F1 2019 Chat

Karl mentioned this update as well. Last update was also huge but was just an update to liveries as far as I could tell. This is the blurb for this update from Faya at Codies forums:-

Hi all,

Patch 1.09 is now live on PS4 and should be live on Xbox and Steam soon. Please see the patch notes below to see what’s been updated in this patch.

Realistic performance can now be enabled in Leagues
AI can now be disabled when using official cars in Leagues
Skill rating rebalancing
Safety rating rebalancing
Balancing fixes for AI R&D progression in career
Added additional support for Fanatec wheels
Fixed an exploit on Time Trial in France
Tyre compounds have been updated in Brazil, USA & Mexico
Reduced off-track surface grip on approach to turn 12 in Brazil
Various other fixes and stability improvements
With this patch, we’ve made some balancing fixes for AI R&D progression in career. These adjustments will be more noticeable the earlier you are in your career mode playthrough. The fixes may not be as immediately noticeable if you’re in the later seasons of your career.

Please note that with the release of this patch, we’ll be resetting the leaderboards for Brazil, USA, USA Short and Mexico due to slower tyre compounds being available on these tracks. Leaderboards have also been reset on France due to some unattainable times being set as the result of a now fixed exploit.

A final note from us: a lot of you are asking about the Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon switch and whether we’ll implement this in-game. We are planning on making the changes as soon as possible and we’ll be working with Red Bull and Toro Rosso on this once they return from the summer shutdown.

We are continuing to track down and fix more bugs and we’ll have more information about any further patches soon.

Need help? Come and visit us in our Technical Assistance forums. Please be sure to check out the read me thread before posting. Something from this patch not working the way it should? Tell us in our patch discussion thread here.

The forum post is here:-

forums.codemasters.com/topic/41937-patch-notes-for-109-%E2%80%93-release-info-update-now-live-on-all-platforms/

I thought the Forums were gone though? Or have they got them back now?

Patch 1.15 is now available on all platforms. Please see the patch notes below to see what’s been updated with this patch.

Alexander Albon and Pierre Gasly have been moved to Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso – this will not affect existing career saves
AI Race start performance variance updated leading to slower starts by the AI on average
Mid-season driver transfer logic amended
Added options to disable driver transfers or limit to off-season transfers only
Addressed an issue with visual graining seen on specific graphics cards
Addressed an issue where FPS drops could be seen on PC
Cars being lapped will now ghost in online sessions
Teammate can now be selected at the start of a career
Grid penalties can now be seen during the pre-race grid rundown
Players can no longer re-join a team they were fired from in the same season in career
26 brand new customisation items including Halloween edition items
Various other fixes and stability improvements

I imagine it's to stop the absolute wankers in lobbies that try ruin others races after they've fucked theres up 

This is where we will have to make a decision again about ghosted cars then. Typically we have ghosting turned on so that if people disconnect from the race and their car is taken over by an AI driver we do not have too much difficulty overtaking them. The way i see it with these changes, if we want to race with ghosting off then we need to change the AI level. They are defaulted at 41, which is slow. That makes them dangerous in the corners as it's easy to misjudge their braking speed and run into the back of them. If we increase the level, what level makes sense for everyone? 85? 90? Lower? Higher?

The other option is to keep ghosting on and have the cars being lapped get ghosted....which i do not like. I would not vote for this option if it came down to it because it takes the realism out of it. 

Another thing to consider is whether or not lapped cars will suffer from penalties for ignoring blue flags? If i'm getting lapped and not slowing down because my car is going to ghost anyway i might get a blue flag penalty.

Keep in mind in our online lobbies the car performance is set to Equal, meaning all AI cars will perform at basically the same level. So essentially there would be no midfield AI. They could all potentially perform as Hamilton (for example).

I think somewhere between 80-90 would be good, but we'll need to get an opinion form others as well.  

When i race offline i typically have the AI set to 100 and race as Bottas. Hamilton usually takes off like a shot and i struggle to keep his pace.

I can't stand racing the AI and being able to just blast through them is a god send when someone's disconnected and I think it's unfair to then suddenly have to race them in the race as they're too unpredictable and in a tonne of corners they're horrifically slow, ESPECIALLY in S1 at COTA.

I'd vote to keep ghosting on, being actual people we can always just move out of the way still when being lapped, it's not difficult to do, with ghosting on or off, so I don't see how anything has changed.

Just checked and it's definitely tied into the ghosting disconnected cars. You only have on or off which means if we leave ghosting on cars being lapped can be driven straight through. Total horshite!!

The only way we can do this is to prohibit driving through non-ai cars, with some sort of time penalty being added if it is ignored.

Imagine how off-putting it would be to be driving and suddenly have the lapping car drive right through you as you turn into a corner!!

I wish they would just leave well alone or at least give us control of it.

It's always something with this game, isn't it....

As much as I don't want to have ghosting on i think it's probably the best thing to do. Trying to find an AI level to suit all in the league will not be easy. And the point made by Mitch only emphasizes that. I think it's great that if people disconnect through no fault of their own they are able to rejoin, but they should not benefit from it.

I agree with Peter that if we have to have it turned on then we need to make it clear that you are not to driver through a ghosted car unless you know for certain that it is an AI controlled car. And if you do so knowingly then we should add a penalty to the race results for that driver. Whether that's a time penalty or a position drop in the results could be debated. I think a position drop would serve as more of a deterrent than time added.