Was racing the lambo league just to make sure I was in the top 50% for the next “season”… was in a lobby with 20-+ cars… but 8 or so never left the line… Each time I finished almost all the cars finished, but I never saw them. Sometimes I would finish 4th on my screen, but get a score for 8th… I watched cars right in front of me get blasted sideways… yet they were 30 feet in front of me. I didnt touch them, but they got hit by someone. But someone I didnt see.
You likely created a bunch of wrecks without realizing it. Odds are you were plowing into an invisible car in front of you thus causing the car you can see to spin out violently.
What you saw was lag. Those players are racing with you and likely can see you on their screens but on yours they are just parked.
On their screen they can try to take you out but your car won’t move.
This is a known issue and there is no way to fix it.
Yep, i’ve encountered this quite a few times now and it’s exactly as described above. Seems to only ever be in public lobbies too, not private - but this could merely just be a luck thing.
First instance i saw was roughly a month ago, i was an innocent bystander but person V (victim) was going off at person W (wrecker) after a race for hitting them several times which was how i saw it too. Person W claimed he didnt see person V and at first i thought he was simply lieing as i’d not once heard of this before. What is weirder is that during the race person W could hear person V but had no clue what their gamertag was as it didnt show the normal mic icon/name thing on their screen. But this could just be the typical in-game chat being utterly rubbish whereby not everyone can hear eachother as always.
A couple days later i was in a public lobby with 5 friends and for just a single race this occurred amongst us, as we were all in party chat and friends we were able to do some testing/validation of the symptoms. Again i was an innocent bystander whom could see both victim and wrecker. On the wreckers screen they could not see the victim driving around and the position X/Y along the top was horribly wrong, it would show 2/6 when in reality on my screen and victim they would have been say 4/16. On the victims screen they could see the wrecker but they were a formidable force that was impossible for the victim to move or impact at all - the victim attempting to hit them merely resulted in the victim being ricocheted sideways. Meanwhile the wrecker was oblivious and continued on driving as though nothing had happened (cause on their screen nothing had happened). The final results showed the full and correct standings to all players, for the wrecker though what they saw on screen when they crossed the line for X/Y was incorrect and changed once the race was finally over.
I don’t think it’s technically lag as the problem doesn’t come n go mid race, and it cleared up on the very next race with no changes or leaving/joining lobby etc - it seems more like there is a connection or synchronization issue between select players and the server. If i recall coorectly the affected race with friends was one of those ones that took an incredible amount of time to start, further suggesting to me its a connection/dropout related thing than lag per say.
I try really hard to be a clean racer. I’m in a couple different private leagues that stress clean racing. So its good to know some people notice… thank you. I was scared to hear that it was possible I was wrecking people without my knowledge.