So my first trial of the week... My team lost the 2nd race but this player decides I can't be faster than him so he rams me out of the checkpoint at the start of the 3rd race.
Is this an ego thing? That losing the trial is worth it since he still ended behind all the AI despite doing this.
Time to paste that pinned Discord comment I had from 4 years ago:
The game’s design encourages this behaviour unfortunately.
Players are incentivised to get desperate through the fact that races are short, wins are expected and players start from halfway down the grid.
Let’s say you start P8.
In a 3 lap race you are
expected to be 1-2 seconds a lap faster than everyone if you want to win.
Most people aren’t, especially against “Unbeatable” AI.
Therefore the only way to catch up is to yeet into corners, use other cars as obstacles and hope you come out on top. Single player doesn’t discourage this behaviour with ghosting or penalties, and that is where behaviour is trained.
It doesn’t matter if they are human or automated, red or blue, it’s of zero consequence to the player doing the yeeting.
All of this on top of the fact that players are never taught
how to race cleanly or “drive properly”, this isn’t the kind of game where that sort of onboarding featureset makes sense as it can come across as “work”.
<:fh5:853700074822959127> is not a racing game, nor is it designed to function as one; it’s a car-based MMO that just to happens to have races in it. Once you can accept that you’ll realise why the quality of racecraft in the game is so poor.
If you want good racing, you won’t find it with randoms. Team up with a bunch of people from here instead and take all the human spots in a Trial lobby. Maybe do it after <:crm:505753539457581077> ends or group up before it starts each week. That way you’re with a bunch of semi-competent people at the very least.
