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No female driver avatars in Career mode?

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I note that in career mode there are no female avatars?

Given the role of women in the sport (not just in F1) I thought this was a bit odd, or is this just like saying "why can't I play as Ken?" in a Barbie game?

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I would assume that due to no women being anywhere near getting a race seat in F1, Codemasters didn't deem it necessary to have female avatars. Even two or three of them would have been nice though.

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It was said that a female avatar was considered but didn't make it to the game. This topic has been raised before on this forum so no it is not like asking to play Ken in the Barbie game. It's a valid question about a real sports were women are allowed to participate in the same championship as men. 

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1) it;'s been mentioned MANY times in the forum 2) who cares!? Drive the car the rest is a side show, nice, but a side show

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Its been confirmed that they have Female avatars but did not finish them so they couldn't implement them in time, but confirmed could be released in later patches. If I find the link to the article, will post it.

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http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/f1-2016-aiming-to-correct-f1-2015s-mistakes-thinking-about-adding-female-drivers

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vidiv007 said:
1) it;'s been mentioned MANY times in the forum 2) who cares!? Drive the car the rest is a side show, nice, but a side show
If it was just about the driving, I would never have considered getting any game in this series, there would be several better options for me. I don't think I am alone in that. I exclusively play careers, because I want to play out my F1 fantasy, and my F1 fantasy is larger than just appearing in a car on a track and disappearing after the race.

I'd pay triple if this game allowed me to play as my own gender.. and I understand this does not go for the majority of people here, but I feel compelled to respond here anyway, because there are so many people who act as if the thing that they want is a matter of life and death, but then call out the next person for making a fuss over nothing when they seem to value something else.

If they left out t-cams, multiplayer or the latest merc nose, I'd still happily enjoy picking my number, thinking about strategies, doing that formation lap Every Single Time for every race over ten seasons, wishing the game would allow me to look like me, all the while not making "who cares!?" posts on a forum when someone mentioned wanting a feature that did not interest me.

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I would also emplore Codemasters to consider making female avatars available.
Sony had them on the F1 game already on PS3.

Doesn't matter if there are very few female gamers or that there's no female drivers in F1, the option should be there.
The EA NHL games have had female players in career mode ever since ~2011.
There are simply no excuses for not having female avatars.

Even the (very few) male avatars in F1 '16 aren't very well represented.
Codemasters, look to UFC 2 for inspiration. The options there to create a face/body
to either male or female are incredibly well made.

Now I'm not saying we should have avatars for everything, males and females would do fine.
The people identifying themselves as a tiger or a flower or whatever will just have to 
use their imagination.



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Heh, it feels a little odd to see my post from nearly a year ago now, when in the last few weeks I've been thinking a lot about raising this issue again.

The reason I hadn't, so far, was because I still remember the misogynistic mess that one of the threads on this topic became, and that's really not something I want to see again, but the last few weeks there have been very few topics that I have thought about more than the possibility of getting female avatars in F1 2017. One might say I have a shiny new obsession..  :p

So.. is this the year? The talk about it almost making it in F1 2016 makes me feel there's a reasonable chance, but I'm afraid to hope.

If it gets confirmed, though, the amount of time between me reading that and my pre-order will be less than a minute, I can guarantee that.  :)

Please?  <3

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You have to remember that female bodies look different, which means creating a whole new body mesh for the female drivers and Codies just don't have the energy for that. It's just too hard. 


/end.sarcasm=true

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Dboyking1 said:
Females will be in this years (2017) career mode
yeah Lee said that they added female avatars this year in that E3 stuff as one of the thing that have been updated

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Ordered!


*happychairdance*                               

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Well now I'm torn in my hypothetical career mode between playing as Button, Kubica or Susie Wolff as she replaces Stroll. (Let's face it, there wouldn't be much difference between the two).

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Well now I'm torn in my hypothetical career mode between playing as Button, Kubica or Susie Wolff as she replaces Stroll. (Let's face it, there wouldn't be much difference between the two).
got to admit I'm kinda tempted to play a hot female driver as she climbs through the ranks to become world champion too.

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I would have assumed they would be in. As Dirt 4 also has female avaters. Nice to see that confirmed!

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