scottishwildcat

It should be dialled in for the majority of people who buy it, and that's not wheel users I'm afraid.

I quite enjoyed it, to be honest. I spend most of my time in any year's game doing quick races anyway, so I wasn't bothered about the lack of game modes.

3D Grand Prix on the ZX81. Unplayably difficult.

Codemasters say that all reasonable suggestions posted here reach the developers, and I've no reason to doubt that. I know when I've worked on projects with a large community, even when they've had a community manager, the developers still used to read the forums themselves as much as possible (provided the conversations were reasonable and not just toxic). I agree that Codemasters have never really found a good structured way for us to report bugs and suggest improvements, however. Web forums just aren't designed for doing that.

We're not going to get any significant graphical improvements unless/until they re-write the EGO engine again, which I doubt we'll see happening before the next gen consoles are released.

They've been running a televised esports series with the same sorts of issues for 3 years, so I doubt yesterday's events will change much. The reality is, most casual viewers (e.g. my father-in-law, who'd never watched a video game stream in his life before yesterday) won't even have noticed half the things that we did. They'd just have seen some spectacular crashes on lap 1 and some decent battles after that, i.e. some reasonable entertainment. The only things he thought were "wrong" was a) no captions to say which driver we were looking at, and b) no replays. (And all the waffle at the beginning, which was presumably exacerbated by the reduction to a 25% race.)

I was going to, until I realised it also included a bunch of the usual YouTube clowns rather than just actual racing drivers.

Hi Barry!

There is, it's just not made by Codemasters (and it's mobile-only): https://www.hutchgames.com/f1-manager/ There's also Sega's effort that's been around a bit longer, which isn't mobile-only but has no official licensing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/415200/Motorsport_Manager/

They literally record actual F1 engines every year. That's about as real as it gets. (Not that modern F1 cars sound very exciting anyway.)

Ah, it's been a while since we've had a good "this idea sounds simple, so it must be easy to fix" post 🙂

F1 Race Stars is also an officially licensed F1 game.

Much as I'd love to see them, cranes and flatbeds would be a nightmare to code... or at least, ones that didn't just appear and vanish like the cars do. They'd have to drive themselves from somewhere and position themselves exactly right, all without colliding with any other track buildings or track furniture. Then lift the car and take it away somewhere sensible, all without hitting anything again. Given how much trouble they've had implementing a safety car that only has to drive from the pit lane to the track and back now and again, I hate to think how wrong they could get this 😉

Paradox also have about 100 employees, and having worked at many big and small companies in my time, it's a lot easier to do the sort of things that Paradox do when you're a small company and everyone literally knows everyone else.

The game should be out months before the new consoles, so I wouldn't expect any next-gen specific features. It will, I'm sure, be playable on the new consoles via backwards compatibility.

The 10 year career mode would be awesome, but their current licence just doesn't allow it unfortunately... they get to use the current year's cars, teams and tracks in the current year's game, and that's it. Anything else has to be separately licensed at extra cost, if it can even still be licensed at all. (Which in the case of defunct teams and sponsors, often isn't the case.) A Welsh driver wouldn't get the Welsh national anthem in real life, so even if they added them to the game, you probably still wouldn't hear it I'm afraid 😉

I'd be very surprised if it does in this day and age... could potentially be a serious safety issue.

Should be moved to the "Introduce Yourself" section, perhaps...?

Where have they said they refuse to do it? They may have different priorities to us, and that's often frustrating, but making stuff up about what they have or haven't said doesn't help.

You're very welcome to disagree, but then by definition you're not one of the people I was talking about. (Similarly, most of us don't care a jot about e-sports, either.)

We'd all love it. Many of us have asked for it before. The reality is, licensing historical stuff is legally difficult and time-consuming, and costs more money over and above their annual F1 licence, so they're always going to be limited in what they can do.

The number of tracks is certainly a bit disappointing, but more tracks are going to be made available as free DLC. Which tracks and when, they haven't told us yet.

They have said a number of extra tracks will be made available as free DLC. No more details are available as yet.

I've been a huge Apple fan since the 80's, but I've never owned an iPhone. Go figure...

Their fastest times should be identical. Favouring people who can afford expensive hardware is literally "pay to win", and that always sucks.