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Engine Wear scaled to practice as well as race

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I think I have found why so many people are having trouble with engine wear. Fair enough it is scaled to race length but it it aslo scaled in practice depending on what race length you choose. I just tested two careers, one set to 100% and the other set to 25% Both in a sauber on ps4 after latest patch 1.05. I did tyre management, race test, quali pace and track acclimatisation for both and found that in the 25% length career the engine wear was at least double. This might explain why the ai are having so much trouble as they will be putting pleny of laps in at practice and burning through their engines with the scaled wear.

In my opinion practice needs to have the same wear whatever the length of race. As of right now if you do all the practice programmes with a shorter race distance you are getting more engine wear. Even though these practice programmes are the same length if you set it to 100%. It's almost like we are getting punished for picking the shorter distance race.

Please codemasters, fix this.


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No. I tested ths after patch 1.05 which fixed the wear going too fast in shorter races but this is a problem with practice beng scaled as well which would explain the ai going through several engines as they will wreck them in practice sessions.

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I am starting to think it was a quick fix but it's still wrong as people are reporting more engine wear in a 25% race compared to a 100% race. In my opinion engine wear should be the same in every practice no matter what race length you have chosen.

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Maybe they want to keep the wear same per lap for practice and race, so they adjusted according to it. How does tyre wear work right now? Do you get same amount of wear from 100% and 25% race after qualifying? If it is not same, that means they are following that concept. However with this approach, you can never know how much lap a player will do in practice, so it is impossible to equal the wear for all race lengths

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They should just scrap it for practice and quali in my opinion. Most people in practice will probably just run the practice programmes but by doung this in a 25% race you wear the engine out more than in a 100% even though you are doing the same number of laps so it doesn't really work. It gives anyone not doing a 100% race a disadvatage in the practice sessions. There is a good thead in the technical forum after someone has tested it and they just haven't scaled everything properly down from 100%. I'm sure they will fix this and the rest of the problems, especially with project cars 2, GT and forza on the horizon!

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