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It's gonna be a long post, and the last thing this place needs is a misery filled complaint thread. There's been hundreds of them and they never go well, but I'm to the point where I just have to have a good old moan. I am English after all, it's in our nature.
Is there such a thing as a good open lounge room online anymore? Are there such things as good people to race with any more that aren't hidden away in private lounges? Hardly. The only room I get any joy out of is the one McClarenDesign hosts, but unfortunately he's on for shorter amounts of time each passing week.
Sometimes I don't know why I persist in trying to find some decent racing in this game anymore. I want to play GT5, I want to have close competitive clean racing, but it's just seemingly impossible. Just tonight's example is one of, well, almost every single night.
I find it increasingly frustrating trying to find decent non-dirty shuffle, spec or below 500PP rooms that DO NOT have aids, Racing Softs or that absolutely God foresaken boost feature. To me, these added "features" have killed the online perspective of the game.
Eventually, I create my own rooms, stating that there will be no boost or aids of any form (including ABS at times), and/or that they are strictly clean. Often, I wait for half an hour with either situation occuring: Either no one joins at all, or less than 3 people will join and quit within 20 seconds of track time because no aids or Racing Softs are available, and they are simple incapable of keeping on the tarmac.
That is what happened to me tonight, only this time I waited for over an hour, with only one person showing up and quitting as soon as he realised that ABS was off. I gave up and joined a shuffle room that a friend of mine was in. The only aid available was ABS, so I was happy with that, albeit there were also only 3 other people. Regardless, after one race of me mostly cruising while the other people struggled, the host left. The new host instantly changed everything about the room - RS tires, unlimited PP, boost on strong and slipstream on strong. The amount of times people do this is incredibly disheartening, why do they destroy the only no aids shuffle room that's online? To top it off, the host started the race almost instantly, when he was the only driver on track. As expected, I insta-quitted.
After a 10 minute re-motivation, I followed my friend into another shuffle room which had some aids available, but I figured it would do. I waited as they finished their race on The Ring only to be instantly kicked out by the host with zero explanation.
So I go ahead and join yet another shuffle room, this time one with all the darn boost feature that everyone is so obsessed about having on, only to be instantly kicked by the host. This so far, has equalled to nearly 2 hours online with only one half arsed race managed.
On the other side, when I DO happen to find room with the restrictions I enjoy, everybody in the world believes they can outbrake you by divebombing and using you as a cushion around the corners. And this is in rooms titled "Clean or Kick". It doesn't matter if I compete in 12 races, starting from last place in all of them in an inferior car and STILL win every race by an embarrasing margine, everyone is determined they can outbrake you into every wretched corner.
Then there's the frustration of people spinning out in front of you and never ghosting (when penalties are on), giving you damage and a penalty. It almost always seems to happen to me rather than anybody else on the circuit.
The last complaint is the seemingly racist attitude the game has, as in, I wonder why I end up with cars up to 80pp less than what everyone else is given. It happens night after night. I once made a thread about this specifically, showing videos and images of my vehicle selection compared to everyone else in the room. It can be very annoying at times, but occasionally the only thing you can do is laugh about it. Here's a couple of examples, the first picture being of a race on Circuit De La Sarthe 2009 with no Chicanes at 500pp, the least punishing selection out of these few.
What does really annoy me though, are the people that boast "Wow, I beat Lewis Hamilton, he sucks" when they are in, for example a very recent race I had, a TVR Tuscan, while I was blessed with a Plymouth Superbird at Daytona Road Course. To add to my anger, this is also along with the all too common fact that the only reason that person won wass because they blocked me by swerving violently, saying it's a genuinely acceptable form of defending, and then proceeding to squash me into the wall if I managed to get side by side with them.
I'm fully aware that I look both elitest and like an arrogant cock, and I am in no way trying to insult people who use aids or enter aids assisted rooms. As I stated, I enjoy McClaren's room very much and it's a perfect challenge by running a tire grade or two lower than what's available. However, I guess the point I was trying to make is that non-aid rooms are seemingly non-existent, and the ones that are around, suck. If there are any people out there that enjoy spec, shuffle, low PP and kart racing with no aids, and can respect other drivers on track, please get in contact with me!
