Talk:Formula Future/@comment-141.0.12.132-20161120115914

Well I finally finished this event with a PR 143.1 car that has 24/28 upgrades, 7333332. I probably could have done with 7323332, maybe even with 7323331. The biggest mistake I made was not realizing early on that upgrading Engine 4 for 225GC would unlock THREE subsequent R$ upgrades (this is a historic precedent in Real Racing 3, so forgive me for not checking the car page on the wiki as I had assumed a GC-$R-GC system in place) - used wisely, that could have spared me at least 2, if not 3 GC upgrades.

Anyway, I still had to skip 8.4 for 70GC because Magnus was just too fast, and no way to slow bots, thanks FM. Yeah I know there are tilt-b, no-brake experts here who hug the rumble strip, memorize braking points, never skid once, and win, but not all of us are talented to that degree especially with a F1 car, and especially those of us who havent progressed enough in the career to even reach the Ferrari F1 events to gather experience there; some of us had only raced the Lotus F1 concept earlier and of course the antique F1 in the Master series.

Long story short, I expected gold upgrades to help players like me but they did practically nothing. I cloud saved and fully upgraded the car (last 4 gold upgrades which is like 700+ gold in total) to see if it gave me an edge over Magnus in 8.4 and...not really. Following the race line / memorizing braking points etc. made far more of a difference than 700 gold worth of upgrades do, hence I think FM has been very harsh with this event on us, especially when you consider that the game's entire drive physics is messed up right now and needs fixing.