Impossible Ace Races to Win- Bayou Rally Raid- and others

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ran this a dozen times and with the puegot as ai car and all best rr trucks jeeps even bikes. its like that golden hills TC race on ace u cannot win, and the RR pursuit in Florida, space something.. the Ace times are too steep a reduction from 'hard', and most people-hundreds of thousands of people!- cannot reasonably, fairly compete/complete these on Ace.
yall need a fix these.

AND... its not recording for two races now where Ive beat my former best time with the raptor, ive beat it by 1 and 2 secs and it is NOT recording them on leader board Ive tried checking back in 5 mins, 10 mins, an hour.
the ai puegot just walks by and away when u hit water, i have the same car and the problem is drag in water.

when u drive thru water whatever car including the puegot with 51% muddy, massive boosted nos, bumper, everything u slow down to 114 115, 116 maybe, and the ai puegot just catches up, goes by, an pulls away.
it has no drag in water it seems, and its worse at the end in deeper water where it pulls away out of sight.
please fix

still says for raptor best time 202 heres a third time ive beat that by 1 or 2 secs with ariel nomad
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951419192

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being ranked in the top 4000
its a tight race for me but i did do it.....
look at the leader boards and youtubes to see
what gets you there..... i do it with a full nitro set.. pure and pump...
most people dont worry about the muddy and other parts...

also gearbox change to 9 or 8 might improve things
depending on what vehicle your driving...

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drop the gear to 9
i just did 1.56 in that nomad...
with a mixed bag of nitro parts
try the smooth stretched asphalt tires

my best time is 1.54 in a landrover defender v8

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land rover probably best thing I have in rr, an a killer ariel nomad that sets new best times for me, but also game is NOT recording my new best times. and neither of them go over 116 in the water. magic ai puegot. its in all the rr's, an I have one too, its no better.
-u have a full 2x nitro set good for u, that would certainly help right there.

read again. alll vehicles are slowed to 114-116 by the water.
thats where the ai puegot passes. worst of all at end an theyre driving crazy stupid weaving around the boat to land near finish. simply no water drag. thats it.

same as that TC golden hills i think noone can beat.
this game is for a few thousand, summit proves that over an over, alienating hundreds of thousands.. an that sucks

same as the RR pursuit in Florida on Ace- Impossible

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i am not that big on technical stuff....

i just drive with the best setting i can find..
i just did 1.57 in the nomad... gear on 9

but this race i had to use a faster ghost because there is a pattern
to using the ground instead of swamping it... and i usually try and
follow the better players nitro pattern as well to get 1.54

but i must be getting better... because 1.56 in the nomad suprised me...

theres some good times with ducati monster as well...

make bucks buy vehicles.. go faster..

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just tried nitro set with 28% muddy with pure and pump... 1.56

might have to investigate what muddy does... lol

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ok... i just added another muddy.... 1.52 in the nomad... pb yeeeehaaaa
my ghost is a person called EDM74 who is in a raptor... 1.51

i drive in kilometers... muddy makes a difference in swamp... lol thanks..

Nomad
extra pump 55
muddy 42
pure 50

gear 9

they have made a lot of races more challenging now.... have you tried GP

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transferred the parts set the gear on 10 put on smooth stretched asphalts
just got 1.53.7 in the Peugeot 3008 DKR maxi

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yeah great gear down an car now only goes 109 thru the water. slower.

another point- theres 428THOUSAND people played this Bayou track. Im about 8000th. so me an 420THOUSAND people cannot compete-complete this on Ace.
add to that the FACT they have significantly cut loot ie: gold parts, more n more over time. I Notice becos I go away frustrated an come back months later... only to find theyve tweaked it even more less rewards, an harder effort.

it STILL TODAY IS NOT recording my faster than before times. it still says ford raptor 2.02 from literally MONTHS AGO.

I tried my ford raptor of course my best time before here, an best RR vehicle. not anymore.. cant come within 2-3 seconds of my old time here in it. more proof they've tweaked ♥♥♥♥ harder, and as I complained months ago, also handling nerfed somewhat.

RR track Hi Speed Drifter- same story. cant touch my former best times. switched to ariel nomad, turned traction control way down an can beat Ace but not my OLD TIMES.
this track has 629THOUSAND players im about 10,000th.
an Im lvl 1200 now experienced w over 800 hrs, know a lil about tuning setups Id like to think, an Im a punkass 10,000 of 600thousand+.

thats 620THOUSAND players cannot complete/win on Ace. here again- they've tweaked ♥♥♥♥ harder harder harder lil by lil, in this case alienating over SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND players.
EVEN IF U WIN on Ace many times theres NO gold parts. NONE. if any its one. MAYbe two of 6. very rare that.
so theres no gold parts to tweak an go faster an win here, the curve to win on Ace takes a giant uphill curve from Hard to Ace. GIANT.
Im at a point the cost to raise a parts effectiveness 1.3% is almost 5000dollars. + scrap.
and in the end has lil effect.. wasted time money n scrap.

