I don't understand all this complaining about "not enough races". You can create custom races (with lots of options) on every track layout, for any car you own, so what is the problem?
It cost me 80K to do a 12H endurance race
48K payout, 130,400 in maintenance.
Plus custom races feel like someone just slapped some things together without ever play testing how people would use them.
Let me save custom race settings.
Don't reset all the custom race settings when I notice I missed something and have to go back to fix it.
Remember my sorting option when selecting garage cars, you have to reset the sort for every car when creating a grid.
Let me save the grid I created to use another time.
Let me check and change the car settings when setting up a grid, I don't know which ones were gimped to use in tournaments. (Does the AI use BoP like you're forced to use, or do they use the current car settings?)
Let me save a custom race to continue later.
Let me pause in the pit, you can pause mid race, but not while pitting?
Let me change the sound settings while racing. <-- This has been fixed!!!
Let me change the music selection while racing (honestly are there only 5 tracks playing while racing? I keep hearing the same songs)
Let me see what time it is in game during the race, why no clock? How long untill sunrise etc.
Let me see a weather report before the race starts, custom weather is still very random. Anything but R07 and R08 have a chance of no rain at all, very little or a lot. Even the torrential downpour settings can just have a sliver of dark blue.
Let me zoom out the weather radar further or don't accelerate the clouds based on race length. In a 3H race the clouds move at about 900 kph (560 mph), in a 2H race they move at over 1,300 kph! (over 800 mph)
Or give me more than 9 options for weather on longer races and mark it with times. When is sunrise and sunset?
Let me change oil in the pit, oil doesn't last for an 8H race. For $400 dollars it should at least last a day lol.
And of course you're still playing with stupid AI. It's not a custom race, it's driving your car against the track and elements with moving pylons added to avoid. In that 12H race with pro AI, the TS050 was 5 laps behind my Sauber C9 at the end. (And he still managed to ram me while he was already several laps down, damaging my engine and rear wheels/aero, had to limp back to the pits lol)
@MonoTonouS I've done multiple 2H, 3H, 4H, an 8H and a 12H endurance race on N24. All had ridiculous rubber banding, and also the AI driving by different physics in the rain, didn't matter whether I had the opponents set to random, or use a classic older car against GR.4, or create my own grid. (Always on pro AI).
The most blatant rubber banding happens on their out laps, hence you don't usually see it reflected in the fastest lap. One race I overtook the lead car on the straight on N24, the AI stayed on my tail then dove into the pits with only 2 laps to go. He falls 40 sec behind, and was behind me again before the end of the lap...
Another race I overtook the lead car while he was in the pit. That one made up a 26 sec deficit and pit manoevered me at the end of the middle straight. The track was still drying, I stayed on the dry line, the AI went half off the track on the outside in the wet grass and over the wet kerbs, then took the corner normally, braking as if he was full on a dry track. Basically dive bombed on my outside, steered in for the corner ignoring my car, pushing my rear so I was directed into the outside wall. The AI didn't even seem to feel my car, simply drove like there was nothing there, oblivious to the wet parts (he changed to RS tires in the pit)
Lapped cars never leave any room and often start speeding up when you pass them. One race I was the only car doing the final lap (time was just about to run out, car chasing me decided to pit lol) yet still got passed by back markers that suddenly went super fast and set impossible lap times at the end
Anyway if PD had taken notes from DriveClub, we would indeed easily have infinite content. Since you claim to have cracked the code to get the AI to actually race, it would be great to have a user made challenge mode like DriveClub had. Upload your race settings, add it to a user challenges tab in the world map and let people rate and/or send challenges on to friends. But you can't even save the settings. Got to take a bunch of screenshots before starting if you ever want to do that race again. (Which will be different anyway since the weather is still very random)
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