Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-112.206.122.20-20171111235109/@comment-31433854-20171113134620

Jgonzalez85 wrote: Mugwumps wrote: I enjoyed day 7 except for 7.5. The rest was just solid driving at 133133. I had some 8s to spare on 7.2 and could easily get slowed in time for 7.4. 7.5 was a nightmare, though. Just another silly BS monkey challenge. That took more time to get past than the rest of day 7 combined. 7.5 is hard if you try to beat it the regular way. The key was to block the first cars as soon as the race starts for a few seconds, so they don't go too far away. If you managed that, then it was easy. I did it with 1331313 That's what I tried and eventually worked. I had a hard time blocking successfully, though, possibly as I use bonnet view so I only know where the car immediately behind me is. Anyway, the point was the other four challenges in Stage 7 were about good driving; 7.5 was about gimmics.

As to it would have been better to have 7.2 be no off track but a longer time, that would have made it worse. Then people like Jan who know all the off-track places that are allowed would put in flyers w/o spending gold and people who don't know the tricks and/or use assists, would be way, way slower and be pissed off. Remember the R32 event, or even the '17 RSR. They were both like this where solid TT laps could get you a long way but it was a nightmare for non-WTTT folks. As it was, 7.2 needed enduro laps, not TT laps. Yeah, it's not 'real' but then neither is some artificial flag. Its at least 'real' within the scope/physics of the game.

Oh, and FWIW, the Venom upgraded for series completion could hit the speed requirement 3 places a lap. Not to say it wasn't a PITA.