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Not sure if it's because GamePass or something else but the Custom Show on XBox changed a lot. I'm following what is going on with the CS for more than 20 months now. Except for one occasion you got guarantee platinum with 8-9❤️. So self voting + 2 additional ❤️ was enough. Right now even 5 additional ❤️ are not enough for securing platinum. I got 7❤️(10❤️ total) so far and I'm barely in the top 50% platinum.
 
Not sure if it's because GamePass or something else but the Custom Show on XBox changed a lot. I'm following what is going on with the CS for more than 20 months now. Except for one occasion you got guarantee platinum with 8-9❤️. So self voting + 2 additional ❤️ was enough. Right now even 5 additional ❤️ are not enough for securing platinum. I got 7❤️(10❤️ total) so far and I'm barely in the top 50% platinum.
I noticed that too, but it’s been more popular since the update dropped and TCM went on GamePass only a few days ago.

There’s definitely a focused group of players just machine gunning votes as I was on 3 votes yesterday and had resigned myself to a possible bronze, woke up about 15 mins ago to 11 votes + the daily self vote to 12 total.

And that’s put me inside the top 300, normally that would’ve been inside the top 100.

Over 13k players for Xbox CS, I’ve don’t think i’ve seen that many players total in quite some time.
 
A great summit this week, I really enjoy the events where you have to work out cuts, though I think I've done them all before, some more times than others. The speed trap is quite tricky to do well, even with a pure+frenetic nitro set. I'll have to give every event another go on my main account, I think I can maybe reach 1420k now.

Edit: Okay, 1420k was a bit optimistic, got 1418k, but that's about my limit, I'd be doing the events over and over again to shave tenths off from there. 208th overall in the summit.

It's well worth doing the odd grand race with the new rewards. There's the weekly reward for doing 2, plus the xp and bucks from the races, plus I ranked up to bronze 1 or 2 after 2 races (two different accounts), which gave me more rewards. It's a bit annoying that it shows you the rank of people around you during the race, but not everyone's rank on the final leaderboard. Legend rank does seem to mean something, as all 4 races I did were won by the one and only person I could see up front who was legend rank.
 
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So update to my previous post on the sudden influx of players in the Custom Show, nearly 17k players on Xbox signed up for it.

Currently 700th on 13 votes, a month or so ago, that’d be enough for safely inside top 100, now 12 votes currently means you’re fighting just to stay inside Platinum.

It’s an absolute paradigm shift compared to before, the usual suspects in the top 10 are scattered, there’s only one name I recognise in the top 10 of those usual suspects.
 
Currently 700th on 13 votes, a month or so ago, that’d be enough for safely inside top 100, now 12 votes currently means you’re fighting just to stay inside Platinum.
Last week @sirjim73 finished 41st with 13 votes. 😭
I'm still in disbelief the CS changed so much in an instant the game came to GamePass. Now I expected more player, ok. But I didn't thought it would made such an impact. I doubt 20❤️ will be enough for plat. Which is crazy.
 
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. :embarrassed:
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.
 
A lot more people are there indeed, I used to get Gold or near-Platinum scores on Summits at 1,240,000-1,250,000 points and now I get barely Silver scores.

I think I won the Platinum on the first interior camera forced summit which to my surprise was a ton easier than I'd though. I was expecting a true nightmare.
 
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.
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. :P

Free advice when it comes to regular GR’s, don’t be afraid to embrace your inner wrecker when needed, because everyone else already does. :D

Believe me, when you get to platinum, you’ll be fighting for every decent points haul so being ruthless and aggressive when needed is vital.

And obviously, pay attention to the route and choose your finely tuned cars accordingly, ST1 for example, if the section for ST1 is short, twisty and no very long fast flowing sections, the Mustang Mach E does well, aside from that, 911 Carrera 2.7 RS is the top speed king for ST1.
 
A lot more people are there indeed, I used to get Gold or near-Platinum scores on Summits at 1,240,000-1,250,000 points and now I get barely Silver scores.

I think I won the Platinum on the first interior camera forced summit which to my surprise was a ton easier than I'd though. I was expecting a true nightmare.
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 only get silver normally in summits anyway and the reward for silver is crap this week, so I am not putting in any effort.

The Xbox custom show seems to have died down a bit. I'm now at 14 and in about 600th place. I'm guessing there was a flood of new GamePass users voting on Wednesday who haven't done so since. Noted it is a wide open custom show this week and i wonder if that was done deliberately due to the GamePass start date.

Anyway, it's nice to not see the usual same 10 copies in the top 10 this week. So that's one very good thing out of this.
 
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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 only get silver normally in summits anyway and the reward for silver is crap this week, so I am not putting in any effort.

