Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30967537-20190108000156/@comment-30967537-20190110175913

I’m struggling, not just with the WTTT this week, but also trying to understand why anybody likes this track, is enjoying the WTTT this week or is managing to put in consistent (good) laps!

I have spent (at least) the last hour and tried literally hundreds of times but have not completed one lap, not a single lap, even when I’ve made a mistake but thought that I’d carry on to try to gain experience at later sections of the track I’ve still made more mistakes!

I dislike the track with it’s horrible sets of tightening corners (which are not designed to flow, they’re designed to catch you out), the hairpins and the lack of (visible) braking markersq.

I dislike the car which is too fast and frantic, which grips and then suddenly lets go without warning.

I hate the ghost which keeps jumping in front of me if I make the slightest mistake and ensures that I then screw up the next few corners because it obscures my view.

Even with all of those, far and away the worst thing is that I have literally no idea what the car is going to do at any corner and it seems to behave so inconsistently. There are some who will respond that this is down to different throttle/brake/steering inputs etc but given that there is zero feedback of what the car is doing, how am I supposed to know?

Seriously, I still can’t even reliably get round the first corner, I am not consciously doing anything different, but sometimes the car turns in too quickly and I cut the corner, other times it doesn’t turn in at all, sometimes it understeers out of the corner, other times it oversteers, sometimes I’m 0.15s slower, other times I’m 0.15s faster, and that’s just the first corner ... this track has 20+ corners all waiting to catch you out!

In my last session, if I got through the esses (most times I didn’t) amd didn’t fly off the track at the hairpin onto the back straight and didn’t get the braking wrong at the end of the back straight, I was repeatedly ahead and then the car would just go sideways for no apparent reason and another lap would be ruined.

If you don’t know what a car is doing or how it will behave in a given situation and the game gives you zero feedback, how are you meant to drive it? That is my frustrating experience of this car at this track. If I do continue to bang my head against the proverbial wall and (think monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare) finally put in a better lap, how can I take any pleasure or satisfaction in it when it seems more like luck and I know I won’t be able to replicate it?