Had a very strange thing happen in this week's The Trial...
My first run through went well and the B rank rear wheel drive Ute was surprisingly fun in a rally setting, so I jumped in for a second go; that's when things got weird.
About 1/3rd through the first race, I'm in fourth position behind two A.I. cars and another player in first. First place misses a checkpoint, drops back to 10th or 11th. Another player is behind me driving erratically and trying to pass when he bounces off a wall or something and drops back out of sight, and right after that the A.I. cars in front of me simultaneously sink through the road over the space of a second or two, still driving as if nothing happened until they're completely under the road. The ranking board goes through some chaotic shuffling for maybe ten seconds while the A.I. cars all drop to the back half of the field and the other players change positions rapidly. Over the next ten or twenty seconds, four players drop out one by one, until it's just me in first, a field of AI cars, and the guy that had been driving erratically in last place. Everyone remaining maintains position until the end of the race. Second and third place A.I. cross finish line normally, the rest of the A.I. cars cross the finish line in a block about 1.5 car lengths long. The sole remaining player doesn't make it to the finish line in time.
Second race went normally, with previous last place in first and me in fourth, resulting in a win for the player team.
So what do you guys think, was the weirdness with the A.I. in the first race a random bug, or an angry player hacking?
