F1 23 Review - The Good, The Bad & The Bugly 

Bugly? What a word :D

Another point is like F1 22, the Force Feedback strength was greatly reduced compared to games prior. Also along those lines, when resuming from a flashback or pause the force feedback is absent for a few seconds

For me, the most concerning thing is the return of certain bugs which were patched in the last year's game

70% off somewhere around 1.08 then, and sticking with F1 2020 for now. Thanks for the review.

Huge respect for an honest review

Thank your for your honest review! So rare to see these days. I will not be paying THAT much for a game with as many bugs as F1 22 had and still has. I can't believe they still haven't fixed them. It's 2023 and you're charging $100 for it! Get over yourselves, EA. And fix those engine sounds while you're at it!

I bought it. I would not buy it if not the handling changes. Just alone those worth the money for me. I can't tell you how frustrating it was to race properly on F1 22 with a pad. Though I still yet to start the game, so if it isn't that much better than I will refund without any question. Edit: I tried the game out a little in Time Trial to get the feel of it. It's light years better handling wiser than last year's game. It also has a little bit of a learning curve to the new handling. The first time you drive will fell odd. Couple of other things: The podium pass is worthless if you aren't planning to play F1 World. 90% of the rewards are to F1 World. One negative thing I'm experiencing is that nighttime killing my PC. At daylight, I can run the game comfortably with high settings at a stable 75 FPS (That's what my monitor can do). But at night? 40 FPS or lower, even at Ultra Low settings.

The tedium did me in with F1 World. The concept is so strong, and the idea of a slow, RPG like progression over time with an F1 car is so appealing, I wouldnt even mind the strange difficulty curve. But it almost immediately devolves into a half collect-a-thon, half recycling simulator that requires every single operation to be done manually. I felt like all my 15 minutes of racing was buying me in F1 World was 15 minutes of chores to do before the next race.

For bad drivers like me there's a huuuuge glitch when you use the flashback function while in the rain, it literally floods the screen with rain particles and fps drops to like 2 wich makes almost impossible to press the button, thanks for the video Alex!

For the first 3 hours of gameplay, if you are playing regular online, apart from people crashing you out, the game feels stable and quite fun. If you are playing with friends (who can drive) the game is really fun to play. If you are a league racer or casual I recommend getting

I'd like to them introduce classic f1 cars like they did years ago, I think it's something that's been missing for a long time in f1 games and if they did bring in classic f1 cars they could bring in a scenario mode where you have to re create something happened in a classic f1 race from years gone, I think this has been a great opportunity that the developers have missed

14:56 the new handling and physics designer at EA / Codemasters is a guy with over 18 years of experience working at Slightly Mad Studios: He is called Casey Ringley.

Wel done for being so honest. Refreshing. I suspect many a simracer really only uses 3 modes - hotlapping/practice, single player ad-hoc racing versus AI and multi player. These werent mentioned much; perhaps a follow-up vid?

Thank you for an honest and thorough review. I was going to get F1 23, but not at launch. Too many issues with most games at launch. I'll stick with F1 22 (PS5), and AMS2 for PC. The Gen 2 F1 cars are great in AMS2. 💯👍

On the topic of handling, its more than just easier, it feels sooooo good. Also the tyre model is fantastic.

Thanks for the review. I'm really enjoying the fact that the driving on controller has been improved - it definitely feels much better than previous games, which I've found to be a bit of a nightmare at times. I think cockpit view has become my favourite way to play.

Lastly, this is more of a WTF? but can we talk about Jacques Villeneuve's stats? HOW THE FUCK IS THIS DUDE HIGHER STATS THAN HAKKINEN, MANSELL, WEBBER, MASSA & BUTTON??? He literally has better stats in every category than Hakkinen, a 2 time WDC who competed with the driver the game considers (stat wise) the greatest of all time. E.G. Like why does he have 95 experience??? He only competed for 11 seasons, in the 90s and 2000s too. Checo for context has 92 experience.

I hated f1 22 so much that I’ve been waiting for f1 23 to come out since December. I think I only have about 70 hours on f1 22!