Does anybody else share my disappointment with the entire open lounge online aspect?
Is there such a thing as a good open lounge room online anymore? Are there such things as good people to race with any more that aren't hidden away in private lounges? Hardly. The only room I get any joy out of is the one McClarenDesign hosts, but unfortunately he's on for shorter amounts of time each passing week.
Sometimes I don't know why I persist in trying to find some decent racing in this game anymore. I want to play GT5, I want to have close competitive clean racing, but it's just seemingly impossible. Just tonight's example is one of, well, almost every single night.
I find it increasingly frustrating trying to find decent non-dirty shuffle, spec or below 500PP rooms that DO NOT have aids, Racing Softs or that absolutely God foresaken boost feature. To me, these added "features" have killed the online perspective of the game.
Eventually, I create my own rooms, stating that there will be no boost or aids of any form (including ABS at times), and/or that they are strictly clean. Often, I wait for half an hour with either situation occuring: Either no one joins at all, or less than 3 people will join and quit within 20 seconds of track time because no aids or Racing Softs are available, and they are simple incapable of keeping on the tarmac.
That is what happened to me tonight, only this time I waited for over an hour, with only one person showing up and quitting as soon as he realised that ABS was off. I gave up and joined a shuffle room that a friend of mine was in. The only aid available was ABS, so I was happy with that, albeit there were also only 3 other people. Regardless, after one race of me mostly cruising while the other people struggled, the host left. The new host instantly changed everything about the room - RS tires, unlimited PP, boost on strong and slipstream on strong. The amount of times people do this is incredibly disheartening, why do they destroy the only no aids shuffle room that's online? To top it off, the host started the race almost instantly, when he was the only driver on track. As expected, I insta-quitted.
After a 10 minute re-motivation, I followed my friend into another shuffle room which had some aids available, but I figured it would do. I waited as they finished their race on The Ring only to be instantly kicked out by the host with zero explanation.
So I go ahead and join yet another shuffle room, this time one with all the darn boost feature that everyone is so obsessed about having on, only to be instantly kicked by the host. This so far, has equalled to nearly 2 hours online with only one half arsed race managed.
On the other side, when I DO happen to find room with the restrictions I enjoy, everybody in the world believes they can outbrake you by divebombing and using you as a cushion around the corners. And this is in rooms titled "Clean or Kick". It doesn't matter if I compete in 12 races, starting from last place in all of them in an inferior car and STILL win every race by an embarrasing margine, everyone is determined they can outbrake you into every wretched corner.
Then there's the frustration of people spinning out in front of you and never ghosting (when penalties are on), giving you damage and a penalty. It almost always seems to happen to me rather than anybody else on the circuit.
The last complaint is the seemingly racist attitude the game has, as in, I wonder why I end up with cars up to 80pp less than what everyone else is given. It happens night after night. I once made a thread about this specifically, showing videos and images of my vehicle selection compared to everyone else in the room. It can be very annoying at times, but occasionally the only thing you can do is laugh about it. Here's a couple of examples, the first picture being of a race on Circuit De La Sarthe 2009 with no Chicanes at 500pp, the least punishing selection out of these few.
What does really annoy me though, are the people that boast "Wow, I beat Lewis Hamilton, he sucks" when they are in, for example a very recent race I had, a TVR Tuscan, while I was blessed with a Plymouth Superbird at Daytona Road Course. To add to my anger, this is also along with the all too common fact that the only reason that person won wass because they blocked me by swerving violently, saying it's a genuinely acceptable form of defending, and then proceeding to squash me into the wall if I managed to get side by side with them.
I'm fully aware that I look both elitest and like an arrogant cock, and I am in no way trying to insult people who use aids or enter aids assisted rooms. As I stated, I enjoy McClaren's room very much and it's a perfect challenge by running a tire grade or two lower than what's available. However, I guess the point I was trying to make is that non-aid rooms are seemingly non-existent, and the ones that are around, suck. If there are any people out there that enjoy spec, shuffle, low PP and kart racing with no aids, and can respect other drivers on track, please get in contact with me!
Does anybody else share my disappointment with the entire open lounge online aspect?
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