It’s not just drivers who might move to various teams during their career, and in the real Formula One paddock, staff moves have been having a big impact this year. So it’s quite appropriate at the F1 Manager 2023 update V1.6 adds team switching.
From now on, you’ll have a new Team Principal rating attribute, which shows how highly you’re respected, and whether you’ve accomplished the objectives set by the board. A higher score will mean you get offers from more dominant teams, but failure could mean you’re sacked and need to try and rebuild things with an outfit further down the grid.
A few of the car models are also being updated, along with general stability improvements to the game, DLSS support (Nvidia) and FSR support (AMD), and various other fixes to team management, race simulations, and the user interface.
F1 Manager 2023 Update 1.6 Release Notes:
New Features
- Added Team Switching
- Expand your legacy across the whole paddock by choosing to manage a new team at the end of a season
- Added DLSS support for NVIDIA GPUs
- Added FSR support for AMD GPUs
Car Models
- Updated Aston Martin car model
- Updated Haas car model
- Added the blue marking to George Russell’s Mercedes
- Corrected Williams Halo at lower levels of detail
Game Stability
- General stability improvements
- Fixed PC-only crash related to DX12
- Fixed an issue where Epic Store players could not access Deluxe Edition Scenarios after a network error
Game Balance
- Some teams have had their season objectives adjusted [NEW SAVES ONLY]
- Mercedes
- Initial Season Objective: 2nd -> 3rd
- Constructor’s Championship target season: 2024 -> 2025
- Alfa Romeo
- Initial season objective 7th -> 8th
- Alpha Tauri
- Initial season objective: 7th -> 8th
Team Management
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the user being able to continue when hiring a reserve driver at end of season
- Fixed an issue where car part design and research projects were not generating the appropriate amount of expertise gain when the sliders were moved
- Fixed an issue where Research Complete emails were not showing an increase in next year’s car stats
- Fixed an issue where the email about Factory fires ending was sent before the factory reopened
Race Sim
- Fixed an issue where drivers did not need to use two different tyre compounds after a mid-session save
- Fixed an issue where drivers would not start pushing for their flying laps early enough on circuits with long straights in Automatic mode
- Fixed tyre warming behaviour in qualifying so that drivers’ tyres are warm when starting their flying laps
- Fixed an issue where some drivers were missing driver codes on the standings tower (Sorry Mick!)
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Need to Refuel’ dilemma in Practice and Qualifying would not pause the game
- Fixed an issue where rain VFX was not present on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles
- Fixed a rare soft lock if there was a red flag in Practice or Qualifying while the player team’s cars were exiting the pit lane
- Fixed an issue where Oscar Piastri could be referred to as “Alex” in team comms
User Interface
- Fixed an issue where the UI was not anchored to the left/right side of the screen when widescreen is enabled
- Fixed a soft lock when scrolling through the standings lists in Data View
- Fixed a rare soft lock when enabling manual control in Qualifying while the tutorial was enabled
- Fixed an issue where the Data View lists could appear blank during races
F1 Manager 2023 is available digitally for the PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the PS4 and PS5 via the PlayStation Store, and the Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S via the Microsoft store. Physical editions for consoles will be available from September 12th, 2023.
Keep up with all the latest F1 Manager 2023 news, updates and more here.
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