Propably compensation for the change in the physics (or to prevent people from using racing tyres to a degree without actually putting it in the rules).
The harder grinding gets the more microtansactions are made ... is what they're calculating at least. Not with me though !
I agree, some don't, I mean why change a career mode race?The harder grinding gets the more microtansactions are made ... is what they're calculating at least. Not with me though !
PD ? Reasons ? LOL
OK, do tell, what is PD's reason for trying (but failing) to make an arcade race more difficult? Doesn't this set a precedent? I am still winning by over a lap when grinding but with 20 seconds more total race time. It just seems highly unusual, the majority of changes affect all races not just the highest paying race. Believe it or not there are people who still talk about struggling with this race, would it not make it even harder for them to win??
I agree with you, they made that race a bit harder (and nerfed out the glitched AMG Black Series with the huge change on IM tyre wear), but I would not assume it is with the objective of making player buy MTs.
Who knows PD's exact reasoning? It's all just speculation, but perhaps with the new physics model and tire wear simulations the Tokyo race was not requiring their developers/testers to have to replace their tires very much. So PD ups the tire wear to bring it back to similar levels as before. I haven't noticed greater tire wear on this race with the new update, and the tire wear increased by 66%. I would imagine if they didn't change it there would hardly be a need to change tires on anything but the craziest of builds.
It just seemed odd to me to make the changes in an arcade race that PD has. I have run this race so many times that I am extremely familiar with what the AI do on lap 1, they are about 4 seconds faster and also take slightly different lines than pre-update, at least on lap 1. I do the race with the swapped Cupaccino just because it's fun to me, I do it once a day for my daily marathon but enjoy trying to always beat my fastest lap and race time. Right now I'm 30 seconds slower than my best but expect to get much of that back with suspension adjustments to suit the current physics.
Well let's see, if AI is slightly faster and tire wear is much higher I would not call it easier or even equal to pre-update difficulty. Besides, I never said I thought the race is too difficult now or pre-update, I thought it was strange that PD put the effort changing a "career mode" (not arcade)
An "arcade" race? What do you mean by that? This is a basic "career mode" race, not an arcade race. If it were an arcade race the payout would be like ~30k credits for the win.
I am not sure they purposefully "fixed" that race. The update brought a lot of changes that affect this race (among others). If it was to fix the most profitable races, they could have easily be really more efficient.
Have been before, there is no change to this.
Well, the WTC600 race is a very specific race in the game. Arcade races are separate races and even has their own little button to click on to enter it. Anyway, why did they change it? I've already speculated why. See my post here:
www.gtplanet.net
Even though they have "fixed" the race, there are way too many resources here and on the rest of the internet to help anyone win this race. With the right car, it does not matter how much faster the AI is or the changes in the conditions of the race.
Yeah, I dont wall ride and never used those cars that had an inch of rear toe to reduce PP. One can always hop in the Aston DP 100 which I assume still fits PP requirements but there are many cars that one can use to win this race. I just found it odd that PD chose this race to spend resources changing the race settings and AI, thats all and thats what my original questuon was, why?? Several people made a big deal about it like I was complaining thator couldn't win, if I found it so difficult I would simply change my race settings from Hard to Easy. The only reason I don't like the change is that I have been trying to lower my best race time from 24:11 to 24:00's and it looks like I won't get that chance now. It was a fun self induced challenge.
That's how I took it, my bad. It's all good.
Looks like your quest somewhat paid off. What a great find! Great tune too. The car is perfectly balanced and easy to drive, even on Tokyo on SH tires. That was a very pleasurable experience.
I wouldn't really say I "tuned" the car.Looks like your quest somewhat paid off. What a great find! Great tune too. The car is perfectly balanced and easy to drive, even on Tokyo on SH tires. That was a very pleasurable experience.
My fastest lap was 2:05.9, but I had the identical overall race time, 25:47
As an added bonus, there's a weird anomaly with this car in VR. It seems they didn't model the cockpit. So if you're in VR, you're basically in a "hood" view - sitting on the hood. No gauges, no mirrors, but it's like an F1 open-cockpit experience.
Thanks for this @Tommy_D
I just turned down the power and made some adjustments to the ballast to get the best PP settings. I haven't tried upping the ECU and lowering the power restrictor to see if more torque would be faster, but I figured in the real world more torque leads to more wheel spin and generally weaker top end performance. So I went for the more HP build vs more torque. As people have mentioned on older posts, short shifting this car is the way to go. Not just for fuel savings, but the car builds far more power in the lower rev range. The car gets surges of acceleration on the upshifts, so definitely shift when the red bar just appears on the screen (bumper or roof cam).
Yeah the default setting work pretty well, but you did find the sweet spot for the ballast, and I totally agree with your assessment of HP vs. torque.I wouldn't really say I "tuned" the car.
Yeah, there is something a little funky with the ballast settings. 1 kg up or down and it shoots up 2-3pp, shift the weight one click forward or back and its down 3pp. So it took a few moments to test that out.