It's the brake balance that's the game changer for me. You need to be on top of it as the tyres age otherwise you'll snatch the rears. Personally I'm not bothered with Braking Wind, errr I mean Point, or any of the other contrived game modes - I just play the Grand Prix mode. FFB wise I preferred F1 22, 23 just feels... heavy and there was more info in 22, but you could argue that it gives weight to the cars making a bit more realistic. That said there's not that much in it. All in all I'm enjoying it. That said there's a ton bugs to be removed. Edited to add that: Red Flags being unusable is a big Red Flag - I'll get my coat.

A problem I've found with this game: BE CAREFUL of viewing race replays in the theater mode of F2 races from driver careers if you also have a my team save. I've had that break my my team save. The thing that annoys me most about this particular issue is I had this exact problem twice on the last game

Hugely disapointing that there are such game breaking bugs. That said, I am enjoying Career Mode a lot so far with the new handling and updated AI. Didn't realise red flags were so bad! I'm off to disable them now 😬

You also missed a bug: Flashbacks in the wet are HORRIFIC on the GPU.

Fair play for being honest about holding off for now considering you where given the game. Im surprised they didn't pick up the red flag glitch, seems so obvious

I have a different opinion, but it is different because i do not play carreer mode at all, no braking point. I only play online and league racing. Things that are better: - Handling, however, they need to make more challenging on rain. Now it is just too easy. Maybe get the visibility worse or someting to let the experience better. Brake bias are nice but they need to punish more when you lock the rears. Otherwise people will use this to improve lap time by drifting (i.e Monaco - turn 6, Canada turn 10) - time trial leaderboard: That is awesome that they included all platforms; - contact model: When you make contact to another car in the last game, the cance of spinning was really high. Now it is improved, however when you clip somone on the rear, the car spins immediatelly which is not nice. Yesterday on PSGL social race, it looks like this happened with Jarno/Bari - Online stability: I must say that this improved a lot. Last game was just horrible and we can see that they made a step forward on this area. BUgs/ things to be changed : - Lost of FFB on fanatec wheel. - They dont allow play time trial on rain - Car disapeering during online races - Streaming using twitch on xbox not working Overall, for those who play online and not againist Ai, it is a good game. But i agree that the issues raised on this video are pretty hard to accept. Specially Ai difficulty, which makes the experience pretty boring even for non esport players. I'll wait for the patches. Lets hope the bug fixes does not ruin the online experience as it happened last game.

I am enjoying F1 23 quite a bit at the moment. With the changes of the handling model combined with changes they have also made to the controller, F1 23 as an extremely fun driving experience. (Unlike F1 23) I do agree with the majority of the “bad” points you made. F1 Worldnhas potential imo just needs some tweaking and ironing out, it’s clearly going to be the future of these games let’s be real. For me the game is worth it purely for the much better driving experience. Bought every codies F1 game too haven’t enjoyed playing the F1 game this much since F1 2020. The bugs need fixing ASAP though It is rather embarrassing from EA/Codemasters to make a big deal about Red Flags returning just for them to be broken from launch. Despite this, I’m really enjoying the game and having fun which is the main thing.

There are many little audio bugs, for example, when the commentary reads out the qualifying order, they will repeat the name of whoever is 18th, for the 20th place person also.

Great review. I'm still playing F1 2020 and will probably buy this one on sale at some point. I only play the My Team mode and do online leader board hot laps so the handling updates are the main selling points for me.

when i play series in f1 world i’ve been getting multiple events where everyone including me is on wets. when you get to the big race at the end, all the ai do is pit for more wets. you can edit your race strategy but only to inters, you can box for slicks however, just have to do it in MFD midrace. it’s very strange cause it’s all in the dry too, i even checked my settings to make sure my weather was on dynamic (it was) but that was a setting that couldn’t be changed.

Excellent review , the best I have seen yet. You give the important info that one actually want to know about. Thank you

Look how much is actually renewed, in side to sides you can see minor tweaks, but 98% same models/textures etc... it really is a buggy updated, and you pay fricking 80 euros for it... what the heck.

