DLCs difficulty?

[Siziolvec]

13 hours ago, closertim said:

I was racing earlier today,  blue sky , sunny as then out of the blue it's a monsoon. All in about half a laps duration. 

 

On 8/14/2018 at 7:42 PM, closertim said:

Can I have one event where it doesn't rain.  Sure the weather effects are good but man.  The difficulty of the dlc packs varies.  Some events are piss easy and some, mostly the time trials are quite hard.  

 

rain is the true final boss

[Niarbrebyc]

It's reallty exciting to see people talking about this game again.DC Plat trophy and all DLCs trophy is one of my most proud and favourite in my collection.Before DC,I never ever played any simulate-racing game,I used to play NFS a lot.I remember the first time I was stuck at Lykan Hotlap,I gave it up whole game.And then one year after I came back and determined to got the Platinum.After I beated Lykan Hotlap,it's just like I've transformed to a Super Saiyan :))

So I came here to share my opinion about the game.For the base game,I think most of the time we stuck with timed trail challenges,especially Venom Hotlap 1-2,actually I gave up VH1 and somehow accidently got 3 stars for VH2.
And for the most difficult DLC trophy must be One Man One Engine.For this one,I had to changed to manual drive to get the all 3 stars.Here my video for it:

 

 

I spent about 50H+ for total 128 trophies and I think it's soooo sweet at the end.

[daftprophet]

On 9/5/2018 at 4:20 AM, Niarbrebyc said:

It's reallty exciting to see people talking about this game again.DC Plat trophy and all DLCs trophy is one of my most proud and favourite in my collection.Before DC,I never ever played any simulate-racing game,I used to play NFS a lot.I remember the first time I was stuck at Lykan Hotlap,I gave it up whole game.And then one year after I came back and determined to got the Platinum.After I beated Lykan Hotlap,it's just like I've transformed to a Super Saiyan :))

So I came here to share my opinion about the game.For the base game,I think most of the time we stuck with timed trail challenges,especially Venom Hotlap 1-2,actually I gave up VH1 and somehow accidently got 3 stars for VH2.
And for the most difficult DLC trophy must be One Man One Engine.For this one,I had to changed to manual drive to get the all 3 stars.Here my video for it:

 

I spent about 50H+ for total 128 trophies and I think it's soooo sweet at the end.

 

Awesome vid!  I actually just finished that one last night and it was tough, but I also think I psyched myself out a bit.  The key for me was throttle control out of those corners.  

 

It's fun game and I'm determined to get all the dlcs as well.  I have like 5 more now.  One main gripe would be all the damn rain lol.

[Razzee-P]

The season pass contains all the 16 paid DLCs or I have to buy some of them separated?

[Leanthil]

On 2019. 01. 27. at 3:53 PM, Neyaru said:

The season pass contains all the 16 paid DLCs or I have to buy some of them separated?

I think two of them are not included.

[Razzee-P]

2 hours ago, Leanthil said:

I think two of them are not included.

 

Thanks for replying, but I already did 100% in this game. The two DLCs not included have their trophies linked to Driveclub Bikes. Odd idea. 

[X-x-TheMayor-x-X]

Is this game easier with the wheel? Because I'm struggling with the dualshock. I figured the all star per pack trophies would be somewhat reasonable since ~9% completion is relatively high for DLC.

[Fr_0zt]

Platinum 4-5/10

100% 7-8/10

 

Still waiting for DC Bikes to go on sale....

[djb5f]

14 hours ago, Vizard-Ichigo-- said:

Platinum 4-5/10

100% 7-8/10

 

Still waiting for DC Bikes to go on sale....

 

Difficulty, I would bump the platinum lower (a 3-4), nothing remotely difficult about it, just really grindy.

 

And I would be up the 100% to an 8-9.  Extremely challenging (and grindy).

[Fr_0zt]

9 minutes ago, djb5f said:

 

Difficulty, I would bump the platinum lower (a 3-4), nothing remotely difficult about it, just really grindy.

