F1 2021 Feature Requests - End Game

[F1 2021 Feature Requests - End Game]

First and foremost, I approach most things in life with objective eyes. I can only begin to fathom the amount of time and financial investment that goes into the development of any video game, the frustration that goes along with accepting feedback from countless subjectively minded individual's opinions on where a development team's priorities should lie, and the ability to continually improve a product with such a high investment that only seems to be ridiculed on a daily basis.

So with that said - THANKYOU to CODEMASTERS for your continuous improvement and hard work to improve your product, and providing hundreds of thousands of gamers world-wide with such an enjoyable racing experience.

With F1 2020 being the flagship of the MyTeam saga, I feel like this feature was rolled out extremely well, with a very easy to navigate and user-friendly UI, and a welcome addition to the already dominant career mode that's so highly sought after in the sim world. With F1 2020, the end game of MyTeam has much to look forward to. It's not there yet, but what could become is exciting.

Now for the suggestions. I know there's been a lot of negative feedback regarding MyTeam in that you "cap out" very early on if you're not careful in maintaining realism. Users are forced to limit their facility upgrades, avoid lucrative sponsorships, avoid generating RP, and limit the spending of the easily acquired RP, all for the sake of delaying the inevitable - the end game.

In order to keep the user group invested, we need a little more to work towards (end game). We will happily pay for DLC, skins, liveries, helmets, logos, badges etc. For the sake of this post, and to stay on track with the title, working towards a long term and seemingly unachievable goal will keep your game relevant for much longer than 1 year before the next game is rolled out.

What I suggest/ would love to see available in F1 2021 for MyTeam:

1. MyTeam starts with you, a seasoned F1 driver going into your last race of the season for the championship. You're tied with another driver so if you win, you get the championship, if you lose, you lose. Once the race is over you decide to retire and start your own F1 team (MyTeam). You draft your first driver (which will be your main character), and select your 2nd. You operate the sim functions as the CEO of MyTeam, and you test, practice, attend PR events, and race as the main driver.
2. In game funds can be used to purchase rare liveries, helmets, clothing etc. Make the cost high.
3. Facility upgrade costs should be increased 10-fold from what they are currently
4. Car stats at bottom of the pack at start of MyTeam career
5. Staff upgrades - you can currently select your 2nd driver, upgrade their stats, choose their activities etc. You can sort of upgrade your department staff 2020 with activity perks to give them a morale boost. In 2021, let us choose our chief engineer, department leads, pit crew, and upgrade their ability to perform accordingly (ie- wage, incentive bonuses, training). Depending who you choose, this affects the efficiency and performance of that department.
6. Contract violations (not meeting sponsor goals, backing out of driver contracts) put a team into court litigation (simulated) resulting in lawyer fees, budget cuts, or downsizing.
7. Customization of pit crew clothing and colors - separate from Team Colors and driver customizations
8. Custom engine manufacturers - MyTeam decides they want to develop their own PU. Development of the PU takes time and money (a lot). Maybe it takes 4 full seasons to develop, but once you do, you now don't pay Honda/Renault/Ferrari/Mercedes for them to make one for you. You can sell your PU to other teams to bring in more money.
9. Fines ($$) for penalties, dangerous driving/maneuvers, collisions etc. MyTeam also gets penalized for giving offensive responses during interviews.
10. MyTeam test track and headquarters - you start with a small HQ with an outsourced test track. You slowly make money and eventually make enough to sell your building and buy a new building with it's own test track and department facilities, increasing you acclaim, good press, brand, and ability to stress test components (real time or simulated).
11. Facility upgrade's bottlenecked based on current facility size/location - with the above suggestions (#10), your facility should only be able to be upgraded to a certain level depending where you are and how big your HQ is. Eg. If your HQ is a 2000sq.ft. garage, you can only upgrade each facility to level 1 or 2. You need to change your HQ location/size to be able to further upgrade each facility.
12. Increased driver level MAX - Currently at 30. Make it go up to 100.
13. End Game Podium Pass - New liveries, helmets, clothing etc. unlocked only after level 30. Continue with rewarding players with common liveries etc. up to and beyond level 30, but give the option to buy an end game podium pass for end game content after level 30, 50, whatever...the really good stuff.
14. Travel - all teams have to get their entire team across the world on a weekly basis which takes time. Travel time should be shown in the calendar. Random transportation incidents apply - eg. trucks break down causing you to miss FP1/FP2/FP3 or drive someone else's car, private jet gets delayed at airport/customs, tires don't arrive at track. You can choose to pay a fee to avoid the delay (sending your F2 trucks to pickup the team or something), suffer from a 1 race decrease in your pace stat because you missed practice (not sure the actual rules on missing practice), or only have a few sets of tires to use all weekend.
15. Promotional races - MyTeam sponsors charity races which costs $$, but your team gets acclaim boosts. You drive in these races. Maybe it's a Go Kart race. MyTeam branding is shown everywhere on race day.
16. Alumni Races - you can host an Alumni Race with all of the drivers who have retired from the sport over the course of the play through.
17. Retiring main driver - you can at any point retire your main driver from F1 which starts your MyTeam career over, however since your team is no longer a "new" F1 team, you keep your team's stats, but your driver character becomes new again. You can also choose whether to just select a new main driver for your existing MyTeam career, or your main driver that you're retiring can start his/her own F1 team, starting from scratch.