Great insightful review. It’s the first F1 game I’ve bought for PC and invested in a starter wheel. Feels great but as someone who is running around 89AI I totally agree with the F1 world stuff. Looked such a decent mode and yet it feels easy and repetitive. Anything over a 5 lap race is basically practice sessions.

This is the 1st F1 game I won't be picking up since 2018. The franchise certainly seems to have gone down the typical EA road for me. We'll see how next year looks but I'll save my money this year round.

Not sure if anyone is talking about this but in TT there is no wet TT so you can't test wet setups unless you go into Grand Prix mode and set the weather to full wet and do a practice/quali session with it.

A friend of mine got given a wheel and mentioned to me the game was releasing. I wasn't too on top of it. For various reasons I'd not played 21 and 22 and i used a controller. I had to map that differently and turn on all assists as I just cant coordinate triggers and bumpers and all that. I've only just recently upgraded to win10 after a graphics card upgrade, I replaced my standard 1050 with a 4060ti and installed 2021, after playing through 2020 again. I was part way through the first round when my friend mentioned he got his brother's old wheel and 23 was releasing. Motivated by recent PC upgrades, I thought why not and looked for my own wheel. Picked up a brand new G29 and started 2021 again. My friend was already playing his early access 23 and we were sharing experiences of getting used to a wheel and what assists we were using. I couldnt afford 23 and didn't know when i'd be able to so my friend just goes and buys it for me. So for me, racing with a wheel for the first time in about 20 years, and the new cars, new tracks, there's more than enough to make me love the new game. I basically have to learn all t eh tracks again and learn how to drive again, so before each career mode round I go into the time trial of that track and get comfy with it. There's a massive difference between time trial and the my team car. Setups that felt good in TT likely wont work on your my team car. I struggle with setups a lot too. I dont know the nuances of setting up, what each track requires. I just spend ages tweaking it until I get something I can drive, trial and error. I'm absolutely pleased (in a good way) to hear that you are struggling with the quali programs. Luckily we dont get them every round. I was gutted as I forced myself to skip it first time I got it, but i feel a lot better about that now. I've found I tend to start the first season on 90, and bump it up to 94 for second season, I'm quite bad relatively. I thought with a wheel I'd go straight to 94. But it was just a bit too high. one thing that really, really annoyed me is you cant change the AI level in this case, you have to wait for the next round, so if you set it too high you basically have to junk round one. I ended up starting a new team just to change the difficulty. I dont understand why its locked out. Back in 2020 you had access to it on the pause options on the loading screens. Bad luck if you set it too high now. Overall I'm really enjoying the challenge of learning how to drive with a wheel and had a blast on Jeddah for the first time a few days ago, learning the track in time trial and taking it to career. Looking forward to others I havent raced yet, Miami, Imola, Las Vegas. I'm not at all a sweat so I'm finding more to enjoy rather than not.

Great observations, I'm one of "those people" as you put it, I'm not fast and compared to you I'm standing still :-) I'm on XBox One S using a PAD, auto gears and racing line. (I need all the help I can get tbh at my age), and I rarely go multiplayer and prefer solo. I also play F1 21 & 22. You've helped me rethink "F1 World". The game throws so many parts, contracts and crew at you it becomes difficult to figure out a strategy. Based on your feedback I dismantled everything from the garage to put me back at 100 tech-level. From this point I've been moving forward through 'Series' challenges making sure I don't overpower the car. I'm at tech-level 194 and taking on events at 250 level (beating AI on tech-levels in 270's). As you've observed the human player has an advantage out of the box, but I'm actually enjoying it very much now that I've got rid of all the OP parts and mods. Starting at the back of the grid to get to 10th/5th is good fun. Equally not happy that the Practice Session "Qualification" run is still bugged, it's even worse in Driver Career F2 as you can't even put the recommended tyres on the car. Overall, I'm actually very happy buying the Campions Edition (so far).