 

And I would be up the 100% to an 8-9.  Extremely challenging (and grindy).

 

Yeah, i think you are right.  Getting 100% on some of the DLC were a major problem, hope bikes isn't as bad.

Edited May 10, 2019 by Vizard-Ichigo--

[KainDMD]

On 2018. 09. 05. at 11:20 AM, Niarbrebyc said:

It's reallty exciting to see people talking about this game again.DC Plat trophy and all DLCs trophy is one of my most proud and favourite in my collection.Before DC,I never ever played any simulate-racing game,I used to play NFS a lot.I remember the first time I was stuck at Lykan Hotlap,I gave it up whole game.And then one year after I came back and determined to got the Platinum.After I beated Lykan Hotlap,it's just like I've transformed to a Super Saiyan :))

So I came here to share my opinion about the game.For the base game,I think most of the time we stuck with timed trail challenges,especially Venom Hotlap 1-2,actually I gave up VH1 and somehow accidently got 3 stars for VH2.
And for the most difficult DLC trophy must be One Man One Engine.For this one,I had to changed to manual drive to get the all 3 stars.Here my video for it:

 

 

I spent about 50H+ for total 128 trophies and I think it's soooo sweet at the end.

Forgive me for asking but I'm just curious, are you chinese or korean?

[soliunasm]

On 3/26/2018 at 11:49 PM, scary_atheist said:

It's when you get into three-starring the DLC events you start to see how shallow and unpolished this game is. The weather effects get on your nerves after a while. Like, I get that you're proud of them, but do you really need to have every second race take part in pouring rain? It makes it so damn hard to see, especially since the rain-on-windshield effects are not removed when your camera is outside the car! Most of the night stages have very poor track lighting which just adds to the irritation. Seriously, try loading up Bryggen or that mountaintop observatory in a snowstorm and see how you fare. Ridiculous.

 

The AI is fucking broken on some of these events, like you CAN NOT win it by driving cleanly. You have to add cheese somewhere to break ahead of the pack or typically 1-2 cars in front pull away too much to catch up. It doesn't help that the events are so goddamn short, like why couldn't it be three laps instead of TWO most of the time? The most consistent way I've found to get a good position early is to just fucking t-bone into the first sharp corner at speed, take the collision penalty but usually go from like 7-8th to 2-3rd place coming back out of that turn. This also works wonders to win the duel races. Just smash out the opponent in the first turn and you'll often get the lead you need to win, even with the heavy rubber-banding antics of the AI barreling up from behind you.

Speaking of rubber-banding, study what's going on in your rear-view mirror some time, good for a laugh. You'll see that car you CLEARLY passed at superior speed 10 seconds ago come up from behind you - which is interesting considering you were too far away to draft and have been flat on the throttle ever since. So naturally you block it, but then the car behind that one just pulls out wide the other side and gains an inexplicable amount of acceleration to attempt to overtake you instead. It's like they're predators hunting you in packs, I don't know whether to laugh or be infuriated. Same thing when you're overtaking, as soon as you pull out to overtake that clearly slower car it suddenly starts driving at your speed, like he just had the throttle halfway down to fuck with you. In addition to this, the AI drive like you're not there. They seem to try to take other AI into account - but NOT you. I've had so many clean sector requirements ruined to this fucking moronic AI just rubber-banding up behind and slamming into me. Also there are too many cars, 12 is too much for most of these tracks considering how narrow they get. Seriously some of the tracks narrow down to little more than bike paths in spots and you're somehow supposed to ram 12 supercars down them. It devolves into nothing more than bumper cars with Ferraris, and it's so GOD DAMN UNSATISFYING.

 

For whatever fucking reason when you're going for the hot lap events the gold star time always starts out a higher speed than you off the hot start. Some of the tracks start on long straights, and by the time you make it to the first corner you're easily a full second behind the gold time, which would ordinarily should not be possible to make up, but the devs seem to have added precisely one spot pr. event where the AI goes inexplicably slow for some reason, allowing you to catch up. Why they couldn't just have it start at the same speed as you I'll never be able to fathom.

