Finished my first season of F1 Manager 2022 last night and started the second part way through he Belgian race.
My thoughts - Wait until it's on sale or buy Motorsport Manager instead
F1 Manager is much shinier and has the license, but Motorsport Manager is the more in depth game despite being 6 years old now. F1 Manager just feels too lightweight and almost an phone/tab app level game.
Went with Williams for my first attempt. Got 9 points in my first season. Finished the season 9th ahead of Aston. But somehow, I've developed the best car for my second season. 2 seconds a lap faster than anyone else type of best car. After the first race, Piastri and Albon lapped everyone else.
Oh, the money situation. I have never even got close to running out of cash. I've improved all the facilities at least once and still still have cash to spend. Ended the season 1 with over 50 million in the black. Making a huge profit every race.
So many bugs in the game, graphical glitches (some of which can be fixed by changing ini files), cars spearing into the wall at Monza at v-max and continuing the race with no damage, tyre condition doesn't matter, tyre compounds have virtually no delta to each other, fuel use is almost randomised, safety car's not closing the field up, blue flags not being obeyed, penalties in incidents gives to both drivers, can only hire drivers for next year and the end of the year (sign them mid season and they take over immediately),
So much missing too - creating your own team, dealing with the media, dealing with urgent driver/team issues, dealing with sponsors, sprint races, young driver academy, move to a different team, in race data is severely lacking, driver and designer/engineer development is almost RPG ish with a development point earned every so often.
The bugs should be relatively fixable with a patch. The missing bits, probably will need to wait for F1 Manager 2023 at least.
It's not bad for a first attempt, but it's no Grand Prix Manager or Grand Prix World, but it's a good start. I believe they're planning one a year until 2025, so a good opportunity to bugfix and use as a base for next years developments.
My thoughts - Wait until it's on sale or buy Motorsport Manager instead
F1 Manager is much shinier and has the license, but Motorsport Manager is the more in depth game despite being 6 years old now. F1 Manager just feels too lightweight and almost an phone/tab app level game.
Went with Williams for my first attempt. Got 9 points in my first season. Finished the season 9th ahead of Aston. But somehow, I've developed the best car for my second season. 2 seconds a lap faster than anyone else type of best car. After the first race, Piastri and Albon lapped everyone else.
Oh, the money situation. I have never even got close to running out of cash. I've improved all the facilities at least once and still still have cash to spend. Ended the season 1 with over 50 million in the black. Making a huge profit every race.
So many bugs in the game, graphical glitches (some of which can be fixed by changing ini files), cars spearing into the wall at Monza at v-max and continuing the race with no damage, tyre condition doesn't matter, tyre compounds have virtually no delta to each other, fuel use is almost randomised, safety car's not closing the field up, blue flags not being obeyed, penalties in incidents gives to both drivers, can only hire drivers for next year and the end of the year (sign them mid season and they take over immediately),
So much missing too - creating your own team, dealing with the media, dealing with urgent driver/team issues, dealing with sponsors, sprint races, young driver academy, move to a different team, in race data is severely lacking, driver and designer/engineer development is almost RPG ish with a development point earned every so often.
The bugs should be relatively fixable with a patch. The missing bits, probably will need to wait for F1 Manager 2023 at least.
It's not bad for a first attempt, but it's no Grand Prix Manager or Grand Prix World, but it's a good start. I believe they're planning one a year until 2025, so a good opportunity to bugfix and use as a base for next years developments.