Here’s one for you: there’s an F1 event called the Community Grand Prix. The week before a real world race you can set a quali lap for that track (This week is Canada). When you quali, it warns you you’ll be locked with assists you use for a community race that weekend. I thought sure that makes sense, you should use the same settings you qualified in for the race. But it actually locks you in to those assists from all F1 World activities, including single player. So while I’m 10+ seconds ahead of the AI doing a Series I can’t even practice driving with no ABS or TC 🤣

I like that we get to answer questions, media, etc. Gave it a bit of immersion. However with the amount of questions, I expected alternative endings. Without alternate ends, it's a bit pointless but still a very good step.

I’m pretty new to f1 and have never touched a game before, so I’m not using a full racing setup like half the people here most likely, but I got it on ea play on my pc and I’ve been really enjoying it. Building up your team in career mode has been really enjoyable too imo. Again, I’ve never played a F1 game before so it could just be that stars in eyes honeymoon phase but I have played for over 20 hours as of now. I will say I’m struggling to fine tune the AI, I’m either winning races by 20 seconds or unable to crack the top 10. Will likely take some more driving and fiddling to get it perfect.

Thanks for the review Alex, been waiting for this to make up my mind, I am still probably going to end up buying it since I missed last year one because I had no hope about it and heard so many negative reviews. Does it surprise me that red flags don't work properly, nope. As for the story mode wasn't interested in it before so won't be interested in it this time around.

The problem of Braking point is that most of the times the player has to gain like 64 positions in 3 laps, and of course the IA has to go 3-4 seconds slower than the player in order to make it possible to recover so many position in such few laps. They should have given the player more laps to gain the desired amout of position, i.e. instead of giving 6 laps to gain 5 positions and making the IA go 3 seconds slower they could have given the player 30 laps of time with the IA only 0.5 seconds slower

Why has not a single reviewer, including this one, given us any feedback on the state of VR in the game? This is the only significant new feature to appear in the game last year and this year. We need to know!

My favorite bug is the one in braking point where they are going they the starting grid, they calll hulk stroll and noah also gets called stroll.

For me as a fairly new player ai is how it should be apart from the starts being a bit easy , but the biggest gripe I have is the thurstmaster sf1000 telemetry didn’t work and the force feedback cuts out during racing which you have to reset during a race which I find all this issues should of been fixed before the launch .

I pretty much stopped dead with this series at F1 2017, only recently picking 2018 and 2020 from the bargin bin as EB Games clears more shelf space for PS5. Much like my other favourite annual sports franchise NHL, it simply wasn't worth forking out the money every year for incremental updates. With them seemingly investing so much energy into a story mode I care very little for, and the superfluous Sims-eqsue F1 Life garbage, I hold little hope of seeing the imrprovements I'd like to see.

Hey Alex! Great conversation this morning about the after-sprint race tire glitch and red flag glitch. It's amazing to me that the tire glitch still exists after all this time. Another thing that I thought was interesting was, since the beginning of my two-player career, my friend who is in a Ferrari, only got offered medium to hard strategy for the race, while I in a Mercedes was offered a medium soft for every race. Could this fall under the mixed strategy that you mentioned and if so does it make sense to do this to the actual player, rather than just the AI?

Bought it and love the handling. Gave up pretty early on 22. I have a few concerns. I'm more an online racer, not too fussed about features, but for me anyway, the game atm seems very de sync prone. Could be just me, but the racing is quite shocking at the moment as you are likely shafted by someone who's not even touching you or a simple touch leaves you glued to the other car(s) lol. Hopefully improved, but other than that, the new handling is lovely and career seems like fun with the AI improvements.

Thank you for your honesty, i know you play this game alot and surely can be easily influenced to being bias, cause i know you love so much (so do I), thanks again. I'll wait for that discount.

I noticed the performance issue on xbox series x aswell. During a cutscene on braking point the fan really speeds up and my xbox becomes heathrow airport so hopefully a patch sorts that.

theres also other issues with red flags. after a red flag there is sometimes another red flag for no reason about 2 to 3 seconds after the restart and also during the red flag it says you can repair some damage (floor damage, sidepod damage etc) but when the race restarts you will still have the damage you had before the red flag. currently the only damage that is fixed is front wing damage.

