Wow...first time I did The Trial in a couple weeks, and it was brutal. Everything went fine in the first race, we won handily and I ended up in 2nd. Come time for the second race, I had a good start position at the front and thought I could avoid the nonsense involved in working through the pack. Nope. By the second turn, another player was right on my tail. About halfway down the next straight, one of the A.I. cars bounces off a wall or something and slams into me, slowing me down dramatically and knocking me off to the left, where I slam into another player. I get my car back under control and continue on when I'm hit from the side by a player, sent skidding, and smash into another player. Again.
Apparently war was declared.
From that point on I was smashed, bashed, and rammed repeatedly throughout the remainder of the race by two other players (one on each side most of the time, which probably appeared to each of them as if I was ramming them on purpose as my car was knocked back and forth). I did what I could to avoid them until I managed to pass the remaining a.i. and get out ahead. I went into a corner too hot and slid into the wall, which was then rammed nose-first at extreme speed by one of the aggressors, clearly aiming at me. He went no-contact and I drove right through him and continued on...must've driven him crazy with how aggressive he had become by that point. He ended up ahead of me at the end by about half a second while the second aggressor ended up maybe two tenths behind me in third.
I'll be the first to admit I'm not a great driver; I barely count as a good driver. I tend to be good enough to end up in the top three in The Trial unless there are several really good drivers present or I get stuck behind someone or flip or miss a checkpoint. I could have paid more attention to nearby human drivers in the beginning, so some of the blame for that second race nightmare is on me. But wow, those two were so vicious the whole thing felt completely ridiculous, especially the one trying to ram into me at full speed on the wall. It went straight past 'annoying' into 'comically absurd.'
Up till now I haven't really try the seasonal events but that #92 Porsche RSR is worth trying to get looks awesome.
