Hello everyone, new-ish fan here. (First game was f1 23)
So, so far, I understand that the new regs are all about power management, or more specifically, battery management. I see lots of videos and conversations on YouTube and Reddit about how this ruins the sport, and it's basically all Mario Kart now and all that.
Be that as it may, in any f1 game I've played of the current regs, I find the one of the biggest jumps in performance in learning to drive wheel and pedals has been optimizing battery management over a lap. Tracks like COTA or silverstone, I find myself changing deployment modes 3-5 times a lap in some cases.
My question is; will the next f1 game essentially just be more of this? Where instead of just hitting "hotlap" in qualifying, I'd be doing more LICO and switching around like I would in a race? If that's the case, I find it pretty fun. Planning overtakes laps in advance, going corner to corner with rivals not just in handling but in hands-on balance of the engine itself, figuring out how to be strong where your enemy is weak.
Sounds cool, but I am open to other opinions, especially if I have something wrong in my analysis/expectations for future games/seasons.
What do you think?