I have gotten up to somewhere in the realm of 300 performance whatevers in the F1 World car and the series that I am still completing are in the 150-210 range. I also have to completely restart the game after one race, but I have to enter the next race first because it puts me and all the AI on wets in dry conditions. I lap the AI twice in 25% race distance on it, and once in 5 lappers typically.

Good video. A point on F1 World being too easy or making parts that are worse. You can define the difficulty for the F1 World by manually increasing or decreasing the AI tech level. That also increases or decreases the rewards, so not that big of an issue.

How refreshing to watch a truly honest review of a game ; I doff my cap to you sir.

Im very pleased grate full for your honest opinion.. i always wait some time after games have patches&discounts cause paying for full price is just sad.. mostly what i sm looking forward&eager to AC mirrage but as i said i wait when its the right time after patches& a discount

What about the understeer glitch with "engine issue"? Also I noticed they didn't update the sprint format, they could've at least made it so that the sprint does not define the grid for the race, but no sadly, and the most important, they should add the option to turn off sprint in career mode, just like grand prix you can choose among the options of standard (no sprint), authentic (sprint for determined tracks decided irl) or sprint and race weekend (sprint for every track)

superb honest review alex, really grateful for it. thanks for the honesty.

I bought the champions edition and I have major problems with ffb but even with problems it is my favorite f1 game since 2013 due to the handling and ai alone

Imo one of the biggest things you've left out is the blurry image. The Antialiasing options are all bad, and turning them off in the config file reveals a game that does not look like 1080p when run at 1080p. It's so bad it becomes difficult to see distance boards on the side of the tracks.

I got some 1. Playing a splitscreen race at Vegas and crashing makes it go at 10fps(Xbox series s) 2. Doing a instant replay in the rain is unbearable(series s) 3. I went from 16 to 8 in one start 4. In the middle of my race in Imola in my team, the damage model randomly stop working, I had to reset the game for it to work. 5. Cars can have engine faliures on lap one 6. Engine failures don’t bring out saftey cars or vc

I appreciate the honest review Alex. Makes me wonder if I've made the wrong decision ordering it for Friday based on the pre release hype. I couldn't stand the poor handling and AI experience on F1 22 anymore so these past few months I've turned to F1 2020 as a substitute. Makes you wonder if there's any point in releasing the games in early summer. At least there were less bugs in games released in August where they had more time to iron them out.

I also found another bug within red flags: when restarting on the grid I jumped started. Now normally that would be a DT if that happened at the beginning of a race but for some reason doing this on a red flag restart all I got was a lap time invalidation. So in theory it just allowed me to make up god knows how many positions. I don’t get how they can advertise this huge selling feature (which was present 10 years ago and worked) and it is completely broken. Like you said if they haven’t learned from the abomination which was the launch of F1 22 I find it really hard to see anything change in the future. Personally, I have refunded the game but will leave it a week or so to see some things get ironed out hopefully. I do see huge potential in F1 23 and want it to succeed so will just have to wait and see. Also I have used wheels on every F1 game since 2016 but I am intrigued to use controller instead this year as it looks greatly improved .

At the end of the second year of my solo career, I had a huge bug. When I wanted to advance time, the clock started turning, but nothing happened. Even deleting and reinstalling the game did not help. Another bug that still is in the game is that when you reach maximum levels of reputation and performance in Braking Point in the last race, you will not get the trophies for it. Seems like very easy to fix, but they didn't. Disappointing.

It feels like from what I've seen F123 is not worth buying unless it's heavily on sale. No improvements to career mode, the obvious bugs at the start of the launch cycle and features like the new tracks and braking point 2 (oh my god, how I came to loathe story modes in sports games, they are always garbage, they can't even make a stable game, what made them think they're hollywood writers all of a sudden) could've just been a dlc for F122. The new handling could've also just been patched into F1 22, paying 80 € for those miniscule improvements that could've just been a patch is asinine.

