Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-85.124.31.35-20180330071423/@comment-31526827-20180808213820

BostjanZ wrote: DrestinBlack wrote: You are going to LOVE the new OMP, no more meanies ramming you. They can’t rouch you. No one can. Everyone just races around everyone else as if they weren’t even there. OMP is now wttt with 1-7 ghosts, except you don’t always start at pole position. Yes, but the main difference is that you will be driving more than one lap. I realy hope it will be longer format racing like at least 5 to 7 min, now it's 2 to 3 min. The longer the races the more ones skills are shown... The problem remains is that turning all cars into ghosts completely destroys the concept of multplayer, why even notice they are there, heck, why are they even ther at all. ALL that is being calculated is: ok, 321 go - .... and your finish time is? OK compare.

It's a time trial with multilaps.

Now, watch a real race. In order to pass someone you have to have skill, NOT just a faster car. You have to go around them on the inside or outside and therefore avoid cutting the corner or going so wide you lose your speed advantage. And you don't get to edge up 1 inch at a time for 3 laps. You have to make an entire car lenghts advantage (and then a tiny bit) before you can slice back in front of the guy in front of you. With ghost I can get on someone's "tail" and then jsut slowly slowly slow work my way THROUGH his car until I am ahead of him. That is NOT how racing works! There is a challenge introduced by having to go around another car - that is suddenly gone. THAT'S why time trial times are always better than race times, they don't have to deal with distractions. Multiplayer is about the distractions. They could have made it so hitting other cars causes no damage, no spin outs, no slipping, but, I'm sorry, running into someone else 100 mph faster than they are going should have an impact (pun intended) and you just have to learn to deal with it.

My concern for cheating in OMP began and ends with stats hacking - that is unacceptable. I didn't have a problem with crashes - I just learned how to avoid them and became a better driver.