Being rammed

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Why do you get bashed and rammed into constant??? Some French guy used me as brakes and sent me flying he got 1st place for cheating bad so much for the clean racing tbh instead of wasting all my money to be rammed I should have stayed on gran theft auto at least you can get out and rpg the guy game is starting to become torture and a waste of money
 
Assuming this is in Sport mode.

Both people in a crash get the penalty. This works well given "crashers" will hit multiple people while you (clean racer) will not, you will get more plus points than that single negative, leaving you with an end-race increase in SR, while the crasher will leave with a decrease in SR.

After a few races, you won't see him again
 
Running at Dragons trail last night. Would be top 3 in qualifying time, would be punted between turn 2 and turn 5 every first lap. Ended up 9th or 10th each wreck on first lap and worked my way back to third twice, first once, and fourth one other time. While it truly sucks for a race to start that way, coming back and passing each one of them because they screwed up later or just because I out raced them was extremely satisfying.
 
Running at Dragons trail last night. Would be top 3 in qualifying time, would be punted between turn 2 and turn 5 every first lap. Ended up 9th or 10th each wreck on first lap and worked my way back to third twice, first once, and fourth one other time. While it truly sucks for a race to start that way, coming back and passing each one of them because they screwed up later or just because I out raced them was extremely satisfying.
Until I hit SR A, if I started lower than 5th on the grid I basically threw the race and drove at the back clean to avoid bad racers
 
Until I hit SR A, if I started lower than 5th on the grid I basically threw the race and drove at the back clean to avoid bad racers

I understand, I think I'm DR D and SR B, you can really tell who cares to drive clean and who is trying to win at all costs within the first few turns. As has been said before I think it will sort itself. The system isn't perfect but it will work over time.
 
Does anyone know if we can turn on HUD arrows to indicate where the opponens are when they are behind/next to the car? The shadow effect (if it's even present) is not enough in the heat of battle.

I know we can toggle through the TCS and map thingies on the bottom right, to get an overview, but that's not ideal.
 
Does anyone know if we can turn on HUD arrows to indicate where the opponens are when they are behind/next to the car? The shadow effect (if it's even present) is not enough in the heat of battle.

I know we can toggle through the TCS and map thingies on the bottom right, to get an overview, but that's not ideal.
There is a circle effect on the centre of the hud near your speed that grows in size to show a racers presence either side of you, not sure if you have noticed it before?
 
That's cool. I had no idea that is what that was for. I just wish I didn't have to have the HUD on to be able to see my fuel map adjustments. I race with the cockpit view and I love having no HUD on.
 
I did my 1st online race today. Qualified 4th of 12. not bad I thought. Got rammed in the 1st corner back to 8th. worked back to 3rd getting bumped a few times, nothing big. last lap in 4th again, and last corner the guy in 3rd slid high so I went under him for a clean pass. Then he proceeded to turn me straight into the wall.....and yup, you guessed it. 20ish second penalty for me. I crossed line in 6th. I was the ONLY one with a penalty. For someone wrecking me. I get 11th after the penalty as the guy in 12th quit. Not even close to impressed with such a dumb system. I guess I will just stick with the offline. At least if you get a tangle with the AI its either your fault or just a computers not some idiot purposely wrecking you.
 
I did my 1st online race today. Qualified 4th of 12. not bad I thought. Got rammed in the 1st corner back to 8th. worked back to 3rd getting bumped a few times, nothing big. last lap in 4th again, and last corner the guy in 3rd slid high so I went under him for a clean pass. Then he proceeded to turn me straight into the wall.....and yup, you guessed it. 20ish second penalty for me. I crossed line in 6th. I was the ONLY one with a penalty. For someone wrecking me. I get 11th after the penalty as the guy in 12th quit. Not even close to impressed with such a dumb system. I guess I will just stick with the offline. At least if you get a tangle with the AI its either your fault or just a computers not some idiot purposely wrecking you.
Just sacrifice DR until you hit SR A and you won’t get any races like that anymore, go in a race and just place last but get a clean race for faster SR rank up
 
I am at the bottom of both I would guess. It was my first online race. So, what you are saying is just qualify wherever and then just let everyone pass you? Just cruise around in last, then you will rank up with better people? Im not saying I never blow a corner, but the fitst guy just didnt even hit his brakes and the last guy turned right down on my back bumper. I was easily past him just not quite all the way, buy there was no chance he couldnt see me. Small incidental bumps are part of racing but outright crashing is crap.
 
