F1 Manager 2024 (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.11)

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F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.11

• Release date: February 25th 2025
• Patch notes:

New Features

NEW – Customise A Season

• Expanded customisation and season setup options, including:
  • Edit all 10 teams’ driver and staff lineups
  • Set all 10 teams’ starting balance
  • Set all 10 teams’ facilities and car performance starting levels
• Take control of any team in Create-A-Team mode

NEW – Create A Driver

• Create your own drivers and staff
• Set their biographical info and staff attributes

NEW – Race Calendar Customisation

• Adjust the race calendar at the start of a new save
  • Move or remove (to a minimum of 8) races in the schedule
• Choose which races have a sprint weekend

NEW – Rules & Regulations Customisation

• Adjust the rules and regulations, including points allocations schemes

NEW – Calendar Randomisation

• Optionally randomise the race calendar between seasons for a renewed challenge

NEW – Track Evolution

• Enhanced the simulation of rubber on track and grip levels – and the impact on lap times – during and across qualifying sessions

NEW –  Driver Rating Updates

• OVR rating adjustments made to some young drivers (new saves only)

NEW –  Nationalities

• Generated and created drivers and staff now represented with a nationality
• Custom teams can now be given a nationality

Stability & Performance

• Various stability & performance improvements
• Resolved virtual keyboard stopping appearing after quickly entering and exiting a text box (Switch only)

Bug Fixes

Create A Team

• Leclerc and Sainz will no longer be shown on Team Branding screen when default drivers are left unchanged in Create A Team
• Resolved inability to see which are active sponsors in decal editor
• Welcome Email will no longer display incorrect contract data having started Create A Team game with vacant seats

Contracts & Hiring

• Breakout multiplier lower limit set to x0.5
• When terminating a driver or staff member’s contract, the ‘Cost to Terminate Contract’ will no longer display an incorrect value
• Addressed blank response when offering a contract with an immediate deadline on first day of race weekend
• Revised UI in contract negotiation screen

Finance & Sponsorship

• Resolved starting balance not updating when changing engine manufacturer during End of Season flow
• Addressed some Engagement Activities not contributing to the Engagement Target after the first season
• Engagement Activities will no longer be available for facilities the user does not have
• Resolved Spending Breakdown screen not displaying any Incoming or Outgoing data for Sponsors

Team Management

• Resolved Mentality level being displayed inconsistently between some screens
•  “Biggest Issue” feedback will no longer show an incorrect number of staff with same opinion
• Driver Development emails will no longer show a blank sender 

Race Weekend

• Addressed AI reluctance to send cars out in qualifying when track changes from wet to dry
• Resolved incorrect finish position displayed on post-race Driver Performance screen 
• Track Rubber will no longer drop significantly after a red flag
• Bahrain race weekend dates have been updated
• Cars will no longer go through the barrier after collision on Baku’s main straight
• Resolved driver panel not highlighting when focused for an affiliate being used in FP1
• ‘Very Low’ Track Rubber status will no longer show in green

Race Replay

• Re-applied missing audio in Brazil Race Moment (PS4 only)
• Added missing Race Moment descriptions
• Resolved discrepancies in Las Vegas Starting Grid
  • Stroll & Bottas grid positions
  • Tyre allocations
  • Season performance data 

Presentation & Navigation

• Various localisation improvements
• Adjusted driver numbers for rookie drivers
• Resolved WDC not reverting to previous race number when no longer reigning champion
• Added a donut chart to the marketability tooltip
• Updated dialogue text for Theo Pourchaire to remove a grammar mistake
• Reduced the clipping seen on Mercedes drivers hands when using T-cam
• Double-digit driver numbers will no longer be cut off when present on a McLaren
• Resolved incorrect results being displayed in Grand Prix section of F2/F3 standings
• Resolved ‘Scout for Replacement’ button in expiring Sporting Director contract email incorrectly linking to Head of Aero staff
• Reworked the game navigation to return the player to Staff rather than the Driver menu after signing a Race Engineer via the latter
• Addressed code showing in text on ‘Staff Survey’ email when language set to Italian.
• Added ‘Development Focus’ to the details tab on top level Driver screen
• Moved descriptive text on the top level Driver screen into a secondary tooltip
• Resolved ‘Time’ column displaying incorrectly when using stepper to view results for each F2/F3 session

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.10

• Release date: December 4th 2024
• Patch notes:

