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F1 2018 Bugs/Glitches - THIS ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR A LICENCED PRODUCT

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Just wanted to express my growing frustration with the state of F1 2018.

I'm up to my 5th league race in a row now where the game has had major glitches which have resulted in a ruined race.

Race 1: De-synced car took me out in turn 1
Race 2: Crashed car became stranded in the middle of the track on the racing line and was never cleared.
Race 3: Was unable to load a car setup, had to exit session and rejoin. THEN game stuck in full course yellow, no overtaking allowed. Had to restart session.
Race 4: Game stuck in full course yellow, no overtaking allowed. had to restart session.
Race 5: Received a 5 second stop go penalty for an illegal overtake when I never overtook the car in question. Couldn't slow down to let a car past that was already in front of me. Rest of the race was completely out of sync for a number of racers.

I understand and appreciate that "it's just a game", but for a lot of us who race competitively, it's incredibly frustrating when we spend many hours practicing during the week to improve out lap times, qualify well and then have our race ruined by these glitches. 

For me personally, I sold a real life track-car and spent in excess of $6000 on my sim racing rig (and $10,000 on the PC that runs it) because real life racing was no longer practical for me with a young family. I expected this would be something i could enjoy in the evenings once the kids were asleep. It's fun to take it seriously and competitively for some of us.

This is an officially licenced F1 product with exclusive rights to much of the content used in the game, and this simply is not good enough. I have played many other racing games competitively dating back to the early 2000s (MSN Gaming Zone) and NEVER had these problems with any of them.

The core of the game is fantastic, but it is let down by all these frustrating bugs and glitches.

Please put the time and effort in to creating a game that actually works before it's released, or hand the rights over to another developer who can.

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Well written post, nails the point that this is a great fun game, that just isn't good enough on the multiplayer side - completely lets the package down, and your core base who plays the game year after year is consitently let down by these flaws. Please do better, or consider alternatives

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Not helpful post,
with the likes of Assetto Corsa, RFactor etc & all the mods, why anyone on a high end or even any gaming PC would buy F1 2018 is beyond me,
F1 series have & will allways be for noobs in TV Poop cam, with all the game devolpers attention / time taken up by making the game easyier & added assits with ever patch, rather then fixing actually real issues,
I recently went back to patch 1 & its a much better game, cant race online but any so many posts have said online is broke you cant race online anyway.

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BluntRS said:
Not helpful post,
with the likes of Assetto Corsa, RFactor etc & all the mods, why anyone on a high end or even any gaming PC would buy F1 2018 is beyond me,
F1 series have & will allways be for noobs in TV Poop cam, with all the game devolpers attention / time taken up by making the game easyier & added assits with ever patch, rather then fixing actually real issues,
I recently went back to patch 1 & its a much better game, cant race online but any so many posts have said online is broke you cant race online anyway.
Not sure why you feel the post is unhelpful. It only has to remain that way if we all accept it as you apparently have done. or we can group together and push Codemasters to address the issues we actually want them to fix.

If it were just some 3rd party arcade game I'd agree with you and just play something else. Bu as an official licenced product they have a responsibility to deliver to a standard IMO.

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BluntRS said:
Not helpful post,
with the likes of Assetto Corsa, RFactor etc & all the mods, why anyone on a high end or even any gaming PC would buy F1 2018 is beyond me,
F1 series have & will allways be for noobs in TV Poop cam, with all the game devolpers attention / time taken up by making the game easyier & added assits with ever patch, rather then fixing actually real issues,
I recently went back to patch 1 & its a much better game, cant race online but any so many posts have said online is broke you cant race online anyway.
Not sure why you feel the post is unhelpful. It only has to remain that way if we all accept it as you apparently have done. or we can group together and push Codemasters to address the issues we actually want them to fix.

If it were just some 3rd party arcade game I'd agree with you and just play something else. Bu as an official licenced product they have a responsibility to deliver to a standard IMO.

