I noticed that too, but it’s been more popular since the update dropped and TCM went on GamePass only a few days ago.
Last week @sirjim73 finished 41st with 13 votes. 😭
I've done about a dozen ranked GRs across different accounts now, only won once, but this is the first time I've done any grand races for a long time, so it will take time to learn all the places you can lose time on the routes. There are very few legends, and those that I do see seem to be the types of people who win virtually every time, so reaching legend is pretty impressive to me. I'm trying to only do no collision races, I did accidentally do one race with collisions on when I immediately went from race to entering the next without realising the race had changed. It was awful, one idiot seemed to prefer to cost both of us 5 seconds about 10% into the race rather than just keep up with the group slipstream.Words can’t describe the relief of finally getting to Legend in Ranked GR, I had to push myself much further in terms of pace, but also not being afraid to swap paint with every loose cannon that likes using you as their brakes.
No collisions is where you’ll likely find the really fast drivers, those who’ve tamed the Agera R, know every shortcut, perfected the art of the Gutter Run and I swear some are running Direct Mode on steering the way they throw rally cars into near instant 90 degree slides.
From memory all the interior view summits have been Alpha GP races which helps as they have no roof or windscreen to block the view.
I still maintain that the flood of new players started last week as it was around 13k players IIRC for the Mercedes Selection, TCM went on Game Pass earlier this week.
For interest, I've been using a stack of 5 x £1 coins held together with blu-tac to weigh down the down arrow key and leave the game to scroll down to 15000th position to see how the cutoff changes over time. It has gone:
I have no idea how people do such high scores. They have crazy Skills.
Yeah @breeminator is a legend! Ive managed a humble 1.37m this week... Im also surprised about the competition levels when the prizes are not the most exciting. Probably a combination of new players and a good selection of vehicles, the BMW is bags of fun to drive.
Yeah the loads of space around the volcanoes for it, my hope is for trackforge to have a good discovery / favouriting structure to it. I dont see why a track constructed in the forge could not also integrate with the main island for epic extra long races like in the crew 2 community races. Wonder what the scope of trackforge will be, might get better over time with updates to it.
It's already slow going in gold. 32 points for a 4th place just now, so it would take 25 of those to get through the 800 points of gold. Platinum is going to be painful if it takes way longer again, like gold takes far longer to get through than silver.
Platinum is 300 points per level, The points tally is decided by where you start, what ranked drivers you beat and which ones beat you.
Do you have an iron grip set? It definitely wasn't a no-stopper with a normal nitro chemist set!
It's way way less work to get cars from the Summit than to earn the prestige tickets to get them from the prestige shop. Probably >5 hours of grinding custom mode vs maybe 40 mins for the Summit?
Yep had about 10% left on the tyres with nitro chemist/iron grip set.