Pit Lane Starts

• Fixed pit lane start persisting across sessions after breaking Parc Ferme multiple times within the same session
• Fixed the blank driver panel after breaking Parc Ferme during Q2
• Removed the possibility of continuing to Q2 after breaking Parc Ferme in Q1

Powertrain Payments

• Fixed powertrain costs continuing to be paid annually rather than monthly
• Fixed incorrect ‘Starting Balance’ values not matching the End of Season flow

Contracts & Hiring

• Fixed costs to break contract being charged for contract renewals
• Improved contract negotiation UI to display more relevant information in the ‘Current Contract’ panel
• Fixed the incorrect order of items in Contract Proposals

Race Weekend

• Fixed fastest lap being awarded to driver finishing P11
• Fixed cars not returning to pits when managing Qualifying

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.9

• Release date: November 18th 2024
• Patch notes:

New Pit Lane Starts

• Pit lane starts now fully supported for player and AI teams based on real-world regulations
• Principals will be prompted before making a change that break Parc fermé rules and incur a pit lane start

New Driver Development

• Principals can now focus drivers into three new distinct areas of development in order to use their skills to benefit your team
• This is also applicable to affiliate drivers, giving extra reason and purpose to make use of affiliate positions

New Team Suitability

• Added new “Team Suitability” rating uncovered when scouting staff and drivers to help inform hiring decisions
• The rating consider a variety of factors and results are dynamic dependent on the context

New Contract Rumours

• Added new email content providing insight into negotiations and hiring happening elsewhere on the grid

Stability & Performance

• Prevented saves reaching critical file size, leading to corruption (console only)
• In cases where there is a risk of save file corruption, additional protections have been implemented. The option to ‘Restart Season’ will be removed in order to mitigate this risk.
• Fixed crash that could occur during processing
• Fixed crash that could occur when confirming sponsor plans in quick succession
• Fixed crash that could occur at the end of the Australian GP during a long play session
• Improved performance when team HQ background is present (Nintendo Switch Only)

Updated Powertrain Costs

• Updated powertrain cost balance
• Changed powertain payment structure to monthly from annual
• Updated finances screen to accurately reflect costs

Finances

• Fixed occurrence of mandatory activities not paying out at the end of the sponsor period
• Fixed occurrence of DHL Fastest Pit Stop prize money not being paid
• Fixed occurrence of cost to break contracts not being charged
• Updated Finances help screen to reflect monthly payment structure for board and prize money

Contracts & Hiring

• Fixed Hamilton not going to Ferrari at the start of Season 2
• Added positive and negative opinion considerations to the driver and staff contract negotiation process
• Updated email content when player staff/drivers are approached by other teams
• Fixed counter offer reminder email not sending when counter offer is received and left unresponded on day of deadline
• Fixed Staff Changes email displaying incorrect contract info
• Fixed Accepted Contract email displaying incorrect cost to hire
• Fixed Team Roster Update email including incorrect contract info
• Fixed Staff Poached emails displaying contract length as 0
• Fixed incorrectly displayed affiliate contract length in Affiliates Overview panel
• Fixed incorrect or missing cost to break contract for immediate start dates
• Fixed the empty reaction window when a contract offer results in a negative reaction

Team Management

• Fixed ‘One for the Future’ achievement not being awarded after signing an affiliate with an offer deadline of 7 days
• Improved AI regulation voting logic
• Fixed issue preventing player continuing with their current team after selecting to switch team having not been fired
• Fixed Car Performance Overall Ranking not aligning with individual attribute rankings
• Fixed engineers not returning after Design Centre fire dilemma
• Fixed engineer increase not applying correctly after Design Centre Improvement email
• Fixed “Best Driver Position” in End of Season Board Review not considering drivers who left during the season
• Fixed board attending grand prix after selecting ‘Deny’ in ‘Board Attendance at Grand Prix’ email
• Fixed issue where an affiliate driver could be selected for both cars 

