Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 11)/@comment-37.6.72.25-20170109090108

Ok, so I had been having an easy time with the HK track and the formula e car. And then I get (on chapter 16 or 17 I think) a non-boss 2-lap cup race on the HK track with the condition "do not spin". I have a fully upgraded BMW Z4 sDrive35is and the race is marked as "easy".

So I start the race, determined to be careful so as not to spin. On the second turn I slow down and an aggressive bot comes from behind and hits me (and, of course, spins me). WTF, I say, but it's ok, never mind, I'm retrying. I get the same thing again twice, so I decide to go a bit faster and not let the bots get to me and spin me. And then I realize that the faster I drive, the faster THEY drive. Having completed all the previous races with no problem (the boss race I did was marked "Hard" and I did it easily with lots o battery to spare on my first run), I find it harder and harder to win this one. I risk a little bit and I spin, I get the red fail notice, but I decide to go on and finish the race to get to learn the KH track with the BMW. I did this 3 or 4 times, each time getting better, and the best I could manage was 4th place. I ended my run in frustration.

Since this is my first gauntlet, I wanted to ask, is this normal? And by this, I mean this crazy variance in difficulty among non-boss races, having extremely difficult races that are somehow marked as "easy"? Or is it just me being a bad driver? Or is it the HK track?

I am not very experienced, I have been playing for less than 5 months. But I have never missed a day, I'm at Legend farming both EK and EC. I've switched to driving with no assists since the McLaren MP4-X event and never looked back, so I guess I'm not that bad. Or maybe I am, but this abrupt change in difficulty really looks suspicious to me. Am I paranoid?

(I did not do a lot of bot control apart from finishing with a small margin, because the previous races were very easy for me. But I did make sure to finish EVERY race very close to second place. Could it be that that wasn't enough?)