Patch News - v1.7.0 - Discussion Thread

[tone1492 0]

This patch screwed up my beloved look to apex mod  :'( :(

[F1ERL 0]

@Lozzy

RETIRE FROM THE SESSION - DURING FORMATION LAP

This solution would be very useful for F1 leagues broadcasting or recording their races. Currently, a person residing in the lobby but not taking part in the race ( broadcaster ) is not able to retire so:

1. he is on the start grid and he must retire just when race is starting - dangerous situation for other participans
2. he cant record formation lap and first 20 seconds of the race 
3. Broadcaster withdrawal on first lap causes Safety Car almost every time - biggest problem

How big problem it is, you can check for example on this movie (25:02 sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXqZFt3nSH4  


Solution "retire from the session" during formation lap should move him to the spectator mode so he can watch and stream whole formation lap and start of the race from "spectatore mode" using a Broadcast TV camera.

It is not such a big problem for users but very important for broadcast quality. Leagues are that what propel your game product to forward and promote it in social media like Youtube. For example our league races are broadcasting live in big e-sport TV dedicated for players, and its a little shame for us show and explain viewers who are those 2 cars ( broadcaster and commentator ) on end of the grid and why they retiring just when race started

I hope you will change that becouse it should be very simple change for guys from IT.
It will allow us to move our F1 Codemasters promotion on the higher level

Greetings,
Michael

[trustno1ak 0]

Lozzy said:

Hello everyone, I wanted to try this to see if people feel it's an improvement to the way we communicate the status of upcoming patches.

The next patch will be v1.7.0 and will be released on all platforms. We're skipping 1.6 on PS4 and Xbox One because with hindsight making our version number different to Sony's version number on PS4 just caused confusion. Getting all platforms on to the same version should also be clearer for you all too I hope.

Patch Notes

• Added the Master difficulty option to bridge the gap between Expert and Legend.
• Added the Master difficulty option when starting a new Career and Championship Season. - New for v1.7.0
  
• Changed the tyre rules so the tyre you start the race on counts as a mandatory for the race.
• Falling too far behind penalties will no longer be given after being told to overtake the Safety Car.
  
• Corrected a few translation issues.
• Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause race sessions to never end.
• Fixed a bug that could give players who rejoin a multiplayer session the wrong tyres. - New for v1.7.0
• All cars now use the same gearbox when playing with Equal Performance. - New for v1.7.0
• Fixed a number of crash bugs.

PC: Being tested internally.
PS4: Being tested internally.
Xbox One: Being tested internally.

Hi, I write on behalf of the Russian community - translated into Russian language of the engineers message(PS4). Thank you

[kartana 0]

Ho3n3r said:

TopAirspace said:

Brace yourselves,....... The "What about Career Mode" comments are coming!

And justifiably so, since career mode renders itself pointless at the moment.

What is the issue with Career Mode exactly? 

[naim786 24]

@Lozzy what is the patch size of pc 1.7.0?

[Runalf 0]

kartana said:

Ho3n3r said:

TopAirspace said:

Brace yourselves,....... The "What about Career Mode" comments are coming!

And justifiably so, since career mode renders itself pointless at the moment.

What is the issue with Career Mode exactly? 

Here is some stuff to read for you lol. 

http://forums.codemasters.com/discussion/46335/what-happens-when-you-max-out-the-upgrades/p1

[mantazzo 100]

naim786 said:

@Lozzy what is the patch size of pc 1.7.0?

It was around ~90MB if I'm correct.

[MR61088 0]

mantazzo said:

MR61088 said:

Still no delta time indicator in pro season :( 
when will it be fixed @Lozzy
i know that this issue isn't a big one and pretty much one of the lowest points on your to do list, but can you please fix it in the next patch? 

Isn't Pro Season supposed to be No Hud, no assists, Ultimate AI and Realistic damage? So I don't think Delta time indicator should be in, unless you need it on the wheel.

Of course the hud is of, but when you have a VSC or SC you have nothing which indicates your delta.
you only get shown the warning when your delta is negativ and that isn't good at all. 
In reallife the drivers get the deltatime on their dash on the steeringwheel bit that solition seems to be not possible. 
I thought to enable the delta hid would be a easy task, but nothing happend in the two last patches

[naim786 24]

@Lozzy can anyone give a more specific description of the pc changes in 1.7.0

[JulesMercier 0]

@Lozzy Will the AI behavior ever be fixed? Honestly, the issue with AI cars not passing is a non issue for me since the race results have always been realistic for me, but I am really tired of them ramming me in the back for absolutely no reason!! And it has been discussed previously, I'm not the only one with this issue! Yesterday, on two occasions I got hit in the back, the first time to cause me to spin and the second time Wehrlein just sent me flying straight into the barriers.