 

[Gear Bug with race start]

On 8/30/2020 at 9:24 AM, Lexei1992 said:

Sometimes when you use manual gearing there occurs a bug which leaves you at neutral gear at start of the race instead of going to 1 and starting properly. This occurs in singleplayer and multiplayer. At the start of the race everyone else sends off and you are stuck at your grid place with engine revving neutral gear.

Same thing happened to me. I'm using a wheel, and the upshift paddle is assigned to clutch. Hold down the clutch like normal and it stayed in neutral. I just went into the button assignments menu, reassigned the upshift paddle to the clutch (even though it was already assigned) and it fixed the problem. Check your race start assist too, but I think it might be a bug when your clutch is assigned to more than 1 button. I know it's not the best fix for online, but reassigning then restarting seems to work in single player. It should be noted that I only had this issue when I played PC2 then came back to f1 2020.

[Fanatec Formula V2 - Custom button mapping PC]

18 hours ago, hanktwich said:

I have this wheel and it's amazing. I added the APM (Advanced Paddle Module) to mine which I love and it adds two extra inputs which I use for DRS (left upper paddle) and ERS (right upper paddle). If I have one gripe with this wheel it's that some of the buttons/switches are harder to reach without removing a hand from the wheel, so I try to keep the more important functions close to my thumbs. There's actually not that many "super important" functions in F1 2020, so this is pretty easy to do. 

Anyways, if I didn't have the APM, this is how I would lay out my wheel:

1. DRS
2. Pit Setup Panel (MFD Shortcut)
   • I just use this so I can quickly check what tire compound I'm using for the next stint so I don't have to cycle through the whole MFD Menu
3. Brake Bias Decrease
4. Differential Increase/Decrease
   • I've started using this a lot more recently in order to find an extra few tenths each lap, which is why I've assigned it to an encoder
5. Fuel Mix Increase/Decrease
6. Brake Bias Increase
7. Radio / Voice Commands
8. Pit-Limiter
9. (The switches are difficult to reach without taking my hand off the wheel so I don't use them)
10. Upshift
11. (This is a 7-way FunkySwitch, so you get quite a lot of options at the tip of your thumb)
    • D-PAD: MFD Navigation (Up, Down, Left, Right)
    • Press: Clutch
    • Rotate **** Left/Right: ERS Increase/Decrease
12. ERS
13. (You could theoretically use this for Fuel Mix if you set your wheel to ENC mode (Tuning Menu Option), but I don't use the rotary dials for F1 2020)
14. Clutch 
    • I know this is a bit outside of the "thumb's reach away" parameter, but depending on how much you use the clutch you could always switch it with the Pit Setup Panel (Button #2)
15. Pause
16. Reverse 
    • Again, I know this button isn't really "a thumb's reach away" but in my experience whenever I find myself having to reverse I can afford to take one hand off the wheel for a second to press the reverse button
17. (I don't use the rotary dials for F1 2020)
18. MFD
19. (Joystick)
    • Joystick Down: Look Back
    • Joystick Left/Right: Look Left/Look Right
    • Press: Car Damage Panel (MFD Shortcut) 
20. Downshift
21. (The switches are difficult to reach so I don't use them)

Hopefully this is somewhat helpful. I'd be happy to link a screenshot of my button mapping if you would like!

