@Wollcott I wouldn't say its too late for them to change the Tyre Allocation... As far as the game mechanics / AI are concerned , they adapt just fine to a tyre allocation that has been swapped through Cheat Engine. So really all that CM has to do is swap any of the softs sets from Q1/Q2 with one of the mediums sets from Practice ... and that would already open up the door for more strategy options.
Sure that still doesn't mimic the real life ability of freely choosing which sets to use for practice/hand in and which to keep for the Race weekend, but just having 1H/2M/4S for the race would be much better option than the current 1H/1M/5S. Same as 2021...
I include few examples of the game adapting fine to a swapped allocation through CE...
SteamDB is showing Codies concentrating on the eSports version of the game right now. Really hoping the contenders speak up about this now that they'll be doing 50% races. Codies might be ignoring us but surely they'll have to listen to them. It'll be a huge embarrassment to the game if every race is Medium-Hard and only using Softs for unplanned pit stops. This is supposed to be the official game, the closest thing to driving in F1. Yet they can't even get the basic rules right.
Worse still, something appears to be terribly wrong with QA in general this year, basic stuff going unchecked after a fix, as if those who are testing and fixing don't know the rules themselves, they don't think about the knock-on effects, just focusing precisely on what's being fixed and nothing more. More stuff being broken than fixed in each patch because of this.
