Talk:Furai Rising/@comment-84.24.8.99-20170808142929/@comment-27123099-20170809001754

If you regularly play with Assists Off and Tilt B, you'll be at an advantage. It's a necessity to beat Stage 8 with 1332323.

I usually race Tilt A, Brake Assist Low, TC On and I had to learn to drive this car with no assists and Tilt B in order to beat Stage 8 (I also had to upgrade to 1332333). Fortunately, this car is really easy to drive with no assists, it's extremely forgiving. Still takes time to learn though, but at least it's not a drifty, slippery car.

I'm dreading a Special Event requiring similar skills, but with a much less forgiving car. I'm thinking this will be the new norm for FM. We already see them relying more and more on LTS's because of their mandatory GC requirements. So, it's only a matter of time before they ratchet up the Special Event difficulty to try to force greater GC spends on those as well. Hope I'm wrong, but it's slowly been trending that way.