This video was SUPPOSED to be a nice happy video on the release day carnage of F1 2021 online. Instead, I spent most of my time staring at menus and spectating, watch to find out why.
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Slick65
25.03.2022Anyone else noticed you cant hear jeff when you are playing with headphones on. At least it is on xbox 1 anyway
Nick
24.03.2022I think “je oma” was dutch. It is translated to your grandmother in dutch
Paul Miller
24.03.2022Good on Alex for showing us some of the bad.
Gavin Bailey
24.03.2022I played for a few hours today and it was actually really good. Most people raced cleanly, left space, and didn’t ram you into turn one. Just gotta find the right people!
Philip J. Fry
24.03.2022I’m lucky if I can even connect to a bloody lobby and even then I just get taken out by the first moron who forgot he has a brake 🥲 my quick match doesn’t even work every time I search for casual or experienced matches they just fail to connect…
Blackout
24.03.2022All these issues and you still haven't seen half the cr*p that's going on in online. People that don't load in and you're stuck in black screen, some people have lights out way earlier than others, being stuck on the grid for minutes because someone doesn't load in, lobbies not starting at all because one player doesn't press ready and the countdown is broken and so on.
And singleplayer is broken and bugged too on so many levels. I really hate myself for paying 60€ for this sh*t.
Strongest Fish
24.03.2022Codemasters have turned off the ghosting in the ranked lobbies, so it's a pain now, especially for not as fast players as you.
Metamonogatari
24.03.2022I was a bit unaware to some of those things because I just way prefer the browse and custom lobbies options due to the freedom they provide and also because I think they tend to be more active (and on a minor level that most of the multiplayer cars don't look super good) but I have wanted an option to just replace the AI's of people who quit for so long. I guess they want to prevent you from disconnecting maybe and then being forced out by someone who joined but you could do it with an inactivity timer. I remember last game I had a lobby which basically was half dead but the people who left still took the slots for people who actually still wanted to race and you couldn't even kick them in the lobby menu sometimes
Me
24.03.2022I think it's because everyone is playing my team and stuff or just standered gp mode or time trial to get to grips with the game because as you said it is release day
apmargOZi
24.03.2022My experience in your words exactly! Come on CM do the right thing here!
David Roberts
24.03.2022That's when you can actually join a lobby on the first place. Since I bought it I've been able to have one race online.
jdeviant
23.03.2022It's a joke mate I'm having awful time with it. Even when you get into a ranked session, there's no ghosting, damage is on full, it's total madness.
jdeviant
23.03.2022There was 1 25% ranked session available on Playstation last night. 1.
luka cecen
23.03.2022if there was crossplay between different consoles it would help so much, not sure why codemasters hasn't adapted yet
Rory Burke Racing
23.03.2022There are bound to be issues given the game is so early. Hopefully they patch these issues in any upcoming updates
The Raddest Scorpion
23.03.2022Nobody could see that coming.
Mesquitas
23.03.2022Hey Alex where can I find those Esports Setups? Struggling with finding proper setups. Thanks in advance!
Angry Panda
23.03.2022First day online is always messi. Its always like that. 😅
TheRealF.B.I
23.03.2022I join a lobby and it stuck on one shot quali
Sebastian Dierks
23.03.2022Thank you. I belong to the smaller player base who almost exclusively plays online together with my brother and it's annoying that over the years the multiplayer mode doesnt get better. This is certainly a reason for me not to buy the game, at least not now. I dont need 4 different career modes or better graphics, when you still have a 50% error rate for joining an online lobby, and when normal/easy to implement options are just missing.
Karl
23.03.2022Atrocious online experience, with EA publishing now there should be dedicated servers. Fifa, Madden, Apex etc, etc all use dedicated servers.
MrTASouza
22.03.2022This also happens in 2020. Sometimes I expend 20 minutes just joining "In lobby" rooms just to find out they are already racing already.