 

And there's just so much DLC, I'm having to spend 5-6 hours pr. pack for all the trophies, sometimes more (fuck you and your mama AMG) and it's ALL THE FUCKING SAME. The same fucking shitty tracks, the same fucking rain, the same fucking lobotomized AI cars forcing you to restart OVER and OVER and OVER. There's very little difference between the cars of a certain class really, some are just a bit more steery than others (and some are a fucking broken mess like the Koenigsegg Regera). On one hand good, because once you know the tracks by heart you just have to re-tune your braking inputs to master it with a new car. On the other bad, because it's boring and pointless.

 

It's such a painful game to play.

The rubberbanding is the most annoying part of it all, like you said the guys in back of you basically cheat. You can be 5+ seconds ahead and playing perfectly and you'll have guys in second place like 20+ MPH faster than you out of nowhere at the part of the track where it's literally impossible to be doing anything but drifting/cornering, the only way I found to even combat this is to immediately drive in front of them and block their path, if you manage to do it and they bump into you they will pretty much instantly fall back and lose all speed and so will every other car behind it for about a full second or two.  There are some races where you just have to keep resetting the laps as well over and over again just to get close to the front because if the first and second place are more than two second ahead you will never catch up to them even playing perfectly. Another thing I noticed was bumping into the side of the car to push them into the gravel or dirt does nothing to them at all but if it happens to you you lose all your speed or spin out, it's disgustingly dumb. I've never once been able to overtake someone by that because they actually gain speed inside of the dirt most of the time.

Corner penalties are also idiotic. They are so random when they want to give it to you, sometimes you'll get it just nicking the corner, other times you can go across entire corners without being penalized and it makes no sense at all. I don't even understand why they're in the game, there's barely any maps that let you get a significant lead with a corner in the first place and any time you try you get penalized for it. You're already penalized heavily for driving on dirt or off-road so why punish the player even further? I don't even understand why corner cutting is penalized in the first place.

Collision penalties are even worse, the game outright encourages it in every single race due to the rubberbanding, you're not getting ahead without it, yet lightly bumping one guy way after you bumped into another one can randomly give you a collision penalty, running into a guy full speed is random if it gives you one or not, and sometimes you can smash into like four cars in a row within seconds and not get one but then do one out of nowhere with a love tap and it gives you the penalty.

I also don't understand why the single lap time trials are so brutal. Drift ones have the perfect level of difficulty, they're average and you can even mess up at times and still get the top one if you drift perfectly on some corners, and races are pretty reasonable most of the time with the rubberbanding being turned down and the cars usually easing up at times, but on time trials if you're not completely perfect, cutting every single corner, drifting perfectly, and at max speed you almost will never reach the lap time. It's also dumb how you can follow 1st 1:1 and it'll still somehow be faster than you. There's the Alpine Hot Lap in Redline where you can take the swerves up the mountain perfectly and even do it 1:1 like the other car does and not make it up the mountain at all faster than it even if you are a full second ahead for some reason. There's also Apex's level Apex Predator where 1st and 2nd literally start out two seconds faster than you. The only time the time trials feel reasonable is when you're on the single lap ones that stretch for two minutes or so, you can make a lot of mistakes and as long as you don't spin out you'll still be able to reach the best tier most of the time.

Then there's ones where they give you cars that drift pretty much every time they turn and go "Yeah, you need to beat that time with this hunk of junk.", Venom Hot Lap 2 is disgusting for this. You can literally just touch a direction and start hearing the tires begging to be put out of their misery. Hell, sometimes the cars can only go straight and if you attempt a turn you almost spin out. On Elements UK Performance Series 04 you can pick the Caterham R500 Superlight and that thing will fly into the air if you're going too fast or will start to dramatically drift into a spin out if you're not careful around corners even though it can handle corners well once you get used to the car.