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This post made me think seriously counting what games I have and facing not only some games I feel ok with, though I would try to add more to what I would be able in any case, to improve in...But it drove my attention towards portables, or PCs that are accessible nowadays that are attractive to the consumer (semi-amateur gamer), and in which I could tap on that hacks and try to not only destroy the limitations (gameshark like..maybe illegal), but to modify 'em in structures as in vanilla mods (GTA), or Pierce Brosnan / James Bond player mod (GTA VC and 4 too)...and Agent Smith mod in game...


https://www.gtagaming.com/images/26939/1395730156_gtaiv20140325124100711.jpg
https://www.gtagaming.com/images/14391/1337884302_enb2012524174716.jpg


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I agree with the posts above.... please pay some attention to fixing the multiplayer bugs!

While not as critical as some of the other multiplayer problems mentioned, the Max RPM glitch in spectator mode still exists after all of this time as well. Please fix that along with the other issues to improve the quality of broadcasting online events.  

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hi everyone, i'm new, and sorry but i don'tknow where to write this question:
Why the tyres pressure it's always wrong in the replay? it's always like it was low...even if iset it higher!
with the 1.15 patch i believe they resolve this bug....but not!

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BluntRS said:
Not helpful post,
with the likes of Assetto Corsa, RFactor etc & all the mods, why anyone on a high end or even any gaming PC would buy F1 2018 is beyond me,
F1 series have & will allways be for noobs in TV Poop cam, with all the game devolpers attention / time taken up by making the game easyier & added assits with ever patch, rather then fixing actually real issues,
I recently went back to patch 1 & its a much better game, cant race online but any so many posts have said online is broke you cant race online anyway.
Some people just like playing F1 with the official rule set. Not to mention not everyone plays online only.

There's no real alternative to that.

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BluntRS said:
Not helpful post,
with the likes of Assetto Corsa, RFactor etc & all the mods, why anyone on a high end or even any gaming PC would buy F1 2018 is beyond me,
F1 series have & will allways be for noobs in TV Poop cam, with all the game devolpers attention / time taken up by making the game easyier & added assits with ever patch, rather then fixing actually real issues,
I recently went back to patch 1 & its a much better game, cant race online but any so many posts have said online is broke you cant race online anyway.
Some people just like playing F1 with the official rule set. Not to mention not everyone plays online only.

There's no real alternative to that.
Indeed I know I do. I'm not an online player but I do enjoy the career mode playing with the F1 rule set and this series provides that well enough for me.

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To date, F1 2018 remains unplayable! A lot of mistakes online session. Monaco has remained unplayable for me for several years. Disgusting brake assist. The car moves unrealistically fast and dangles between the walls like a pencil in a glass. Settings of the car do not give any results. There is no speed limit in the corners of turns and behind the safety car. In rainy weather, the car starts to slide like ice. With a special ribbed Pirelli protector - it's complete nonsense! AI pilots are absolutely crazy!  He goes to RAM and clamps the player in the corners. Kamikaze! You've ruined the game again! I really hope that you will do everything right this year. Not all players can and want to drive without assistance in driving and braking. Thanks.

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Great post my friend, very well written.

I completely agree with you. I too race in a league, we just finished our first season on f1 2018 and we must of had an issue in 17 of the 21. From people desyncing, illegal overtakes of cars who crashed or just went wide. Safety car not deploying, or deploying incorrectly. We kept a list of issues we had in the races to pass on to codemasters. I'm convinced that they won't address these issues as I truly believe they don't know how to fix them. Some of these bugs have been present for a couple of years now. I've completely lost faith in the development team. Perhaps if they invited people who had genuine concerns and feedback about the f1 games to their preview events rather than the ass lickers who sing their praises hoping for early footage to promote their YouTube channel. Then maybe they'd actually make an f1 game fun again. Like studio Liverpool did with f1 2006 

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