Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending the game as a whole as it has serious issues, but the fact that people are still playing regularly in very high numbers suggests that fundamentally they got something right.
I agree. To me a huge issue is the lack of offline instruction in the challenges. It just lets you smash the ai without penalty to win. Also, there’s no real examples explanations and excercise s designed to help people really learn fundamentally how to race safely.
Or they could do individual challenges like properly overtake the ai by getting alongside on the inside, and completing the pass without contact boom give out a bunch of credits.
Boom run side by side through esses without touching ai boom credits. Another could be you have worn tires ai has your inside allow overtake without touching boom credits.
Show corner rights explain OBVIOUS corner rights and make a passing nod to grey area moves. These are just ideas but they ought to teach people fundamentals that will help them learn to race others...
The penalty system has issues.
Overall though this is 2021. Online gaming (if you have internet) is what race games are going to do.
The other thing is about number of players is there’s a large number of players that don’t use sport mode but are very active on sharing liveries and scapes. Those don’t show up in numbers just counting sports mode.
I know there are voices here that want a big offline game, but for myself if 7 is that I won’t buy a new console or the game.
Single player offline other titles are more fun like Dirt Rally 1-2.
If they don’t show lots of improvements to the online component they will not succeed.
I disagree though with people implying that online racing was a fundamental mistake. In my view that aspect with online livery sharing scapes etc is what is fundamentally right.
I’ve been saying it forever but everything comes down to the penalty/ranking/matchmaking system and it’s way too volatile to be meaningful. The ranking changes race to race. THAT is fundamentally wrong. Car class, and track should enter in as well as scoring being much more of a time weighted average.
On the FIA side, they need to go back to ONE CHANCE PER EVENT.
Right now with multiple entries and do overs it’s SILLY!
In real races there’s no do overs.
Real drivers can’t be stripped of their rank and dropped from F1 to go karts because of 1 race result.
If these don’t change looking towards gt7, PD won’t dominate. Other developers will. Developers who watch and learn from GTS s shortcomings.
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