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I'm really pumped for this. It still frustrates me in WRC that there are so few options and customisation. Something CodeMasters are championing so often. I am picturing random generated stages for a more realistic natural feel that pits the co-driver with more importance. The option to pick a female co-driver like in DiRT4, I loved that. Though DiRT 2.0 missed that trick so please add this for 2023. More cars! WRC 9 added more finally but they still miss the big ones like the Mitsubishi Evo and Subaru Impreza, these are the iconic cars I grew up adoring. More options for accessibility. WRC 9 went even more extreme on the wheel support and less again on controller support. Its very hard to handle the cars in any mode other than career and only thanks to R&D and all classics are horrendous to control, and they feel the same, the modern Focus handles just like the Lancia which is crazy! I'm sure the Focus was 4WD too. Anyway I expect wheel and controller users to both be well looked after as in F1 and other titles. So more stability options and sensitivity options that work. Don't get me wrong I love WRC 9 and New Zealand is stunning! But its always been very inconsistent. A lot say its very sim but I still feel its quite arcade like but with very poor handling and really odd crash detection. So I'm looking forward to CodeMasters take on this, as racers go CodeMasters seem to be very consistent on customisation and accessability options. I'm hoping for custom career teams too. I love the unique liveries teams sometimes have. The Paddon i20 looks stunning and the Fnckmatie Fiesta is like a mirror! The standard i20 is stunning of course and though WRC 9 don't do it enough justice by its more vivid colours that look bland in game I still love racing with livery options and feeling like its really MY car not one thats borrowed as in WRC 9 as you can still see the original drivers number and colours rather than your own. Also not ever seen the Paddon or Fnckmatie come up in career offers either. I'd love to see a livery you can keep for any car, say you sign a Monster Energy or Red Bull contract and get the full car livery you can add to any of the cars that will be in 2023. Sign a sponsor then sign a separate manufacturer deal and they combine as your new team. And it continues over the years. Currently in WRC 8 and still in 9 you can stay with the same team but you get the bank reset?? And can still get a different car (number change so replace a different official driver lineup with the same manufacturer). That makes no sense to me. Even if I joined another team why would I loose all my money? Lol! The R&D is good though and they added a new freeroam mode you can just play around in and practice those handbrake turns. Hopefully they stay. They have interesting maintenance events that are similar to DiRTs Joyride playground so I'm well up for that to progress to full DiRT style test sessions for any car. I'm hoping you get a lot of wiggle room to add a lot of fantasy stuff with the official content, any historic rallies not on the official list that year as well as a nice diverse classic car lineup like you have already with DiRT. I'd love to smash a classic car around an official stage as well as official teams around stages that maybe cancelled in rl. Like in WRC 9 I'm really missing Australia a lot! So being able to add those otherwise missed out would be perfection. So most of all career mode, the female co-driver voice option and unique team livery for any car without replacing any of the official lineup, so you are an official addition. And more accessability options than WRC currently have. Basically DiRT already 😂 But official.. Ironic you are already there CodeMasters 👍 Plus CM has a forum.. Seriously if WRC gets an issue (which there are many) its very hard to get it across to them and you get no feedback even from their official Twitter page. I've always had a good experience with bug reporting for F1 here, simple easy to use report system and feedback regarding the issues too. We are kept in the loop here.

I just won my first Constructors Trophy in MyTeam Career mode (PS4) but didn't get a mail for the trophy to add to my licence. As previous years have had it I'm guessing its a bug? Or have codies stopped adding it as a show trophy?

