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Yep you will be thrown directly into the race itself
Project CARS 2 Career Discussion
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- nebraska55
Why is Prototype C so easy in career? I put it on 100 AI and i still win by miles....
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- johnwells69
In Project Cars 1, did you not do qualifying?
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I'm getting old I cannot remember exactly? I think it was indeed quali, training and the race and you could play around with that.
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Career mode Opel Astra at Brno (with rain) is more then a challenge. First lap is going pretty ok but then its slip and slide. Keep practicing...
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- Curitiba
So... the career is scripted?
I mean, really?
As soon as I finish doing the disciplines that I enjoy, I have zero reason to play them again because I know when it'll rain and so on, it becomes heavily predictable. This kind of oversight never ceases to amaze me in a game develop by a whole bunch of people who should know better by now.
Whats the point of having a complex simulation of weather if you shoehorn baked scenarios on everything?
I mean, really?
As soon as I finish doing the disciplines that I enjoy, I have zero reason to play them again because I know when it'll rain and so on, it becomes heavily predictable. This kind of oversight never ceases to amaze me in a game develop by a whole bunch of people who should know better by now.
Whats the point of having a complex simulation of weather if you shoehorn baked scenarios on everything?
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- Morgoth_666
pCARS 1 had a few invitational events which only had a race session, Focus race at Sonoma was one, and the California Highway races(but those you can kind of understand). Most of them were just like the other career events though, with fully configurable practice and qualifying and saving between sessions.
DesertPenguin
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It was brought up during development when the Q&A thread was highly active. Basically the only way would be to have a number of preset variations for it to randomly pick from, so you wouldn't get the same thing every time but it couldn't be 100% random because it can be ridiculous like fog with rain to blizzard to clear to thunderstorm.
This is part of the reason I made the thread with the list of all career races. You can take any race you like and change the weather to anything you want. It's not part of a championship but you get the race experience you desire.
This is part of the reason I made the thread with the list of all career races. You can take any race you like and change the weather to anything you want. It's not part of a championship but you get the race experience you desire.
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Well, of course I'm not familiar with the development and the design choices that were made, but seems to me that in a game with seasons and accuratelly generated weather patterns by the date and season in which a race is held, it would be possible to set some parameters to make it impossible to some ludicrous scenarios, like sunny to fog to thunderstorm and so on. Heck, there are old F1 games that accomplish just that (granted, with far simpler repercutions in physics, graphics and gameplay).
Anyway, I'd take the presets option in a heartbeat and it's a shame that this wasn't the solution.
I'll check your thread out, even though I'm not a big fan of doing lone races. I like championships, rivalry with bots that I can name, table points and a schedule laid out for me by the game, with the unpredictable nature of the wheather.
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Finally ended (and won) the European TC championship with the Opel Astra TCR (not my favorite car tbh). BRNO was a nightmare to end in the top 5 in my class.
Next in the career mode is another - global - TC series. I chose Euro tour with the Mercedes AMG G45.
Next in the career mode is another - global - TC series. I chose Euro tour with the Mercedes AMG G45.
DesertPenguin
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It looks like at least one race in every championship has wet weather of some kind.
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I'm doing GT5 right now. Car is stock Loose tune but brake balance is 94% instead of 100%. So far it's been alright but I'm having trouble at Donington. I know the track decently well but I'm consistently slow. I don't want to set the AI too low for an easy win but I want to enjoy my drive and right now I'm struggling to. I feel like I'm at the limit but I'm still 1.2 seconds off the leader. AI is 100/70. The rest of the championship it was 90/60 but wanted to bump it up. Went to 100/60 but found they were still too cautious for the own speed so 60 became 70. Maybe I'll try 90/70
Edit: Still off by about a second but when trailing another car they just seem a little faster when making the same moves. Being that AI above 80 means they tune, are they using the bare minimum amount of fuel? I did that and went 0.6 quicker making pole by 0.182.
Edit: Still off by about a second but when trailing another car they just seem a little faster when making the same moves. Being that AI above 80 means they tune, are they using the bare minimum amount of fuel? I did that and went 0.6 quicker making pole by 0.182.
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New day, new post.
After having a bad season I wanted to just give up half way through, but there's no way to retire from a season. What you have to do is manually enter each race and as soon as it starts retire to pits and skip to end. At the end of the season you will have the option to choose a championship again. It's like you never did that season and you choose what tier and discipline you want to do. It would be nice to have a way to do all of that in one button on the career main menu. "Retire from season" and that's that.
After having a bad season I wanted to just give up half way through, but there's no way to retire from a season. What you have to do is manually enter each race and as soon as it starts retire to pits and skip to end. At the end of the season you will have the option to choose a championship again. It's like you never did that season and you choose what tier and discipline you want to do. It would be nice to have a way to do all of that in one button on the career main menu. "Retire from season" and that's that.
I like the invitations events without qualifying. It reminds me of GT license races. It's a fun change of pace. You start last and have to win the race.
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Just finished the first Tier1 championship. Now up to the semifinals. 5 races around the globe. Meanwhile also new invitational event -> Lotus 72d at Hockenheim Classic. Indeed start last and work you way up to the podium. Fun intermezzo.
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Wow the AI is very good (100/85) when racing the semi finals in my Mercedes AMG A45. Spot on. You have to work hard to go for the podium. Did Fuji and COTA. Overall 2nd in semi finals. Only one BMW to beat. Decent qualification is a tough one, Probably because of bad setup? (or the driver 
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- PsuPepperoni
Does anyone else "negotiate" with other drivers to get your teammate into P2? 
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- RacingAtHome
I remember doing that on Grid. Not this though.Does anyone else "negotiate" with other drivers to get your teammate into P2?
fernandito
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The explanations given before the game was released as to why had they decided to script the weather in career mode were even more astonishing. We have best weather system ever and they opted for that.
Look around the internet for those explanations. So many laughs you'll see. Oh well
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Well, I just finished my first season, but it said it was unsuccessful. I finished first in every race, but in the last race on the last lap during light snow, I spun out, and was passed by all the AI. That, I assume, is why it said my season was unsuccessful. It won't let me go back in and do that last race, it's making me start the entire season over again
Last night i did the Lambo Super Trofeo twice. Awesome car to drive but the weather, at least in the short season, is awful. Only one dry weekend and the snow in Fuji was near impossible to handle so the first season ended just short of the championship. Now up to formula X and the WEC to win the Azure GP and 24 hours of Le Mans to complete offline trophies
The_American
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4 patches later I'm not sure why the game is forcing snow races in career. What historic or modern open wheel sports car series races in snow? That should have all been deleted in patch 1
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- Sentry87
Which is why I never got into this games career mode, I played the crap out of pc1's. Snow in career, le mans ending at 0500 makes no sense. They promised we wouldn't mind not having custom offline championships prior to release with the career they implemented but I find that not to be the case. I'e been playing custom races with excel spreadsheets since release.
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Maybe just for variation’s sake or to show off that the engine is capable of it. I think that is acceptable but with a lot of caution. I don’t mind some minor snow on something like a Clio cup or even the start of some light snow on a touring car or GT race. But fully snowed-in circuits should probably be exclusive to rally cross or should be a series on its own. Maybe something like an extreme sports championship would be fun - karts, Clio cup, rallycross, trophy truck can all be fun in the snow.