theres just some tracks the vast vast majority of people will never achieve an Ace win.
this is one of them.
as they constantly tweak ♥♥♥♥ harder n harder, an reduce loot more an more, .. more tracks will fall victim to their constant applied formula of harder, more grind, an less reward.
this doesnt keep people playing more, spending more for scrap or cars, because theyve moved the goal post too far in this track an some others. it alienates in this case- OVER 600THOUSAND players. and over 400THOUSAND in Bayou track.

this kind a crap is why I gave up last time months ago. u kind of forget an come back for some fav tracks or cars, and find its gotten even worse an leave frustrated an angry again.
owell.. they always have a few thousand fav players while alienating enraging & driving away 4,5, 600THOUSAND others. u gotta love their genius huh
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951637037
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951636589
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951635954
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951306837
now even if u get A Gold part- thats a 1 in 7 chance its a gold part u need like motorcore or gearbox, an most times its not the one u need. 7 runs take a chance theres any gold parts an u get one, an its one u already have, not the one or ones u need.
do the math on this BS, THEN add 10's of thousands to upgrade that parts specifics. yes + scrap. DOH

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Originally posted by ragefifty50:

ok... i just added another muddy.... 1.52 in the nomad... pb yeeeehaaaa
my ghost is a person called EDM74 who is in a raptor... 1.51

i drive in kilometers... muddy makes a difference in swamp... lol thanks..

Nomad
extra pump 55
muddy 42 an btw- (muddy makes a difference anywhere- YW)
pure 50

i dont have those kinds of numbers in specific parts- thats hundreds of thousand of dollars & scrap to get those kind of boosts to a part jeezuz, u should not have to put all that into a Gold part to be competitive.
people can buy CC and scrap for real money and thats probably what they do. not u of course, but it makes it pay to win these parts then need so much boost's an costs so much..
Ive managed a 159..so close.. with ariel nomad an multiple multiple runs, watching the ai peugot go by magically no drag in water everytime..

my friends r running 2.13 to 2.38 here, HARD is 2.15 an that can be beat easily by 15 even 30 seconds, then that Ace curve drops it to 1.58, an this is another case where its too close for overWHELMing amount of people., were all part of the 4-600thousand ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they dont care if u can win here, pay up buy CC an scrap an boost those parts to the max pay up or gtfo loser dweeb minions thats what these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ r saying.

what they need to do is drop Ace time maybe 1 second or two even an throw in a gold part now n then for HARD, otherwise how will u get the gold parts to spend tens of thousands boosting to still not make it given the water slow down an all the different ways u can go, and obstacles.

heres another example- Salt Lake City RR.
beat this easily on Ace since long ago. Im around 1100 place of get this- 450,000 people. four hundred and fifty thousand people!.
beaten by a all gold parts, modestly boosted Jeep Moab. by alot.
WHY the disparity between here (salt lake), an Bayou? cant win there, win by a ton easily here on Ace runs?. I can crash to a stop twice or more screw up an still come in way under the Ace time for a win at salt lake city. cant make the slightest bauble of any kind, take a different route, or hit anything at the Bayou u have to be perfect and u have the water drag or no win on Ace there.

oh and btw- I cannot replicate or beat my time at sat lake anymore either, now months since I last did it, and yes I ran it quite a few times but things have changed. handling and certainly rewards.

5 runs I could never match or beat my ol time here at salt lake.
gold parts were not given on 3 of runs. one gold on each of the other 2 runs. parts I already had several of in gold already.
I dont think uall playing this all along have noticed. I do because I was seeing it before an quit, an its only gotten worse- ur like frogs in a pot on slow boil- u dont realize its going on. but it is.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951737543
heres another skunking of gold on Ace at salt lake. boy this ♥♥♥♥ sucks dontit?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951859762
more ♥♥♥♥ Ace rewards
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951859206
... an more. this is hypercar takedown- 12 cars is kind of tough, and this is rewards I got. on Ace

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didnt realise you were still needing to grind parts sorry...
i was the ultimate grinder to get gold parts and money....

on RR you find the easiest winnable ace track/s
and just grind and grind.. with the best of what ever you got...

a lot of us cant win races without a full set of gold nitro...
thats part of the game... even now.. they just made lots of races
harder again... so you definitely will need the right full gold sets...


