I was just curious to know if anything is going to be done about the online Sprint races.
Every ‘Point to Point’ race I play none of the other players follow the route, they just race cross country to the finish line sort of defeating the entire point.
A simple fix would be to have checkpoints on the sprint route that players have to go through make it a fair race for all involved. Circuit races are fine and even the ‘Cross country’ races to because they have checkpoints.
But the high tier sprint racing online may as well not even be in the game, because someone will always ignore the course and just go straight to the finish, ill be ahead and on 60% of the route and the cheater would have already finished ignoring the whole route.
The entire point of the freeroam rushes is to not necessarily follow the automatically generated route, but rather to use your skill to select the best route, which is usually not a straight line between the start and finish points. Same for the Horizon Stories if you want to get high up on the leaderboards.
Checkpoint races are cool but it can be a disaster and it is more often than not. Found a clean room this morning with people that had similar rank as me. What was the result? Me winning with 96 points. Even last night I managed a 1st place tie of 88 points but that too was a clean room. If it wasnt so much chaos in the lobbies, i’d have a higher rank than I do. #freeroam