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Entire Field Takes a Penalty in Spain

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What I assume is due to changes to parts, all the teams took a penalty of some sort come Barcelona in Career mode. This skyrocketed my 9th place Quali into a pole position.

Since Barcelona is the 5th race of the season I assume the game kept incrementally moving to new MGUH or whatever at every race, instead of managing it realistically and using the same parts for a few races at least.

Bit stupid and frankly annoyed me as I ended up winning the race, because two other cars DIDNT take a penalty, Wehrlein and Alonso, which held up the field and allowed me to make a gap and win (just about) but it was a shallow win.

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Do you think this is a scheduled change counting as a penalty or does the AI get new parts every race? Just Spain is race 5 is all.

Edit: I see you have asked the same question :)

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Yeah it seems to be, just automated. I expect the same thing to happen in Race 9. Will report back when I get there.
Someone's already reported it does and also at Spa and Monza so far. Interestingly Force India and his teammate were not penalised.

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Must be the ai changing gearboxes early. Might be something to do with the wear scaling bug. Maybe ai change gearboxes at 50% wear which would be about every 5 races

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Same happened to me at Monaco. All the AI, bar 3, took a 5 place grid drop. That was after Hulkenburg took pole with a lap of 19secs!

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I signed up to this forum specifically to find a thread like this. My F1 is basically unplayable now. I've had this issue in Russia, Hungary, Spa, Monza, Singapore and Malaysia (the final 5 being sequential in the calendar!?) And every driver takes penalties. I Q'd 17th at Spa in a Sauber, with Wehrlein P18... We started a little further up... And now locked out the front row. Before Perez eventually won after a lengthy fight with Palmer.

Now in Malaysia, Magnussen is on pole, from Palmer, and both McLarens --------________--------

Realism is why I play F1 games, I have it ramped up almost max on difficulty so the grind is worth it. 18+ cars taking grid penalties for 5 sequential races, to me, is an unplayable game, because it's no longer about what you do or don't achieve. The whole system is a lottery now. I prey there is a hot fix on the way, or I will be trading this game, which will be the first instance doing so, having played every Codies F1 game to date...

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MattkD37 said:
Out of interest, is this a problem on all race distances (25% 50% 100%)?
I think so,  I've just seen it on 50% distance at Mexico & Brazil.. all drivers taking penalties 2 races in a row, meaning a completely random grid with backmarkers on pole etc... I was in a good fight with Haas for points this season but this issue ruined that a bit. 

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I've had it happen 7 races in a row in the second half of the season: I qualify 15 or 16 in a Haas, then for the race almost the entire field takes penalties and I'm starting between 2nd and 5th.  I then almost always lose positions since the faster cars catch me up (I do 25% and 50% races) which means I can't move my reputation up since I finish higher than expected but lose positions (1 step fwd, 1 step back).  For the championship standings I chose Haas because I want to earn my way up but now I'm already 8th in the drivers championship and my team is already 4th in my first season despite having almost no new upgrades fitted (I've been investing in durability and lower prices). There's no way you should be able to make up 10+ places every race from others grid penalties.  It shouldn't happen in any races never mind this many. 

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MattkD37 said:
Out of interest, is this a problem on all race distances (25% 50% 100%)?
I think so,  I've just seen it on 50% distance at Mexico & Brazil.. all drivers taking penalties 2 races in a row, meaning a completely random grid with backmarkers on pole etc... I was in a good fight with Haas for points this season but this issue ruined that a bit. 
@jennyannem ok so it just happened 3 races in a row, all drivers taking penalties again promoting me to pole in a Toro Rosso, hope the team.is aware and looking into the issue

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Happened to me for every race from Singapore through Abu Dhabi.  I'd gain 10+ positions every race because the field had so many penalties. 

Xbox One S

Career Season 1

Difficulty 88

Distances 25% or 50%

Full Qualifying

 

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Hello all, is anyone on PS4 and has this issue able to send me their save game please.

It's also interesting that this is happening in 50% distance races, 25% we knew was a problem and fixed it in patch 1.5 but this may mean we need to rebalance 50% too.

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Happened to me for every race from Singapore through Abu Dhabi.  I'd gain 10+ positions every race because the field had so many penalties. 

Xbox One S

Career Season 1

Difficulty 88

Distances 25% or 50%

Full Qualifying

 

Exact same, xbox, 98 difficulty, 50% races. Mainly affects the latter half of the season

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F1Support said:
Hello all, is anyone on PS4 and has this issue able to send me their save game please.

It's also interesting that this is happening in 50% distance races, 25% we knew was a problem and fixed it in patch 1.5 but this may mean we need to rebalance 50% too.
But Lee Mather said on Twitter that you also tweaked 50%.

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F1Support said:
Hello all, is anyone on PS4 and has this issue able to send me their save game please.

It's also interesting that this is happening in 50% distance races, 25% we knew was a problem and fixed it in patch 1.5 but this may mean we need to rebalance 50% too.
@F1Support It happened to me in the previous season, is that still useful if I send it, and how do I send it to you?

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F1Support said:
Hello all, is anyone on PS4 and has this issue able to send me their save game please.

It's also interesting that this is happening in 50% distance races, 25% we knew was a problem and fixed it in patch 1.5 but this may mean we need to rebalance 50% too.
http://xboxclips.com/Kraviro/2e01c716-c8c7-4a04-90c5-1348335a2869 Not sure if it helps, but here's visually how bad it is on xbox anyways

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