1st season end Grosjean retired, Russell went to Haas and Matsushita (who's been doing awesome) got signed to Williams. That was it. 2nd season ended and magic happened!! Ricciardo (who is spelled wrong in the interview *PS4 version* btw Codies) got a seat in Merc along side Hamilton! Awesome move! Seb retired, Verstappen went to Ferrari Gasly moved up to RB and Perez also joined him there. Bottas went to Renault. Albon and Räikkönen went to RP. De Vries got signed to Alfa Romeo. Stroll went to AlphaTauri. So that's RB with an even bigger purse.. It was a pretty epic change! Its pretty random. Just like the odd driver will get a sudden boost or fail rate that will effect their seat. Bottas last 3 races got involved in mid field collisions so assume that caused his move and RB were struggling as a team and totally disbanded lol! If you do another career it'll be different again. I'm enjoying the odd random event or abnormal result that effects teams and drivers. I've noticed it fast and directly affects their R&D growth allowing a lower team to rise and higher team to fall randomly. Long as you let it happen. I did get a scenario where Kvyat was qualifying really well, top 10 in bottom 3 team (at the time) but I actually restarted those as I thought it was a bit disrespectful to Gasly and after 3 race weekends of this to get more "normal" results for him without direct intervention it seemed to stop doing it and restored balance to the back of the grid. I allowed (no restarts) Räikkönen to get a flurry of great quali results and now he's in the RP, top 4 car. I really like that evolution. Bit cheeky to be bias to Kvyat but Gasly has had such a stronger last year and still out doing Kvyat so I'd hate to see him rise and gasly stay low down. If you are into these tests I highly recommend you try it out. You can directly or indirectly get involved with it and see realistic results/outcomes by it. Overall a good system in my eyes. I might actualy test it more directly with a set driver just to see if its not a fluke. But if you are having a boring transfer career then why not try to "intervene" a little, help a driver out or back a driver off a bit and see what happens? Its a game afterall, why not have a bit of fun with it?

Yeah I see that too. Its circuits just long enough for the power to win overtakes so the slower AI can't defend so easily and have no choice but to concede. I have put a request through to look into it so hopefully they will find out and get a work around sorted for it 🤞

Nice info everyone 👍 I'm very interested in all of this. And just suddenly my acclaim %, though states the same number, is suddenly increasing much slower on the bar marker. So a breakdown would really help there for sure. I'm also sticking with my first choice driver. I've got all level 2 2nd driver department unlocked and its really showing in race results. Still no perks showing for her but if they start using their own contract money this would be brilliant! Nearly finished season 2 so see how far I can get with my prize money as I'm on target with all sponsors. But I'm annoyed I still can't choose to offer better or longer contracts. Its still half season only. Wondering if anyone has got different options available to 2nd driver contracts?

Not heard any news though the 2019 game the update in drivers came much later on. If I remember right it was toward the end of the F1 season that the update came. I can imagine with enough demand it could come but if they do add 2020 F2 line up then I can only imagine they'd simply add the extra avatars to the roster rather than replace. As if Codies replaced drivers players already picked for my team it would cause a bit of upset. So I wouldn't worry about starting a My Team and getting screwed over. Worst case they do like at the start when they added performance improvements to the drivers and teams and sent a mail like the career trophy mails stating they updated and would you like to implement it to your current career mode (you could accept or decline) or preferably as stated above, they simply add extra drivers to the current career roster for future team negotiations.

I'm only aware by my own team that 2nd driver adds acclaim to the overall team % so higher level means more % added to overall team acclaim which increases overall income and winnings for main sponsor. Also puzzled me that the 2nd driver has a perk table too but no option to upgrade. But I've not tested if the 2nd driver can become the 1st driver and take over the perk and R&D guidance. Curious if this is an area you tested yet? If the other driver can be put into 1st role by outperforming the player if they take all those bonus extras on board. As it is currently for me 2nd driver can help contribute to all areas. They add R&D points in practice sessions and add to team acclaim but the amount or % is much less. Though my first race I did qualify ahead but added parts penalties so started behind, but then finished the race ahead of my team mate but they actually got more acclaim than me. In fact it took me to race 3 to get ahead of my team mates acclaim income %. This could be to do with starting acclaim level though as I didn't pay much attention to that. Assuming the created player starts at zero. I am happy though that my driver Tatiana Calderón is clean and consistent (not fast though) so the income is consistent in rising as her acclaim level grows. I'm definitely going to pay more attention to it now lol I'm all for trying to perfect my team.

