Talk:Season 5 (2018-19)/@comment-29898480-20180715232427/@comment-90.252.104.88-20180719143428

I tried the Season-5 final race, the New Stork 20-lapper, 3 times with the same result i.e. I used too much battery (20%) in the first 3 laps getting to the front and then ridiculous battery management for the remaining laps whilst getting beaten up by the overly aggressive bots resulting in not winning (or even finishing) the race.

I then decided to do some bot-management to make the bots less aggressive and/or slower. I went through the series and came last at every Autocross and Speed Snap event. I then re-tried the 20-lapper. I got to the front at th of the second lap and then, with about 66% battery left, aimed for 3.5% battery consumption per lap which I managed only by tap-lifting around the whole lap except for an additional squirt of acceleration after the chicane onto the long curving straight or ifnthe bots got too close. The bots were initially close but I managed to put some distance after passing some lapped back-markers .. in general the bots don’t seem to cope well with overtaking (lapped cars), something which FM might improve in future releases. I started the final lap with 9% battery so was able to go flat-out.

Not an enjoyable race and I can’t believe that’s how they have to race/drive the real cars. Given that other races at New York seem to work on about 6% battery per lap I do wonder if FM have incorrectly set the battery for this race and it should actually be 99%, maybe they’ll revise it next release.