Constant Rain?

[stobert2012]

Does anyone else have the problem of rain at EVERY outdoor stadium race in career mode? Or is it just me? It seems like once you've got a comfortable points lead and the AI cannot beat you, it just ♥♥♥♥♥ the bed and has rain. It makes the game suck. The rain does not make the game more fun or interesting. I hate it and it is making me not want to play at all.

[gappman]

I hate the rain events, too. Takes the fun out of it. When I ride my real bike in the rain, I don't struggle as much as I do in this game.

[Medina_Rico]

It's been raining pretty hard on me, too.

Not sure if all of my dry races were indoors, but. Including my sponsor events, I had like, 4 rain tracks in a row. I did have 2 sponsor events that were dry.

I don't mind a rain event here and there, for the lulz. I wouldn't purposely pick rain, though. Trying to ride through that is pretty rough.

[mihaiedrisch]

Oh good, this is in this game too? This was bad enough in MXGP2019 I think they patched it.

[JammyGuns]

I would almost go so far as to say it ruins an otherwise decent game, and certainly makes we avoid wanting to play any sort of championship/career mode.

The problem (other than the lack of realism) is that mud events in this and other milestones series have never felt all that satisfying. The bike feels artificially slower, like you're hitting the rev limiter. They should make the same (sort of) speeds possible as in the dry, but with far more chance of crashing/spinning out - so a bit more like a real mud race where some riders may choose to throw caution to the wind, crash more, but still win. Or not... etc.

As of now my bike randomly slows down for no reason other than it being built into the track map. It's something like the 7th mud race of the season and I'm not quite sure I can bare finishing it.

[Medina_Rico]

Ever since my last post, I've been having more dry races when outdoors in my career mode. Out of (guessing) 5, I only had 1 rain track.

[alvin]

Rain is only fun if a game makes a mud-fest of it. As JammyGun said, it should go faster but more slippery, but there should be ruts that you could use as traction. And then it should be mud flying all over the screen and other players, and the drivers should be drained in mud. And then there should be water physics and puddles that splashes, and smoke effects from the steaming engine.

[mihaiedrisch]

Originally posted by alvin:

but there should be ruts that you could use as traction.

Never gonna happen. MIlestone cannot create environmental ruts that go beyond the aesthetic. They cannot create collisions between the ruts and bike. I bet their physics engine is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥, that the moment they tried it the bike went flying the moment it hit the rut. They don't have the developer talent to pull it off.