I was talking about competitive tunes too. For example take my times from testing Clio earlier. Worst time 2:51, best 2:47.
I recall having S2 and even an X class Trial early on in the games life and of course there were a lot of complaints about it, so I assumed that was the reason we don’t see them anymore.
The swerving issue is behavior I’ve seen in FH4 Trials but not sure if it was happening in FH5 when the game launched.
This is why I feel like the AI has been nerfed or brought back to FH4 levels. It’s a shame because I recall one of the complaints with FH4 was that the AI was too easy so not sure why they’d go back to that.
If you ask me AI performs as a single minded organism in the trials…their sole purpose is to win as a team, if that means brake checking or ramming a gaining human player to allow for the 1st place AI to squirt ahead, they’ll do it.
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Yeah, that’s the reason. They’ve clearly deliberately kept the trial as bland as possible, to avoid anyone getting upset that getting their 10 points requires some competent driving.
As a result, we never get any form of S2 racing, S1 is rare and only ever on the simplest courses and most trials are B or C class. There’s no jeopardy or need to drive properly. People can just crash/bash their way through AI and teammates alike without any risk that they’ll have to do the event again.
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I figured it was part of the reason but the AI has been toned down so I don’t see why they couldn’t be brought back.
There’s still S2 Trials in FH4 and people survive. Time to bring back some challenge to the Trial, PG.
I remember a multiclass classic racers trial with X class down to I think B class. I can’t remember seeing X class since. But I remember lots of complaints about it.
EDIT: Yep. November 2021. AI would scale to everyone’s choice.
My only complaint with that Trial was my game glitching out to a ridiculous level on Reservorio and dropping me from the sky in front of everyone at the start of the race, everyone who was in my team for that must have been certain I was cheating seeing me in first right from the word go.
I haven’t been able to get to the second race in this week’s trial even though my team won. It’s been dumping me out without any notifications coming up.
Ugh, I loathe that track in FH4’s trial, because more often than not you get the sort of nonsense in your video and half the team gets KO’d within the first few turns.
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The drivatars are irritating at times I play on Pro difficulty and it’s always annoyed me how the Drivatar in 1st place always pulls so far ahead of everyone and as you start right near the back you have to work your way through all the others to get to 2nd by then the 1st place has a huge lead and hard to catch lol it doesn’t happen every single time but the times it does it can be annoying especially when they can go round corners at light speed pretty much lol
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I decided to run 50 laps of the Oval Circuit yesterday because why not.
Unbeatable AI, I climbed up to second place, and by halfway through the first place AI was close to lapping me. Again, I was in second.
I managed to push a lot and pull a gap away from him but it was closer than I would’ve liked.
Other than the second race where the AI’s flat cheat power bonus really shows with the hill climb I didn’t notice anything different from the last couple series worth of trials.
That said, the AI ALWAYS cheats, especially the runaway lead cars. This week just happened to have a combination of difficulty level, track and class to highlight just how much of an unfair power advantage they get (and how bad they are at taking corners since even with all that cheating players can still catch them).
this is my thoughts on game difficulty. I guarantee I got reported for cheating. that’s how big the skill gap is in this game. and as good as I am, there’s a tier of players consistently a few seconds better than me.
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Now that’s just showing off ! 
Well done. And yeah, I’d be worried you were reported too 
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I’m not really worried though, I get reported for cheating all the time, people tell me they’re gonna do it 
I never heard of anyone (other than me) get incorrectly banned for cheating, and they reversed it.
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I’ve had quite a few messages with trashtalk & “reported for cheating” when I did my way up to Open level 1000.
A side effect of me nearly always using exotic yet fast builds not so experienced players consider not legit. Like my A800 Porsche 356, B700 MG6 or S900 Venom GT.
Never received a ban though.
Don’t know whether the threatened reports were just another way of trashtalk or how PG evaluated the reports.
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Pretty sure your car’s tune or car selected was not up to the mark.
I’ve won two of the three races and finished second in the third one. So, I disagree.