After a rocky release, F1 Manager 2024 is addressing some bugs in a patch next week across all platforms.
F1 Manager 2024 lets players take control of a Formula One team. Unfortunately, the game was plagued by bugs that led to many negative reviews.
Frontier Developments, the developer and publisher of the game, is ready to address many of the bugs causing problems. One of the major ones includes fixing the stability of the game and how often it crashes. There was also a problem when trying to compare staff on a vacant member that would lock the game specifically. Frontier is fixing this.
It’s also adjusting several of the AI systems, including the following:
- AI powertrain faults when a race starts
- Better AI engineer assignments, and the ability to have simultaneous projects
- AI research start dates
Frontier is also fixing some smaller bugs in the sponsorship system. Players were occasionally not receiving secondary sponsor payments, and Frontier is fixing that. It’s also fixing Inconsistencies in the presentation of payments. Additionally, sponsors won’t fine players as much when they don’t hit engagement metrics.
Developers are also fixing other bugs like drivers getting stuck in the garage during qualifying races and strategies being recent in Pace Mode.
These aren’t all the problems that Frontier plans to fix. Other issues that developers are working on include:
- Game processing speed
- Mentality balance
- AI car balance
- Hiring logic improvements
- Team communication
- Lapped cars
- Teams hitting the cost cap without any clear warning
Frontier did let fans know that this isn’t every problem it’s aware of. The development team has other fixes they’re working on but aren’t ready to share yet. There’s no date for the patch, but it should come between August 11 and August 17.
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