Fun but frustrating

This game has moments of being fun, BUT OMG its so unbalanced. The AI driving will make you insane! Ive watched my car in 3rd place leave pitlane and stop to let the entire field go by, then rejoin in last. Ive watched my drivers turn left in a right hand turn, drive through the grass and lose 6 places for no reason. OR just hit the brakes and come to a dead stop in the middle of turn. The AI needs lots of work…LOTS of work! Winning is arbitrary, because other than changing tires, you play no role in how your team performs. ALSO, it does NOT matter what driver you have or what upgrades you install, the game matches you with someone who has the same stuff…so whats the point. Also the cost of upgrades is on a vertical curve. $20k for level 1…$350k for level 2… and since we can be sure to always have 10 loses to 1 win, unless i spend real money, i cant upgrade. This game has great potential, but is far from ready. Teach the AI to drive. A driver doesnt make it to F1 with the skills of a weekend rental kart driver. Fix the match balance. Qualy is a joke. And make driver performance predictable, because otherwise its meaningless. (My driver will stay top 5 in one race then live in 24th for the next 5 races)

Lacks consistency

Overall the game play and concept is all good. Graphics are good but it lacks consistency when it comes to performance. Lacks consistency on matching up players with similar skill. Most of the time in my experience I get matched up vs people with way higher grades than me so makes it almost impossible to win. Maybe the matching system needs to be tweaked. I lowered my rating to 1 star. It’s a joke how inconsistent it is. I wrote my review and then decided to give the game another chance but more of the same stupidity of matchup and in race issues. I am on boost and take a turn and get passed by 3 cars lol. Doesn’t seem like the drivers ratings do anything when it comes to racing. My highest “consistency” drivers seem to have the least consistent race, taking turns way wide or letting 3 people pass me because I slowed down and took the outside of a turn. Seems like the driver did that just to let 3 cars behind me pass. Also when a car breaks down why not have the car get affected and slow down so it forces people to go into pits. You can literally drive laps of a broken car with no effect. Last thing is this game really does want you to purchase packs and things and you can only be competitive if you do. If you don’t you will be stuck with lower parts and drivers as the upgrades on parts and cars are ridiculously high. So if you want to play this game competitively be ready to spend money. The free daily spin rewards not worth spinning

Great concept, terrible customer service

I’ve been playing this game for about two years and have spent a few hundred to make it more enjoyable. It’s clear you HAVE to pay to win. You’d think the people behind the app would want to retain those that spend money. I’ve been ripped off by them twice now and there won’t be a third. First time was an app crash that messed up my purchase and I was still charged. Second time was with a pit pass… What they fail to make clear is that if you buy the pit pass Monday for the following week and event, it expires that night (same day) and you essentially paid for less than 24 hours of use. When you request a refund or them to just reissue it for that week, they say too bad so sad and go pound sand. Customer service is pathetic at best and very slimy. What does it really cost them to reactivate it for a user? ZERO! As I said, pathetic. Those don’t pay to play have reviews that they have zero shot at winning against those that pay. The game is rigged against you otherwise. Upgrades are useless, matchups are irrelevant. There is clearly some type of algo or rating system for users and it’ll be interesting if they ever get audited. I can see a class action suit in their future. I did give them one more star simply for the graphics. F1 looks terrible with what this developer is doing. Conceptually great, but seems like a scam. BEWARE AND PLEASE DON’T STUFF THEIR POCKETS AS THEY DO NOT DESERVE IT!

Almost a great game

First off, if nothing else, you absolutely MUST create a name system. I don't want to give away my full name and facebook profile picture to every single person I play, and this needs to be changed. This has got to be a privacy issue. There needs to be an emblem/picture system as well as a naming system in place so people can override their name and photo being used. Secondly, this game NEEDS statistics. You should be able to see a comprehensive view of race history as well as a full stat history somewhere in the main menu, it would not only be really helpful but cool and interesting to look at as well. Additionally, there really should be car presets available so I can save different specs on my car and try them out without having to remember each setup and manually switch each part every time. Lastly, I really think there needs to be another mode other than the clash and weekly events. Maybe it could be a full season, maybe it could be a full 10 person race, maybe it could be a tournament system, but the game still just feels bare right now. As an added bonus, I think there should be more player-player interaction - maybe some sort of clan system, friends, chats, all of the sort. Ultimately, this is a really fun game but it is missing key aspects of a great game that I continue to return to for a long while.

