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Is there any that support suggested gears?

That's really nice, they should be inside the game. I feel that the learning curve is still a bit too steep as things changes year to year (like ERS use and charge management). It's probably even harder to people who don't follow F1. Even after watching the first video, I think I would have a hard time understanding what DRS is (it's missing a scene showing the flap opening). AI Difficult is another issue, good to see a video about it. I tried to replicate but it's still gives very mixed results after "calibrating" several times on Barcelona (matching Force Indias at Barcelona, and then easily winning GPs at My Team with one of the worst cars in the grid).

Now that they can sell helmet templates and people seem ok with it, this will never happen.

This issue has been present since the early games. AI level feels very inconsistent track to track and makes impossible to run a consistently fair full season.

I would be ok with it, but the basic stuff available (without purchase) is very limited and the PitCoin earning rate is low. And *** is that VIP division, just design to makes things more confusing. It's Star Wars Battlefront 2 all over again. They are adding loot boxes next, and buy your card pack to have a chance to hire your favorite driver as teammate.

Xbox Guide, X

I was starting to be ok with the idea of the virtual currency for cosmetic improvements until I started the game and saw what was available. The impression it gives is that they removed most of the content from base game and will make it restricted through Podium Pass, which would be ok if points were given more fairly. The problem is that its looking to be more like a Star Wars Battlefront 2 scenario.

I think it expired, I'm not seeing it on Xbox as well.

I got the impression they simplified some assets when watching some tracks. Some trees looks weird and more pixelated, but might just be an impression, I didn't look side by side.

That probably won't change, Ferrari is very restrict on licensing contracts and it's heavily rumored that their demands includes not being portrayed worse than competitors.

Are you willing to pay it with your new virtual currency?

They are probably mandated to use the official sponsors. They pay rights to have their brand exposed on all F1 media including TV broadcasts, YouTube, social media and the games. The only exception seems alcoholic beverages (Heineken), which get in conflict with the game age rating, so they are removed and replaced by generic "F1 2020" boards. Even in Brazil, where Globo TV (the sneaky event promoter) has somehow gotten rights to put their own sponsors on track, is reproduced by Codemasters without changes.

They would probably get the license to put the new tracks in the game as a part of their package of the circuit negotiation with Liberty.

Wording is a bit confusing with the marketing for Xbox. I believe "Smart Delivery" means that there would be a next gen version of F1 2020, which could be played if you purchased the current gen version of the game. As there's no F1 2020 version announced for next gen platforms, there's no support for "Smart Delivery", but you could play the Xbox One version in Series X through backwards compatibility, with possibly added improvements (smoother framerate, resolution, HDR if it wasn't supported already, etc).

Sometimes it's good, using words we are already used to hear from TV commentators, other times they use something different and you need to think a bit to understand what they meant. It's not like F-1 is new here, with Fittipaldi, Piquet, Senna and others.