Me and a friend started playing a coop career mode and we just found that this **bleep** is full of bugs everywhere for everything.
Starting with the loading screens. Its an absolutely garbage that the loading screens takes so extremely long to make into the lobby, sometimes it takes like x3 longer than what GTA V loading screens takes to load into an online session. Once we get into the race weekend it works almost normally, but the loading screens to go into the lobby, at least for the 2 player career mode, doesn't make any sense (not saying that also there's a possibility to fail to connect to EA servers after 5 minutes of loading the lobby).
Then, we found that doing qualifying doesn't matter because the game will put you wherever it wants. When we were in the Chinese GP, we qualified for the sprint 15 (me, but I retired from Q2 with no time) and 16 (mate), but going into the sprint race we were starting 1st and 2nd for some reason (and nope, nodoby of the AI drivers got a penalty except for just 1 of them). Same happened for the main race qualifying, I qualified 10 and my teammate 17. We went to the race and we found that we were starting 16 and 20 (again, none of us got a penalty).
In addition to this point, something similar happened in the 1st GP (Australia) but it wasn't that bad like what happened here in China or in the coming Japanese GP.
But thats not the worst part. In this case, we were doing the Japanese GP (just the 3rd GP) and basically we can't continue doing our career mode because the game doesn't work anymore. I'll put a YT video at the bottom of this post so you can see everything what happened.
When we had to do the race, in the formation lap, we found that my teammate was placed so far back in the track, he was placed at the finish line and not even in one of the grid boxes.
Also, if you pay attention to our both POVs and the standings at the top left, from my POV you can see that I'm 10th and my teammate 12th, but from my teammate's POV he is 2nd and I'm 1st. We originally qualified 10 and he 13 (but he gained 1 pos because of a penalty).
Not only happy with that, but also the AI never started moving, they all just remained still the whole time and never moved. Me and my teammate did the full formation lap to see if at least we can start the race, and not only it didn't solve anything, but also we weren't able to come back to our grid boxes, because when we reached the finish line we just got tp to the left side of the finish line, without any possibility to move or do something there, and the race never start.
We went back to the main menu and loaded again into the 2p career mode, but we got the same bugs. This time my teammate was placed in 2nd instead of 12. But again, we can do the formation lap until the finish line, where we can't do anything from there and the race will never start. There's no option to skip or simulate the race or the weekend, so we are stucked at this point forever. Basically, we can't continue playing our career mode.
Honeslty, It's incredible how it is possible to release a game in a such horrendous state and not even take care of it, I can understand (not 100%) that this can happen in the first days since release, but we are almost 1 year later...
Here is the video of all of this **bleep** show: https://youtu.be/vabYL0vL0fs
