Engine performance.

[SilverDiamond]

The more you drive in single vehicle, the better engine you can get. For given definition of better. "Performance" increases, time required to maintain/fix engine increases too. Now, what does "performance" stand for? Is it power, longetivity, or both?

[Schub69]

More power, from uprgrading from 1-4/5/6 but less stability, but never have problems with full upgraded engines. And it is very important to have full upgraded engines especially by the daily’s to have good positions at the leaderboard. It makes a big difference if you have an engine with Motormapping 3 or 6 for example... especially on stages which go uphill...

[SilverDiamond]

Originally posted by Schub69:

More power, from uprgrading from 1-4/5/6 but less stability, but never have problems with full upgraded engines. And it is very important to have full upgraded engines especially by the daily’s to have good positions at the leaderboard. It makes a big difference if you have an engine with Motormapping 3 or 6 for example... especially on stages which go uphill...

I assumed it's not stability, but "repair time". The better "performance", the more time needed to fix it. Fair trade off, if your engine lasts longer, only fair that you are not able to fix it in time as worse engines. Thanks for info. So it DOES give you more power, if I'm correct? Good to know that I don't just trade off "repair time" for "stamina".

[Hoksu]

It gives more horsepower. How much isn't known since there is no info, but by all accounts it's a substantial difference. The ostensible increase in engine wear is nonexistent if there even is any, and this combined with the baby damage in DR2.0 and having repairs every 2 stages in career and every 3 stages in online events that use the even more pansy baby damage means damage is a complete non-issue in My Team.

Honestly the game would be far better if the effing car upgrades did not exist at all. Not that it's going to happen at this point, just saying. I truly have no idea how anyone can think that some fantasy MMORPG mechanic where you grind extra horsepower for your car belongs in a serious racing game that claims to be authentic. Having to drive gimped, underpowered cars instead of the real thing is dumb enough in singleplayer, but it's extraordinarily moronic in online events that some players have more horsepower in the same car than others. Should never in a million years be a thing in this kind of game.

[SilverDiamond]

Originally posted by Hoksu:

It gives more horsepower. How much isn't known since there is no info, but by all accounts it's a substantial difference. The ostensible increase in engine wear is nonexistent if there even is any, and this combined with the baby damage in DR2.0 and having repairs every 2 stages in career and every 3 stages in online events that use the even more pansy baby damage means damage is a complete non-issue in My Team.

Honestly the game would be far better if the effing car upgrades did not exist at all. Not that it's going to happen at this point, just saying. I truly have no idea how anyone can think that some fantasy MMORPG mechanic where you grind extra horsepower for your car belongs in a serious racing game that claims to be authentic. Having to drive gimped, underpowered cars instead of the real thing is dumb enough in singleplayer, but it's extraordinarily moronic in online events that some players have more horsepower in the same car than others. Should never in a million years be a thing in this kind of game.

Well, you have to grind a little distance and money, and you get same amount of horsepower, so yeah... Not really an issue to me. And given that cpu remapping, or part swap for a racing alternative is a thing... Yeah, not really seeing anissue here. I' could live with a little more weard damage, though... To balance things out. You are either slow and durable, or fast and burning up very fast... Would be nice.

[Hoksu]

You have to grind quite a lot, and it's the same for every car. To even have one full car in each class you are looking at many, many hours of grinding. Having all cars at full is dozens and dozens of hours of grinding. Which is just grinding that adds nothing positive to the game, you could spend that time driving the car at its full glory instead of grinding.

Engine mappings are a thing in real car of course but absolutely not in the way it works in DR2.0. In reality it definitely does not work in a "start out with a gimped car, unlock more horsepower with mileage" kind of way. Also these are homologated racecars, not some homemade tuners, what you can and can't change with racecars is defined in the rules, you can't freely swap parts.

Having the engine mappings done realistically, with no unlock requirement, like ACC does would be one thing. This is just fantasy MMORPG stuff that is massively out of place in this kind of game. It adds nothing positive to a game, just means you need to spend time driving underpowered cars. Hopefully for future titles it will be ditched entirely.