Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38573979-20191210213649/@comment-31044517-20191211144548

Mcguyrej wrote: In hindsight maybe car "behavior" was a better question to ask. My observations were based on my experience at CFS as that has been my farm go to for at least the last 18 months so I feel pretty comfortable with the car/track setup. I considered the going from F1 to road collection driving experience possibly influencing my perspective and waited until i had run some older cars before running CFS each day. Still seeing some changes. I think the bot contact, particularly at the beginning of the race is impacting the car more than I am aware and causing slower times as suggested above. So if the unintended change in bot behavior is the culprit, and it is known, is this the new norm or will it be corrected?

Thanks for everyone's input.

I didn't notice any grip changes either coz I always try to drive extremely cleanly. No off track, no contact, no nothing.

But then, as soon as I heard it might be a degradation of car's performance, I tried to go off track often and make contacts with bots etc. I can confirm now that going off track, contact with bots, crashes etc degrades the car's performance faster than previously. As someone said above even a lateral contact with a bot degrades the car's performance now. Previously slight side contacts with other cars wouldn't affect the car's performance, acceleration, top speed etc.

And whether it was intentional or not, I think it's a very good thing. It encourages players to stay on track and drive cleanly or suffer the consequences. In real racing going off track reduces your grip immensely and crashes take you out of the race.

In all, I think it's good that the car's performance suffers more if you go off track or crash into other bots or crash off track.