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the server quality connection wise has been pretty poor this week, watching the streamers and also playing it's been very rare to get a lobby with green bars.I did 6 races there so far, all in DR B - SR S. Kicked out in 4 of them, 3 times intentionally (I mean some people just liked to tap my butt continuosly) and one by accident ( the guy apologised and waited for me to recover in front of him, like I do when i'm the "perpetrator" by mistake). In one, I lost the braking point of the last corners to hit the guy which I was fighting with for 3rd (my bad). Eventually I had only one clean a fair race where, from 1st to me (5th) there was no dirty game and we finished battling in 2sec gap between us. I assume it is a matter of luck. Last week I had plenty of victories from pole or second row thinking that all was mostly clean a fair, then I gave a deep look at replays and changed my mind. In SR S there's a "loud" minority of nasty drivers anyway.
i'd suspect that with the demo/update/ps5 pro rollout that they are doing some infrastructure updates at Sony and PD and also moving a lot of internal network bandwidth (not literally) moving large files and server patches around.
i had 2 races where i know some of the people who tapped me and they definitely didn't mean it and it was just latency in their cases.
it just feels like its lag that's making it feel dirtier than it really is. Of course there are sweaty players in all network conditions but i don't think there is more than normal.
TM is really tricky as the braking points are very different between players (those that are quicker tend to brake earlier or more gentle)