Is this game scripted to make your drivers have bad specific races?

[Jamie]

I used my reserve driver in testing 1 and he crashed 5 times in 20 minutes then my game crashed, so I restarted the session and to see if it would happen again,I kept my number 2 driver in and then he weirdly had 5 crashes...

I've never restarted a session before so I've never seen the same thing happen no matter who is in the car.

Is this actually thing, are events not RNG?

[alexbox]

This sounds like realyyyyyy bad luck. I have never seen the same to happen on loading a saved game BEFORE a given session. My guess is that your reserve driver has very bad stats for control. Try to use the following for the reserve driver: avoid kerbs/drive in clean air/don't fight team mate/conserve fuel/conserve tires/ERS low/ and below <20 laps stints only.

[Nova]

It's kind of "scripted".

It's more like "Let's roll for how many mistakes are made at start of session".
But then in the session, things are randomizes who gets it.

I had it a few times, where there are 2 crashes in a race, but when it was my drivers i reloaded and then it were two other drivers. Played around this save a bit, and it was always 2 crashes, but always someone else.

So the crashes seam to be seeded by session load, but who makes the mistake is calculated or maybe just randomised. It isn't always saftycar, that is random also.

That is at least my experiance with almost one season done.

[FunDhu]

it does sound like bad luck. the RNG seems to have pre-scripted ideas but when i've had a bad session i reload and tweak the setup a bit and the RNG then also changes.

that's not what happened to you since you tried two different drivers but out of interest did you try reloading the session a third time with a different setup?

[Nova]

Setups don't change. Once the practice 1 starts, the perfect setup is set in the background.

When you save practice 1, and reload it, even after making it to Q1 or sprint, you can make it better, but you have to write it down to notepad or something. And once you found your 95-99 setup, you can use it from practice 1 savegame onwards and get mor track time, if you like to play it this way.

[FunDhu]

Автор сообщения: Nova

Setups don't change. Once the practice 1 starts, the perfect setup is set in the background.

When you save practice 1, and reload it, even after making it to Q1 or sprint, you can make it better, but you have to write it down to notepad or something. And once you found your 95-99 setup, you can use it from practice 1 savegame onwards and get mor track time, if you like to play it this way.

i wasn't very clear. changing the fuel load or going from neutral to aggressive pace from the start does seem to change the RNG, at least in my scumsave experience

[Jamie]

Автор сообщения: FunDhu

it does sound like bad luck. the RNG seems to have pre-scripted ideas but when i've had a bad session i reload and tweak the setup a bit and the RNG then also changes.

that's not what happened to you since you tried two different drivers but out of interest did you try reloading the session a third time with a different setup?

I didn't. I just carried on. In the race he (Hamilton) had a further 4 crashes, 3 with other drivers and 1 on his own. He had high confidence at the start too.

[Robique]

Автор сообщения: Nova

It's kind of "scripted".

It's more like "Let's roll for how many mistakes are made at start of session".
But then in the session, things are randomizes who gets it.

I had it a few times, where there are 2 crashes in a race, but when it was my drivers i reloaded and then it were two other drivers. Played around this save a bit, and it was always 2 crashes, but always someone else.

So the crashes seam to be seeded by session load, but who makes the mistake is calculated or maybe just randomized. It isn't always safety car, that is random also.

That is at least my experience with almost one season done.

It's worth mentioning that the mistakes of drivers are scripted before the race, the actual situation they happen in affects the outcome.

Tested this on one-of-a-kind race in Canada.
First run of the race:
Random driver lock-up, crashes into 2 cars in front. Red flag.
Same situation couple laps later. Physical safety car.
One red flag and two more safety cars later, there were only 11 cars able to finish the race.

Out of curiosity I ran the race again with very different results.
Pretty much the same frequency of lock-ups and spins, but no mass crashes causing red flags or even safety cars.

[AoD_lexandro]

This game has RNG "seeding" afaik. Basically the game makes a list of random numbers and then "locks" them in for the race. Then as each driver has to make a stat check the numbers are used to pass or fail the stat check.

In short it basically means if you save and then load the game you get the same results if you do the same thing you did the last time. Its not "scripted". Its essentially a que, and someone will get the same number if then are in the same place in the que.

In order to overcome this you need to change your tactics and approach for the race. If a driver crashes and it happens again after loading, try changing strategy & race pace settings.
What you want is to change your place in the que so another driver gets the bad RNG.

[Drysyn]

It's not just the races that screw the player over, I have had the wind tunnel shut down 4 times for up to 20 days & costing up to $800k a time by the time I just finished baku in the 1st season... I don't care what they do for the F1M24 I'm not supporting Frontier developments anymore,

[AoD_lexandro]

Автор сообщения: Drysyn

It's not just the races that screw the player over, I have had the wind tunnel shut down 4 times for up to 20 days & costing up to $800k a time by the time I just finished baku in the 1st season... I don't care what they do for the F1M24 I'm not supporting Frontier developments anymore,

Yeah the "events" are indeed broken. Its simply because there are not enough options for it and its set to happen far too frequently. I have had the fire twice this season, and the computer failure.

[Drysyn]

Well after 221 hours I have uninstalled the game and removed it from my favourites, I've also taken the time to give the game a negative review....