THIS goes for all the classes..... grind the easiest quickest or most
productive track/s for what your going for..... bucks or parts or icon points

i only started buying parts money when i maxed out my bucks
and by that time i have scrapped a lot of parts also.... so its not even needed..

you do have to grind a lot and they have changed things also to make it
more challenging... to me thats a good thing....

you have to keep adding icon points to the things
your going for... i have all my icon points maxed
and a spare 100 sitting in bucks and 1200 in icon points...
if i changed my icon points around now.. i can get heaps of gold parts...

i used to do the HC new york run 3 times a day... for cash and prises.. LOL
but grinded and grinded and grinded the big land first to get all the gold parts...
and parts money to max them to full pump and pure... it was terrible... LOL

these days i grind HC New York for icon points with fame magnet instead of nitro...


back to the bayou
i did about 8 bayou races yesterday... and yeah...
1 and 2 gold and a few with just blue and purples.
but i got 1 icon point... yay... icon points...

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yay.... icon points lol
finally squeaked out a win at Bayou RR. followed some different ghosts, tried my own new ways, hitting the road at the end instead of straight thru bayou.
with the Ariel Nomad. had Best performance for me best boosted gold parts an I boosted thousand an thousands of dollars more on it. did some tuning too. still I won by like .100 lol. an I spend so much boosting parts it was like for each small percentage increase- $12,500. ye.
all the other RR tracks I can get wins on Ace. not this one, its like that golden hills TC track on Ace that one Ai in a lambo. u probably can, I and 400,000+ others cant.
this bayou track on hard is easy to beat by 15, even 30 seconds, but Ace is tweaked too much between hard & ace for the vast majority of players.

whats more shocking is how they've tweaked down the gold parts on these ace races, across all types, lookit my hypercar ace bandits smash run 3 parts none gold.
those r F'in hard on Ace wtf. NO gold parts is new. I dont ever remember that.

and when u DO get them, u then have to pump hundreds of thousands into boosting them. soooo.. they then sell u scrap & CC. for real money. thereyago.
welp thats not new- mo mony mo mony mo mony

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I hear ya.....
its a challenge... thats good... they still have easier races if thats what you want...

i really like the grind... its nasty.... some times you get parts that
makes you waste everything to get 10% pump and 8% nitro...
and when i was new to the game.... it was really draining on the soul.... lol

makes we grind more... i aint spending a cent on ingame purchases for this nastiness... LOL


$30aud for 5000+ hours of game..... i aint losing... LOL

[Ribalder]

ik u do get alot for its on sale price all the time 10 bucks. but they are tweaking down those rewards alot. ALOT o grinding. seriously, its verging on not worth it.
ik they gotta make a dolla n eat too.
like the package a cookies u get now they're smaller less of them an u pay alot more haha.

tried an returned NFS Unbound, an FH5. for forza they said it was 2.4 hours was extended play time, an I said not by my clock an they refunded haha.

redid all the Flatout series even tried the original, but not 3 or 4, total insanity.
also went back n played some burnout paradise u might like those. played some grid 2019 an the ol favs NFS shift2, an hot pursuit. neither is on steam nor do i need a cd.

atari has been 'coming out soon' with another test drive unlimited TDU, called solar crown but been 'coming soon' for a year or more. loved TDU 1 & 2. that all real world cars & had bikes too. an cops. it had car dealerships u could walk in look at them get in them, look around an test drive them. then upgrade in your shop/garage.
u could buy cool houses it was all of Oahu Hawaii and there was a paid a million race alone all the way around the island for a million bucks like 20-25 mins u would a loved that one.

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I loved burnout paradise... one of the first games i got on steam...
also did a few of the rally games but i am casual when it comes
to driving games.... i am not that skilled.. the crew2 grind has made me
better... (in the top 1500... yay) i enjoy the crew 2 as you can be as serious or
easy going as you want.... and you can spend real money for gains
and speed ups or not... so its a win win for everyone...

you just gotta get past that grind to get the gold......

when you have a full gold set/s in all your
classes that you can move around as needed
then things get easier and better sort of...

upgrading parts is still the worst part of the game
there should be a option to pay a high fee to get what you want..
or a choice option once you get past 10 upgrade spins..
i just did about 50+ spins to get a few nitro parts upgraded... its terrible...

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oya? burnout paradise still plays. another one I have not on steam/no cd. so much fun ripping bikes down mountain roads they have some spectacular roads.

u never tried any of the flatouts? great car physics fun as heall.
latest best one is Ultimate Carnage. was on sale might still be.

still have FH4, that was 2021 Great Britain. its Ok. yes i have the lego cars haha.

back on TC2-
I have a gold set/s on all classes multiple cars in each, but Ive never put so much money into parts seems I have to now. its bad now for players starting whew. then wait till they find out they have to upgrade gold parts haaah.

-I just checked over at Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown and theres updates just had one Mar 1st.
its not atari and its set in Hong Kong from what they say end of this year earliest. but they've been pushing it back over n over but its nice to see discussions an updates.
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ps- I meant to tell u all that driving, I overnighted a pair of those blu-blocker screen glasses, and they really helped. theyre clear light and comfortable an no eye strain/headache. u need a set. haha