I think Codies have it down really well for tyres as there can be times in dry but cloudy cool conditions where the medium tyre performs better than the softs as happens in real racing. Conditions are key. BUT the AI issue is different. I've noticed an AI out of traffic can go much faster on the right tyre but soon as they get behind someone then they go yellow flag mode. However they do have good attacking aggression. Test holding the AI back or giving them just the slightest of gaps and they'll gun for it. But they don't do this for other AI. Now it could be they are a little TOO intelligent as in they know exactly what corners to defend inside or outside as I've seen plenty of good attempts by faster AI to overtake BUT the defender always wins unless an extreme situation presents itself, rare mechanical issue possibly from pushing too hard too long? Or another AI causes a block or other similar issue to the defending AI. The last 3 races for me have been entirely yellow flag AI bar whoever is 2nd behind my 3 poles in a row. These 3 races I did accurate difficulty to my cars performance, slightly lower and super easy. All three times the 2nd car would do a Need For Speed style "Catch up" where even on super easy they'd fly along with me for the most part of the 1st lap even well ahead of the 3rd place AI. So its not just a case of max fuel and energy use but something in the coding that is screwing up the AI. The worst thing is getting an AI to react or evolve solely around the player. They need to get their independence back like they did so well in 2018. Sure they fought maybe a little too much and sometimes ruined their own races but they at least took each car whether human or AI as equals and had great fights. Its much more staged now to the player. Though the starts are exciting and midfield starts for me are great fun. You can see the issue much clearer up front. The AI are aggressive in the wrong situations and wasteful of their boosts (when not cheating, seemingly limitless ERS etc). Especially the starts. Racing so hard they burn out harder! Bar the "cheating" AI closest to the player who seems to have far longer boosts than the other AI who fall back fast. If they have a catch up system they need to dump that fast. The worst invention in gaming ever! More consistency in pace. Better tyre to situation consistency. And more human style AI overtaking, if the AI always know exactly what to do to defend (ERS perfect timing and perfect lines), and speed and talent mean nothing (yellow flag syndrome), then there will never be a real overtake opportunity. This stands even for the top teams struggling to overtake midfield teams (also regardless of tyre). So to sum up. More consistent pace, more "human" defending. AI treating other AI the same as the player.

Damn hardcore bug! Luckily not had this on PS4. You on PC?

That is just the button binding. Unbind the view from the steering in options.

But not showing the limited visor view also can be considered an assist too. The most realistic sim view would be the exact view you get wearing full cover face mask and helmet in the position the head would be not a visor cam view. Currently by that there is no sim view available.

I've actually really enjoyed cockpit for the first time in F1 (full Halo included) but I still enjoy my old favourite, the TV Pod central (symmetry (and accuracy as we sit centrally) is important to me, I can't even watch YouTubers use offsets without a straight face grumble thinking they must be one eyed pirates 😂). I have shake and blur reduced half too. Though I've no experience of racing an F1 car let alone at 200mph+ with the G force they are capable of, other games with cars I have raced always make me feel either my eyes are very good or others are worryingly poor to the natural settings (anyone else feel this?), though research has proved most drivers on the road do have sight bordering on needing driving glasses, not passing distance tests or just barely. Anyway based purely on that its reduced. I don't get blurry vision and side vision is naturally occurring even when gaming. Shaking on bumps still needs work and tbh not that bothered until tracks are accurately lazered anyway. I'd prefer more on controller/wheel vibration feedback. My Hud shows mirrors in TV Pod view so no need to tilt but cockpit I've made it to need to move the analogue stick to give a more real feel until we get VR support. The cockpit does look awesome this year, probably why I've enjoyed it so much more. The detail is bordering on perfect. Much smoother edges and clearer colour to colour not mashing into each other like with the older more jagged edged graphics.

