as before.

@SomaticCoast375Start of last season? General opinion in the paddock? Bottas whole career at Merc once Hamilton understood the high downforce cars?

Theres plenty of proof that Bottas is a slower driver than Norris especially on race pace. Lets just take a closer look at last season when Bottas had the best car and Norris arguably the 3rd best at the start of the season. Norris was 12 points ahead of Bottas after 8 races and Bottas had only overtaken Norris in the standings after Zandvoort, which was race #13. Thats fairly bad in the fastest car with a big gap to the 3rd on pace.

Conclusion: Norris is the better driver, when you dont like him thats your thing but objectively he is more talented and drives better

@Meza994 Hey, i know you do a lot of modding and looking at game files etc.

do you know a way to edit the team’s facilities. Say to lock the personnel departments for all teams to level 1 so they cant upgrade?

As this feature is borderline game braking for me…

@ajobling1983I think its not possible sadly, never looked close for something like that but career mode etc. is hard coded and stuff like for example the performance chart cant be changed by modders - i asked😄 - and i would expect everything else that with specific career mode data to be the same, will take another look though.

Or let me phrase it differently, the driver ratings were editable with cheat engine in a very annoying way (long searching and constant checking in the game) and it might be possible to find the departments like that too but A) there are millions if not billions of options (all is displayed as "random" numbers and letters) we would need to search and B) we would need to find each individual teams facilities and can never be sure if we found them because we cant check the other teams facilities.. So even if it was possible via cheat engine it would be sisyphus work ☹️

Im gonna look through the normal files again though but dont expect much

And yes totally agree on it being game breaking and a fairly big disappointment after a lot of guys complained over them in the last game.. BUT maybe they made it so that drivers can exceed 100 by the stat boosts.. Would still break the balance (Top team drivers even better compared to lower teams) tho

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@Meza994 wrote:

@ajobling1983I think its not possible sadly, never looked close for something like that but career mode etc. is hard coded and stuff like for example the performance chart cant be changed by modders - i asked😄 - and i would expect everything else that with specific career mode data to be the same, will take another look though.

Or let me phrase it differently, the driver ratings were editable with cheat engine in a very annoying way (long searching and constant checking in the game) and it might be possible to find the departments like that too but A) there are millions if not billions of options (all is displayed as "random" numbers and letters) we would need to search and B) we would need to find each individual teams facilities and can never be sure if we found them because we cant check the other teams facilities.. So even if it was possible via cheat engine it would be sisyphus work ☹️

Im gonna look through the normal files again though but dont expect much

And yes totally agree on it being game breaking and a fairly big disappointment after a lot of guys complained over them in the last game.. BUT maybe they made it so that drivers can exceed 100 by the stat boosts.. Would still break the balance (Top team drivers even better compared to lower teams) tho

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Cheers for looking 👍 hopefully when the game is released it wont be as OP as last year but not hopeful.

its just a shame as the community on the CM forum were asking for changes to this for so long….