The Xbox custom show seems to have died down a bit. I'm now at 14 and in about 600th place. I'm guessing there was a flood of new GamePass users voting on Wednesday who haven't done so since. Noted it is a wide open custom show this week and i wonder if that was done deliberately due to the GamePass start date.

Anyway, it's nice to not see the usual same 10 copies in the top 10 this week. So that's one very good thing out of this.
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.

Still, it’s nearly 20k players for the Custom Show now, but next weeks Summit is likely gonna be hotly contested for the M4 CSL, even with Platinum bumped up to the top 15k.
 
A lot more people are there indeed, I used to get Gold or near-Platinum scores on Summits at 1,240,000-1,250,000 points and now I get barely Silver scores.
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:
Fri 2am 1232k
Fri 11pm 1263k
Sat 6:30pm 1283k
Mon 1am 1308k
(1000th 1400k
3000th 1378k
5000th 1366k
7000th 1356k
9000th 1348k
12000th 1329k)
So you can see the scores are pretty compressed, only 30k difference in total score from 3000th to 9000th.
 
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:
Fri 2am 1232k
Fri 11pm 1263k
Sat 6:30pm 1283k
Mon 1am 1308k
(1000th 1400k
3000th 1378k
5000th 1366k
7000th 1356k
9000th 1348k
12000th 1329k)
So you can see the scores are pretty compressed, only 30k difference in total score from 3000th to 9000th.
I have no idea how people do such high scores. They have crazy Skills.
 
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.

Ive just finished a new House mix in the signature if you want some fresh 2025 releases whilst blitzing around Hawaii.
 
I wonder if the Trackforge feature could maybe sometimes make it to the main islands. Maybe Year 4-5?
 
I wonder if the Trackforge feature could maybe sometimes make it to the main islands. Maybe Year 4-5?
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.
 
Believe me, when you get to platinum, you’ll be fighting for every decent points haul so being ruthless and aggressive when needed is vital.
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.

I was telling y'all the M3 CS might be meta for some tracks. This is the leaderboard for the Street Food race ST2 custom mode:

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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.

I was telling y'all the M3 CS might be meta for some tracks. This is the leaderboard for the Street Food race ST2 custom mode:

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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.

The link below will cover everything about that.

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/...SFkHP28/season-8-quality-of-life-improvements

You’ll very likely at some point go through the scenario of winning a race, but earning less points than say.. coming 4th against Platinum or Legend drivers in another race for example. :crazy:

Best advice I can give is pace yourself, you currently have 99 days to get to Legend, if you’re unsure about doing another run, freeze rank and do a regular Grand Race instead. 👍

Final update on the Custom Show for this week, my car showed up while I was away and I went from 14 votes to 26 votes(27 after my last self vote goes through.) which is a new PB for me and comfortably inside the top 100 amongst 22.5K entries. :embarrassed:
 
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I hope that in the future Track Builder will be more compatible with RC vehicles, allowing for the use of smaller track parts designed for RC vehicles.

RC vehicles, due to their small size, have more potential for utilizing maps than any other vehicle currently in the game.

If Track Builder could use RC-scale parts, the possibilities would be even greater.
 
Public Service Announcement - If you have Game Pass, you can now acquire the Liberty Walk DLC on the Xbox for the princely sum of FREE.
I had to look it up. Didn't know the Supra had a separate pack. Also didn't know they are now offering cheap auto show cars for real money. 😭
 
This summit is going to upset so many players. A manual only race, first person only race, know your shortcuts race. And the overall score will be much lower than usual which will make many worry, do I have enough points?
 
This summit is going to upset so many players. A manual only race, first person only race, know your shortcuts race. And the overall score will be much lower than usual which will make many worry, do I have enough points?
I'm not worried. I'll pick up the reward via tickets next year.

Also, 20 likes only got me to 530th this week!
 
This summit is going to upset so many players. A manual only race, first person only race, know your shortcuts race. And the overall score will be much lower than usual which will make many worry, do I have enough points?
Enjoyed the McLaren, the gear shift course was quite straight forward thankfully, and tyre wear race / cockpit view was a none stopper with some last lap jeopardy. Felt like chasing down times was more relevant this week with less of the shortcut cheese.
 
I've kinda given up on Summits in Motorfest since the rewards will be in the Prestige Shop eventually. Yes, it's a wait for them to show up, but I got a lot of things to keep me occupied.
 
tyre wear race / cockpit view was a none stopper with some last lap jeopardy.
Do you have an iron grip set? It definitely wasn't a no-stopper with a normal nitro chemist set!

I've kinda given up on Summits in Motorfest since the rewards will be in the Prestige Shop eventually. Yes, it's a wait for them to show up, but I got a lot of things to keep me occupied.
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?
 
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