Star Wars Coffee
22.03.2022I don't see the point in playing online in F1 tbh
Mali
22.03.2022My first F1 game and was severely flabbergasted by this multiplayer. Has it always been this terrible? I mean the nascar heat games have better UI than this
Leonardo Matos
22.03.2022This game is a joke
Mariusz Dudek
22.03.2022I agree 100%, no fun at all
Firstname Lastname
22.03.2022Im struggling to get on any of the online options to be honest. Cant even get the list
Mark Street
22.03.2022I tried for over 45 mins to get into an online game. Then after all that turned out to be destruction derby in F1 cars, Ranked was better but I had a 1 in four connection. Well done for highlighting this issue. P.s. love the series
Phillip Kotze
22.03.2022Hi this is "that Phill Guy" great race mate!! XD when i saw you spin i had hope but alas ….. GG's
Forzan
22.03.2022Love the vid. Finally someone that actually shows how fucking broken some parts of the game are. #Codebreakers
Definitely not masters of coding that’s for sure 😂😂😂
Adam Powell
22.03.202280% play single player?! Are you mad 🤣🤣. This is predominately a multiplayer game
Mr Monotone
21.03.2022didn't even realize anyone bothered with the social lobbies, i haven't touched them, there's no reason not to use the server browser
Albert Van harn
21.03.2022After 13 days we can't play online. Watch the shtmasters forum
ThrasherDave14
21.03.2022Yeah when you try to join a lobby and the guys are not even halfway through with their current race it's really annoying. Do you think it would be a good idea to add a time trial option inside a lobby in addition to spectating and sitting in the lobby menu that way you could do laps at any track of your choice while the other guys finish their race?
Mitch Allen
21.03.2022I haven't gotten a single lap of online play because of these problems
Yoshiuki __
21.03.2022F1 2020 was a great game but everything about 2021 right now is an absolute mess, the online is cataclysmic, the cars are buggy, tracks such as spain and zandvoort just don't work at all, my team and career don't work properly the new damage system is ridiculously sensitive sthe slightest brush minimal damage settings will break the whole wing, all the power units literally burn every 2 races its an absolute mess. I hope this isn't the EA effect
Maximus
21.03.2022But the lobbies I try to join just say joining session
Herb Brooks
21.03.2022cool game so far. buggy AF though… thanks EA
Anton Sundin
21.03.2022F1 2021 is the first time i tried to do a bit off online lobbies in an F1 game and honestly the experience is beyond trash. Approximately 2/3 of the time is spent not playing the game. Finding a good lobby can take forever because you're constantly put into lobbies with only a couple of people that's currently in a race. Sometimes you have to wait like 10 minutes just for the current session to end so you can jump into the next, no one wants to do that so instead what you do is existing and leaving lobbies until you find a good one, this takes both time and is annoying.
Then there's load times….loading when going into quali, then another loading going into the race… then another loading going back into the lobby menu and the recycle repeats. Also what can happen and often does happen during loading is that there's 1 guy that gets stuck indefinitely loading and on that loading screen you literally cannot do anything. I once waited like 5 minutes before finally resorting to alt+f4 out of it. Even after a race you have to wait for everyone to "load" back into the lobby menu before you can exit that lobby. Yes you heard that right, after a race is finished you have to wait for everyone to finish loading before you can leave.
The lobby ui itself is also bad in varies ways. For example there's no proper filters and you cannot even sort lobbies in a way that makes sense like after ping, or player amount or if they are in session etc.
I honestly can't recommend anyone to play this game online unless you organise a proper league outside of the game client in advance. Trying to just jump in and do a couple of quick 5 man races whenever you feel like it is just not a pleasant experience currently.
Indochina Connex
21.03.2022We have spent like 2 hours trying to fix the online glitches on Xbox. We can’t join social lobbies. Always says error. Co op multiplayer, always says must be signed in to Xbox live. Reset and still says it. Then it always says joining session for ranked lobby and sends me to a lobby by myself. Online is terrible honestly
Jules VDA
21.03.2022Ive been trying to join a lobby for 30min
Ezra Anung
20.03.2022there's a "browse"
Koolaid Man84
20.03.2022I stopped playing multiplayer until these annoying issue’s are corrected…
Akiideal
20.03.2022When i want to play f1 online i switch from f1 2021 to f1 2020
Gary Best
20.03.2022It’s good you won’t lie to us 😜
XXX
20.03.2022I tried f1 online buttttt i had similar issues where i found myself waiting more than i was racing and getting crashed out. Honestly have more fun racing the AI's offline. Loving the rain sessions. Still a great game and hope they keep them coming 😀
Oliver Brain
20.03.2022A month later and things aren't much better. I have had the game 3 days and tried to join lobby's and I constantly join races on lap 1. Today I watched an entire race and as soon as it finished it booted me from the session
Owen Carney
20.03.2022just watch this video and as of oct 31 online is still the same. most of your time "playing" is waiting in menus. and like alex said the game server crashes.
playing on Xbox one
Initial Doge
20.03.2022How to you NOT use those custom cars?
Justin Smith
20.03.2022Stop whinging.