Talk:Motorfiesta 2/@comment-28169398-20180907180633/@comment-28169398-20180907215953

@Fandom - Group C this week with the FU Vanquish. I was saying that doing it with 1131311 would require a Group A run.

@ID 3333333 is one upgrade below recommended. It is doable, but very difficult, as it should be in my opinion if I am not at Recommended PR. After an hour or two, I considered doing the Drivetrain upgrade, but I became concerned that I put so much time into running at Monza that it would change brakepoints for me enough that it would make it worse, not better. When I saw that SpeedJunkie had passed with 1131311, I knew that the time was not impossible to pass with 3333333, so I kept at it, if gold wasn't a little tight this update I would have upgraded to 3533333 a few days ago, but I am trying to save where I can.

To answer your question, based on conversations I've had with Matt Edmonson on Reddit, it sounds like their main testing is done via simulation. According to him, they have a farm of computers that actually test every single event in the game before the update drops to make sure that changes don't break things. They are also able to run these tests individually. In response to a question I asked, he ran the simulator to answer the question.

This doesn't mean there aren't also human playtesters, but my guess is that the simulations set the Goals for these events, which would explain why the Cut on goal 7.4 that ME7 and SJ found works to produce a faster time. The sim likely does not test that option, otherwise my guess it the designer of the event would have made that whole area of track off-track.