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So on my first try I naively chose to spawn myself on Edinburgh, since Jaimin mentioned how car drops are likely to appear near landmarks, and landmarks made me think of Edinburgh for some reason. Well, nicely enough I found a Raptor in a few seconds, but the arena began to shrink in the midst of the car change. Because of the many buildings I wasn't able to flexibly move around and get back in the force field in time, and I finished 50th.
On my second round I finished 5th. I was in a GTC4Lusso, but I was defeated by trees.
The third round I finished 7th. Was in a Ram Rebel TRX, but I was defeated by rocks. The ones that were on mountainous sections caused my car to topple over a couple of times.
Then I stopped playing and tried the Supra for a while before deciding to take a rest.
I wasn't exactly trying to do this, but I believe the key to my survival was the fact that I was uninvolved in head-to-head challenges for a long time. Somehow everyone else spawned far away from the places I chose and me roaming in search of the smoke indicating car drops still did not get me near the others enough for them to challenge me for a long time.
The thing is, when I finally got very near to some other players, why wasn't I able to challenge them for a few times? Their markers were plain pink, it's not like they had lines on them indicating they're already in a race. I just heard my horn blaring and their horns blaring. Perhaps it's a bug of some sort. I did get in three head-to-heads in my second run though.
Also I suppose it's worth considering that higher level cars aren't necessarily better performers off-road (and that's great, really; the fact that higher level cars can turn out weaker on certain terrain conditions kinda create a level playing field, even though it already looked like the developer focused on putting cars that may at least perform okay enough off-road in this mode, and leaving those that are rather hopeless on dirt like the extreme track toys with slick tires).
Overall I quite liked it. It's not something I imagine myself being addicted to, but I'll certainly come back for more once in a while.
EDIT:
Oh, glad to know I wasn't the only one. I began pondering whether it was due to my rather weak Internet connection or not (it's not dial-up speed, but still, over here it's certainly not as fast as it is on the other side of the world - I had been in the US and noticed some difference).
On my second round I finished 5th. I was in a GTC4Lusso, but I was defeated by trees.
The third round I finished 7th. Was in a Ram Rebel TRX, but I was defeated by rocks. The ones that were on mountainous sections caused my car to topple over a couple of times.
Then I stopped playing and tried the Supra for a while before deciding to take a rest.
I wasn't exactly trying to do this, but I believe the key to my survival was the fact that I was uninvolved in head-to-head challenges for a long time. Somehow everyone else spawned far away from the places I chose and me roaming in search of the smoke indicating car drops still did not get me near the others enough for them to challenge me for a long time.
The thing is, when I finally got very near to some other players, why wasn't I able to challenge them for a few times? Their markers were plain pink, it's not like they had lines on them indicating they're already in a race. I just heard my horn blaring and their horns blaring. Perhaps it's a bug of some sort. I did get in three head-to-heads in my second run though.
Also I suppose it's worth considering that higher level cars aren't necessarily better performers off-road (and that's great, really; the fact that higher level cars can turn out weaker on certain terrain conditions kinda create a level playing field, even though it already looked like the developer focused on putting cars that may at least perform okay enough off-road in this mode, and leaving those that are rather hopeless on dirt like the extreme track toys with slick tires).
Overall I quite liked it. It's not something I imagine myself being addicted to, but I'll certainly come back for more once in a while.
EDIT:
Oh, glad to know I wasn't the only one. I began pondering whether it was due to my rather weak Internet connection or not (it's not dial-up speed, but still, over here it's certainly not as fast as it is on the other side of the world - I had been in the US and noticed some difference).
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