Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 5)/@comment-27667286-20160426033941/@comment-164.11.42.131-20160426035509

It's just not clear what the idea is behind it. What do they want you to accomplish from completing it? Yes, you get rewards, but it seems we're being railed onto a track where we have to do the first few bosses over and over again, not reaching the last bosses because of too high a performance gap, or unforgiving Special Conditions which only apply to the player.

Besides, we have a "rival" in Magnus. But what kind of rivality is it, really? We start in last place, without fail, whereas he starts first, every time. He very quickly gets to a higher performance than just max PR with R$ and doesn't have to comply with any sort of restrictions, he can just lead the race with empty tarmac in front of him. The only thing we get from beating him is the opportunity to actually obtain the points we've earned in the (much fairer) challenges prior to racing him and the 20 cars between him and us. It was a nice checkpoint in the first 2/3 Gauntlets, now the challenges are almost easy, followed by an inordinately difficult Boss challenge, that FM really can't expect us to win the first time, every time, especially past the 5th boss or so.

They're really making us work for the free Gold, the Vanquish is really only there to make the concept of the event work (otherwise what would we race against Magnus). As the poll indicates, roughly 80% of us already have the car.