Multiplayer - Top Issues

[jonnow 0]

Since patch 1.04 our PS4 league has had mass disconnects in all of our races since (12/16 people in the lobby). I don't know if it's just coincidence but before this patch we had none in any of our previous rounds with the same guys racing each week.

[speeddemon8021 0]

Well did a few races in the standard hopper last night and a few gremlins that I thought were fixed showed up again! In one race I started on poll in spa and cleared off into the distance won by a wide margin only to find out AI ricciardo has beaten me by 4 laps no less in a 5 lap race! Some going that considering his fastest lap was 9 secs slower then mine.Another race I won it and at the cut scene at the end received the msg the session you are trying to join is no longer available and received no points! It's got the stage now where these bugs and glitches don't make me mad any more they are just pure comedy gold if codemasters made films they would definitely be slapstick comedies.

[UnderZice 0]

1. osd penalties and advertises work 2 or 3 times and become invible after that.
2. osd best time work at the beginning of the race and after that it disappears or get the time of all ai and players even if they are slower than the previous best time
3. lag of the ai if the host has a problem with his connection.
4. qualification with the tank completely fuelled ,and impossible to lower the fuel level, that cost 3 seconds per lap.
5. impossible to load a setup if you quit an unfinished race and joined a new race with qualifications, parc ferme rules automatically applied.

[SamuelTrautman 0]

best advice I could give about multiplayer is this, test the bloody game before release. its rather simple.

[KevRusski 0]

ps4. instant dsq after a few track limit warnings, no penalty received, just straight dsq. hungary track.

[karnak07 40]

PC version

1) Excessive lag (also with connections sufficient for most of the games on the market) especially when someone enters or exits the lobby

2) Disconnect from steam

3) Expulsions of the room without reason

4) Various bugs in qualifying short. (always use the same set of tires, fuel 100% blocked)

5) d3d freeze and crash when doing long races (seems excessive consumption of RAM of GPU for a few second)

with dedicated servers all this would not happen.  the expense would support the users renting servers. I do not understand the choice in 2015 to use the players as host. 

[GoldenColt 1]

Corner Cutting

Corner Cutting

Corner Cutting

Corner Cutting and errrm

Corner Cutting

[SaeidJ 0]

One main issue is even when you turn assists off from the lobby the player can turn them on in the race itself from the pause menu !

[Chromatic 127]

I'd say bring back the old system of warnings if you cut a corner on circuit instead of getting a penalty for to many corner cuts you could have a 10 second penalty.

If the player continues to push his luck the second time round, drive through penalty third time 10 seconds stop and go penalty, four time disqualified and so on.

That's how the system should work 

[italianred 0]

when Im reading the post of the most people , the most common thing I see "corner cutting "

pls fix this problem  ,just a good penalty system in online mode , we can all see in race incidents that people who are cutting to mutch ,but the game is doing nothing about it ,just penalise the people who dont know that corner cutting is a way of cheating .

[lucasjgoulart 0]

Dear Codemasters,

In my opinion, the 5 main issues on PC Multiplayer are:

1 - NO PENALTIES for CORNER CUTTING! - Its ridiculous how people do not respect track limits and do not receive any penalties. All sessions, including Race, should have the same corner cutting rules as the Time Trial Mode, including Stop and Go Penalties!

2 - AI too agressive on the race, HITTING players from behind.

3 - AI too slow in qualifying. AI only completes one lap in short qualifying, and get stuck behind other AI cars. Some dont even complete laps.

4 - Setups sometimes do no load for the race.

5 - Excessive LAG sometimes.

[mrgrumpy20 0]

I was doing a league race last night on PS4. Doing short qualifying, there is a tyre glitch where it won't let you change tyres from the first set that you use. So, if you do say, about 3 laps, selecting a different set each time, the game will keep you on the 1st set and you'll have about 20% wear on them.
Annoying. This problem has only arrived after the latest (1.04) patch 

[Pillathh 0]

Everyone in the lobby  to restart the game to get no bugs 
and if someone joins after start of the session there will be bugs too like yellow flags and tyres wont change or the next session dont starts everyone is in loadibh and nothing happened
The bugs arent there if everyone restarts the game after EVERY race

[Lozzy 0]

SaeidJ said:

One main issue is even when you turn assists off from the lobby the player can turn them on in the race itself from the pause menu !

I cannot reproduce this, ABS is incorrectly available to enable (we've been aware of that for a while) but none of the other assists are. Is that what you mean? If not can you give me some more details please.

Thank you everyone for your feedback so far.

[alexbishop44 0]

Lozzy said:

SaeidJ said:

One main issue is even when you turn assists off from the lobby the player can turn them on in the race itself from the pause menu !

I cannot reproduce this, ABS is incorrectly available to enable (we've been aware of that for a while) but none of the other assists are. Is that what you mean? If not can you give me some more details please.

Thank you everyone for your feedback so far.

@Lozzy Can you confirm that ABS should be able to be banned from the lobby hosts menu when setting the lobby up? As at the moment we can only ban braking assist on the xbox one.