Cool until you race someone

The game is fun until you have to race against someone who has a better qualifying than you and only because of that wins. The matchmaking is completely unfair. I have multiple times raced someone with a car and drivers 10 times better than mine and then win because I’m absolutely hopeless because they also got a really good qualifying. The crates don’t even give you anything that good really. So people are obviously buying these to try and be better and it works. It’s a really pay to win game. You are forced to race someone that has 100 trophies more than you and then completely annihilates you and you can’t do anything but watch all the money disappear. I have also had money just randomly disappear when I won a race. Games unfair and pay to win. Devs only care about money. Also the reviews would not be as positive if the devs didn’t offer a gift for leaving 5 stars. If you just spend a min or more in the “most favorable” tab you can clearly see the brainless 5 star posts of people just saying good, or you’ll see people spamming letters to leave a review. Keep that in mind when looking at ratings What could make this game better is a single player mode where you can race for money and in a season instead of random races. It would fix the massive money problem and make the game 10 times more fun. Edit: thank you for acknowledging my review Hutch even if nothing comes of it. If you do do these things though my rating will go to 5 stars

Fun game, but matchmaking system ruins it

This game is actually very fun and enjoyable (at times) to play. It’s like a mix between clash royale and formula one. This is a game I could see myself pouring hours of my time into, except I won’t because of one thing: the matchmaking. Good god, the matchmaking is horrible. I’ve lost about 80 to 90 percent of the races I enter because the other person qualifies super far up the grid and I get stuck down around 20th, and from there I really can’t do anything. It also doesn’t help that the driving mechanics themselves are completely rng dependent. Basically, it’s completely random whether you win or lose a race, and the majority of the time you will lose because the matchmaker puts you up against someone with a much better car and drivers every single time. This is a problem because it costs money to enter races, and you don’t get any money back unless you win. Therefore I find myself playing for a few minutes until I run out of coins after losing four races in a row, then waiting four hours for a free crate just so I can get enough money to enter another couple of races, then I repeat that loop over and over again. It’s a shame, really, because this game has great potential. I really wish I could play it more, but I just can’t because the matchmaking is so terribly designed. If the developers were to fix the matchmaking, me and a lot more people would play the game a whole lot more.

Really fun game but has some major issues

This game is really enjoyable to play and I am excited for the new season released. My biggest complaint THE BOOSTS! These really need to be removed at this point as I’ve seen other comments saying purchasing crates is what makes the game pay to win. I disagree with this as the developers have improved matchmaking (at least as much as I’ve played so far this season) and it feels more fair. What’s not fair is when you have players spending all their money on boosts and completely dominate you every race because boosts are not taken into account for matchmaking. I never enjoy using the boosts I’ve gotten for free anyways as I hate it being used against me so much that it just doesn’t seem fair to other players. Also in what world do “boosts” actually exist or benefit F1 drivers in real life. I understand it’s a video game and all but it’s just stupid. It totally messes up the game and takes out any sort of competition as they are just too powerful. As I mentioned before this game is really fun but only when the races are competitive. When I finish the race P14 and P16 while making good stops and racing decisions there is no way my opponent should be P3 and P6. Just get rid of them developers please it would make your game so much more competitive and enjoyable.

Worst game ever

This game could be the best but it’s far from it. If your life or thinking does not involve logic or fairness then you’re going to love this game. There is no goal in this game. If you think that I’m upgrading the car and the driver so I should do better then you’re wrong, they will just put you against an even higher ranked player. I get someone who’s ranked 100+ points higher and they out qualify me by 20 positions. Ok, but now I’m playing against someone who’s a 100 points weaker, so it should be my turn. But no, they still outqualify me by 20 positions. They use boosties so they zoom past me. I use boosties so my car stops and everyone zooms past me. In turns they have super streamlined path, my drivers go out to the farthest point of the turn, stop there, and at some point they take off after losing 6 positions. The upgrades, not only that they don’t get you anywhere, but it’s absolutely random whether you can upgrade or not. I’m in series 11 and I get options to upgrade a series 2 driver. If I get enough parts that is, usually you don’t, but then of course you can buy them. If you don’t pay in this game, this is what’s going to happen. Send to play a game that had a similar engine to get you opponents and similar concept (upgrades don’t give you an advantage), stopped playing that one and will stop playing this one too. I really wanted to like this game but there is no chance to do that.

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