@VibrantMass616 wrote:Season 4 and just had my third mechanical DNF in nine races despite my durability department being level 3 and all components upgraded to ultimate failure analysis. I’m regularly switching components so none of them are worn or overused. No other driver has as many DNF’s as me, my team-mate Piastri hasn’t had a single DNF yet.
Williams, Alfa Romeo and Haas are the only teams with lower PI than me (and presumably lower durability) and yet if you look at the attached picture, you can see Williams have had two DNF’s in total, Haas have had one DNF in total and Alfa Romeo have one DNF in total. Red Bull and McLaren have 0 DNF’s.
I know I can turn this off but I feel you’re taking away an element that is present in real life F1. But between the unrealistic targets in practice sessions, having to keep adjusting AI level for each race, wet races being practically impossible and the AI looking to ruin your race at every corner, I’m getting pretty fed-up with this game.
My picture won't add for some reason!!
I experienced that as well. For this reason I set the failure severity on light, if I have 2 more DNFs than the other AI cars or when we are in the final two races and within a championship battle. DRS failures can still occur and did, but at least no further DNFs of that type. This of course did not stop the AI to ruin my races with bad strategy calls (LEC was behind me in 2nd, both on inters, I got the strat option to change for M-Tires half a lap after LEC pitted. I pitted the lap after, unfortunately an Alpine as well. That car delayed my pit exit (must have had a tire switch issue and a 2.5 sec lead became 2nd place exit...)
Since i decided to turn department events off 13 races in and the only dnfs I’ve had were cause I crashed out. My teammate has not had one. Not only that. Max and Lewis Havnt had any. Perez has crashed out 3 times. Two off those times he took me out. Whose fault. Never mine😇. Russell and leclerc have had just one dnf when they took each other out. And Sainz has had one dnf due to a mechanical.
Plus since I’ve turned the events off. Game seems to be better behaved 🤷♂️
Ok so it hasn’t slowed the ai down on last lap.
Just won at Spa 22lap race. I beat max by 24.477 seconds. And I checked the race director and on both sets off tyres I was consistently a second a lap faster give or take a tenth. On the hards apart from my out lap and the next. I was within 4 tenths for the last 10 laps. And Max was and so was Max albeit a second slower. But on his last lap he beat my fastest lap by almost a second. My teammate Coulthard. Was 2 seconds faster than his previous fastest lap. Alonso and Norris… over 2 seconds. And pretty much the rest were about a second.
Completely stupid
Race: DC for Haas, rainy Miami:
* started 10th on grid, climbed up to 7th after two laps
* engineer called to stop the car in lap 5, just after VSC finished
* DNF due to mechanical failure
* but no DNF for me listed in Race Director's Incidents tab !! (Ocon was listed as another DNF, also mechanical failure)
* and no failed engine component after race !!
Come on, it's not "challenging", it's just cheating ☹️
I’ve actually given up on Career Mode now.
Fifth season with Aston Martin after four seasons of struggle, regulation change meant my car was equal to the top teams but come the practice sessions I’m still struggling to match the required times and having to drop the difficulty. Qualifying is the same story, Pastori is now faster than me and again I’m dropping the AI level just to compete.
I started a Grand Prix featuring 19-races, set the AI to my usual 90 and didn’t adjust it once, I just won the Championship by over 150pts. I was winning some races by over 30s and didn’t finish outside of the top two at any race. Even Hungary and Spain, which were real struggles in Career Mode, seemed much more level in Grand Prix mode. I’m now going to do this again but with the AI set to 95%.
I’ve now realised there is little point in Career mode;
I just wish they would change Grand Prix mode slightly, let us use our own name and avatar for the races and turn mechanical failures on or off for both AI and human players.
I had another moment of game cheating on me 😉 (actually two moments)
I raced in Monaco for both MT (4th best car) and DC (for Haas, also 4th best):
* I had semi-wet quali in both cases so I ended up 3rd and 4th on grid in MT and DC, respectively
* MT:
** same strategy as leaders (S-M)
** good start, jumped to 2nd
** kept it like that until pit stop
** then "there is a problem with left front" long pit stop
** returned as 4th on track
* DC:
** opposite strategy to cars in front (M-S)
** good start, kept position until AI on Softs pitted
** I improved my lap times a bit and create a 3s gap so I could still return to 1st-2nd
** pit stop: "there is problem with left rear" incident
** got back as 5th, couldn't get past AI cars, they lapped same time as me on Mediums and Hards
The game really doesn't like me 😉
There is one thing I noticed, though.
I mentioned here earlier that I had a DNF in Miami but not a mention in Incidents or failed component and 0 RP gained from failure.
However, I noticed that my Turbo got reset to 0% use regardless of having 100+ laps on it. And that is weird. I don't recall exactly which component failed during the race but it could have been that one.
Quite an anomaly, my other DNFs are usually with component 99% (expected) or not changed at all (clearly a sign of game cheating due to out-of-position)