I want to get an f1 game for using on a ps4 pro. Would you say F1 ‘21 or 2023 would be the better game to buy just for career mode? Other than that is there many differences? I’m not going to buy the 2022 version I’ve heard it’s not so good.

Does the game now allow you to change the volume of the engine & tyres independently or not? I couldn’t see it on F1 22 & I want to hear the tyres more than the engine.

Hi Alex. thank you and congratulations for your good video. I would like to have your opinion about F1 22 and F1 23. Personally I would like to go towards the version closest to a real simulation. So which of the two versions do you think is the most realistic in terms of "driving" and not necessarily in terms of graphic beauty or sound. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the review mate. I just added this game to my library on my playstation account. They are giving it away for free with playstation plus this month, so I thought why the hell not. It's been over 10 years since I've played an F1 game so it should be good just to race around casually every now and then. I will even give the career mode a go too.

Great review. Thank you for the honesty.

I got the normal f1 23 on Wednesday rather than Friday so yes that’s good. One big problem with the game is that the ai speed on the straights is so broken. Even in just a normal race. It’s like their downforce amount in between corners changes. Like they are so fast and grippy on the corners and they can still power past you on the straight. Even if you have a lower downforce on your car they still beat you. Ik there are different factors for bad straightline speed like an exit from a corner or DRS and ERS. Yet when you run a higher downforce, you can hardly get near on the ai in the straights and the ai still are good in the corners. I do think they should add more ai mistakes and also make the ai have different set ups. I do think they need to add better damage physics. Like with front wings. You can only seem to break off the emplates or the entire wing. I also think they need to add damage to barriers. This could justify red flags even more. But this is probably one of the most promising games that EA have ever made

i just had that problem in jeddah i won the race after a red flag and got send back to p10 was pissed but red flags have another big issue ( maybe try it in a video so i could see if this is a bug too) when you destroy your car in a crash and it brings the red flag after using the replay the car goes indestructible/ undestroyable and after another red flag the crashing works again and also there are some game breaking thinghs when trying to delete saves

Werent the marbles in 2010? I know there was an issue with the drying line and whatnot when the game first came out but after a few years, and a few driver updates I had both working in game - and its still one of my favorites to play!

What an honest review, thank you so much, really appreciate it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Great Video Alex. One big glitch which not sure you have seen is that in single player career mode the contract renewal window is before the last race. My example i was with AT in my first season and couldn't finish the season because i couldn't agree a new deal. Then i was put into Williams and other drivers had also moved about so going into the race half the grid was with other teams. Its farcical! it's the same amount of races in a season then F122 so i don't get it, ruined it for me and wasted a whole season.

Okay so basically the game didn't get tested properly and we're expected to pay 70€ for a glorified BETA once again. But hey, the handling isn't utter dogsh*t anymore. Amazing.

The handling feels better for the most part but you are right, it's far too easy. At times I feel like I can drift the car very easily. Doesn't feel like there's much challenge to catching the car anymore.

I have the champions edition , no bugs and im really loving the game

Another thing I wish could happen: Let us use Time Trial with our own cars on My Team with "Equal Performance OFF". You can only use them with EP ON.

Great review. Given the number of issues the games ship with each year, you'd think that EA would just switch to a two-year development cycle with a low-cost expansion/roster update between major releases instead. That would then allow the developers more time to add new features and fix bugs. Of course, EA would never do that because... well... money... but really, unless you are a die-hard F1 fan, then there really is little reason to buy the game every year as they basically just re-release the same game with tweaks and updated rosters/rules/tracks etc. They remove something one year to reintroduce the next as "new this year", much like they do with the FIFA, Madden NFL and NHL franchises. I am currently playing F1 23 5 hour trial (down from the previous 10 hour trial) through the GamePass Ultimate subscription for my PC (and Xbox Series X) and think the game is fine but apart from improved lighting, haven't really noticed much in the way of changes in how the game looks, feels or plays personally. All very predictable, very EA, so far.