Race Weekend

• Players will now see the Results page after simulating a Sprint session
• Fixed cars not attempting to unlap themselves during a race
• Fixed incorrect classification of drivers who DNF on the last lap ahead of other lapped cars
• Fixed driver and constructor standings shown during race weekend not including previous sprint race points
• Fixed ‘DRS Enabled’ notification displaying at beginning of practise & qualifying sessions in wet track conditions
• Fixed driver entering pit at end of flying lap when taking manual control during qualifying
• Fixed  fastest lap being awarded to a driver who retires on lap 1
• Fixed Track Acclimitisation resetting to 0% after loading a mid-session save
• Fixed loss of focus when navigating to the ‘Car Set Up’ during Qualifying
• Fixed timing tower losing coloured border after opening menus during a yellow or red flag event
• Fixed the data view snapping to top when scrolling down during a race
• Fixed affiliate drivers having no position shown in their Driver Panel after setting lap times in practise
• Fixed full screen map briefly showing blurry textures
• Fixed rear lights on cars not turning on during a race
• Fixed cars sometimes appearing to not touch the track
• Fixed Create-A-Team cars clipping through safety car

Circuits

• Albert Park: Fixed cars driving over the kerb on pit entry
• Austin: Adjusted cars’ speed out of pit lane and into turn 1
• Hermanos Rodriguez: Fixed missing and incorrectly positioned cars in team garages
• Las Vegas: Fixed incorrectly placed 2nd DRS Zone
• Monaco: Fixed rare instance of safety car blocking pit exit
• Shanghai: Fixed incorrect pit lane marker
• Suzuka Fixed possibility of cars going through the barrier on Turn 2

Create a Team

• Improved balance when randomising generated staff when beginning a new ‘Create a Team’ career
• Fixed car livery model colour not being consistent with colour selected in UI
• Fixed incorrect starting budget being displayed for ‘Your Story’ origin
• Fixed incorrectly categorised livery sponsors
• Removed duplicate ‘Team Name’ header from the Team Branding menu
• Removed ‘Undo’ button when no changes present to undo

Presentation

• Fixed Charles Leclerc’s career history not showing for 2022 and 2023
• Fixed Jack Doohan’s career history not showing for 2022
• Fixed Ayumu Iwasa’s career history not showing for 2022
• Fixed incorrect race distance listed for Las Vegas and Qatar in the Circuits screen
• Fixed the monthly affiliates development email not showing affiliates signed in the previous season
• Fixed missing text in Design Centre Improvement email
• Fixed the Seasons Remaining value showing ‘-1’ in the Mid-Season Board Review
• Fixing ‘Engine Cooling’ not being displayed as a Negative Effect of sidepod and chassis damage
• Improved logic prompting notifications in UI
• Fixed cancelled projects still incrementing the part number
• Various UI improvements to the Facilities screen
• Various corrections to strings and formatting
• Updated Race Replay difficulty indicators

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.8

• Release date: October 14th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Stability & Performance

• Improved game performance during wet weather
• Fixed UI softlock that could occur during race

Staff, Contracts & Hiring

• Fixed staff and facility effects not returning to normal at end of sponsorship engagement period
• Fixed drivers or staff with agreed future contracts being poached by another team when entering a new season
• Fixed drivers or staff being poached shortly after stating that they had no intention of leaving
• Fixed AI teams making contract offers to drivers or staff they have already agreed a future contract with
• Fixed AI teams leaving driver or staff positions vacant at the start of second season
• Fixed breakout clauses not being paid for poached drivers or staff
• Increased likelihood of AI teams promoting affiliates into vacant positions
• Fixed ‘Driver/Staff Changes’ email not displaying future contracts
• Fixed cases of AI teams replacing drivers already on long-term contracts

Race Weekend

• Improved driver confidence balance
• Fixed out laps being timed during qualifying sessions
• Fixed background animation in race prep screen running at x16 speed
• Fixed ‘Grand Slam’ achievement not being awarded correctly
• Fixed missing track textures at Marina Bay

Drivers

• Fixed both drivers being assigned to the same car at the start of a new season
• Fixed email dilemma proposing investment in another teams’ affiliate driver
• Fixed Team Roster Update email showing duplicate drivers

Create a Team

• Fixed front wing sponsor slot projecting decals onto the side of the nose cone

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.7

• Release date: September 9th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Mentality

• Rebalanced impact and duration of events on Mentality
• Fixed overall Mentality rating not always refreshing immediately after changes
• Fixed Mentality causes being displayed inconsistently between profile and Mentality Hub
• Fixed issue where ‘Mentoring’ showed as a Mentality factor when no affiliates were present

Drivers

• Added new affiliate drivers to starting database (this will require starting a new save file)
  • Hamda al Qubaisi
  • Amna al Qubaisi
  • Emely de Heus
  • Tuukka Taponen
• Corrected spelling of Franco Colapinto

