F1 Manager 2023 v1.3 And v1.4 Released

Frontier have updated F1 Manager 2023 with a couple of patches, including one today, to fix various issues with the game as it was released into early access. There appears to be a disturbing amount of crash causes that didn’t seem to get mentioned in any reviews.

1.3 patch notes:

GAME STABILITY
– Fixed issue preventing user from sending out reconfigured car in qualifying
– Fixed softlock after multiple viewings of qualification data screen
– Fixed rare game crash occurring after a red flag
– Fixed softlock after race left on pause for significant length of time
– Fixed rare crash on NVIDIA GPU
– Fixed rare crash after resuming Race Replay save
– Fixed softlock scrolling driver standings panel when running reserve driver in P1

GAME BALANCE
– Rebalanced rating decline rate for elite, older drivers
– Rebalanced rating decline impact for drivers that DNF
– Rebalanced progression rate of F2/F3 drivers

TEAM MANAGEMENT
– Fixed inaccurate ‘Grid Average’ data in Car Analysis
– Improved DHL Fastest Pit Stop Competition end of season flow
– Updated compound performance report for Qatar

RACE SIM
– Fixed data discrepancies occurring from a mid-session save
– Fixed weather from changing when loading mid-session save
– Fixed “x Laps To Go” notification appearing too early
– Fixed Events in Data View showing as ‘undefined’
– Improved garage lighting
– Improved pit exit battle team radio messages
– Reduced frequency of ‘overheating tyres’ team radio messages
– Reduced frequency of pit stop error replays (for minor pit stop delays)

RACE REPLAY
– Fixed some unequal car performance attributes in ‘Equal Performance’ Exclusive Scenarios
– Fixed tyre compounds showing incorrectly on tyre wear graph in Race Moments
– Improved clarity of Exclusive Scenario Starting Grid objectives

CONSOLE
– Improved analogue stick sensitivity

PRESENTATION
– Fixed long pause before selected team appears on screen in team selection and title screen backgrounds
– Fixed gender tag displaying on pitcrew screen in German localisation
– Fixed text truncation on pitcrew screen for all non-English localisation

1.4 patch notes:

– Fixed crash that could occur if red flag triggered near end of race