I do not understand why the practice laps were changed from allowing players an additional 10 mins after the X laps to ending the very moment the car completes the X lap but it is bad. The reason it is bad is because this is practice and players completing the practice have many opportunities to ended it or skip it so forcing the end after X lap isn’t necessary.
Why does single player practice end so abruptly now? You used to get 10 minutes now it just immediately stops after the required laps. I like to get a car pretty dialed in even though it’s a short race and sometimes one or two laps is not enough. This wasn’t announced or anything it just was implemented without anyone asking for it.
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I agree. They have made it easy enough to skip or end practice early if you wish so I don’t understand why this change was made. Even stranger is that the end isn’t like the end of a race, your car hits that line and bam over.
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Omg seriously? I’d love to know the reason why. I’d ask the question but nobody will answer. This seems such a big downgrade m, how are you supposed to tune in two laps. So glad to be done with this farce
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Probably an error which will eventually get corrected.
This should be reported as a bug
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@Dave_to_the_D and all, please specify which menu and event this happened in, and if it’s repeating for each event, including after you’ve restarted your device.
Which one or more of these events?
RALLY RIVALS (these are intended to have 10 minutes after practice laps have been completed)
Sebring – Short Circuit (4 laps)
Virginia International Raceway – North Circuit (4 laps)
Mid-Ohio – Full Circuit (4 laps)
Homestead-Miami Speedway (4 laps)
OPEN SERIES
- D Class Series
- Eagle Rock Speedway – Club Circuit
- Silverstone – National Circuit
- Suzuka – East Circuit
- C Class Series
- Grand Oak Raceway – Club Circuit
- Road America – East Circuit
- Yas Marina – South Circuit
- B Class Series
- Watkins Glen – Short
- Suzuka - East
- Hockenheim - National
- A Class Series
- Silverstone - International
- Indianapolis - GP
- Yas Marina - North
- S Class Series
- Hakone – GP Circuit
- Silverstone – GP Circuit
- Road America – Full Circuit
- R Class Series
- Circuit de-Spa Francorchamps – Full Circuit
- Brands Hatch – GP Circuit
- Daytona International Speedway – Sports Car Circuit
- Reward Showcase (Complete all Open Tour series)
- Catalunya (3 laps)
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The first D class event at eagle rock it just abruptly ended at lap 2 of practice. I haven’t replayed or tried another race because I have a job and kids but I’ll try again later
Xbox series X
Edit
Finished the rest of the D class events last night and it did the same thing for the rest of those.
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Still doing at all the way and including the first race of B class.
Practices in the current Open Class Tour are ending as soon as I complete the minimum lap requirement, with no countdown timer after completing said laps, and it immediately takes me to the race. I don’t get the D-pad option to skip, as it automatically skips practice.
I try to maximize practice to get the best tune I can, and can’t do that when practice only goes for 2 laps.
Edit: it’s happening across the entire Open Class Tour, so far. I’m gonna assume it’s a Tour-wide issue. So annoying…
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I did report it.
Right? I can’t even get a good feel for the car because fuel levels and tire deg haven’t advanced enough to get a feel for late-race handling and performance. I’m glad this didn’t happen when I played through the Endurance Tours…
So far, it’s been the entire Open Class Tour, so all three races in D Class, and the first race in C Class
I’ve reset the game, without turning off the console. That didn’t work. Resetting the console didn’t help, even with completely closing down the game.
Affected tracks/series I’ve encountered the problem so far. Will add more to this comment, as I play through.
OPEN SERIES
D Class Series
Eagle Rock Speedway – Club Circuit
Silverstone – National Circuit
Suzuka – East Circuit
C Class Series
Grand Oak Raceway – Club Circuit
Road America – East Circuit
Yas Marina - South Circuit
B Class Series
Watkins Glen - Short Circuit
Suzuka Circuit - East Circuit
Hockenheimring - National Circuit
A Class Series
Silverstone - International Circuit
Indianapolis - GP Circuit
Yas Marina - North Circuit
S Class Series
Hakone - Grand Prix Circuit
Silverstone - Grand Prix Circuit
Road America - Full Circuit
R Class Series
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Full Circuit
Brands Hatch - Grand Prix Circuit
Daytona Intl Speed - Sports Car Circuit
The Showcase Race on Circuit de Catalunya was not affected the same way, and there was a timer, but the timer is set to 35 minutes upon completion of the single required practice lap.
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Happens in the first two open tours. They’re the only ones one done
Just did Mid Ohio in the first fomo practice to test it out and after lap 3 the usual 10 minute countdown appeared, no issue with it here but will test the next round to make sure
Edit: Just Ran 3 lap practice at Miami w/o an issue, same old practice ends in 9:59 so the issue must be specific to certain regions or setups, PC, Australia all good
Yep really annoying now.
Fit some new parts and want to test and tune before the race? Better hope you can nail it down in 2 laps or you’re stuck with however it feels.
Was perfect before.
Please the practices are too short, it was very good before, or even a little more let’s say 30 minutes.
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It’s only present in the open series. Its been reported
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Looking forward to a fix for this. We should be able to practice as long as we want
Ah k, going to do some today and will report back
Yep it only let me do 2 laps at eagle rock but that was 2 laps too many anyway, great start to the day getting dropped into a d class race at a joke of a track and then having to wait 3 minutes to adjust the fuel load, so 6 minutes of my day wasted
How this game manages to out do it’s self in getting worse each update is simply bizarre