Was anyone else borderline insulted by the daily message that we can do endurance races by playing free play? What kind of a message is that? I mean, I guess we are lucky we got a campaign at all instead of just free play? Seriously, what was the point of that message other than to draw attention to the glaring ommison of any kind of endurance races in the campaign?
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Nah. While I’d like to see Career Mode added to, Endurance Races are the last thing I want.
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Start the New Year with an endurance race! Create yours in Free Play or Private MP. Here are some race tips:
1). Learn the car and track combo.
“Okay, uhhh… Hmm, this Mustang is something I’d like to use, but it’s level 50 and there’s other cars I kinda want to upgrade in the future… I guess I’ll level up the 1971 Nissan Skyline, it’s a little slow though but whatever, I wanna do a build with the widearch kit.”
“This could use some better tires around here at Suzuka, but I’ll need to get up to level 6 or 7 to get better tires… Ah whatever, that’s why I’m doing this 3 hour endurance race.”
2). Increase your pace gradually so you don’t exhaust yourself early.
“Kinda wish I started this race after I’ve gotten a couple levels on this thing… It needs some tweaking of the anti-roll bars”
3). While the first stint is important, keep an eye on your opponents, fuel and tires.
“Okay, let’s see… One driver 15 seconds ahead of me that I can’t keep up with, the other 22 I can’t see in my rear view mirror. Fuel is whatever, tires will probably last the whole race because 1). they’re stock bias-plys and 2). there’s not a tire wear multiplier like in multiplayer. Good… I guess?”
4). Build a car you can handle rather than one for the fastest lap times.
“Thanks for the advice… Now I would build this car, but I’m one and a half hours into this race and the car is only level 24. I’m trying to build it to C class but I need to get up to level 35 to really have freedom to choose the upgrades so… Guess we’ll see where we’re at by the end of the race.”
5). Practice smooth steering, acceleration and braking to drive longer one one set of tires
“2 hours later… 1 hour left… 1 driver ahead, 22 behind… Will to go on… Rapidly decreasing… You know what, I’ll just set all assists to autopilot. Time to grab a bite to eat and relax a bit!”
I don’t know if I’d even make it to the 2 hour mark if I’m going to be real though
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Sum ups A.I. very nicely, it is technically unable to run endurance races!
So Free Play is no option.
This message is just another insult to us.
Thanks T10!
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I think they absolutely don t care at all. Everything points toward that, stop bothering yourself with that company, I got scammed too, never again.
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If there was a tyre wear multiplier in Free Play and Private Multiplayer I’d consider endurance racing more, but without them you’re looking at incredibly long stints regardless of tyre compound. At the moment the optimal strategy regardless of race length is to use Soft tyres all the time.
In other words, I saw the notice, went “meh” and resumed whatever I was doing at the time in-game.
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Yeah, how about tire wear, and ability to create a series with leaderboard in free play? It’s not a lot to ask… just sayin’ 
It’s not like i’m asking for good AI here…
We just need a race length option in the settings like FM7 had. So easy for them to do surely.
I can’t believe they suggested we make our own endurance races in free play. How lazy have T10 become.
Im playing the game a lot but they really annoying me with no communication at all.
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If they had a long race option you might actually get a car levelled in a single career series and we know they don’t want that.
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All of the messages in game are disrespectful disappointment…
It’s like that they don’t even play their own game…
Why don’t we have ability to make our own championships?
Why is that so hard?
What’s the point of running endurance races without tire wear against braindead A.I.?
I don’t want to drive 20-30 hot laps avoiding moving roadblocks around track… Test Drive 4 and NFS2 were first racing game I played, and both had better A.I. than FM 2023… At least they were able to overtake…
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I saw this message as well but when i went to freeplay i didnt see any changes, so what exactly was this message for. Was it posted too soon and they are going to release an Endurance option to the menus that may have tire multipliers? Or was this a message that should have came out 3 months ago, or a message to all the “new” holiday players.
Its amazing how although these kind of things arent new from turn 10, why is every statement they make always lead to questions about it that go unanswered. Ive never seen something like this in my life.
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The messages don’t mean anything, they’re just useless filler. I wouldn’t think too hard about it. Like many other things with this game, it feels like they’re just there to check some box.
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I just want the multipliers added, it really shouldnt have taken this long to begin with. The only reasons i can think of is, the ai arent programmed to recognize tire wear because they do know about fuel or the other thing would be if theyre waiting for some real life endurance racing to tie an update to it. Problem with the 2nd would be most of those kinds of races are in the spring.
The state of the AI is very much a problem. Their pit stop logic isn’t the problem, they’re just… really bad. It shows more in longer races than the 10-minute races in the career.
This video does a pretty good job showing how they behave in a longer race.
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Yea i know i saw it theyre garbage. But i still like to do endurance races where i can create my own challenge. As of now we can add a minimum amount of pitstops, but id like tire wear to be a thing as of now it means nothing.
Yeah, it’s up there on my “why the hell is this not in the game” list, somewhere between having a rotating camera in the upgrade screen and power curve graphs. The game is basically in an alpha state right now. They’ll add it in eventually, maybe sometime soon as they did ask for feedback on pit stops recently.
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i saw this message and the first thought that popped in my head was this is why everyone hates this game. the developers want us to do all their work for them.
it’s similar to the whole self check out thing in stores. sorry we banned slavery in the US, we shouldn’t tolerate them bringing it back.
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When I saw the Lamborghini Huracan Trofeo Evo I thought every car pass car should come with a dedicated career event and online event. Every year this series travels to Spa, Nurburgring, Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen, Road America, Indianapolis and Virginia (among others). ALL those tracks are in the game!
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Leveling feels time gated to me. Unless someone is willing to grind out one 3 hour race, I don’t think a single race will take any car from level 1 to the maximum.
Something else I would like to see is an easier method to make a single make/model and spec race. Theres no option to have the Ai use the same car and build the player is running.
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I saw someone (I can’t recall who) mention they had done a bit of testing and how well you race doesn’t really affect the speed you collect CXP. So you’re probably right there. And no, it won’t happen in one race. But in one series in career, if there was a Long Race Duration option, you would be spending more time in-car thus getting more CXP. But as I see it now the career mode does very little to actually build up your garage.
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