I love F1 and I love sim racing but this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash. I get rear ended and penalized for it? No ♥♥♥♥ you and ♥♥♥♥ this game. Waste of $70 and this ♥♥♥♥ makes me not want to buy the next game. I stg every EA game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible.

Tu-tu-tu-du, Max Verstappen

Hey, 100 ai lev, no breaking, locking up, steering or traction control assists, 400h simracing non and vr player here, my opinions here

Downsides:
- awful handling, such unnatural oversteering, driving on water feels like kayaking (literally, cannot express it in a diffrent way)
- unresponsive race engineers (realistic if driving for ferrari), giving useless info, like saying you are P20 in the middle of your first flying quali lap, or just straight up bugging out for 5 laps, not talking to you (realistic for scuderia)
- downgraded vr experience compered to F1 23, mostly because of race engineers not giving you info you want (time gap)
- no career customization, e.x. game likes to think lando norris is 2nd best driver on the grid, no way to (officialy) change that
- damage model of cars is pretty much non-existient
- unrealistic spin/crash and dirt/grass physics
- boring pit-stops sequence, you pretty much always get perfect stop
- no red/yellow flags for qualy
- AI scared of hard racing
- AI scared of frist lap (I use a mod for harder first laps, without it I can easily gain +10 positions)
- AI boring race strat, predictable
- AI boring random events, e.x. boring crashes
- AI bad at alternative racing lines
- AI bad at being fun to race against
- Horrible dirty air simulation (pretty much nonexistent), sometimes its just long drs train from P1 to P10 or even to P18 (♥♥♥♥ sauber tho, they cant do ♥♥♥♥)
- Bad FFB, I play on max and compared to AC can bearly feel it
- Unskippable cutscenes that last minutes on end
- Horrible Far-View
- boring hud
- content missing from F1 23
- can't pit on formation lap, even if it rains
- bugsbugsbugs
- Increased safety cars means one in every 3-4 races (medium/long races)
- unskippable sprints, we hate those
- horrible driver models (jarno ompeer looks like poopmeer)
- no kimi, kimi, vettel (?), franco, gabriel, at least there is ollie and jack
- probably 10 points more I forgot to mention

From the good stuff:
- engaging career mode
- okay-ish driver customization
- okay-ish music selection, some tho are unlistenable
- more fun ERS compered to F1 23
- probably one more point I forgot to mention

I love monopoly man, give me more, F1 25 gonna be dogpoop too probably