I like that they are trying to inject a little life into the game, but I'm not sure this is the way to do it and I'm not sure I like having yet another game that tells me I need to log in every day.
The numbers to get all the stuff seem pretty high too, which leaves me wondering if I should even bother as I'm quite confident I wont get them by the end of the "Season" or whatever they are calling it.
The single player challenges just aren't that special and are the same thing you could do any time before, but I suppose BugBear are kinda trapped here, because making the challenges multiplayer would present all the normal issues that multiplayer rewards bring ("I don't want to play multiplayer!" or "I don't have Xbox Live!" or "My teammates always suck I will never win the prize!" complaints and so on).
On the Xbox at least, the monthly and weekly challenges seem broken as they don't read anything out, so dunno what reward rank I've made it to. The first weekly one I did, at the end of the week the challenge just disappeared and I didn't gain any points from it.
The 2 things that kept me from playing this as much over the last few months remain unfixed. The multiplayer experience is still pretty poor, very laggy/buggy and it really kills the fun. The game drives pretty great in single player, but in multiplayer it feels weird and the physics kinda feel stuttery for lack of a better word, where things feel pretty normal for a few seconds then janky then back to normal and so on. Just the last few nights I've tried getting back into it, and I can't even count the number of times I've driven past a spun car, then 3 lengths past it my car acts like I hit something and I get a bunch of damage. Maybe it's just because I'm on a standard XB1 instead of a XB1X?
My other problem isn't necessarily BugBear's fault, but for whatever reason the community seems to only want to drive A-class cars, where the cars are way less balanced, the quality of racing is very poor, and any performance issues the game faces are made even worse because you are going so much faster when they happen. The community seems to be dying out as well, the last few nights I've checked, there have been about 1.5 full lobbies worth of people, and they are always spread out in A-class racing or A-class mixed, then 1 public lobby with like 2 people doing a demo derby.
I love so much about this game, but single player racing rarely entertains me for more than 20 mins or so nowadays in any game, and the multiplayer is just so hard to actually enjoy due to the performance.
Haven't been able to get anywhere close to that score since. Think the demo challenges require a fair amount of luck.
