...Flatout achievement

[2nge1 1]

Well its weird, but i searched a couple of videos on Youtube about this achievement and noticed that on a Very Hard difficulty there are some strange stuff.

For example in a stage Finland 1992 my J.Clement (1st place guy) has a really good time - like 03:22 on a second race, while in those videos he had something like 03:29, i managed to get a very good time (03:24) but still couldnt get even close to 10th place.

Was it some patch for a Flat Out pack or something? How to beat this race now? It it even possible?

[PJTierney 5,924]

Version 1.14 tweaked some of the difficulties, making a few slightly easier or harder by a few seconds.

[2nge1 1]

Yeah, well thank you for the reply! But why make SO much harder? 😞 It's like 8 or 10 seconds less time for a player needed to complete those Finland stages on the 1st place, than it was before...

Edited October 6, 2020 by 2nge1

[PJTierney 5,924]

From the patch notes:

 

Colin McRae Scenarios (difficulty):

The following Scenarios have had their difficulty adjusted based on player data to provide a smoother difficulty curve:

• Scotland 1988 - Slightly easier.
• Wales 1988 - Slightly easier.
• Sweden 1989 - Slightly easier.
• New Zealand 1989 - Slightly easier.
• Scotland 1991 - Slightly easier.
• Scotland 1992 - Slightly easier.
• Greece 1994 - Eased damage criteria for passing Scenario.
• New Zealand 1994 - Slightly harder.
• Australia 1995 - Slightly harder.
• Wales 1995 - Slightly harder.
• Argentina 1998 - Slightly harder.
• Germany 2002 - Slightly harder.
• Scotland 2004 - Slightly easier.
• Australia 2005 - Slightly harder.
• Scotland 2006 - Eased damage criteria for passing Scenario.

 

We didn't change Finland. Sometimes you just get a fast AI but if you do a new Scenario from scratch is evens out.