First off, I’m glad that the devs came out and said that they are going to make future cars available by online and single player players.
I have a lot of hours in this game, almost all online. I hover around 4600 S-A rank. I mostly do spec events in GT and touring cars, so when I saw a new GT car was going to be available I set it as a goal to get it. And I just want to say that was the worst grind in a video game I’ve ever done in recent memory.
32 races is a lot, and I would’ve completed them legitimately… but they are time gated so I can’t even do that? I had to set weekly reminders on my phone to do every next series so I could progress closer and closer. Because of this, I felt the game did not respect my time so I returned the favor. I did all 32 races on easy with maximum assists. Every week I logged in and had the car drive for me and it still was a challenge because this was about 3 weeks of what was essentially a chore.
To add onto this. The car does not fit the “road to race” theme. It would’ve made sense for the second to last event to feature a road going Aston Martin vantage because you are rewarded with the race version, but instead the car is just tacked on the end as a reward.
I can only imagine the time sink to get these cars playing as intended. Doing practice laps every time. Upgrading and tuning as you go… every week. If you are trying to do that now you most likely only have about one week to devote hours of your time to get this car.
Ok that’s the end of my rant. Hope the car is fun to use online. See you guys there
This was a missed opportunity to also add any better version of the road going Vantage, like the V12 Vantage, as a reward for 4 Road Championships, and then make the GT Vantage a reward for the 4 Race Championships. The decision to make the Race part of each Championship locked until you complete the Road part was, in all honestly, stupid.
But I’ll give them that - it worked, I really wanted that Aston so I completed the whole Tour as well, even though it was painfully dull from beginning to end.
most people got it with 32 races, i had to do 36 because their server were acting up one night and didnt count the ferarri races. the “grind” was nothing really, I play exclusively singer player with collisions off. yeah the AI are faster but I enjoy hotlapping and to me its enjoyable.
I already owned all the relevant cars but unlocking a free copy of the following week’s road car by completing the two events would have been a nice touch. Just allowing people to do either the road or race event each week would also have been fairer in my view.
I actually quite enjoyed the events but that doesn’t change the fact it’s an extremely unpleasant game mechanic and far too much time required for a time-limited event.
Still, at least they are apparently changing this shortly. Let’s see what the new improved version looks like and whether it properly takes player concerns into account.
