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LSKone
Seasoned Rookie
3 years ago

What is wrong with F1 22?

I don't even know where to start...

Something is wrong with F1 22's handling, like REALLY wrong. And, to some degree, has been since release.
I've been playing those games ever since 2010 and NEVER have I struggled this much with keeping the cars on track, let alone even finishing a race.

I was not able to finish my last 6 or more races, and I've been having problems with the cars' handling for a couple months now, I assume it might have started around Patch 1.07.
Thanks to @up100's excellent statistics Service I can clearly see that I've started to have Problems around August. Looking at the past Patch Notes I can see that there have been some significant changes to the overall handling model of the game, and it's just gotten worse and worse...
The cars are noteably twitchier, more nervous on the throttle now, especially on kerbs. I often end a race in the wall without any indication, no warning whatsoever. For some reason, sometimes the car spins and, of course, gets destroyed immediately. Funny thing is that this game does not seem to resemble the real cars in any way whatsoever, based on what I'm seeing and there has been a thread about this on this forum too I think.
I just don't feel the car anymore. It's horrible. F1 2021, and especially F1 2020 were far better at giving you a good feeling.
I tried everything to mitigate the problems, but nothing helps.


I've been racing with some of the best guys here on this forum for like what, almost 3 years now and playing F1 games never felt this bad. I am not one to give up this fast or get mad, but boy am I close to throwing this game straight into the trash (where it apparantly belongs when looking at the steam player count compared to F1 '21)
Hoping that someone from the devs actually read this: Please do something about this. Please let me enjoy this game once more, because I tried everything and I just want to race in our awesome Community League again without crashing.

😢

13 Replies

  • LSKone's avatar
    LSKone
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 years ago

    So we had our first Race of the EA Answers Season this last Friday and I actually somehow managed to not die.

    I tried some of the setup changes you guys suggested and it seems to have helped, if only for a little bit.
    Still, I am much slower compared to before/F1 21 but at least I did not crash the car.
    The wheel rotation setting might have helped a bit, I've set it to 400.

    Thanks again guys. Sad to see though that codies/EA do not seem to care about this games' issues.

  • drewgriffiths's avatar
    drewgriffiths
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago

    It’s definitely not better to take any corner in higher gears, both in dry and wet conditions. Proper throttle and gear usage gives you more traction and pace. I’ll take the first chicane at Monza in 2nd in both wet and dry with no problems, for example. Other examples being Tosa at Imola… 3rd in the dry, 2nd on wets and Casino hairpin at Monaco 1st gear in both dry and wet. By using higher gears, you;re adding time onto every lap and hurting your races.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago

    @drewgriffithsJarmo Opmeer, limitless, Fra Elite etc etc all use higher gears in slow corners.

    FRA Elite held all the TT records on every track on Xbox using this method 

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