Setting up an alt account so I can play without getting too worked up about my DR and The first few races down at DR E/D were quite an eye opener! And just reinforces the point that there needs to be way way more on boarding and coaching when playing online. The people in these rooms are very clearly playing the way the single player teaches you too. I don’t think there’s any malice but they ram you and push you, block like crazy, massive swerving all over the track. Even if you’re lapping them they’ll block every time. They’re none the wiser. I was starting at the back and it was like racing the AI trying to avoid everyone. Penalties just get piled on as they’ll try to ram you when you pass and then lose control and go off and you get 5 seconds. Quite an experience!
This stuff happens in almost every level all the way up to A+/S
The only time I've rarely seen weaving, or pushing people around, or basically any dirty stuff is in the very top splits for the FIA championship when it's a main season & there's a bunch of the supernerd eSports kids in there on their wheels. They tend to try be as clean as possible often because I think being dirty could maybe harm their chances of being invited to the tournaments in person or something.
Regular A+ lobbies though, especially just weekly races... Yea there's tonnes of dirty stuff going on & some of its for good reason too.
A lot of what I see is things like revenge punts, or people feeling disrespected in some way & deciding to wreck a guy because of it. Even things like previous beef from other lobbies spilling over into new lobbies.
One thing I've done & seen others do is crash out no-etoppers for rave C. & While I get that it's part of racing, in a video game I simply won't accept losing to a no-stopper. Mainly because I think it's a cowardly, cheap, low skill way to win. Short shifting & saving fuel is not difficult, it's anti-racing & anti-fun & there's nothing more annoying than when you've battled like crazy with maybe 2 other guys in the top 4, going purple & pulling off awesome racecraft, only to lose the win to someone that was too afraid to actually race & instead chose the most overpowered, easymode way to win a race.
No stopping, needs to tank performance more. The difference between no-stopping & going flat out should always marginally benefit the guy that pits & goes flat out, taking all the risk, racing on the edge. The risk is that if he makes mistakes , the no-stop strategy starts to come in to play & be viable... But that if you have a flawless flat out race you should have a significantly lower race time.
Pretty sure the fastest race time I had this week for Race C was 19:01 with a FL of 1.24.8 on controller. The turd that won was on a wheel doing a no-stop & had a 18:55. Ridiculous.
I've always hated no-etoppers in GTS & this, & it'll continue to be one of those things that I shamelessly bin people off for doing because I just think it's absolutely the weakest thing you can & is Anti-fun... & I'm in the A+ lobbies so yeah.
The point of this rant was there are many variables as to why people do dirty things, & almost none of them are because they don't understand the rules or need some kind of extra help... It's because we know the consequences & will do it anyway if it's worth it or it justifies our own reasoning.
It is after all, a game
