Not sure if it was something I tweaked in the graphics or something that was fixed in a patch or what, but this isn't an issue anymore. Thank goodness. I've also noticed, albeit with the help of the PC settings in this video, that things are running a lot smoother for me.
I think some of the races have broken difficulties. Not surprised by a couple bugs with the amount of content, but it is definitely a surprise when you are going race to race.Well, I had my first disappointment with the game with my first Touge race: The difficulty is just wrong and the rival car just rubberbands away without making any mistakes. I won't touch them again until I hear about a rebalancing. I distinctly recall The Crew Motorfest did these much better.
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It reminds me of that Mustang from Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift.
Looks like changing difficulty on the fly don't work, I tried the same drag race now and won it first time, very strange. Yesterday no matter what difficulty I've tried (I even went to the garage and back), I always finished fifth or sixth. I guess you need to restart the game for a proper avatars change.
I couldn't remember whether I won this on Highly Skilled or not so I just tried it again on Expert and won OK with a couple of minor scrapes with the kamikaze AI. Maybe the difficulty is nerfed after a restart or perhaps it was my superb driving (yeah, right). But it was almost certainly down to this car/tune combination:
It's extremely inconsistent from race to race. The AIs cheat like crazy, their cars have impossible behaviour, e.g. they accelerate away from you at the start when they have the same car as you, no matter how you build your car. And then they have an impossible top speed while still somehow having way more cornering grip than you if you build your car with low grip tyres to match their top speed. You can do a race on Highly Skilled and get an easy win, you can do another one on Average and barely win. You can change your car while keeping the difficulty the same, go 30 seconds quicker on Colossus and the AIs just go 30 seconds quicker too, even though they're using the same cars that were 30 seconds slower the previous race.
The two games have their strengths and weaknesses. I much prefer the more accurate colour grading of FH6, I've never liked the tinted colours in Motorfest. And Motorfest badly needs DLAA support, it's nowhere near as crisp and clear looking as FH6. Apart from that I feel the environments are quite similar in the mix of what they contain. In terms of fun, what has really killed Motorfest for me is the UGC track creator and them using the tracks in the summit. The game was so much better before they added that garbage. And they seem to have lost their way a bit compared to TC2, with summits often being single car affairs, which again I don't like. I think FH6 feels more fun right now because it's new and fresh, I know the same old frustrations will surface with more play because they haven't fixed a single thing I've seen as problems in the older games. Motorfest has just been around longer for the annoyances to be felt.
