Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20160527165445/@comment-192.41.131.253-20160530112743

There are two main problems I have with gauntlets:

1) It absolutely feels like a grind. It wasn't so bad this time because there was enough time, and the first bosses paid enough. I didn't like it at all for either the Mustang or the 2015 911 RSR.

2) It's random to a silly point. You can get a silly easy challenge followed by a truly impossible one.

It seems pretty obvious now that the difficulty rating only refers to the PR of the competing cars. I haven't seen the code, but I wouldn't be suprised theh code picks at random, without checks or consistency, circuit, race kind, and conditions. It'd be easy to blacklist no-collision bits from autocrosses. In a balancing way, ovals shouldn't get broken steering right, or break the windows in circuits where you don't have to brake.

And please, avoid 22-car grids for boss races in Laguna Seca.

PS: I did pay 20 gold for a skip last gauntlet, to save 24k points. I was near the end, and next restart I'd win the car. I couldn't be bothered to race for an extra hour on this grinding fest.