Was hoping for some chill racing with a friend last night. We were just looking to drive/race for an extended period, so custom races were out of the question (too much prep time for the amount of racing you do). So we went with playing tours.
A class Road modern muscle comes up, and we decide to go for it. We both bring RWD non-meta cars because we aren’t and don’t wish to be beholden to any meta. Get into the race and two other people are also a group, but they brought AWD no grip all power wall-ride builds.
They were terrible drivers, but excellent corner bombers. I can avoid 1 corner bomber, even a clearly practiced one like these two were, but two working in tandem? No way. I don’t mind loosing, but I do mind loosing to jerks who wouldn’t stand a chance if the walls were removed from the game. Both of us ended the night, frustrated with the game.
We weren’t even looking to interact with randoms, but there is nothing else for convoys to do. I’m so incredibly frustrated by PGG’s refusal to provide BASIC RACING GAME FEATURES, made all the worse by the fact that this game has such incredible potential yet they squander it pouring effort into cheezy stories nobody asked for and “evolving world” elements that I struggle to notice, while gradually stripping away the tools needed to reach that potential.
The lack of custom championships, car meet mode (or other form of LFG), and the forced funneling into online open matchmaking multiplayer are fundamental flaws in this game, made all the worse because the ultimate expression of online open matchmaking (a ranked mode) doesn’t exist!
I question the merit of whoever made the decision to keep these things from the game at launch, and whoever keeps making the decision to ignore these aspects of the game moving forward.
Randoms will always find a way to ruin everything. That is the law of the internet. You can’t change that by forcing us to all play together. You’re just exacerbating the situation. And by denying the user fundamental tools to play the game, you’re just harming your own product, to an extreme degree.
