I love that line “numerous users are shouting it out”! And then there’s the rest.
Matchmaking? I’m an S rated with a skill lvl of about 1200. Yes, I’m slow. But I’m old. I should be matched with 1200 skill lvl players. But I end up in those S 4999 lobbies. Matchmaking?
Kinda weak this rating system when the game is struggling getting things dialled in 8 months after release, hotfix for 1 issues, create 5 others that are ignored!
Got my ride painted in Prismacolor cause it just looks so darn good with this hail damage 
At the end of the day I really couldn’t care less about a “rating” when all I want to do is race, tune and race again, problem is the constant crashing when I want to go back to the garage 
there are so many more serious problems to get right, for you to have balance you have to have people playing, the open class lobby doesn’t have enough people to play, people don’t play because there are several other problems that prevent them from playing
I would love to see gameplay from an s/1200 rated player. Can you upload a hotlap to a track you like?
Just hang back and run with the back markers. In one race I had a pretty decent run with a couple of other back markers until they both biffed it on two different corners and dnf’d. But it was a good clean run for a while.
If the matchmaking would actually work. And some S1000-S1500 players could end up in the same lobby it could be a decent race. But it would probably be S1000-E1000 players and end up a ram-fest. wgigtd
So like, if you do a rivals for a class at spa what do you lap it as?
A class lap time at Spa? I don’t know? But I’ll do that, next time I’m on. Any car?
The reality is that there are probably relatively few players with an S rating and less than 2000 skill rating. I recall the poll on here has circa 85% with a 4000+ rating and I’d expect a lot of lower skill rated players to also have poorer safety ratings. You’d be waiting a long time for any matches if you were looking for a full lobby with clean players.
skill rating 1200 is actually so difficult to get to, you’d need to actively NOT participate in the race.
This is probably very true. I’m a decent and fair racer. I’m just not as fast as most, which is something I’m ok with. Even in NASCAR or F1 there are some who are faster and some who are always the back markers. But you can be a back marker without wreaking everyone.
Problem with racers in my speed range is few, very few, follow the same on track ethics. Most go out there like they are playing… A VIDEO GAME. Like COD or Halo or something, with a kill or be killed attitude and it’s ok because you’ll just respawn and drive on. There’s too many “video gamers” playing and not enough “racing enthusiasts” playing.
The matchmaking system is broken but players like me have to fit in somewhere, even if the matchmaking system is working. If I’m a back in a group of decent back markers then I have some drivers to compete against. And that works for me. If the game gets fixed to the point the system works maybe someday I’ll end up in a properly grouped rece. Yeah right, if I live long enough and some happens with monkeys and people’s backsides.
And even more difficult would be having a skill rating that low AND an S safety rating. Naturally safe drivers will tend to filter through the pack as the ram-rods take themselves out (unless they only do short races in cars/tracks that are difficult to overtake clean), so you’d expect them to be “mid”-rated on average at least.
Yeah just your favorite A class
That’s what I’m saying, that’s why I really wanna see a lap by him. Just wanna see what that’s like. No offense @AnakalaRon
@DTDeschain2535 I’m just ignoring those other two and their ignorant remarks. And I’ll go on to address you. It’s not how fast you are that makes you good, it’s how good you are regardless of how fast you go.
I thought we had linked up as friends on xbox. Just friend me and we can do rivals laps. I don’t care how fast I am. I just try to be as good as I can. Best way to see how I drive is on the practice laps. Then you can see how a proper driver allows faster drivers the line. And yes I do encounter some slower drivers than me and for the most part they follow the same etiquette. Allowing for the overtaking driver to have the line.
Like I said, it’s when you encounter the E1200 drivers that you run into trouble. Also, there are those S4999 drivers who could care less about driver etiquette and tend to be rammers just as bad as the E and D level drivers.
With all due respect.
It’s a racing game.
You have to be fast to be good at it.
With all due respect, and respect being the key word, everyone plays at different levels. If you can’t “respect” that, then saying “with all due respect” is a meaningless phrase.
With all due respect, if everyone played at your level, you’d be frustrated and never win. So I guess then, if you’re not #1 on every single leaderboard then you’re just not good at the game.
I’ve seen plenty of fast players who are nightmares to race with because they have no racecraft or sportsmanship, and I don’t consider them “good” at the game at all no matter how fast they are.
I have the impression that matchmaking has gotten much better in the last few days. Or maybe I was just lucky. But I had really good races and always had good drivers in the lobbies: Raceboy77, Grandma (I suck at driving) or Old Tires.
Yesterday I actually had my best race in Forza on Grand Oak A Class. My time was 1:19:200 and I’ve started from pole with that time several races. Yesterday it was just enough for 1st place. The lobby was crazy fast, the first four places drove a 1:18 and I couldn’t keep up with them in the race either. In the end I came fifth or sixth and was really happy with that. Above all, the race was super clean.
It might also have something to do with the fact that I now have Safety A again and my skill rating is now around 4800. I’ll keep an eye on it.
I do respect everyone who plays at different levels, but calling yourself “good” at the game because you let everyone pass you would be disingenuous.
Not everyone has to be good, and that’s okay.
I would like to intervene here, because the problem is not the lack of skill, but the often lack of respect of these drivers.
If someone is significantly faster than me, then I give up my place, let them pass and don’t try to hinder them with wild maneuvers. That means I don’t ram them, don’t keep changing sides of the road, no break checking and all those little games. If I know that I’m not as good as others, I don’t drift all the time and hold up other drivers.
I think I should treat better drivers with the same respect, because I do the same. By the way: you have to earn respect, it’s not given for free.