I play with only shifting and normal steering assists, everything else off, but I’m only level 12 and always start deep in online races. And I can’t stay in the front pack of any race without someone ramming me at 150 mph when I have to slow down to turn.
I often navigate the chaotic wreck fest, getting from 12th to 3rd or 4th, when on one of the hair pin turns every track seems to need to have, I just get smoked by someone from behind.
There’s no negative consequence for them, and I’m stuck in bottom 5.
Any tips? Any class or race type where this isn’t so prevelant? I’d love the luxury of starting top 3 like some, but that’s never my lot and every race has 2-3 wrecking balls. After 2 days I’m ready to quit. There’s just no point.
If you race using hood view, in car, or bumper, keep an eye on the mirror. If someone is coming up fast in a brake zone, brake but don’t turn until after the fly off the track. They expect you to race normally, so if you do something unexpected, they usually won’t hit you.
Furthermore, do not retaliate. Ramming, even if it’s retaliation, is ban worthy. Save the replays and PM Snowowl. He will be able to help you from there.
If you getting knocked right to the back or find yourself in space go for clean lap it will boost your grid position for the next race. Tracks like Rio and Prague sometimes have few clean laps done on them so that gandful of cleans can help!
If you’re only level 12 and you’re getting constantly punted into turns it’s more likely that you’re way off the pace and braking so stupidly early that other racers don’t have time to react. And once you’ve done that a couple of times a lot of guys will choose to clear you out the way like that on purpose as soon as they catch you.
I have collided with a slower racer on occasion when I don’t expext it. But it only takes one time before I realize that I need to exercise a bit more caution in the braking zones around that driver. We all know that there are racers of various skill levels in public hoppers. Hitting a slower driver from behind is still your fault.
There is a reason Insurance companies and police departments place fault on a driver who rear-ends another car. The driver infront of you is at your mercy if you’re not paying attention and collide with them. I get really tired of hearing faster drivers get mad at the slower ones for a mistake the faster one made.
If you are a slower driver, its a good idea to give a corner to a faster driver to avoid the frustration. With time, you will get faster and more competitive. Just try to understand that many racers you will come across believe that they “own” the track.
I agree with you, but only up to a point. There are slow guys who simply don’t have the pace for a particular lobby, and then there are slow guys who literally don’t know their way around any of the tracks and have jumped straight into multiplayer without even learning the basics.
You can race with the first group and should show them the same respect as anyone else, but there’s no way to race on the same track as someone in the second group because they’re so completely unpredictable. They’re basically indistinguishable from wreckers and they shouldn’t be anywhere near a multiplayer lobby in the first place. I don’t care how respectful you are, if the guy right in front of you jams on the brakes at one of the “phantom” red zones then you’re going to crash into them.
My post was not intended to justify ramming noobs, it was to point out to self-labelled noob that the ramming he’s experiencing might not be intentional, but could just be an indication that he’s so far off the pace that he’s just a moving obstacle for everyone else.
New drivers simply do thing you don’t expect. Like breaking in a high speed bend the most will not brake in. Of course if I’m right behind him, theres a really good chance Im going to run them over or big pIle up. I do my best around slower driver but the do make my job hard some times.