I am at the bottom of both I would guess. It was my first online race. So, what you are saying is just qualify wherever and then just let everyone pass you? Just cruise around in last, then you will rank up with better people? Im not saying I never blow a corner, but the fitst guy just didnt even hit his brakes and the last guy turned right down on my back bumper. I was easily past him just not quite all the way, buy there was no chance he couldnt see me. Small incidental bumps are part of racing but outright crashing is crap.
Yes it does work to get your SR up and eventually put you in better rooms
 
waiting for start right now, no qualify or anything. thanks for the tip!

edit: ok i started 8th, must have used my time from before. i didnt even hit the gas until they all past me by a lot. I still almost caught the 10th place guy, An SR thing flashed a couple times. and at end of race it still said B but it was green.
 
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waiting for start right now, no qualify or anything. thanks for the tip!

edit: ok i started 8th, must have used my time from before. i didnt even hit the gas until they all past me by a lot. I still almost caught the 10th place guy, An SR thing flashed a couple times. and at end of race it still said B but it was green.
Just keep doing clean races, it will take time but well worth it
 
i was watchn baseball and i just brushed the wall barely and it didnt give me credit :( waitn on race 3 now. these guys are clowns. its hard to go that slow. haha
 
I don't think he meant to purposefully come in last. Lol. More like, coming in last cleanly is better for your rating than winning a dirty race and to just finish where you finish staying away from everyone.
 
I did my 1st online race today. Qualified 4th of 12. not bad I thought. Got rammed in the 1st corner back to 8th. worked back to 3rd getting bumped a few times, nothing big. last lap in 4th again, and last corner the guy in 3rd slid high so I went under him for a clean pass. Then he proceeded to turn me straight into the wall.....and yup, you guessed it. 20ish second penalty for me. I crossed line in 6th. I was the ONLY one with a penalty. For someone wrecking me. I get 11th after the penalty as the guy in 12th quit. Not even close to impressed with such a dumb system. I guess I will just stick with the offline. At least if you get a tangle with the AI its either your fault or just a computers not some idiot purposely wrecking you.

You do realize if you or the other driver gets a penalty. You can slow down to run down the timer and it won't show up at the final results. Anyone who is involved with the crash will get a penalty. It's your choice either to slow down to run the timer down or keep going and hope you will stay in your position at the end.
 
Assuming this is in Sport mode.

Both people in a crash get the penalty. This works well given "crashers" will hit multiple people while you (clean racer) will not, you will get more plus points than that single negative, leaving you with an end-race increase in SR, while the crasher will leave with a decrease in SR.

After a few races, you won't see him again

Just getting a little tired of being used as a brakepad while cornering, skidding off track and then being slammed with a 10 sec penalty!!!
 
Just getting a little tired of being used as a brakepad while cornering, skidding off track and then being slammed with a 10 sec penalty!!!
I completely understand, I have a youtube vid of me round Bathurst, did very little wrong but ended up punted off turn 1 lap 1 from second to last, then all hell broke loose. I got back to 14th, came up on a pile up and a car was rejoining, I went the other way to get into the growing gap, the car hit another car and bounced in-front of me, *smash*. Then I was hit from behind immediately, *smash* I was nearly last again after serving my 20 second penalty. Then the car in last came past while my car was broken and I was serving the pen, touched the grass, span in-front, touched my car, hit the wall, *another 10 seconds ontop of the already huge penalty*. This nonsense continued the whole race, SR went from S to B.

Back to S after 3 races though and my DR is higher than it's ever been, nearly A :D
 
Just sacrifice DR until you hit SR A and you won’t get any races like that anymore, go in a race and just place last but get a clean race for faster SR rank up
I have to say, again, that it's simply not true. You see it a little bit less. But you'll get bumped and punted in sr A and S. The penalty system is fairly easy to 'work around'.
 
I have to say, again, that it's simply not true. You see it a little bit less. But you'll get bumped and punted in sr A and S. The penalty system is fairly easy to 'work around'.

