Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-220.233.18.203-20141114235742/@comment-26249703-20150705100726

There's a lot of great suggestions here. I, though, would prefer they concentrated on fixing issues before adding more content. Seems a lot of people have issues with cars and/or upgrades going missing, there's still audio issues with some of the cars that either sound like they only have one gear (e.g. Veyron) or rev way past their limiter in first and second (e.g. Veyon again). Some cars also skip 5th gear when revving up (e.g. Porsche RSRs and most LMP1s) and the Clio just stays in its final gear unless the engine speed goes under something like 1,850 revs.

The shifting is a bit disappointing too: in the cockpit view, you can see that manual boxes are treated as sequentials and paddleshifts are treated as automatics. It may be more effort than they're willing to put into it as I've never really seen anyone bring it up. Another small gripe I have are the shadows, which look awkward at times: most obvious is through Stavelot at Spa, where the shadow in the cockpit view literally skips across in increments. There's a few visual glitches here and there, like in the Vantage GTE where the road surface is reflected in the sun strip at the top of the windscreen and some cars reflect what is above the roof through to the interior as if it was translucent.

The collision system at high-speeds is very weird, cars bouncing off obstacles and retaining quite high velocity, sometimes going backwards a few dozen feet, or the overly aggressive bots that PIT manoeuvre you when being overtaken is quite frustrating. Those two issues probably are here to stay though. On that subject, In elimination events, cars eliminated before a corner will kamikaze into it rather than braking, probably the same thing as in Endurance, where you slow down hard if you were braking when the timer runs out or can't brake if you weren't already. I get that you can't accelerate anymore, but why take away the ability to coast or brake if approaching a corner at too high a speed?

Split time to car in front of you or 2nd place whilst in first seems a sensible inclusion. This is all without mentioning the exclusive OM/RT/WTTT (and elusive) rewards and the GC chokepoint.

Despite all this, it's still one of the most immersive racing experiences.