Car Development

• Adjusted AI teams’ starting expertise (this will require starting a new save file)
• Adjusted AI teams’ car starting ratings (this will require starting a new save file)
• Improved balance of AI car development
• Improved mechanical fault balance for powertrain parts in good condition
• Fixed inaccurate ERS durability rating on Car Analysis screen
• Fixed inconsistent display of powertrain percentages
• Fixed development options being disabled when following email link

Staff, Contracts & Hiring

• Fixed Scouts or Engineers remaining unavailable to use after sponsorship engagement activity has expired
• Fixed issue where affiliate signed in first season could not drive in FP1 in future season
• Fixed issue where contract could not be renegotiated from staff profile screen after acknowledging contract email
• Fixed contract length being displayed as one year longer than it should in emails
• Fixed previous offer ‘Bonus Threshold’ being displayed incorrectly in counter offer
• Fixed free agent contract showing ’empty’ season contract state
• Fixed hired driver for future seasons scouting information being listed as ‘Expired’
• Improved AI poaching logic
• Improved AI affiliate hiring logic

Sponsorship & Finance

• Fixed newly created teams spending more money on initial startup than real teams (this will require starting a new save file)
• Fixed engagement target payouts not being received in second season
• Fixed some sponsor activities providing no engagement gains during first sponsor period of second season
• Improved AI financial decision making
• Fixed AI teams offering extreme salaries and starting bonuses
• Improved accuracy of car development finances area in cost cap
• Restyled icons on sponsor plan screen
• Improved balance of sponsors’ preferred activities
• Fixed sponsor logos disappearing from UI when saving/loading on day of negotiation
• Improved balance of factors contributing to Team Marketability
• Fixed ‘Balanced’ sponsor package having Race Day icon and colouring during negotiation

Create A Team

• Fixed Create A Team decal options list missing icons in Livery Editor
• Fixed team branding showroom lighting level darkening when re-entering
• Improved ease of sponsor decal placement on driver gloves
• Fixed delay to sponsor logos appearing on negotiations screens in Create A Team mode
• Fixed created team garage appearing with Ferrari branding at Yas Marina
• Fixed placement of drivers feet on livery podium

Race Weekend

• Reduced lap time delta between slowest and fastest cars in managed races
• Fixed powertrain penalties being applied in Sprint Session when new powertrain is bought and fitted before Sprint Qualifying
• Fixed tyre compound allocations at Albert Park and Hermanos Rodriguez
• Improved balance of incidents at Jeddah
• Improved balance of starting engine temperatures
• Fixed car retirement replays showing no or incorrect car when selected
• Adjusted DRS zone placements
• Fixed empty grandstands at Jeddah
• Added night-time icons in weekend overview menu
• Fixed every pit stop on post-race report screen being highlighted as positive
• Fixed Sprint Qualifying results being empty when loading save made on Sprint preparation screen
• Fixed Driver Preparation goal progress and value in bar not matching
• (NEW) Added ability to minimise driver panels during a race
• (NEW) Added ability to hide UI entirely when paused within a race
• Fixed pixelated shadows appearing at Zandvoort
• Fixed floating steward at Yas Marina
• Fixed misplace shadowing at Bahrain
• Fixed overly dark lighting that could occur after loading mid-session save
• Medical car now includes a doctor
• Fixed empty grandstand at Silverstone (Nintendo Switch only)

Audio & Team Comms

• Fixed John Howard calling everyone ‘Pierre’
• Fixed incorrect reference to Oscar Piastri finishing 19th
• Improved frequency balance of “(driver) has DRS” teams comms
• Fixed incorrect voice lines when loading into Australian GP
• Fixed onboard engine sounds breaking when saving game whilst in helicam
• Fixed a couple of incorrect voice allocations for some engineers & drivers
• Fixed a number of issues with incorrect driver names being used in certain conversations
• Fixed a number of other team comms issues causing incorrect lines to trigger
• Fixed crackling audio that could sound when changing camera focus (Nintendo Switch only)

Race Replay

• Adjusted difficulty ratings for Race Replays
• Fixed driver podium positions displaying as “undefined”
• Fixed Monaco Race Moment race duration
• Fixed Race Replay loading incorrect constructor
• Fixed drivers inheriting race suits from career save in Race Replay mode

