In very brief testing it appears that the offline has been changed to match online more closely.
The magic words - from first impressions of new patch.. People need to stop talking about being the "same", it never will be.
If Polyphony can't even get online free run and online racing to be 100% equal all the time, no way are they going to get online and offfline "the same".
As Desperado says, first impresiions it looks like PD have made offline
more like online.. Everyone needs to stop saying "same" or "matched".
But I was wrong about 2.08 (understand what PD means about ride height now, but back then, got in a real mess over it), so things might change with 2.09. At the moment though, now I spent all night racing cars I've used for over a year, same tracks and same race regs......online doesn't feel different.
It's nothing like difference felt after other updates, compared to what PD was doing 12 months ago, when they really screwed up, 2.09 seems like 'nohthing' from what been driven online so far..
This crazy fuel / tyre wear adjustment though - whole new can of worms, typical of PD, it's ridiculous.
I was thinking more along the lines of 500+ pp shootout on maybe SH tires, a wide variety of cars, and maybe have them tuned only offline and then tested both online and offline and record the laptimes and comments to have a wider range of input than the anecdotal evidence we usually get around these things.
Yeh 500pp and sports hards are good online, the right cars (even stock) can be alot of fun but some can be a handful. Try to keep the variables down to a minimum to help validate things..
Maybe 1 car per drivetrain, everyone uses same car, power, weight & tuning parts. Then tests on same offline practice, or a spec event, lobby regs or whatever..
But, I think maybe trying to use cars that are "tried and tested" both online and offline pre 2.09, cars which the testers know inside out, then drive them again offline and online too compare before and after this update.
I don't have anything like that, I only know my online cars inside out, which is why I presumed offline had changed, not online, as the laptimes, 'feel' and tyre behaviour online seemed identical to pre 2.09, well, so far at least.
Always got to remember, PD are sneaky SoBs, they are very vague with their descriptions (about updates) and have 'sneaked' things in 'behind the scenes' before, don't put it past them from doing it again, even if it's for just one car.
This potentially could impact test results.. unlikely, but maybe.
I see alot of talk about some cars 'changing' when driven online after 2.09, compared to before..
PD might have tinkered with a car, some cars, the physics - who knows, only PD, and they never let anyone know what's
really going on / happened.
