CarloLewis

Now that's a good spot!

Sorry @BarryBL (this isn't aimed at you but you are our conduit to the Dev team), that's a terrible decision. I can only let you know how severely frustrated and disappointed I am that this is by design. With this news. The F2 section of career is more pointless than last year's! The fact that it explicitly states "How you perform will will affect how you are viewed in F1" is incredibly incorrect and the giving the player the option to skip F2 all togher should be enough to satisfy the casual player. I can also sort of understand that you don't want to restrict a player who may have finished last in F2 from choosing to go with Mercedes. But the fact that it makes zero difference to your acclaim, contract or perks is absolutely baffling. It's no different from completing an F2 championship in last year's game then starting a career. Additionally, what is the intention of the points for the practice programs if they play no bearing on your F2 career? I was super excited when I'd read previews that this would be a thing. I can only assume that the journalists were just as misled.

Isn't this just the camera movement / camera shake options under the camera settings? This has been in all F1 games for as long as I can remember.

Thankfully not

Looking forward to an official response.

Agreed. I barely care about the new my team feature, this is what I was really excited by. Luckily for me, I had only just completed Bahrain on my full weekend of 50% races when you'd posted so I haven't progressed since.

There will be at some point yes. CM usually make a couple of adjustments over the course of a season.

Thanks @s00zster for the fantastic level of detail. I forgot to mention in my original report that both times I'd chosen Mercedes as my F1 team. I wonder if the reason the acclaim level starts at 6 is to do with the driver academy choice? I'll give this a test later.

I've logged this in the technical assistance forum. Can I please ask that you guys add your details to this thread too please?

It seems like the only reply we will get on this topic is to log it as a bug and see if it gets tagged as "by design"

No, the issue was that Time Trial was not working at all I believe. Barry put out a post stating what or was. It only applied to PS4.

In fairness, 1.04 was a micro patch to fix an issue with time trial leaderboards that is only prevalent to PS4.

Nope, stop everything CM and fix the kerbs! I don't care if the game crashes all the time and that the F2 > F1 career progression was falsely advertised, I want the exact same coloured kerbs and I won't accept anything less!

But it's full of bugs?

"BuT it kiLLs imMerSiOn!"

Fully agree. If the two modes that are available in qualifying is 0 and 2. When set to 0, pressing the increase ERS shortcut should set it to 2 and vice versa.

Fwiw, I've always found that it doesn't look too bad on a capture. Not sure if there's something in the rendering that tones it down. It's something that I've learned to live with and when you're focusing on driving, it's not overly distracting, but still an issue I'd like to see resolved. I'll add a full bug report later, but I'm on Xbox One X with 4K HDR TV if that helps.

I think the only impact it has on how those people within leagues view you.

There are most definitely female avatars.

Well, you can say the Xbox team, but it's still Microsoft. The Xbox is essentially still the same OS as Windows 10 behind the scenes, but it's a closed ecosystem. They can control what games and apps are distributed. Microsoft have no ability to stop software patches hitting PC unless they enforced everything to go through the Windows store. I have some experience with mobile apps. We released an app last year and had to go through the approval processes for Google and Apple. Long and short of it is, Apple REALLY vet the app before it goes on there store, Google don't. I'm assuming it's similar between MS and Sony.

1.03 was essentially the "day one patch", but there has been an issue releasing this to Xbox. I'm guessing Microsofts approval process is more stringent and this flagged an issue. PlayStation is now on 1.04 as this fixed an issue with Time Trial that was a PS only issue.

I miss Malaysia from the older F1 games

Yeah, I can understand the frustration at having minimal items to begin with, but I love the feeling of being rewarded by just playing the game. I now have a livery that I really like and it was from the free tier, not the VIP one.

Apologies, wrong person! 😄

But you wouldn't always want OT to be disabled when you touch the brakes.