Ah yes, the solution to the ridiculously overpowered meta in this game is to literally only race in one class.
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I get these feels too mate but in another area of the game: I’m mostly annoyed that most trucks in the game seem perpetually locked into off-road bits for most things, and don’t really have good street treatments. …for instance most of the trucks in the game where you cannot put Street/Sport/Race suspensions, can’t even put road tires on some of them at all. Their aero upgrades are all off-road themed exclusively.
It’s like the 90’s Hot Trucking phase of car culture never happened. It’s baffling that stuff like the Lola race car is an off-road meta, but I can’t make a slammed C20 or Jimmy street/road truck. Just baffling combinations of either 'all the tires but no suspension options to compliment them or ‘some suspensions but no tires to complement them’ and ‘zero aero options on some trucks’ sorta things, while almost every road going super/hyper/race cars get all options.
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GMC Syclone and GMC K5 Jimmy are two of the best AWD cars in A class road racing.
Jimmy is circuit only but the lap times it can do in some tracks are insane. It also works in Volcan sprint and Panoramica. The reason that you will probably never see it online is that driving it is not a nice experience and it’s useless in most of sprints or tracks like Plaza Azul. Also there is a major lack of available tunes to download.
GMC Syclone is the fastest AWD car in A class and it is faster than the Bone Shaker too. It still gets beaten by RWD powerbuilts but it’s faster than nearly anything else and is has the advantage of massive launch so it gets in front. The reason that it doesn’t appear online is probably that it doesn’t feel nice to drive either and it’s easy to mess up a race. An Alfa Romeo 155 for example is somewhat slower than the Syclone but it’s a much better to drive so more consistent online.
Other such cars are possible in road racing like the International Scout which is a more balanced Jimmy but it slides way too much. Big Ford SD-F450 is surely competitive in B class but i haven’t tried myself at all. And there are more cases of pick-ups and SUVs that are good on road racing A and B class. Jaguar SUV is good on Plaza circuit for example.
From my experience the worst cars for online road racing usually are the electric ones (no matter the drivetrain). I tried the i4 online and it was shockingly bad. Also some cars like Dodge Charger 15 are also quite terrible online.
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…I’m not concerned with the trucks being competitive in a given class/race type… I’m concerned with having the same number of options for trucks as we get for super/hyper cars that in real life have never been off-road cars. It’s just sorta baffling from a game mechanics perspective why they seemingly ignore this part of truck culture… It’s also sorta sad that their concept of “truck culture” seems to be what someone outside of truck culture thinks of truck culture, specifically U.S. truck culture today.
Every truck is not a Bro-Dozer.
e.g. I cannot do this:
I’ll admit, it does bother me that I can turn any car into an offroader, but can’t turn any car into a street racer.
It does seem like an egregious double standard that’s arbitrarily dictated on the game.
In my eyes, there are currently bigger fish to fry than this, but it is on my complete list of things that I’d change about this game of I could.
I just gotta pick my battles and prioritize, you know?
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The Syclone has sport and race suspension but you shouldn’t use race suspension in A class anyway as it seems it ruins most cars.
Meanwhile i tried the Chevrolet K10 and it doesn’t have sport or race suspension but it’s actually nice on road. Not so much on A class but in B class it seems that is capable for competitive times so you can make it a road or street car despite the fact it doesn’t have sport and race suspension.
It won’t look how you want but it will be good for road racing.
Qualification was: Some trucks, not all trucks. And - almost every single car in the game gets all options.
Syclone: …well, you tried, but: that is a factory street truck that never had a factory off-road treatment, but I can make it an off-road truck in this game. …e.g.: this is actually another point for my case.
And lastly again: my critique has nothing to do with the aggregate competitiveness of these vehicles in races*, it has to do with giving more cars more options, and pointing out the deficiency in the design when super/hyper cars that have never ever been made off-road can be made off-road cars, but I cannot lower my Jimmy as in the pic above, and have to suffer with gimmick tuning options that never quite get the looks right.
*I also don’t believe the reason they aren’t is because they would become some new meta.
1: who cares, who would really miss the bone shaker as the all time A class meta? Anyone? No? OK!
2: They already have tuning options that meta cars so bad, they ban the cars from races - so, do that then if it’s so egregious.
3: you could just balance the game using the fine tune approach instead of just ham-fistedly blocking things.
It’s an argument in principle certainly. I’m not baffled because I can’t use these in races, I’m baffled because from a game mechanics perspective, there is little sense in this decision on its face.