[DauntingConch 0]

@lozzy we tried to start our league racing last night with mixed results. Our race was 50% at spa with short qualifying. League 2 suffered from minor lag but had no major issues, league one however did not complete the race due to glitches and issues:

1. Start of race at first corner there were major lag spikes causing cars to appear then disappear, many people losing front wings from this lag. 

2. Game totally out of sync, mini map shows cars where they are not. My screen showed I was in 4th whilst one other racer also said his showed him in 4th

3 the pop up showing corner cutting or warnings didn't work,  so people were getting penalties without warning

4 race engineer reporting rain for next 20 minutes when it had actually stopped already and should be on slicks not inters

5 all players apart from 2 were kicked from session on lap 18 of 22. 

Was a bit of a mess to be truthful, and a shame as we've been patiently waiting for patches to come through so this league could start. I have some game clips which I'll try to provide you links to at lunch. 

[LGS469 1]

@Lozzy @Dnote what's the ETA for the next xbox one patch?

[DarkMarkXD 13]

Sorry if this is off topic slightly, but I would honestly spend so much more time on multiplayer if I could just search for and join custom lobbies. Removing this feature completely from F1 2015 was a very bizarre move.

I use this feature more than any available automatic match placement systems (like your hopper system) in any other games I play online, bringing this back would be great for me.

[jinCHEZ 0]

DauntingConch said:

@lozzy we tried to start our league racing last night with mixed results. Our race was 50% at spa with short qualifying. League 2 suffered from minor lag but had no major issues, league one however did not complete the race due to glitches and issues:

1. Start of race at first corner there were major lag spikes causing cars to appear then disappear, many people losing front wings from this lag. 

2. Game totally out of sync, mini map shows cars where they are not. My screen showed I was in 4th whilst one other racer also said his showed him in 4th

3 the pop up showing corner cutting or warnings didn't work,  so people were getting penalties without warning

4 race engineer reporting rain for next 20 minutes when it had actually stopped already and should be on slicks not inters

5 all players apart from 2 were kicked from session on lap 18 of 22. 

Was a bit of a mess to be truthful, and a shame as we've been patiently waiting for patches to come through so this league could start. I have some game clips which I'll try to provide you links to at lunch. 

Hmm that's weird, what platform are you on? On the PS4 we've been league racing since the start pretty much and only a few problems since then...

[Earmack 0]

1. Hardcore mode need not only WITHOUT assists.
2. Custom FREE open lobby
3. Safety car
4. Cut corner bug
5. Wrong time in qulification


Im on Xbox One

[Johnners04496 0]

A couple of issues I've had that haven't really been picked up on is that if you do more than one race with practice or qualifying included in the same lobby, the tyres will always remain on the first set regardless of what you pick, which will screw your race chances. To work around this everyone in a lobby has to reset their game and rejoin a new lobby to do a second race. Also, on occasions in qualifying the fuel will be at 100kg regardless as well, and like the tyre glitch no setting change in the setup screen fixes this and the game has to be restarted to remove it.

[DauntingConch 0]

@jinCHEZ we are on xbox one, wish we could of started earlier and had no issues, it's mainly lag and desync issues we are experiencing 

[BuzzHornet 3]

@Lozzy 

My request is straight forward and should be simple to fix.
When playing multiplayer the game always makes you replace the number one driver.
So say I want to partner Hamilton and and me the number two it doesn't allow you to.
You can trick the game by having another  human player select the number 1 driver of a team and then you go in and be the number 2 driver. Then when the first human leaves, it allows you to be the number 2 driver.
Surely this is a simple fix to allow the human to decide which AI driver to replace, not assume the number 1 driver.

[unknown113 0]

BuzzHornet said:

@Lozzy 

My request is straight forward and should be simple to fix.
When playing multiplayer the game always makes you replace the number one driver.
So say I want to partner Hamilton and and me the number two it doesn't allow you to.
You can trick the game by having another  human player select the number 1 driver of a team and then you go in and be the number 2 driver. Then when the first human leaves, it allows you to be the number 2 driver.
Surely this is a simple fix to allow the human to decide which AI driver to replace, not assume the number 1 driver.

agree 100%. If you automatically replace the number one driver, it takes away the competition slightly. I'd rather be racing in a grid with Hamilton there, than Rosberg.

[RadioactiveJim 4]

unknown113 said:

BuzzHornet said:

@Lozzy 

My request is straight forward and should be simple to fix.
When playing multiplayer the game always makes you replace the number one driver.
So say I want to partner Hamilton and and me the number two it doesn't allow you to.
You can trick the game by having another  human player select the number 1 driver of a team and then you go in and be the number 2 driver. Then when the first human leaves, it allows you to be the number 2 driver.
Surely this is a simple fix to allow the human to decide which AI driver to replace, not assume the number 1 driver.

agree 100%. If you automatically replace the number one driver, it takes away the competition slightly. I'd rather be racing in a grid with Hamilton there, than Rosberg.

Is this more playing multiplayer with AI? Just asking because in previous years for multiplayer it was whomever had the higher ranking (further up the list in the lobby) became the #1 driver as deemed by the real teams at the start of the year.