Qualifying Practice Programme Issues
Hi everyone, this question is for the F1 22® community as well as the game development staff. My question is: if you are continuously putting up P1 to P6 lap times throughout the duration of FP1 to ...
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@grainphNot knowing the true reason behind it, but the qualifying program had been broken since F1 2020 from my personnel experience. Except, now it's even more broken since the v1.06 patch.
My suggestion is don't bother with completing that program, just use the opportunity on tracks to compare your laptime with the AI on the same tires. I found that if you could match your closest rivals' actual lap times (on the time board) in FP, you could match them comfortably in the same difficulty setting for both quali and race, it's a much better tool for finding difficulty setting references than using GP mode.
@Apophis-STR , thank you for taking the time to join the conversation and for your insightful thoughts. I do agree with your approach and is indeed the one I am forced to use. Having said that, I was hoping we could get some clarification from the team at EA as to why the game logic cannot yet determine this, as the resource points help with the development of the My Team progress. Hopefully we will see this fix in future patches.
@grainphYea it was an very annoying thing, sadly I think the only time CM actually mention about practice program rebalancing was from the last patch, which still didn't fix the quali program for some reason (The despair of seeing the whole map still being red...lol)
At the moment we could only try to go around the issues ourselves, but at least they're definitely working on fixing issues raised by the community, albeit a slow progress.@Apophis-STR I am patient as F1 is life lol. I think the new game is appealing to a broader market of gamers but moving forward, I want to see the focus on the true simulation of the driving and the physics. Would be nice is EA lasered the tracks like iRacing. Have every detail be a true representation of the circuit.
- @Apophis-STR Are you sure you can compare times with the AI in FP? It seems that difficulty in FP is extremely different to the quali and the race. They seem much slower in FP. I do think that is a problem from before and that is they still don't use hotlap mode, meaning that, when they do a soft lap run, they are not actually making a quali sim.
@TomasSlb24You can't actually compare the times between FP and quali/race because the track condition influences the pace for both you and the AI themselves.
I know it sounded not very helpful, but it really is about how consistent you are with maintaining a certain lap time vs their lap times on the board to determine which difficulty really suits you. If at any point of the practice where you felt you need to flash back multiple times just to match your teammate's speed, or just to stay on track, then the difficulty setting is probably already too high.One thing though, make sure you don't ever use the practice program delta as reference, it's all over the place.
In F1 2020, AI in FP were super slow compare to their actual pace in race and quali, their pace is definitely a lot closer and is somewhat a reliable reference now in F1 22. I mean, if you're worry about the AI being too slow in race, in general, 1-2 clicks up on the setting is a good range, it would already make them about 0.1-0.2 sec faster per lap.- @Apophis-STR I do understand that in race and quali track conditions are way different (if doesn't rain). But what I meant is that the difficulty doesn't seem to be the same between FP and quali/race even comparing with your teammate. If you compare your quali pace using hotlap mode that is not realistic because the AI does not use it during FP.
