Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20161102200910/@comment-29084125-20161107091329

ME7 wrote: What did they change in the game for this "unintentional" glitch to occur?? Been thinking about that too. Read in another post here that someone claimed it was due to the MP4-X.... so I went with that and decided to give it the old once over (besides, it's better then thinking they did this just for peeps to spend more $ on upgrades).

Best I can figure all the cars handling characteristics could/most likely to be an algorithm of car class / top speed / acceleration / braking / grip... the items listed on each car we own. However, this is a "global" change to all cars... not just one... so it seems that the algorithm was changed. Why do that? Look at the MP4-X stats... unlike anything in the game, and probably not ever imagined to occur in the design matrix of the original software... so these much higher then normal figures don't fit the equation (i.e. With grip, stopping power, acceleration & top speed, the MP4-X may have been taking corners at full throttle or some wired crap like that). So adjusting the global setting would be the only way since the data figures used to model the car could not be changed without them being visible - and I'm sure they had to promise these to McClaren for licensing. Testing may have been done, but with people unfamiliar with driving with assists. So they probably just lacked experience on what they should be looking for. But forgetting to compare lap times seems a little strange, and something I havent resolved yet.

Best I can figure... sounds like about as good an explanation as anything. But on the other hand, it could just be due to monkey farts :-)