Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190514081652/@comment-31044517-20190515024332

Amrosa wrote: And you'd be wrong. It would be harder to change the performance characteristics of the car than to just make the bots a bit faster or start you in a rolling start a few hundred meters further back.

A Time Trial has no traffic. You can take the optimal line... and given the tuning of the bots on these events, you are usually encountering them at critical points... places where you would rather place your car to set up your braking and turn in exactly where they are.

Take those bots away and have a clear track and surprise surprise you are on a better line where you can brake a little later, turn in properly and exit optimally... all unimpeded. Well, a clear track will force you to brake earlier, not later since you'll carry more speed at certain turn exits, unimpeded by any bot. But I was able to brake much later in WTTT... I would have to brake even earlier at some turns in WTTT if they didn't manipulate the car stats during SE... And I overtook most of the bots either before or after a turn during the event anyway. They rarely affected my racing line during turns.

And it's extremely easiy to secretly manipulate the car stats during any event for the game developers. Ask any Asphalt player. Of course, the developers will never admit it... As Randy also said, it's nothing new. But this time it was EXTREMELY blatant to me. Completely unmistakable.