On yesterday’s This Week Inside Sim Racing we talked about whether F1 2015 was dead or alive. The community response was pretty 50/50, some done with Codemaster’s bugs and others seeing a good title emerging beneath the bugs (as they are fixed).
Well Codemasters continues their plight to keep the latter engaged with a new patch released today. Like the previous patches, this one is solely focused on fixing bugs. Of note are fixes to the AI’s pit road behavior, Pro Season and online lobby hopper.
The entire changelog can be seen below. Any bugs you’ve encountered that aren’t listed here?
F1 2015 Patch 8-20-2015
- Fixed AI always pitting on the same lap as their team mate
- Fixed some instances of cars getting stuck in the pit lane
- Fixed infrequent crash in the pit lane
- Fixed car resetting to track when using flashback in the pit lane
- Fixed instances of the pitting strategy not always updating correctly
- Fixed fuel changes not saving correctly when changed under parc fermé conditions
- Fixed various errors with the damage, fuel and temperature swipe
- Fixed game stutter when the player takes control of an AI-driven car
- Fixed AI cars having punctured tyres in P2 and P3 sessions in Pro Season mode
- Fixed identical weather being used for all practice sessions in Pro Season mode
- Fixed game resuming instantly when backing out of replay
- Fixed flickering on track reflections in wet weather on high graphics settings
- Fixed objects popping when playing with multi-monitor and wide screen setups
- Added ability to adjust camera and field of view settings
- Fixed McLaren 2015 car’s gear paddles glowing orange under braking
- Added ability to delete car setups
- Added a new “invite only” custom match option
- Added push to talk functionality for voice comms
- Improved session joining speed through the multiplayer hoppers.
- Reconfigured hoppers to give one hopper per difficulty setting
- Updated feature race to Belgian Grand Prix
- Fixed players with invalidated lap times being shown as in 1st place during one shot qualifying sessions
- Fixed grid order being incorrect after one-shot qualifying session if players had invalidated their lap times
- Fixed several instances of players failing to start a session after other players have left the game
- Fixed race start timer increasing whenever a player joins a hopper lobby
- Fixed players acquiring another player’s points when joining a session mid-season
- Fixed saved lobby settings not loading in correctly
- Fixed players not joining hopper lobbies correctly from some game modes
- Fixed car body not loading in correctly in some multiplayer race
- Fixed multiple incorrect fastest lap notifications being displayed during online practice sessions
- Fixed vote to skip track being used multiple times in lobbies
- Added notifications for players retiring during a multiplayer session
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
Please note that voice command support is still being developed, and is expected to be delivered in a later update.
The braking ruined this game for me. It’s now way too easy to lock brakes..mostly because you can’t change brake force. Also, you can’t adjust brake bias easily and it’s not saved in the setup.