Stability

• Fixed issue where cars could freeze on track
• Fixed crash that could occur during processing
• Fixed crash that could occur when advancing into second season
• Fixed crash that could occur during a red flag
• Fixed crash that could occur when selecting to watch a crash replay involving multiple cars and an affiliate driver
• Fixed crash that could occur when backing out of sponsorship screen into finances screen
• Fixed softlock that could occur when interacting with Steam Overlay during race cinematics
• Fixed crash that could occur when loading into race (Nintendo Switch only)

Performance

• Improved overall game processing speed
• Improved performance during race weekend (Nintendo Switch only)
• Improved performance during career setup (Nintendo Switch only)(this will require starting a new save file)

Localisation

• Added Traditional Chinese translated text

Fixes

• Fixed wheels disappearing after a pit stop
• Fixed staff survey email including AI teams affiliate drivers

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier / Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.5

• Release date: August 13th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Stability

• Various crash & stability fixes
• Fixed softlock when selecting ‘Compare Staff’ on vacant staff member profile

Team Management

• Reduced mentality impact on attributes

Car Development

• Fixed AI starting races with major powertrain faults
• Improved AI assignment of engineers; increasing simultaneous projects in progress
• Improved AI utilisation of CFD and wind tunnel allocation
• Adjusted start dates for AI research projects

Sponsorship

• Fixed secondary sponsor payments not being received
• Reduced financial penalty for not meeting engagement targets
• Fixed inconsistencies in UI presentation of sponsorship payments

Race Weekend

• Fixed strategy being reset when changes made to Pace Mode within Driver Options
• Fixed drivers sometimes becoming stuck in garage after a red flag during qualifying

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.4

• Release date: August 6th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Team Management

• Fixed contract counter offers not being received
• Fixed AI teams developing the same car parts through the season
• Fixed a Switch-only crash that could occur at start of Las Vegas Grand Prix weeke

Stability

• Fixed a crash that could occur when changing and saving liveries in quick succession
• Fixed a crash that could occur when randomising team branding elements

Create A Team

• Fixed salaries for generated drivers being too high

Race Weekend

• Updated Williams steering wheel to represent 2024 model
• Fixed instances of incorrectly applied grid penalties when changing powertrain parts
• Fixed team comms referencing traffic incorrectly during qualifying

User Interface

• Fixed UI lock that could occur when selecting car parts via Rules and Regulations screen

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Frontier

F1 Manager 2024 – Ver. 1.3

• Release date: July 25th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Stability

• Fixed crash during processing
• Fixed crash during race
• Fixed crash when navigating menus
• Fixed FPS issues when finishing a race
• Fixed season progression from being blocked
• General performance improvements
• Fixed Switch-only crash that could occur when starting new Create A Team save

Create A Team

• Added ability to use custom logo as a decal

Balance

• Adjusted balance of mentality changes
• Adjusted staff progression rates
• Adjusted mechanical faults frequency
• Fixed AI teams struggling to remain competitive during a season
• Fixed some generated staff having ratings of 0

Race Weekend

• Fixed autosave points not being correctly triggered during race weekend
• Improved track textures
• Fixed wheel decals not showing correctly
• Fixed audio stuttering
• Fixed team garage not using Create A Team custom colours
• Fixed incorrect driver being shown in cinematics
• Fixed significant culling visible in heli cam
• Fixed some team comms being incorrectly triggered

Team Management

• Fixed too few secondary sponsors being available during sponsor negotiations
• Fixed being unable to renew affiliate contracts for next season
• Fixed AI not hiring or retaining affiliate drivers
• Fixed player not being notified when staff member is poached
• Fixed Team Principal rating appearing as 0
• Fixed strategy times not updating when edited

Presentation

• Various localisation fixes
• Various UI improvements
• Fixed staff rating increase fanfares not playing
• Improved presentation of Haas driver suits in UI
• Fixed decal editing being unavailable when first competing sponsor negotiations
• Fixed the ‘Browse’ button not functioning on Deluxe Liveries that have not been purchased in the Create-A-Team set-up flow
• Fixed translations in Race Replay buttons
• Fixed translations for “Show UI” button
• Fixed some generated staff having no picture

• Additional notes: if you started playing before this update was released, it’s highly recommended you start a new save file to avoid any issues.
• Source: Frontier

How to download updates for F1 Manager 2024 for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for F1 Manager 2024, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.