Don't even get me started on the weather. They're fine for multiplayer since everyone is subject to it, but in singleplayer? Are you kidding me? Yeah dude, I love being blind 90% of the match by being in pitch darkness with rain or snow in my face as the AI is not affected by it at all. It makes the cockpit views unusable because 90% of your vision is covered in rain or snow and there's this random blur right in the center of your screen when it does it. Also, why in the world doesn't anyone put their windshield wipers on high? They all have it on low or medium at best when you're in the cockpit view Not to mention it makes hazards and turns impossible to see or judge. I also love when on the final turns of a race where they stick you riding into the sun.

Elements Trophy's second race is one of the worst offenders when it comes to weather, you are literally driving at 180 MPH or more for well over 70% of the race pinballing off of the various walls just to keep up, and then they have yellow and red turns that appear when your entire screen is covered in snow going at 120+ MPH. I literally could not see the road or where it was turning a majority of the time because of the snow. Then you get to race 3 of that same Trophy race and you get what's in this picture for the entire race.

 

It's one thing if everything feels fair, you know? The main tours barring Venom Hot Lap were all quite fair and reasonable, they just took a handful of tries but eventually you got them down pat. But then you get into the DLC and it's a complete crapshoot if you get something that's reasonable or just unfair and built against you. Hell, look at the difficulty disparity when it comes to the levels. I want you to play something like Venom Hot Lap 2 on Redline for a bit and then I want you to go to Apex and play Salt Flat Trials and see how reasonable and fair the time trial feels by comparison.

I just needed to get this off my chest, I remember the main tours being fun and the free DLCs they gave out were fun as well, but the paid DLC is all over the place in difficulty and seeing cars outright cheat or be unaffected by things you are affected by is so cheap.

[FR_Gigastor]

Damn, what a rant.

 

I personally don't see anything wrong with the game. Coming off Forza Horizon 4, this is a breath of fresh air : there's absolutely no fluff. You just start your race and it loads almost instantly, retries take even less time. You can even restart in a championship without redoing the whole thing. Also love the rush of adrenaline when you're going at 200+ mph and can't see shit.

 

I mean this is an arcade racer, but you still have to brake at the right time, moderate the throttle on extremely powerful cars like the Venom. I can't recall a single time where I thought the AI or the ghosts were rigged; it was always my mistake. There's maybe a couple of times in BIKES where the 1st guy is just too fast, but that's it.

 

 

[soliunasm]

2 hours ago, FR_Gigastor said:

Damn, what a rant.

 

I personally don't see anything wrong with the game. Coming off Forza Horizon 4, this is a breath of fresh air : there's absolutely no fluff. You just start your race and it loads almost instantly, retries take even less time. You can even restart in a championship without redoing the whole thing. Also love the rush of adrenaline when you're going at 200+ mph and can't see shit.

 

I mean this is an arcade racer, but you still have to brake at the right time, moderate the throttle on extremely powerful cars like the Venom. I can't recall a single time where I thought the AI or the ghosts were rigged; it was always my mistake. There's maybe a couple of times in BIKES where the 1st guy is just too fast, but that's it.

 

 

I personally like driving around and I like how it usually handles, it's just that there's always something in every single race that drives me nuts, it's usually the time trials that are the most annoying thing though due to the dev times being from a second lap speed rather than the first lap (They should really have the speed at the same kind you could get when coming off of a second lap). I'm all for a challenge, just not for a "Play perfectly and take every corner perfectly" types of challenges which happens more frequently than I'd like. I am grateful for the retry round option though, I hadn't played in years so when I came back I expected having to restart the entire championship and was pleasantly surprised, that's actually a great thing.

 

I'm constantly noticing the guys just blatantly cheating and I've had multiple challenges where the 1st and 2nd place are in the lead despite cutting corners for several minutes and never stopping so I have to restart again. I've even had guys go from 2nd place and not being on my rear view mirror to right next to me on a straightaway despite me flooring it. They don't always do that, there are multiple straightaways where I get off scot-free and don't have that happen, but I've had it happen enough that I've noticed it.