This, staying at the back to level up is of no benefit to anyone. You won't magically get cleaner races in higher safety rating races, there's still a lot of people who take advantage of the penalty system and when you end up with a S rating and then start to race you will not have any experience in racing in traffic and will likely cause otherwise avoidable accidents and drop a rating anyway.
 
I did my 1st online race today. Qualified 4th of 12. not bad I thought. Got rammed in the 1st corner back to 8th. worked back to 3rd getting bumped a few times, nothing big. last lap in 4th again, and last corner the guy in 3rd slid high so I went under him for a clean pass. Then he proceeded to turn me straight into the wall.....and yup, you guessed it. 20ish second penalty for me. I crossed line in 6th. I was the ONLY one with a penalty. For someone wrecking me. I get 11th after the penalty as the guy in 12th quit. Not even close to impressed with such a dumb system. I guess I will just stick with the offline. At least if you get a tangle with the AI its either your fault or just a computers not some idiot purposely wrecking you.
I have noticed a few crashed recently where the person causing the crash doesn't get penalised and the innocent party does. I must admit I cause one myself outbraking myself and couldn't avoid them despite trying. Managed to reduce it to a slight nudge but sent them wide and no pen for me. I let them past me at the next corner but didnt need to. It looks to me like most penalties go to cars on the outside at corners even if someone bombs up the inside of them with no way of stopping.
 
I have noticed a few crashed recently where the person causing the crash doesn't get penalised and the innocent party does. I must admit I cause one myself outbraking myself and couldn't avoid them despite trying. Managed to reduce it to a slight nudge but sent them wide and no pen for me. I let them past me at the next corner but didnt need to. It looks to me like most penalties go to cars on the outside at corners even if someone bombs up the inside of them with no way of stopping.

They do but not always because a car going off track after a collision can also be a penalty for the one who stays on track, regardless of who was at fault or their position on track.

Hard defending the inside of a corner does seem to reduce the chance of a penalty if there is then contact, even if it's you that causes it by accidently running a bit wide or going very slow through the corner and your opponent may even get one too. Don't defend the inside and you'll have cars coming up the inside and giving you a nudge to slow your exit and then passing you or flat out using you as a brake and they won't get a penalty unless you leave the track. This is way people love a divebomb, little risk with a potentially high reward.
 
I got rammed twice then got knocked off and I got penalties. Why

because they dive bombed and you rammed them trying to regain the apex. just because someone cheats and takes the apex, doesn't mean you can ram them off of the course
 
I have noticed a few crashed recently where the person causing the crash doesn't get penalised and the innocent party does. I must admit I cause one myself outbraking myself and couldn't avoid them despite trying. Managed to reduce it to a slight nudge but sent them wide and no pen for me. I let them past me at the next corner but didnt need to. It looks to me like most penalties go to cars on the outside at corners even if someone bombs up the inside of them with no way of stopping.

same thing happend to me. but the issue was that i kept a constant inside line and they tried to cut to the apex even though i was overlapping them. so by the physics of the game, they rammed me from the outside line and punted themselves off of the course. i left ample space for them to pass on the outside line
 
Just getting a little tired of being used as a brakepad while cornering, skidding off track and then being slammed with a 10 sec penalty!!!

I have noticed a few crashed recently where the person causing the crash doesn't get penalised and the innocent party does. I must admit I cause one myself outbraking myself and couldn't avoid them despite trying. Managed to reduce it to a slight nudge but sent them wide and no pen for me. I let them past me at the next corner but didnt need to. It looks to me like most penalties go to cars on the outside at corners even if someone bombs up the inside of them with no way of stopping.

I've had the opposite lately. In my mfg race last night I got punted twice, once completely off the track and did not get a penalty. I wondered if they had secretly made a change even.
 
Just sacrifice DR until you hit SR A and you won’t get any races like that anymore, go in a race and just place last but get a clean race for faster SR rank up
And this is possibly how all the idiots with S ranks appear in the FIA races. There is too many players driving unfair and pushing others out of every corner. I think if you do this a lot you find the way how to work around penaltys and still use it effectively.
Sunday Race was horribly poisened by these guys. (All from France... wonder why its so ofthen them?)
When playing Games i ofthen feel like 80% of humanity has no honor anymore. It is horrible.
 
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