I've seen at least one gameplay video with a safety car but I recall no mention of cars unlapping themselves. There may have been none to unlap of course. Personally I'll be surprised if we find this is in the game.
From a game perspective it's not the same issue as it is in real life if lapped cars are ghosted.
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Unfortunately there was because the YouTuber made the “Abu Dhabi comment
Sorry, I don't follow?
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Unfortunately there was because the YouTuber made the “Abu Dhabi comment
Possibly you were taking my figure of speech literally actually? By 'no mention of' I meant no examples of cars unlapping themselves or someone saying that this would now be a feature. Have you seen otherwise?
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77I have. https://youtu.be/6I144UA2eM4 Around 9:32 you see Bottas who is out of position. My comment about the Abu Dhabi was around the safety car drama
It looks to me like this video shows backmarkers being overtaken after a safety car has ended and so demonstrates that they didn't unlap themselves?
I understood what element of the Abu Dhabil race you were referring to by the way 🙂.
@Cpayne32 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Yeah which kinda confirms cars can’t unlap under the safety car which is a shame because they could using the existing box message for when a sc is out and update it to say “cars x, y and z may overtake the safety car.
So you were actually agreeing with me then 🙂.
If there is an update it MUST be ALL CARS to unlap though!
Personally I'm happy with lapped cars just being ghosted though. Unlapping might just about work in 100% races but I bet most rarely do these. Otherwise the total amount of time the faster cars just spend driving around behind the safety car waiting for the slowest drivers to unlap themselves would just be annoying I'd have thought? Writing as someone perfectly capable of having been lapped I'd rather not be holding everyone up like this actually!
Unlapping under safety car
@DavidF1GP wrote:Since 7 years it's not in the game. They are talking about a new era and it was the chance to bring this official realistic rule into the game. There are no more excuses. It doesn't matter if a 5 lap race, 50% or 100% race distance IT SHOULD BE IN THE GAME! And sorry to be honest again, but the real Michael Masi in F1 games is the game director Lee Mather. It's time to say goodbye to him.....
EA SPORTS IT SHOULD BE IN THE GAME 😜
@DavidF1GP wrote:Since 7 years it's not in the game. They are talking about a new era and it was the chance to bring this official realistic rule into the game. There are no more excuses. It doesn't matter if a 5 lap race, 50% or 100% race distance IT SHOULD BE IN THE GAME! And sorry to be honest again, but the real Michael Masi in F1 games is the game director Lee Mather. It's time to say goodbye to him.....
Of all the issues in the game to potentially cause a call for a change of team leadership this seems like a strange one. At best cars unlapping could be added as an option. I'm confident that plenty or users would be unhappy if it were enforced. Just think how long it would potentially take the slowest cars in a race to do so, and do bear in mind that ghosting of unlapped cars means there isn't the same reason for cars to unlap as there is in real life.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
@DavidF1GP wrote:Since 7 years it's not in the game. They are talking about a new era and it was the chance to bring this official realistic rule into the game. There are no more excuses. It doesn't matter if a 5 lap race, 50% or 100% race distance IT SHOULD BE IN THE GAME! And sorry to be honest again, but the real Michael Masi in F1 games is the game director Lee Mather. It's time to say goodbye to him.....
Of all the issues in the game to potentially cause a call for a change of team leadership this seems like a strange one. At best cars unlapping could be added as an option. I'm confident that plenty or users would be unhappy if it were enforced. Just think how long it would potentially take the slowest cars in a race to do so, and do bear in mind that ghosting of unlapped cars means there isn't the same reason for cars to unlap as there is in real life.
Ghosting was the single worst decision after rejoins, IMO.
But yeah, optional for both is best decision.
Do we think we could get a response as to weather this will be in the new game please as I run a league and we have a work around to get cars unlapped in our league races but as the rules have changed irl which now state all lapped cars must unlap themselves I’d like to see this implemented in the new game and would be a welcome addition to nearly every league going I’m sure.
@Dansmotorsport wrote:Do we think we could get a response as to weather this will be in the new game please as I run a league and we have a work around to get cars unlapped in our league races but as the rules have changed irl which now state all lapped cars must unlap themselves I’d like to see this implemented in the new game and would be a welcome addition to nearly every league going I’m sure.
No its not in the game. I’ve seem one of ben daley’s videos, he was a lap down under safety car & the game didn’t let him unlap 🤷🏼♂️
@GrandDragn wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77There is. If the safety car in the track just after the leader lap you and you're the only one who is lapped, you can retire because after restart, the 18 other cars will lap you and you will have one lap between you and the car ahead instead of few seconds before the SC.
Sorry, I've no idea what post of mine you're responding to there. In case you don't know how to quote, once you've clicked reply on a post, you then just need to click on the Quote button at the top right of the screen.
Is what you're describing something you've seen in pre-launch F1 22 footage that is new? Do you have a link you could share if it is? I don't really follow what you're trying to describe to be honest.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
@GrandDragn wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77There is. If the safety car in the track just after the leader lap you and you're the only one who is lapped, you can retire because after restart, the 18 other cars will lap you and you will have one lap between you and the car ahead instead of few seconds before the SC.Sorry, I've no idea what post of mine you're responding to there. In case you don't know how to quote, once you've clicked reply on a post, you then just need to click on the Quote button at the top right of the screen.
Is what you're describing something you've seen in pre-launch F1 22 footage that is new? Do you have a link you could share if it is? I don't really follow what you're trying to describe to be honest.
I think he is trying to say that when the safety car is coming to an end, if you are behind the leader, but a lap down, you will get blue flags for the whole field to overtake you.
therefore you might aswell retire becasue your race is f…….
@ajobling1983 wrote:I think he is trying to say that when the safety car is coming to an end, if you are behind the leader, but a lap down, you will get blue flags for the whole field to overtake you.
therefore you might aswell retire becasue your race is f…….
Ah yes, could be.
I hadn't thought of this aspect before. I was thinking that ghosting of lapped cars meant there was little point adding unlapping to the game. This is true for cars on the lead lap but not for those who have been lapped, who lose out on what would be the real-life opportunity to catch up.
@ajobling1983Yes that a pre release build. So things can change.
Plus with the fact the ruling has now changed that all lapped cars must be unlapped before racing resumes, this should be shown on the game to follow the rules like they have done before.
@Meza994That’s where your wrong pal. The rules stated it was down to the race directors discression as to weather lapped cars will be allowed to unlap themselves or not. This is the reason why codemasters took it out the game. With the ruling changed and now stating that all Lapped cars must be unlapped before racing resumes there is no excuse to bring this back into the game like it was before.
All I’m asking is for someone in the team to confirm/deny if this is going to be in the game.
As I’m sure 90% of the people that race in leagues want this back in the game
@Dansmotorsport wrote:@ajobling1983Yes that a pre release build. So things can change.
Plus with the fact the ruling has now changed that all lapped cars must be unlapped before racing resumes, this should be shown on the game to follow the rules like they have done before.
Whilst i agree with what your saying about a pre release build, i think your being slightly optimistic here. If it were to be in the game, dont you think it would have been in the preview build so people could test it?