Just wait till US GP Weekend, when the game gets 50% discount . Many bugs + Balance updates will be there by that time + setups

Is the focus bug from 2021 and 22 still there? I'm talking about the bug that when playing career or My Team, all the AI driver's "focus" stat keep falling in the red with no real way to boost them back up to green, which leads to a grid that constantly makes mistakes and drive like shit by the time you get to your second season, and F2 drivers and icons being really good and consistent because they're the only ones in the green.

Alex you are the best when it comes to the unfiltered truth of F1 games. Appreciate this review. Cheers

Can we talk about zandvoort track acclimation having the drs zone marked on the ground in the old spot

Great review man! Kinda sad, but I might need to skip this one or wait for sale. As a career player mainly, doesn’t look like I need to run out and grab this one.

If you try and catch up on the real-world calendar in Grand Prix mode on 3-lap or 5-lap races, even if you went from last to first and doing all sorts to get Driver of The Day, it still shows your selected driver. On my save, the commentators would say that it's Alex Albon since race 2. It is still the case when I switched the commentary into another language. Funny that.

The biggest plus of going no abs post f1 23 was that it was the only way to catch a slide on a controller 😅

This is why i've stuck with 2020, i mean i want to try the new one and co-op career but all these bugs are disappointing

How to fix equal cars in coop after lots of testing this is it. F1 world, GP multiplayer, settings, change cars to F1 2023, then to simulation settings and turn off equal cars back to main menu and created your coop series, what I personally did was not changing anything in the settings and went straight to picking a team and then lobby to invite a friend after all my buddy joined I changed the settings without issue and equal performance was off!

IMO the grip level of the tire should go down one or two clicks. where F1 22 had to steep of a drop F1 23 takes too long when the tires are at their limit. IRL drivers can just full throttle all the way without spinning out (burnouts), but it severely impacts their cornering speeds and stability as well as damaging the surface which can lead to blistering and less grip

if F1 would just add a game mode to control a team rather than just 1 driver, i'd buy it 10 years straight. I know many will say "get f1 manager!" but i still love the racing aspect along with the team control. It would be great to race as Max one race and then drive as my newly hired driver in seat 2 towards the end of the season so we can try to win the constructors! No real incentive for me to buy the new game each year when they only add these gimmick cutscene modes with no life.

I've never heard of this series, but thanks to Grand Turimso it helped me tremendously with the driving aspect and knowing apexes. It cures my go-kart fix thats forsure during the winter times lol.

If it has EA on it then it’s not going to be on my PC. It’s a shame they had to taint a developer I’ve enjoyed games by for 30 odd years by buying them, it was a good run & all good things come to an end. First time I can recall were there will be no single seater racer for me to get my racing fix. Started with Revs on the BBC Master in the 80s & until 2020. It all started with Geoff Crammond.

Another problem i have encounter in f1 world is it sticks me on full wets in dry conditions and now chance of rain (happens frequently for me like every event)

I was already thinking to wait for discounts as I don’t have much money but this video really showed me to wait for discounts, F1 22 was my first F1 game and imo the AI and bugs and handling aren’t game breaking. I’ve been lucky having not experienced any bugs so I’ll wait for the discounts

Hiya, is it true that there are off the racing line marbles in this years game?

