Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2606:A000:494E:4B00:957:D35:9D17:2760-20180821052526/@comment-27123099-20180823172920

185.205.224.155 wrote: Montoym wrote: Do you mean winning overall, or per race?

I won several races last night, though only 1 with the Venom GT. I won most with the Regera. The Venom GT is fast for sure, but just too hard to control IMO. The Regera is much more forgiving and nearly as fast. Plus, I have none of the 3 current cars FU'd, most upgrades I have on any of them is 20/30 with the Regera (PR 90.0).

While having a FU car will help in general, considering the wide range of players involved in the OMP, skill seems to be helpful enough. At least in my limited experience early on in this iteration. Knowing the tracks, not going off-track, and running a clean race seemed to reward me well, even without highly upgraded cars.

I mean really, what are the odds that you'll be up against 7 other competitors who all have FU cars? Is it possible? Sure. Likely though? Probably not. Look at WTT. You can see the PR there. Scroll down and you find thousands of M-B C11 fully upgraded. Cost about the same as a Regera. So I think it is very possible. How much money did you spend upgrading the Regera? Well, perhaps I mis-staed it then. It's not necessarily an issue with running into a player with an FU car. Buying all the upgrades doesn't make you a better driver, just covers up some of the mistakes. Also, as the top tiers of WTTT are for 0.1% and 1% of the players, that means your odds of running into one of those players in an OMP race is equally small. Dont' equate FU with being a good driver or setting a good time For instance, I know on WTTT, my C11 isn't anywhere close to FU and I'm surrounded on the leaderboard with many other C11's upgraded well beyond mine (a few even FU). It's why I've always felt (though I know it will never happen, for various reasons), that it would be awesome to have the WTTT ranked by PR. You race against other players whose car has the same PR as you. That's a far more fair system than putting everybody into the same pool.

I see it slightly differently with OMP however. Due to the instant race aspect of it, people can't tailor a run to squeeze out the best time, it's more of a "run what you brung" mentality. There's no chance to retry multiple times to squeeze out tenths, or hundredths, of a second on corners. I feel that's more fair in general.

Additionally, now that I've had more time to play the new OMP, my statements from above aren't 100% accurate any longer. Competition has increased a fair amount and I have a tougher time getting into the top 2 spots usually now. But, on the other hand, as long as I don't go off-track (which is rare but happens), I can be in the top 4 pretty easily and win on occasion.

However, the 2 biggest issues I've run into are the following. 1. - I am virtually always in the back row or two at the start. I've played probably 100 races under the new system and I can count on one hand how many times I've been in the front row or two. There doesn't seem to be an equalizing factor here to equate for the difference in start positions, so I'm sure I'm losing some time because of it. Now that we're all ghosts, why not just start everyone at the front?? Would look odd, but no reason it couldn't be done. 2. - Whenever I'm ahead of another player by a small margin (roughly 15yds or less), I will always, ALWAYS, finish behind that player when the times are tallied. I've never once had this go in my favor. Additionally, whenever, I'm the following car and I finish within that same distance, I never get the benefit either. So, it screws me both ways. It's likely due to some lag, but it's frustrating as heck for sure.