As most of us already know, in rivals mode, you race a “ghost” and try to post the fastest laps.
What if they took all of your closest rivals and actually raced them. Currently, you are allowed up to 16 drivers per race (You + 15 drivatars). I think instead of random drivatars for each race, they should be replaced with your current rivals. 15 different guys who are in the same exact ball park for that track.
Now, I don’t see a major problem with this in my brief time of thinking about it. The only problem I could see is if you are a guy who posts that fastest time by a decent amount. Obviously you could have a unfair advantage. But at least for me, a vast majority of my rivals for the tracks I usually play, they are only fractions of a second ahead or behind me. Less than .5 of second. If it were full, multiple seconds of course that’s a bit too in favor of those faster drivers.
It would be refreshing to me personally, now you have rather competitive racers on each track instead of drivers that aren’t on your level, may they be better or worse.
The problem would be that if that they are your closest rivals, they are likely to have taken a similar driving line to get such close times. Unless you are disabling collisions (boring, in my opinion) it wouldn’t work to have them racing at the same time, as they did in their posted leaderboard run.
hotlapping is very different from racing. hotlapping is keeping you are on the fastest racing line. racing is about weaving thru traffic cleanly, about being the fasted deprived of the optimal line. it would be a wreck fest since all would be bunched together and trying to take the same line thru the corner. it would give the race to the car with the quickest launch that could get ahead and avoid the pile up. put the quick launch cars in the back and they’ll crash everything in front of them. it would make it either a drag race for turn 1 with a very long run off, or a matter of luck not skill.the winner would be the one who got hit enough time to face his car back the right way, 1st turn roulette.
i think he just want to race against somebody who run simmilar times. if he would Play online against These guys he would have fantastic races. and if the drivaters would be as good as some People say it should work out with them too.
if you call your opponents traffic they are just to slow. if the Lobby is with Drivers with your Level every lap should be a hotlap otherwise you end at the last place sooner as you think.
of course you cant hit anybody but you have to run as fast as you can in a fair way. a race is not a fast lap its about who makes more of them and who can drive constant his Limit. to fight for the better line for the next turn to give the Opponent not more space than he Need to have a adventage if you come out of the turn.
but for that you Need the right opponents.
