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- Morgoth_666
I guess I'll just leave this here because why not. Haven't played in forever, got a bit of the urge because of recent updates and GT Academy and whatever, so I've played two sessions lately. First one was some time-trialing in a seasonal event.
Second one was this: I set up a race on infinite laps on the Nordschleife in an '88 Countach, all stock and on CMs. Fastest AI car was an '03 350Z. I'm not looking for an actual race, I know that's impossible. I just sometimes enjoy sharing the track with other cars in using the least idiotic behavior I can get from them. Race started, I parked and did some stuff around the house for 7-8 minutes before beginning my "track day." I was terrible of course but steadily improving over the course of 45 minutes or so and worked my way past most of the other cars.
I was gradually gaining on the leader(at the time I didn't know if it was the 350Z or not, but it was) and had cut the lead from just about 4 minutes to just about 2, all the while noticing that as I got closer and faster and spending less time off-track, I seemed to be gaining a bit more slowly. Then as I neared an hour, I was in third and spent a lap or so running down 2nd place(fairly easily), goofed up near the end of a lap and spent another third of a lap catching back up to him, and as I passed him and finished the next lap I noticed that on my best lap by a few seconds he had now pulled way out on me from where I had been. After I quit and watched the replay to confirm that it was the 350Z, I saw that despite not having had anyone near him for most of the race he had somehow seen fit to suddenly improve his lap time by TWENTY-FIVE SECONDS as I approached second place.
Sure, I wasn't very good and should probably be ashamed that a bot 350Z on SH(I think) was 8 seconds faster than my Countach on CM, but I wasn't expecting fantastic lap times and was just getting back in the groove and driving for fun so I don't really care. I just think that that level of rubber-banding or whatever it is that they do is plain inexplicable. I've seen similar behavior before in long races(both with and without a set distance), not to mention watching cars within the field repeatedly adjusting their pace to my proximity. At least they don't do too much of the crazy parking in Arcade races.
Second one was this: I set up a race on infinite laps on the Nordschleife in an '88 Countach, all stock and on CMs. Fastest AI car was an '03 350Z. I'm not looking for an actual race, I know that's impossible. I just sometimes enjoy sharing the track with other cars in using the least idiotic behavior I can get from them. Race started, I parked and did some stuff around the house for 7-8 minutes before beginning my "track day." I was terrible of course but steadily improving over the course of 45 minutes or so and worked my way past most of the other cars.
I was gradually gaining on the leader(at the time I didn't know if it was the 350Z or not, but it was) and had cut the lead from just about 4 minutes to just about 2, all the while noticing that as I got closer and faster and spending less time off-track, I seemed to be gaining a bit more slowly. Then as I neared an hour, I was in third and spent a lap or so running down 2nd place(fairly easily), goofed up near the end of a lap and spent another third of a lap catching back up to him, and as I passed him and finished the next lap I noticed that on my best lap by a few seconds he had now pulled way out on me from where I had been. After I quit and watched the replay to confirm that it was the 350Z, I saw that despite not having had anyone near him for most of the race he had somehow seen fit to suddenly improve his lap time by TWENTY-FIVE SECONDS as I approached second place.
Sure, I wasn't very good and should probably be ashamed that a bot 350Z on SH(I think) was 8 seconds faster than my Countach on CM, but I wasn't expecting fantastic lap times and was just getting back in the groove and driving for fun so I don't really care. I just think that that level of rubber-banding or whatever it is that they do is plain inexplicable. I've seen similar behavior before in long races(both with and without a set distance), not to mention watching cars within the field repeatedly adjusting their pace to my proximity. At least they don't do too much of the crazy parking in Arcade races.