I have a pretty interesting one. Wanted a tough challenge anyway but not too unreal so went for a high but not top sponsor so I could afford the Merc engine but just enough left to get the cheapest avialable driver. Not knowing the bonus you get from the first press interview stating what department is best I went for durability and got surprised you get a good buff and a free department upgrade so should have gone for Aero or Chassis but at least my car is very reliable (no DNFs at all in 1st season and allowed me a best 5th place due to a few AI failings and my car remaining reliable). The car is strong in power circuits, I can usually snatch a point or 2 though my teammate only gets above Williams and sometimes Haas drivers. In other technical circuits its a nightmare. I can still get a point or 2 if the strategy works out etc. But my teammate is dead last bar beating Latifi most of the time. For £150 its no biggy but I put a lot into 2nd driver development. See no change in performance but wow did I get a shock in the midseason contract! From £150 to £3mil!! I could only afford it due to saving up and making the very most of sponsors and first purchase being in that department. There is a trophy to get a high acclaim driver anyway so the poor cheap 2nd driver thing is fine as a temporary measure and the car is poor so at the moment I ignore the fact they likely won't get any points for me and don't wanna screw too much with the current driver line up by employing every cheap agent, so I'll see what this driver can do with the buffs over time. I'm also so far matching the other teams in R&D. I started just a tad ahead of Williams but far off Haas. I'm still 2nd to last but behind Haas by a whisker! No level 2 departments yet and still a few R&D things I can get that are unlocked so just doing them as I go. Doing every practice test religiously for maximum points. Had 4 failures but been able to afford the fix, though only 1 fail was minor so the others did cost me more. Fail rate % is around 30-40%. Best being Chassis and durability at 30%. Just got my power R&D ahead of the other Merc supplied teams bar Merc themselves. Tough but happily challenging at the moment. I'm in it for the long run. Not interested in regular career mode. Its all about trying to get my team to the top.. If thats possible since I started at the bottom. If its like previous years like doing up Williams to max only to still end up last after 6 seasons due to everyone else maxing out too that will really suck! So hopefully there is a system in place that allows teams to constantly be evolving/changing or the ability to all be maxed equally. Don't wanna put in 10 seasons to be the worst maxed team 😂 All my driver perks are now level 2 also thanks to good sponsor payouts. That really boosts my durability, income etc.

Anyone got Ric got to McLaren and Saintz to Ferrari yet? 😂 Also we need Alonso back for Renault so add him to the free agents? 😉 Pretty please Codies 😁

Lol cheers. Appreciate the effort 👍 At least I can prepare for the worst mentally.. 😂 Fingers crossed still that I don't get it though. Just had my first contract negotiation for 2nd driver from £150k to £3mil with only Latifi below them in championship standings in just half a season.. And resigning was only for the rest of the season.. So end of season 1 and I'm nervous what cost that is going to be.. Let alone possible glitches coming up lol

Query on 2nd driver contracts in My Team career. I am wondering if I missed something out as my 2nd driver who was only £150k at first purchase is at Silverstone (just past half way 1st season) is now a whooping £3mil that I only was able to afford due to saving up but stats are still weak. Anyway my main concern was it was a half season contract and I resigned the high price for only the rest of that season? There was no full season/year or multi year contract option. Is it like this throughout? Because god only knows how anyone might afford to purchase contracts twice a season every season. Is it a one off? Would love to hear other players experiences on contract options received. Would love not to have to keep taking F2 guys just to save the bank lol! Really would love to keep growing the same driver so I can see how far I can take them.

I've not got a great distance in acclaim yet. 12 for my driver and 9 for the team but so far so good.. Is there a set level people are saying it sticks?

