F1 Clash - Car Racing Manager

Very fun game to pass the time at work but there needs to be some kind of better matchmaking in place as you get put in a race with players that have unlocked superior drivers which is fine you should always lose some but when it happens 4 to 5 times in a row... somethings not right and this comes to my next point. With being the underdog in most races it kinda leans you towards micro transactions and becomes a pay to win type scenario which is kinda disappointing, just to test it I bought the starting kit or whatever it is for like two bucks and I went from losing constantly to winning easily, it almost felt easy, like I was overpowered because I unlocked the gold crate that came with the package I purchased, I think the micro transactions should not effect your gameplay, but maybe just graphic effects or something like that or unique paint jobs or even a better idea you could purchase the ability to create your own driver and choose his name and performance but in a balanced way say like you could choose to have really good defense and in doing so sacrifice something else like overtaking

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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

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I like the idea. The betting model of games like 8 ball pool and Golf Clash is easily the best free-to-play model on the App Store. Certainly beat the mode of clash of clans and other base builder which are completely unplayable unless you pay money to drop the wait times. Sorry I don’t want to wait a whole week in order to play a game. It’s worse than pay to win its pay to play. Just make the game $5 on the App Store and get it over with. Anyways back to this game. It has the approach to free-to-play I like but lacks the gameplay to back it up. I enjoy the mechanics of the game the problem is it’s extremely luck based. Managing my team is fun but when I can’t even make it to the second tier of duels because my car breaks down it doesn’t feel good. In 8-ball pool or Golf Clash I lose because I didn’t play well enough. In this game it comes down to a bit of RNG. Again I’m fine with RNG in a game but when my ability to continue playing and advancing in the game depends on it that’s poor design. A better gameplay loop would solve the issue but I doubt that’s in the cards as the development team probably doesn’t want to rebuild their game from the ground up.

Before I begin, the concept of this game is actually very fun. Sometimes my drivers are idiots but I’ll look past that for now. The problem I have with this game is the money aspect and lasting enjoyment created by that money problem. All of the duels are practically pointless. You bet the joining fee (which increases dramatically as you progress) and then double it if you win. So the expected value if you win 50 percent of the time is....0. And then there are the championships which pop up about once per week. The entrance fee is 100k, 1 million, or 10 million. And the only way to make that back is if you make it to the finals and then finish in the top 40. Otherwise, you lose money. And then don’t even get me started on some glitches. I worked my way up and was doing a 60k race early on, and the game crashed as it was loading the race track and stole my 60k. It’s hard enough earning money without the game taking it from me. I’ve found myself just earning money off the ads and by opening crates I open on the first 3 duel stages (1k, 4K, and 16k). Occasionally I’ll do a a larger race but most of the time, it’s not worth the gamble. A slow, guaranteed source of income has a better expected income than a 50/50 duel. I only race about 2-3 times a day scattered throughout just to earn a new crate. If it continues like this, I can’t see very good player retention happening.

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You’re supposedly racing against other players most of the time. However, the AI behind the great interface is basically your hardest challenging opponent. And this is very disappointing and frustrating. It is completely understandable that there are differences between player’s performances due to each one’s hours of game and the amount of money spent on the development of the cars. This can be seen in tournaments (GPs, in this case), just like every other game. But the most bizarre and unreal things happen to you and your cars if the game brain doesn’t want you to win. Period. It doesn’t matter if your strategy is great or if your online opponent went for a bad call on the tyres: your leading car will breakdown on the last corner (yes, the leading car is the only one to face mechanical failures), your tyres will be worn out during the final lap (in a faster pace than your opponent), the opponent’s soft compound will make a flying lap when it’s raining even if you’re on the wets... Additionally, if you make a complaint on the support section, where you can send a message regarding the weird facts and wait for a response, you will curiously start falling down the hill in terms of results. That’s happened to me. It’s just statistics. At the end, the interface is amazing but you have a hidden enemy who is not your online opponent and who takes the control out of your hands and there is nothing you can do about it. A real pity.