So I've owned and played all F1 games from F1 2018 to F1 '23. I bought this based off the handling, breaking point 2, Qatar and red flags. But below is a lengthy dive into my honest views of the game and whether you should get it or not. Always make your own opinions, mine is my own and is just shared to give those wondering or on the fence, some further insight; Breaking Point 2. The story is alright, not shit, not amazing, but all the characters feel real and you can get behind alot of them through the game. The difficulty is broken into ; Story, which a toddler could finish... Normal, which is the difficulty I played, where the A.I arent fast but brake super super early all the time. Hard which is about 50 A.I difficulty. The mode is good, but not great and lacks unique gameplay that they could have used and most of the second season while that's the peak of the story, also feels the most generic. F1 World. F1 World offers alot, it's primary issue is it feels like it holds your hand too much for too long. You spend alot of time being the fastest car by about 50-100 Tech Level and it's too easy for a while. However the mode has some great innovations to the game. It's a complete overhaul to Multiplayer in general and is the home of all forms of it. You aren't forced to run only the F1 World car but you can also get into F1 2023 and F2 2022 cars. Tech Level is a new measure of a "Gear System" in racing games. Different and unique. You can upgrade a bunch of parts and build some, but you can't really demote yourself with weaker parts unless you keep older stuff meaning you can overshoot some events and be too fast when you come back. Time Trial and Grand Prix modes were also moved into F1 World and we actually have the addition of Multiplayer Grand Prix mode. Career, Co-Op and MyTeam. Probably the biggest disappointment of the entire game, is the fact that neither of these 3 modes has had any development over F1 2021 and F1 '22. They aren't stale by any means, as we all know driver moves, semi custom calendars and the likes can really change from season to season, player to player and you will always have a unique experience. But it's a shame that none of the modes have had the love and attention they do deserve. New Features. F1 '23 is home to a slew of new things that you would have missed in F1 '22, F1 2021 and F1 2020. If you're an F1 2020 player, then you have little reason to want to move onto any of the 3 save for the tracks. F1 '23 has two new tracks with Losail International in Qatar, and Las Vegas as the 3rd U.S GP in the game. On top of these, F1 2021 tracks China and Portugal return for the third year running, and Frances, Paul Riccard remains even after 2022 was it's final contracted year. Away from the tracks, F1 2020 will still have the Classic F1 cars for those few who did enjoy and use them. 2021 removed them, and F1 '22 added Supercars which have returned in F1 '23 but no new additions and they aren't heavily promoted. As with the Supercars, the F1 Life features in F1 '22 have returned, yes that's right, you can customise your very own couches in F1 '23. They're in but they're not heavily pushed, they aren't marketed everywhere and pretty much everything from F1 '22s F1 Life is in without having to buy them, spend pitcoin etc. So if you liked that customisation, then lucky you. The handling. Yeah, as many RU-vidrs have noted, the handling is a shitload better, if you have '22, this alone is worth it. Those coming from F1 2020/2021, unless you want to get your hands on the new cars after all this time, handling is about equal to the F1 2020 game in terms of easiness and intuitiveness. The handling in F1 '23 however is much more realistic to life over the older games, except a few moments here and there such as the race launches. Red flags are finally back in F1 but yes, heavily bugged right now, but as this is a leading feature I absolutely expect this to be patched very soon. Damage model. Unfortunately the damage in '22 is the damage in '23 This to be fair and honest, is not the fault of Codemasters or EA and is a limitation of the license with the FOM. 35% Race Distance is here and offers more racing over the 11-16 laps of 25% and the 24-33 laps of the 50% This is about all I can think of. My own personal opinion is if you're happy staying on the more dated F1 2020 or 2021, stay there until more patches come through then pick F1 '23 up later in the year. If youre coming from F1 '22, don't hesitate, just get F1 '23 because the difference in the two is like comparing F1 2017 with F1 2020.

There is a major bug from f1 2021 and 22 on series x/s where if u quick resumed the game everything would reset. I lost many career saves and had to make car setup’s to many times and redo all my settings. If this is still there then this will be three years in a row

the game is currently free for PlayStation players with PlayStation plus

I want a demo before I commit, if the handling is vastly improved I'm somewhat tempted but no chance I'm sinking ~£60 into this like with F1 22 for it to be a hot mess.

Currently upgraded my oneX to seriesS, got 3months gamepass free so downloaded this to play and f1 manager, there's now 45 games on my gamepass to play later list plus the well over 100 digital games already purchased lol, happy days ahead MEGA BACKLOG lol I would love a retro season and cars etc, like late 90s early 00s roster and modern rules, be interesting see how the oldies but goodies play out that way

I pre-ordered it, I have enjoyed the game so far. I played F1 22 and got used to the dumb AI. The handling is a huge step up, if you have a little moment getting on the throttle you can actually save it.

maxing out on interviews is the same like being not in race in F1 manager. In the race, my GPU was perfectly fine, but when in menus, it went nuts.