I’ll try to keep things short and keep my feedback on the constructive side.
The issues with the current PvP system sit on 3 main problems.
- The concept of “Team Adventure” and the full reliance on random players, entirely devaluing personal performance by still allowing you to lose the championship after winning every race.
- Freeroam Rush and how it contributes to the winning of the championship and forces track cars offroad, punishing players for picking RWD in a road race championship.
- Randomised classes and how it forces players into classes they’re not ready for or interested in, and how the new system doesn’t allow you to vote for a championship.
Team Adventure is a great concept, but it shouldn’t be the core feature of the online experience. This is a racing game and as stated earlier you can still lose the championship after coming first in every single race. This is something that seriously baffles me on how it ended up in the game as the core of the multiplayer, but don’t get me wrong the team idea is great. Please consider moving Team Adventure away from the core and towards being an optional mode, while implementing a proper online mode that counts personal performance over the performance of people you don’t know.
Freeroam Rush is something I’ve never really cared for, but now I actually have to try to get to the checkpoint first in my RWD track car because if I don’t I’ll be letting down 5 people who I don’t even know. I don’t really want to have to explain why Freeroam Rush is a really bad feature for Ranked mode, but as it stands it’s a pretty heavy impact on why a very large number of the top racers from FH3 aren’t even playing PvP in this game. If there’s one way to kill the whole concept of this being a competitive online racing game Freeroam Rush has to be it.
Randomised classes are something I appreciate because it makes me focus on more than S1, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed tuning cars for all classes and categories to prep myself for online, however.
We need some sort of voting system, having choices entirely removed is something you definitely notice coming from FH3 and on top of that S2 is still really bad to race in. I’m sure most players would rather have some feeling of control over what they get to do.
So all this aside, I can see where you guys were coming from with your choices (kind of) and it honestly shouldn’t take much to take this online experience from mentally anguishing to really really solid so please consider the opinions of the community here. After all we’re the people who will keep the lobbies populated and the experience alive, only if it’s fun.
