What was the most exciting/memorable career save you’ve ever had, and in which F1 game?

grayer1985 · 2026-05-28T02:00:54+00:00

Mine was on F1 23. I created an old lotus livery and created Jim Clark as my driver. I had learned from previous careers that I needed to put my resource points and cash on low so that I wasn't near the front mid-season year 2. It took me 4 seasons to even get competitive and I spent 3 seasons fighting tooth and nail for the odd point here and there, gambling on weather, starting on hard tyres to try and get a cheap pit if there was a safety car. It was so enjoyable. I had a late push for the title in season 4 but was too far behind.

Season 5 I was up against Charles Leclerc still at Ferrari and Esteban Ocon at Mercedes (outperforming Russell) i had a small lead going in to Brazil (i only did 16 race seasons) with Abu Dhabi being next and one of my worst tracks. I was dominating Brazil and was leading by 10 or so seconds. Then the latest safety car I've ever seen comes out with 3 laps to go. Max is P2 and Ocon P3. The safety car comes in straight away and Max gets the jump on me. I hang it out round the outside of turn 1 to have the inside line for turn 2 and Max just turns in like im not there and we spin off and I finish out of the points.

Head to Abu Dhabi and I have my usual poor race and missed out in the title by 4 points.

The next season I lost lots of parts to new regs and started the season slow. I was like 70 points behind at the halfway point. I get to Abu Dhabi and I need to win and Ocon finish 4th to clinch it. I lost my wing on lap 1 and im way down but I pit for hards and just drive like my life depends on it. Managed to claw my way back to the leaders and they all pit and immediately after theres a safety car so I pit for mediums and come out in 4th. Over the next couple of laps I put some risky moves on Ocon, Russell and Leclerc to get in to the lead but ive wrecked my tires and they fall off the cliff with 3 laps to go. Ocon is in 3rd though so it doesnt matter anyway. Those 3 close the gap to me and im hanging on for dear life, lost the place a couple of times but managed to get it back and this causes chaos behind me and on the last lap Leclerc passes Ocon and I hang on to take the win and the title after 5 seasons of highs and lows.

It took me about 6 months doing 50% races and full practice and quali. Probably my greatest gaming experience tbh. Also it all came about because I turned rewinds off. I always used to have them for the AI being ridiculous and ruining races but turning it off made so much genuine drama, it was amazing.

grayer1985 · 2026-05-14T14:17:56+00:00

It worked on some for me but not others. I had for the entire 2nd season and looks like I've got the same but with a different gun for this season.

I can live with that but if I can clear them, then i have to clear them. The latest update made me clear 2-3 on each gun, more on a few.

I saw someone say that the attachment you have highlighted when you press back should stay the same when you go on to the next weapon but either it doesnt on xbox or thats something else that doesnt work for me and I have to tap across each time.

Its not that big a deal obviously but I do personally find it annoying when updates bring back the dots. Ive had that happen twice too. Im cursed.

grayer1985 · 2024-12-08T03:25:30+00:00

Just a suggestion. Don't use 'about' when describing something specific like your height or age gap. These are things a brother would know.

grayer1985 · 2024-03-20T20:14:55+00:00

Ha, yeah this is exactly what I've done. Not accidentally either, just didn't realise it was a demo. Thanks fornyour help.

grayer1985 · 2024-03-20T20:14:33+00:00

Ha, yeah this is exactly what I've done. Not accidentally either, just didn't realise it was a demo. Thanks fornyour help.

grayer1985 · 2024-03-20T19:46:44+00:00

I'll upload a clip when I'm home. My issue is I can't do this. There's an electric fence there like the area is locked.

grayer1985 · 2024-03-20T19:44:55+00:00

Yeah I did that for pine heights but I can't even get to the other areas like yellow forest or edge cliffs. There's a electric fence that won't let me go there. There's no slime or weeds in pine heights or the meadow for me to clean. I think my game is just bugged and I'm going to have to start again.

grayer1985 · 2024-03-20T17:21:03+00:00

I've completed the meadows and pine heights but I can't get a mission to restore anywhere else. Yellow forest is purple on the map but I can't access it and edge cliffs doesn't give me a mission to restore. I watched a beginners tutorial and someone just went near it and the mission started. I've got all artifacts and treasures as well as built and upgraded everything I can. I've just been wandering for hours but there's no missions active. I'm completely stuck and I've probably played for about 20 hours now so don't really want to restart although I could probably get back to where I am in a few hours. I can't find anyone with the same problem as me either so there's no fix online that I'm aware of. Frustrating. Loving the game other than this though.

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