Talk:Front-Runner/@comment-98.203.250.56-20160510061751/@comment-98.203.250.56-20160510132955

It's tough for them to please all of us all the time. I get that.

They really should have thought this one through though. 8.5, at least for me, was basically a time trial that you had to do to near perfection, twice in a row, with obstacles at the start (other cars), in an unfamiliar overpowered car with poor handling for its power, on a difficult track to master (due to its length requiring the car to be serviced often).

Many of us have spent many, many hours on that track in a variety of cars (3 endurance kings and 3 endurance champions). If we were this frustrated, then inagine what the typical player felt?

As a side note, I think I could have finished 8.5 if I had abused cloud saving and cloud restoring each time I blew it. Might have taken a few hours but there would be no satisfaction in it for me.

Further, rather than spend many hours mastering one goal in frustration to save 40 gold, I'd rather just farm Le Mans instead. I had no proof that I would master it in time. It's a lot of work and the clock was ticking.

And that's not a good thing. Le Mans is getting old. If I'd rather do it than the challenge, then something is horribly wrong.

In fact, 8.5 was the only challenge that made me throw up my hands in surrender. At least some of the Daytona NASCAR races got my pulse rate up. The slightest bump could mean a restart. It never had the frustration of hopelessness though. You kind of knew uou were going to make it after the first 30 seconds, which is far different than the 2 minute and 30 second mark, looking at your average speed being just at 171 mph, but knowing you were about to enter the curves in a rocket ship, lol. Sigh. Three hour wait if you blow it, and you'll get another chance to blow it on lap 2. Wonderful feeling. Not.