[tone1492 0]

JulesMercier said:

@Lozzy Will the AI behavior ever be fixed? Honestly, the issue with AI cars not passing is a non issue for me since the race results have always been realistic for me, but I am really tired of them ramming me in the back for absolutely no reason!! And it has been discussed previously, I'm not the only one with this issue! Yesterday, on two occasions I got hit in the back, the first time to cause me to spin and the second time Wehrlein just sent me flying straight into the barriers.

This. There are still some issues with the AI keeping this game from epic status, The OP slipstream is an issue for me as well. 

[mantazzo 100]

MR61088 said:

mantazzo said:

MR61088 said:

Still no delta time indicator in pro season :( 
when will it be fixed @Lozzy
i know that this issue isn't a big one and pretty much one of the lowest points on your to do list, but can you please fix it in the next patch? 

Isn't Pro Season supposed to be No Hud, no assists, Ultimate AI and Realistic damage? So I don't think Delta time indicator should be in, unless you need it on the wheel.

Of course the hud is of, but when you have a VSC or SC you have nothing which indicates your delta.
you only get shown the warning when your delta is negativ and that isn't good at all. 
In reallife the drivers get the deltatime on their dash on the steeringwheel bit that solition seems to be not possible. 
I thought to enable the delta hid would be a easy task, but nothing happend in the two last patches

My bad, misunderstood you slightly.
Well then I agree with you, some Delta Time show-up should be implemented on the steering wheel when SC/VSC is deployed.

[Rodentyell 2]

Since this patch I have that annoying high pitched whistle back from the cars, anyone else? 

[Runalf 0]

Lozzy said:

The PC patch is now live. We'll have updates about the consoles before the end of the working week.

Nice. Update tomorrow (Friday) :smiley: 

Also, people stopped playing because they want the Master difficulty. You have it ready for consoles. It was a bad decision to wait for release just to have 1 big patch. Please hurry with that Master difficulty for console. 

[AnthonyLee59 22]

Please explain about the SLI "fix"............ if anything performance has DECREASED since 1.7 (Before i was running about 65-70fps but now im in the high 50's?

Running 2 x GTX 1070's in SLI
i5-4690k
16Gb Ram
Windows 1064 bit.

[Norminator 0]

Too much rain!!!! In career I always have these mixed conditions with rain every session and every race.... Even in the desert races... its so annoying und not even realistic.... Pls fix this s**t!

[Lozzy 0]

AnthonyLee59 please could you start a thread in the Technical Assistance forum. It would be useful to get a DXDiag from you and also information about what resolution and settings you're running. Our internal tests showed a big performance gain across the tests we ran.

[nicolas1423 3]

@Lozzy will we have this update this week ?

[Irishranger 0]

Stumbled upon a Safety Car glitch yesterday in Quickrace mode.

I was leading the AI around China when the Safety Car was deployed.  I was told to catch the Safety Car but was given a VSC Delta time to stay on.  All the AI passed me and it took a full lap to catch the pack because of the Delta time.  I believe for some weird reason I was given both Safety Car and VSC when the AI got only the Safety Car.

Worth looking into maybe.

[Driver74 4]

@ Lozzy 

Have you a update for the xbox patch? 
You said, end of the week. 
All my friends an i are waiting for any news.

[Runalf 0]

Driver74 said:

@ Lozzy 

Have you a update for the xbox patch? 
You said, end of the week. 
All my friends an i are waiting for any news.

Maybe you should read the 1.7.0 patch note thread. They gave an update like they said. 

[nicolas1423 3]

they gave an update about ps4 but not for xbox one

[Driver74 4]

Lozzy said:

The PC patch is now live. We'll have updates about the consoles before the end of the working week.

 
@nicolas1423

Is the xbox not a console ? 

[nicolas1423 3]

@@Driver74
" The PS4 patch has been approved internally and sent for submission with Sony. We anticipate the submission taking a number of days for this patch so do not expect to be able to release it until the middle of next week, around the 19th October. There is also the chance that Sony will find a problem and not approve the patch too."

do you see xbox one somewhere ?

[F1ERL 0]

there is no information about Xbox but also there is no confirmation that X1 patch will be released as they promised so that comment says nothing. Deadline for Xbox patch was today so in next 2-3 hours everything will be clear.