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RoomiestDoor305
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AI too fast on straights; Fuel consumption is a joke and ...

I know that I will get a lot of hate for this post but seriously how are you guys enjoying this game? My last F1 title was F1 2020 after owning 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012 and 2011. In my opinion F1 2020 was the peak of codemastes F1 games.

So whats my issue with F1 2025? First of all the game looks amazing! I love the graphics, the depths, the carreer, the storyline. I pretty much love everything apart from a few kind of game breaking problems for me:

1. Its kind of impossible to change the race strategy. For whatever reason (I am racing 50 % races) I can basically never change what tire I want to start on and what tire I want to have when coming to the pits. I should be able to tell the game that I want to start on the hard tire and then switch to the medium tire. But its impossible to do so! I know people will say now "Well mate you have to add a third stop, then add softs and then start switching around until you have the desired tire you want to and then delete the 3. stop." Well yeah I know I tried doing that but it just does not work. Most of the times it wont even let me add a third stop and if the game allows me to do it, it just wont let me switch the tires to what my choice is.

The game took it to the extreme when there was supposed to be a wet race but on the formation lap it was dry as the desert and everyone was on mediums. But me of course I had the inters on my freaking car. So yeah well restart the race and go to strategy and change from inters to mediums right? Well it aint that simple because the freakin game wont let me change my tires at all! It only gave me the option to chose between inters and full wets.

Or another example from today. I was racing in Miami and there was a red flag like 6 laps before the end. I already pitted twice going from hard to medium to soft. Well after the red flag the game FORCED me to put on "new" tires. You simple cannot say well mate I do not want to have new tires, I want to stay on my soft tires I just put on this car 1 ! Lap ! ago so why would I want to change them? Well the answer is obviously if you have a new set of softs it makes sense right? Right! BUT: I didnt have a single new set of tires! So what did this amazing game do? Guess what!? It decided to put 6 lap old softs on my car which I used in the qualifying. Like come one what is this?

And now lets come to number two why this game is unplayable for me:

2. Maybe I suck and I shouldnt play F1 but I am pretty sure I am kind of an average player. In time trials I am everywhere between Top 1500 and Top 8000 depending on which track and car. So whats my issue? Well AI straight line speed! This just drives me nuts and wants me to never ever touch this game again. The first couple of races I noticed that the AI is quit fast on the straights. So okay I thought maybe my setup is just not quit right, maybe I am going to slow out of the corners, or whatever. Well I dont know what AI is way too fast on the straights. Like today I start from P6 in Miami and I finished on P16. Why? Well thats a good question. My personal fastest lap was the fastest lap overall so my times where quit competivite compared to the AI. But here is the problem: As soon as I get onto the straight my opponents are just flying buy two or three cars at a time. No chance to fight against them or defend at all. Like how is it possible to be 1,5 seconds ahead of the car behind you and before he even gets to open the DRS he is sitting in your neck at 0.2 and then flying past by you as if he'd be racing at 380 kmh. No matter how low you set your wings, not even with the help of overtake button you can defend. No way. At least for me it is impossible. I tried this the other day in Monza and Azerbaijan and COTA. Settings my wings as low as possible, using my battery every single lap as much as I can (what a bummer you dont have unlimited charge in your batteries right? So thats not gonna help you for me then 2 or 3 laps ...). The still kept flying past me. And in the very rare ocassions I happen to be close to a car on the straight its impossible to overtake them. Even with a tow and DRS and overtake button its basically impossible. Yes you can outbreak them but ... overtaking on the straights no way. Getting overtaken by 8 cars on the opening lap on the start/finish straight in Azerbaijan? No problem. Oh and btw. I am racing between 96 and 106 AI depending on which track. It does not matter what you set the AI on even at zero AI the just fly past you.

3. Fuel consumption: Like what the actual **bleep** is this in this game? I just started my race in Imola and well my engeneer told me to fuel up the car to the maximum. So today I wanted to do a 100 % race distance in Imola 63 laps and having the car topped up to the maximum fuel load. I started the race with like 5,5 laps of additional fuel. The first three laps or so I was using 0,07 extra per lap. So i thought well yeah that might be enough to get to the end of the race. But silly me, after a couple more laps the fuel consumption went up and up and up so that after lap ten my fuel load was already down to  +4,52 Laps. And after 20 Laps of distance my fuel was down to 3.13 Laps. I was trying to save fuel, not breaking do lift and cost as much as possible not shifting too late but no matter what I did the fuel consumption was between 0,11 and 0,15 per lap. So fast forward to lap 47 my fuel was down to basically zero and my engeneer told me the we are low on fuel and I need to save fuel. 16 Laps to go and I am out of fuel. Wasted an hour of my life for a race I could not finnish now. And oh, yes even in Imola the AI is so freaking fust you cannot keep them behind you not even on these tiny short straights. My AI was set to 97. There was even one situation were leclerc in front of my almost spun at the exit of the last corner but he didnt and still managed to increase the gap from like 1.2 seconds to 2.5 seconds on that short start finish straigt.

I am so sad that these two problems exist because they seem to be like a maxium of 10 minutes to get fixed. I dont know if I am the only person having this problems but I am really disappointed cause otherwise the game is just amazing. Id give 95 points on the scorecard if it weren for these two issues. The first one I probably could live with. But the second one is just gamebreaking.

Guess I'll have to go back to F1 2020 then because I am pretty sure this will never get fixed. This game just sucks because of these issues. Like can I have my money back? Seriously. I want my money back. 

2 Comments

  • With the ers, i would have it set to medium on the straights and none through the corners. The AI, from my experience, are using around 15-20% of their battery on the straights.

    for fuel, try shifting gears earlier or using a higher gear in the corners (e,g. Using 3rd gear for a corner where you would use 2nd)

  • Agree with the AI being too fast down straights, it’s almost impossible to keep them behind

    hope they patch this in future 

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