Accidents/Crashes

[Gavin Thomas]

Ok. I've been playing this game for almost 100 hours now, and while I've got it nowhere near mastered but I'm enjoying it, apart from one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing!

The way accidents/crashes occur in game.
At least to me they always appear to happen on the final corner giving almost zero time to react and get the driver to pit for repairs. where as the AI pit imediately.
It seems some tracks are preset for accidents too, meaning you are going to have an accident like it or not which means you can right off at least one driver from the race.

My last race at Guildford was a prime example.
I saved the game after practice, and set my drivers up for the race full attack as usual.
Within 6/7 laps one of my drivers gets crashed into on the final corner, I wasn't watching him so missed the accident and ended up crawling round for a lap till I could pit. (essentially race over)

So I loaded up my save up started again, set the drivers up on both push, about mid race this time similar thing, last corner one of my cars is involved in an accident and has to yet again crawl round the course meaning last place unless a car retires.

Soooooo yet again I loaded up the save and started again, set my cars up on different stratergies again to start, one on full attack, one on neutral. 4 or 5 laps from the end with both cars running mid field they crash in final corner again!
This time into each other, thankfully the game was quickly paused due to me seeing both on screen and the accident happen.

The first car drove round for another lap despite being told to pit while the game was paused and before the pit entrance.
The second was scheduled to pit anyway, so he pitted. Unfortunately didn't get repairs because I couldn't edit the pit upon entrance to the pit lane meaning a second pitstop next lap to fix the wing.
Both cars ended up being 2 laps down by the end of it all, race destroyed!

Just for the record I don't normally restart as crashes are part of motorsport, but the previous season I noticed all my crashes occur final corner and this was more of a test to see if it could be avoided or repeated.

3 times this race was run with 3 different plans of attack and each and every race a crash with my car occured last corner.
Out of the 5 races this season so far 3 of the races now have had one of my drivers involved in a last corner crash and had the race destroyed.

I think this is an issue and something that needs to be addressed.
I'm not saying we need to remove last corner accidents or accidents at all in fact I think we could do with more.

My suggestions here would be...

1. Bigger variety of crashes for instance 1st corner pile ups for pushing too hard.

2. Drivers pit automatically when damaged in a crash. Drivers in real life don't wait for the call to pit when damaged they just do it and the team reacts. So in game the driver would pit, if the manager (us) don't react he sits in the pit box waiting. It could still cost us the race, but at least it would be our fault for not being aware of both drivers.

3. When a crash occurs involving one of our drivers the camera changes to that car to draw our attentiong to the issue. This isn't an ideal solution as it still wouldn't be enough for a last corner incident to react in time, but it may be the easiest to impliment (I'm guessing)

4. Crashes not preset, and influenced on things like when you attack, track grip, rain etc.
At least my little test would suggest that if I'd run it a 4th time I'd have had yet another accident as it was already set to happen and nothing would change that.

Maybe my findings are off and I don't really see anyone mentioning this as an issue (found one previous post)
But surely there are more people who have noticed this, maybe someone could run similar tests next time your car crashes at the final corner.

Either way I just wanted to voice my corncern.

Also Devs if you are reading this (and I hope you are) love the game in all formats, lived on the iPhone version when that was launched and now I can't stop playing this.
Can't wait to see where this series ends up (hopefully fully licenced cars and tracks ;)

[Fin]

I do agree, I have once seen a collision anywhere except the last corner, and the crashes don't seem to follow any logic, they just "happen" for no reason independent of things like part wear, tyre deg, pushing etc. I love the game, but both of my drivers got driven into in the last corner within five laps of one another, and I am not happy about losing the race due to the drivers not being smart enough to pit when their rear wing has gone to the rear wing heaven.

[AoD_lexandro]

I had my #2 driver hit the wall at turn 3 in Italy, which was actually a stroke of luck because my #1 driver needed to pit for tires & repairs after getting the nose ripped off in a first lap tussle.

If cars are locking up, there is more likelyhood of a crash or aincident Plus the usual busted part / worn tires scenarios.

[GrizzledOldGamer]

Crashing or breaking a wing is incredibly frustrating in this game and I have had this is one of the biggest issues I have with the game, out of 6 races I have only managed to finish 2 with 1 driver, the race I am in now I have paused to come here to talk about it, he just crashed while following the safety car with blue/blue engine and tyres......

Following the safety car!!!

[Gavin Thomas]

Yeah it's literally the only issue I have with the game is the accidents/crashes.
I wouldn't mind having an accident or two per season, but it's almost every other race for me and always at the last freaking corner. It's gotten so bad now, I have to slow time down to the slowest it goes and watch each of my cars go past the last corner, then to react quick enough to sort the crash I still have to press pause and then set everything up for the pit. Absolutetly crazy really!

[Vokkonen]

agree on your suggestions and I´ve run similar tests