[FR_Gigastor]

Don't forget that slipstreaming goes both ways, they can also use it. I remember a DLC race where you have to reach a certain speed in a slow-ass hatchback, there's basically only one straightaway that allows it. I had to stay behind the pack and use slipstreaming instead of being first.

[soliunasm]

2 minutes ago, FR_Gigastor said:

Don't forget that slipstreaming goes both ways, they can also use it. I remember a DLC race where you have to reach a certain speed in a slow-ass hatchback, there's basically only one straightaway that allows it. I had to stay behind the pack and use slipstreaming instead of being first.

Oh for sure, but this usually happens when they're far enough away that it doesn't even factor in. You'll just see them blitzing towards you like a bat out of Hell at a speed that makes no sense considering your sports car can't even go that fast and you've been booking it for a while. They only begin drafting when they're relatively close.

[Angus1343]

4 hours ago, FR_Gigastor said:

Damn, what a rant.

 

I personally don't see anything wrong with the game. Coming off Forza Horizon 4, this is a breath of fresh air : there's absolutely no fluff. You just start your race and it loads almost instantly, retries take even less time. You can even restart in a championship without redoing the whole thing. Also love the rush of adrenaline when you're going at 200+ mph and can't see shit.

 

I mean this is an arcade racer, but you still have to brake at the right time, moderate the throttle on extremely powerful cars like the Venom. I can't recall a single time where I thought the AI or the ghosts were rigged; it was always my mistake. There's maybe a couple of times in BIKES where the 1st guy is just too fast, but that's it.

 

 

Agreed. I cant believe how overblown the difficulty of this game is being talked about. There's one or two mildly tricky races, and most are fairly easy. 

Edited May 20, 2019 by Angus1343

[soliunasm]

5 minutes ago, Angus1343 said:

Agreed. I cant believe how overblown the difficulty of this game is being talked about. There's one or two mildly tricky races, and most are fairly easy. 

They're not ridiculously difficult or anything (Venom laps are just frustrating), it's just frustrating how multiple things come to give you a bad day is all and having them happen over and over for hours at a time just ends up getting to you at points. I just really hate the rubberbanding and weather effects the most.

[EmperorElfenSky]

Personally, I feel that while the DLCs absolutely has an increased difficulty curve, they're doable given some time spend practicing. I'd say at most you'd spend 10 hours per DLC, and that's probably a gross overestimate. Time trials increase the most in difficulty and required precision, imho. Except for venom, I was able to do most of the trials first-second try in the main game, while the DLC's are taking from 30mins to an hour or practice, sometimes even more.
 

On 2/15/2019 at 5:31 PM, Neyaru said:

Thanks for replying, but I already did 100% in this game. The two DLCs not included have their trophies linked to Driveclub Bikes. Odd idea. 

You can have a maximum of 128 trophies per game, which is why they had to put the last two DLCs into the Bikes list.

Edited May 20, 2019 by EmperorElfenSky

[Bairuto]

I'm having a great time with the dlc packs at the moment, only completed 3 of them, but I'd say they're taking me about 1.5 hours each on average. Really great game and I think the difficulty is overblown as well, haven't tried the venom one yet but everything else has taken inbetween 1- max 5 tries.

[soliunasm]

Finally managed to finish all the DLC barring whatever came outside of the season pass (So no Bikes, No Limits, and Finish Line). Overall you're looking at roughly 2-8 hours per DLC, some might take more due to the difficulty but in general this is the timeframe for each one, 3 or 4 hours is usually what you're going to be getting though because some DLC have really long laps here and there. In terms of the easiest ones, All Star, RPM, Velocity, Horsepower, Ignition, and Photo-Finish are the ones you're looking at. Apex and Sakura are also arguable but I'd consider them moderate more than anything. The two Lamborghini DLCs also felt quite easy because the cars handle like a dream and can both turn and accelerate to max so quickly but they had some medium difficulty challenges here and there. Outside of that it's mainly in a middleroad where you have a mix of easy and average requirements occasionally with a hard one thrown in. The rest I list here I would consider the hardest DLCs of the lot:

