xdakota80x

I haven't played this game in months and it's nice to hear that nothing has changed. That means I haven't missed anything. Same bugs and same cheating issues present since launch

This is my first time back to this board in a while. I see nothing has changed!!!

It's my understanding that the paid cars are cosmetic only. If they're really better then they should be nearly impossible to beat when you face one in the duels, which is not the case at all. Again, the rating on my car is below 1000 and I'm winning a vast majority of the races I play. I wouldn't put much stock into things like gear change times and things like that. I really don't think any of that makes a difference in this game. It's not a simulation like the console version of this game. I think even the speed indicator is cosmetic. What people need to be paying attention to is the movement of your car in relation to the position of the AI or opponent on the track. I have a feeling that's how this game was programmed. The speed, R&D, etc....none of that matters. It's all how you navigate. I think these differences in speed we see against other players comes down to latency in their servers. That's why we start races 2 or 3 seconds behind sometimes. The servers are out of sync and the coding isn't good enough to compensate something like that. That's why we get the **** end of the stick right out of the gate on some duels. The reason the R&D system exists is because they needed to add in microtransactions somehow. It's designed to get the player to believe in these numbers and frustrate them with the slow pace of upgrading in order to entice you to spend money. It's the same thing with the liveries. A player believes that it's faster, or they heard a rumor that it is even though in reality it's just colors and before you know it you've spent 20 bucks on a bunch of colored pixels.

I stopped upgrading my car altogether. There's no point. I "maxed" out my aero with whatever parts I had to get my car up to 980. I'm in league 1 and win about 75-80% of the time against cars rated 1400 and higher. Finished the last 2 events in league 1 gold tier. I don't know how much these numbers really matter. Even if you do well in these events you'll get 30 or so cards and hardly any of them are relevant. I can't remember the last time I've been able to upgrade a blue or purple part. It takes so many to be able to do it and with the devs adding new parts regularly it's becoming impossible to upgrade regularly. Don't worry about the R&D so much and instead focus on becoming a more consistent driver.