I quite like it in MyTeam mode as I won't be switching teams, its all about my own team so its the long game and progression is a long road. Lots of prep is required if you want to be super efficient but you can still totally wing it too. Each R&D department has an area you can upgrade that increases R&D points income as well as personal driver perks (in the corporate tab, contracts). This can be upgraded 3 times to increase faster each time. I like that what used to be the cost and fail rate purchaseables in the R&D tree are also now date related so it prevents fast tracking and gives a more natural increase over time. There are so many areas to upgrade and customise it makes me salivate just thinking about it! Its a great system. But just remember like most games upgrades are increase steps. The first upgrades are minor and give just a little boost. The next are moderate boosts and the top upgrades are where the magic happens! So if you feel you aren't going anywhere yet, its just the beginning, the foundations you are laying for the big steps later. It may just be me but it feels very fluid to my career. I'm liking the journey very much.

Can't blame Codies for going with the times, these micro transactions only exist in the first place because they are so popular. But you get games like GTA V and almost everything from EA where they almost force it on you to progress or get mown down. At least F1 2020 is done tastefully. Look at everything that is purchaseable, its only cosmetic extras. You don't need any of it to progress, nothing premium gives one an advantage over the other online at all. But if you want more custom stuff its there if you want it. I'm assuming it looks like it may have a setup for live additions too as there is a timer for current purchaseables so we may see more uniqueliveries, celebrations and outfits. But again, nothing is necessary to compete with. You can effectively ignore it and enjoy the game as it is. I respect Codies for doing this. As a business the more profit the safer jobs are and more future content stays at a top quality but without affecting the fans who purchased the game and can't afford extras. I don't judge players who want to throw loads of money at a game they love to enjoy it their way, long as it doesn't affect others experiences its fine. If you are concerned please take the time to check it all yourself. Extra purchases don't give competitive advantages here. If you still want to be angry at microtransactions then be angry at society and the games that really do exploit advantages.

I had this too, first time was in rain though so assume it wanted me to just try going without changing to the end as the weather nil and voided the need for compound changing. But another race in dry did the same. Only times I've had it but both times were my normal strategy and 2nd option was a blank strategy.

I wouldn't grumble at fantasy tracks. I love my fantasy team. But I would much prefer real tracks from history. Magny-Cours. Yeongam. Fuji. What happened to Jerez? They were adding that in 2013, was very fun racing those stunning sounding 80s turbos there. Valencia. Estoril. Adelaide. Sepang. Imola, again added in 2013 is a great and challenging circuit. Hockenheimring, classic long layout. Nurburgring. Buddh. I could keep going. I would love any of these returns with very open arms!

Same for me. Also seems to cap at +5 but is that to do with the department level? (So far I've got all 3 areas of 2nd driver department unlocked 1 level each). Also looking at all the F1 drivers they are all at +5 and mostly +10 after just race 2 so do the AI all just gun for driver programme or is it a glitch? As they already dwarf my F2 driver (also Calderón), 1st race split the Williams up, 2nd race actually cleared both Williams noticeably, then 3rd race onward its back of the grid by 1 or 2 seconds (thats with keeping up with R&D too, went from just ahead of Williams but far off Haas to just past Haas so definitely improving and I feel it). I assumed there would be some way to help the F2 extra to be a close stat contender to the F1 stat guys as otherwise they'll just be nothing but fodder the whole career. But the F1 guys stats grow so fast!

I see on the Williams you already have the We Race Together logo so any chance you can make it an on/off toggle to add to our own My Team car? Say just below the rear wing sponsor similar to the Williams positioning? Would be a nice thing to add in support of the current racism situation and in support of Lewis efforts and all diversity for the future of the great sport we all love. As a similar option I'd love to see all the faces we can choose to have a selection of colour grades as I notice you have no Mediterranean faces. Only white and black. The couple of Asian faces are also very white. So some sort of colour palette would be great please, considered for future releases.

How are your upshifts? Not short shifting or over reving? Only thing I can think if your downshifts are good. Though starting out its always tough but 1 or 2 races is definitely abnormal wear. Any chance of a vid of it with the engine MFD up through the race?

Was odd that the trophy on PS4 was over 8% but since day 1 I could never get the rival times to load up. So can't achieve it lol. The PS4 revs up crazy if I leave it loading though. Will be on later so will be very happy if 1.04 fixes it though many are saying it still loads as 1.03