• Midnight can be rough on some levels but it's mostly fine, it really depends how good you are at driving at night at high speeds coupled with rain occasionally butting in.
• Elements is just painful the whole way through though Venom Hot Lap 2 isn't as difficult as the first one but it's still a pain. The weather effects really get annoying and painful the further into the DLC you go.
• Evolution in general is a very irritating DLC because a majority of the times seem like dev or tester times just thrown in there and several of them can be just brutal, particularly with Crash Bandipur and Smooth Finish. The Wombat missions are also a bit annoying but once you understand how it drifts, how to use the nitro, and that you don't get corner penalties for it it becomes much simpler, just expect a lot of resets because the thing spins out so easily when you try taking some corners.
• Torque has a mission called French Connection where you have to reset at the start if you notice the car is faster than normal (You'll learn what normal is after a couple resets and like 30 seconds of driving each time), you have to cut every single corner, and you have to make it in front of the car roughly near the start of lap 2 if you want to reach the time limit since the course is quite short. You can delay the lap a bit if you know how to abuse the AI which is basically just driving in front of it as it gets right next to you which causes it to fall back if you need more time for the lead requirement.
• Unite In Speed has another Wombat Time Trial but this time you're on narrow paths and it's so easy to bounce off of things or misjudge corners with it but once you understand how to actually maneuver it all it's mostly fine. The #Unite In Speed Trophy Championship is also ridiculous for a really idiotic reason, the requirements are not difficult, those are simple, the problem is actually catching up to 1st on any of the rounds, sometimes 2nd and 3rd are even stupidly far ahead and will require multiple resets before you finally get a decent and slow pattern for the lead cars. I reset the first round about twelve times and the closest I ever got to 1st place even cutting all corners was about +1.3 seconds. Round 2's first place is somewhat simple to pass on the second lap and doesn't rubberband once you do it, but round 3's 1st place you can lap in the second lap but then he will constantly be on your tail and randomly gain speed boosts at multiple times during the course for no discernible reason. Thankfully you don't need 45 points or anything, just 28, but it should be mentioned if you want to shoot on the safe side.
• AMG is definitely up there. Many challenges start doing the multiple requirement thing All Star started which usually include things like Clean Sectors in short maps while also requiring you to get first or second place, so it's mainly just finding that one section of map to perfect and then hoping you can overtake everyone left in the last bits. Obviously One Man One Engine is the standout here for being difficult, but compared to the Venom Hot Laps it's a breeze. The entire method to beating it is as simple as letting go of R2 when going to take corners, taking corners a bit earlier than you're used to, and only using L2 when necessary. Once you get past the first two sectors cleanly the third one should still be treated as if you're going clean as well. You can very easily overtake the gold time by about two seconds within the first two sectors and then use that to be a bit more brazen but make sure you never get a corner penalty because that ends a run. The most important part about sector 3 is that with a mix of letting go of R2 and tapping L2 you can take all the corners mostly cleanly (Feel free to skip a bit of the corner to cut more time which the AI doesn't). If the car starts fighting against you when you're trying to turn start tapping R2 rather than holding it until it evens out.

I'd personally recommend you go Time Trial, then Race, then Drift (Basically as a way to relax), and then finally the Championship races. The Time Trial missions are always annoying and difficult (Though sometimes you get an easy one or a long single lap one which is a sigh of relief) so I found it's better for your experience to get those ones out of the way first to not have to worry about them last unless you really can't finish them at the moment because the burden of not having to do something like One Man One Engine or Venom Hot Lap last is a load off of your mind. Races are almost always fair and easy, there's a couple here and there that are 7+ laps but that's few and far between and the AI are usually less aggressive and cheat-y than usual. Championships are basically just like Races with slightly more aggressive AI and requirements but nothing too bad.