Thanks for the advice! Looking forward to it stopping. I'll try out some of those assignments

[G29 wheel settings question]

23 minutes ago, BurnieBD said:

Thanks very much for responding @JimmFandango can you show me where i should change those settings? i can't seem to find the wheel sensitivity. Or maybe show me a screenshot of your settings. 

@BurnieBD Sorry, I believe the setting you want to increase is called "Steering Saturation". It's in the in-game controls options where you find "controls scheme - calibration - vibration & forcefeedback - MFD shortcuts"....it's under the "calibration" menu. I'm on PC but I believe it's the same menu on PS4. I'm not in front of my home computer or I would take a screen shot.

[Fanatec Formula V2 - Custom button mapping PC]

Hey, I'm upgrading my wheel from a G29 to Fanatec's Clubsport Formula V2 rim (+CSL base/pedals LC) and I'm wondering how you've assigned your rim's buttons? Searching Google has been a pain since most posts are regarding the lack of reassignment ability on the PS4 & XBOX. I'm on PC and from what I've read, there's no real issues with custom mapping buttons. I've got a pretty good idea what buttons are going to operate the different functions, but I'm curious what everyone else has done.

The obvious features that I'd like to have just a thumb's reach away: DRS > ERS+ > ERS- > Overtake > Fuel Mix+ > Fuel Mix- > Diff+ > Diff- > Brake Bal+ > Brake Bal-> Radio > Pit Limiter > Look Back > Clutch > Reverse

Any other suggestions for button assignments are welcome.

Also, in the control scheme options menu, what are the "Extra Action 1" & "Extra Action 2" button assignments for? 

 

[G29 wheel settings question]

On 8/21/2020 at 1:06 AM, BurnieBD said:

Hi everyone,

I play on PS4, with a logitech G29 wheel. Making turns in F1 is impossible. I have tried a couple of settings i found online, but non of them seem to work for me.

Can someone share their settings with me? or have any other tips.

Thank you so much
 

Try increasing the sensitivity of the wheel in the game settings. Change your view to cockpit view and make sure that the virtual steering wheel turns the same amount as your G29 wheel. When I first started up the game with my G29, I had to turn my steering wheel about 900deg. to get full lock in the game. I increased the sensitivity and now I only turn my wheel about 200deg. to get full lock (similar to what the virtual wheel does). Hope this helps.

[Throttle keeps hanging G29]

On 8/24/2020 at 2:41 AM, Fast2U2 said:

Thanks for a quick reply.

it generates a low throttle signal but not on every occasion having the foot removed. It feels it happens mostly in the low gears (2-4). I will have a look at the deadline. I have to lower likely, or?

I have the G29 for PC and had this same problem last week. When I would give small throttle inputs, or take my foot off the throttle pedal suddenly, the throttle would flutter on it's own without any input. You say it doesn't happen in other games but it might be worthwhile to calibrate the g29 pedals outside of the game (if you're on pc). Setup game controllers from your windows control panel and see if you're getting ghost input outside of the game. If you are, it's likely a dirty potentiometer in the pedal hardware. I Frankensteined my pedals out of the box so I didn't care about warrantee, so I took my pedals apart and cleaned the potentiometer. There's a video on Youtube if you search for it. My pedals work like new now. Took about 30 minutes of careful dissection. If you're not very handy with tools, if you care about your warrantee, or are thinking about contacting logitech about the issue, definitely don't take your pedals apart.

Like others have said, if the issue is only persistent in this one game, you can turn up the deadzone on your throttle pedal in the game settings (that's what I did before I tried cleaning them)