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First up you can’t obtain the trophy with the digital version. Do I hear the sounds of many palms smacking foreheads now?
The Challenge Accepted Trophy, Complete 20 Career Objectives in Challenge Events, is bugged. You have to deleted the game (not your saved game file) and reload with the original disc version to get this. Note: you cannot redo already completed events!
The trophy Overcome Your Rivals, Earn 300 Rival Points in a single season. Is hard to understand until you find out that SMS calls one month of online a season so you have one month to rack up 300 points. It took me only 7 days to do the 300 points with 2 weeklies a monthly and all the dailies. Tip: I did the dailies pretty soon after they opened and got several platinum, scores. I don’t know if I got more points BUT the bragging rights are good ;-) This is the last trophy I need and apparently it will only unlock at the end of this month, even though I have already exceeded the 300 points L
Apart from that the game is easy (too easy actually) to get through. At first it seems quite daunting and money is an issue but once you get dialled in it’s easy peasy. So I have had the game for 10 days and 2 rainy, wet weekends and it’s all over. All up about 60hrs including deleting the game and redoing the bugged trophy.
Thoughts and tips on the game:
I can’t understand why this game does not come with a can of insect spray The bugs are as prominent as they are on your car’s windshield on a summer’s night :-)
The AI is the WORST of any game I have ever played! As has been said here you either win by 20 secs (on any level) or the AI just swamp you and continually drive into you forcing you to lower places. They also have unfair advantages in the wet/ice. Just adjust AI levels to compensate and then drive your heart out (if necessary).
Physics. This is not a Sim by any stretch of the imagination but an arcade game. Having said that once you accept that fact and treat it like one it can be a lot of fun. You then can drift like a pro, hardly ever spin and just win races. The trick is turn off all assists and just put on “Stability Control”, it is God Mode. In career at Sakito in a time trial it made me 5secs a lap quicker and I went over 2 secs under the top time!
Making credits. Again with the disc version I was making 150k-175k for 10 lap races in a Mitsy Lancer at Daytona at the start. I stopped grinding at 2.5mil credits and just did the game. Anything that was too hard I just paid to unlock to get to.
Online: This is where you see how much of an arcade game this thing really is. Heaps of people on controllers swerving all over the track that just can’t drive BUT the game compensates for it and makes them fast. Before anyone says “justify that comment” just go to the online time trials and see how many controllers are used in the top levels.
To sum up. Yes, I am a trophy hunter and I will not disguise the fact. I had no intention of buying this game so soon after release because of the comments/reviews and the fact I disliked PCARS 1&2 so much. I only really got it to kill time while ACC got it’s trophies debugged and Scaff here gave it glowing recommendations ;-)
It is the worst PCARS game by far and it has the worst AI of any game in the known universe but I do actually enjoy it. It’s like stopping on your way home from the pub at your local Kebab shop or Pizza joint and playing pinball while you wait for your food. Nothing serious but a hell of a lot of fun to pass the time :-)
The Challenge Accepted Trophy, Complete 20 Career Objectives in Challenge Events, is bugged. You have to deleted the game (not your saved game file) and reload with the original disc version to get this. Note: you cannot redo already completed events!
The trophy Overcome Your Rivals, Earn 300 Rival Points in a single season. Is hard to understand until you find out that SMS calls one month of online a season so you have one month to rack up 300 points. It took me only 7 days to do the 300 points with 2 weeklies a monthly and all the dailies. Tip: I did the dailies pretty soon after they opened and got several platinum, scores. I don’t know if I got more points BUT the bragging rights are good ;-) This is the last trophy I need and apparently it will only unlock at the end of this month, even though I have already exceeded the 300 points L
Apart from that the game is easy (too easy actually) to get through. At first it seems quite daunting and money is an issue but once you get dialled in it’s easy peasy. So I have had the game for 10 days and 2 rainy, wet weekends and it’s all over. All up about 60hrs including deleting the game and redoing the bugged trophy.
Thoughts and tips on the game:
I can’t understand why this game does not come with a can of insect spray The bugs are as prominent as they are on your car’s windshield on a summer’s night :-)
The AI is the WORST of any game I have ever played! As has been said here you either win by 20 secs (on any level) or the AI just swamp you and continually drive into you forcing you to lower places. They also have unfair advantages in the wet/ice. Just adjust AI levels to compensate and then drive your heart out (if necessary).
Physics. This is not a Sim by any stretch of the imagination but an arcade game. Having said that once you accept that fact and treat it like one it can be a lot of fun. You then can drift like a pro, hardly ever spin and just win races. The trick is turn off all assists and just put on “Stability Control”, it is God Mode. In career at Sakito in a time trial it made me 5secs a lap quicker and I went over 2 secs under the top time!
Making credits. Again with the disc version I was making 150k-175k for 10 lap races in a Mitsy Lancer at Daytona at the start. I stopped grinding at 2.5mil credits and just did the game. Anything that was too hard I just paid to unlock to get to.
Online: This is where you see how much of an arcade game this thing really is. Heaps of people on controllers swerving all over the track that just can’t drive BUT the game compensates for it and makes them fast. Before anyone says “justify that comment” just go to the online time trials and see how many controllers are used in the top levels.
To sum up. Yes, I am a trophy hunter and I will not disguise the fact. I had no intention of buying this game so soon after release because of the comments/reviews and the fact I disliked PCARS 1&2 so much. I only really got it to kill time while ACC got it’s trophies debugged and Scaff here gave it glowing recommendations ;-)
It is the worst PCARS game by far and it has the worst AI of any game in the known universe but I do actually enjoy it. It’s like stopping on your way home from the pub at your local Kebab shop or Pizza joint and playing pinball while you wait for your food. Nothing serious but a hell of a lot of fun to pass the time :-)