 

Some tips:

• Do your best to cut corners, you won't incur a penalty most of the time when you're at a yellow or red turn, the ghosts never seem to do it so it's usually very good at getting you extra milliseconds, and there's times where you can just straight up ignore having to zig-zag in certain courses which saves so much time. You have to learn how to do it though, there's a certain leeway to the corners that is given to you but if you go too far inward it'll penalize you, and it will always penalize you if you just cut through half of the turn. The penalties are usually the amount of time you would have saved plus a second or two.
• Bouncing off of walls is a very valid strategy and works a lot more than you'd expect, particularly in time trials. If you ram into a wall using the side of your car or the side of your fender at a medium speed (You'll know what this sweet spot feels like after enough time) it will never incur a collision penalty but fling you off of it at close to full speed meaning you get to retain a really high speed on red turns that the ghosts always take in full or you can use it to retain speed off of a corner you took way too quickly (Or intentionally took quickly). You can pair this up with really fast cars that aren't really affected by gravel like Lamborghinis or Ferraris for instance to save a second at times. It gets even sillier in certain maps like I think Scotland (The area with all the crumbled castles) where you have straightaways and green/yellow turns that expect you to slow down or not cut them because you can just slam into a wall at full speed and retain so much speed and acceleration multiple times in a row. Obviously the usage for this is more situational, but use your best judgement on when to do it and you'll most likely get ahead by a good amount.
• Likewise, bouncing off of cars at corners when trying to overtake them is also something you should consider in races with the AI. Not only does it let you get ahead of the competition, but hitting them can cause them to get knocked off the path or even slow you down and redirect your car in a proper direction so it's really useful on yellow and red turns at the start of a race where you can pull it off. It really helps you get ahead of them as well. Unless you are going at a really high speed it usually doesn't incur a penalty.
• Car stats do matter, especially acceleration so always pay attention to those when choosing something for a race if it's allowing you to pick cars. The KBS cars are more if you feel comfortable with constantly switching between the two modes.
• When it comes to KBS cars, with the KBS active you will go faster but have less handling (Especially on turns) while with it off you will have more drag (Meaning a slower speed) but better control of your vehicle around turns.
• Either use the full car view or the hood view when you're past the first two or three DLCs that were originally released. The weather effects become unmanageable in a cockpit view, your windshield wipers can never keep up with the rain/snow, it makes the turns feel way farther than they actually are, and it blocks a significant portion of your view. Rain and snow will also tend to creep into almost all races midway through the first lap or in the second onward.
• In races with the AI pay attention to the opposing racers in either the mirror or by the arrow at the bottom of the screen. The way the opposing AI works is when they're trying to overtake you you'll see them start going very fast and then veer left or right to do it via magic speed powers even if they haven't been drafting you. If you drive in that direction and block them it will 90% of the time cause them to back off for roughly a second or so and then they'll try gaining on you again due to how the rubberbanding works while 10% of the time they actually spin out because they fling themselves into a wall and then straight into the wall on the opposite side of them which sometimes causes pile ups and delays for your opponents as well.
• In races with the AI always rush at the start smashing into the sides of other cars and being as aggressive as possible without getting a collision penalty. If you let 1st, 2nd, and even sometimes 3rd get too far ahead it's usually too difficult to actually catch up to them or even outright impossible if the game really doesn't like you because they can just shoot so far ahead even if you're in a faster car or going at the same speed on the same road.
• Remember that you don't need to do every single requirement in one go. Clean Lap requirements in particular can be tough to do at the speeds needed for first (Though it's definitely always possible, just requires you to be on top of your turns and braking) so you can always get first and then do another run dedicated just to doing that.
• Tapping R2 is sometimes better than alternating between L2 and R2 when it comes to taking certain corners. This is more something you'll learn as you play and is usually done when you're trying to make light adjustments without stopping, but it's really useful at taking certain corners on some maps, particularly the racing courses since they usually have a couple that allow you to keep going rather than forcing you to slow down a bit.

[Niarbrebyc]

On 5/13/2019 at 2:58 AM, KainDMD said:

Forgive me for asking but I'm just curious, are you chinese or korean?

I'm Vietnamese my friend.