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GameOfEnder95's avatar
3 years ago

McLaren are OP.

McLaren. McLaren. McLaren. They are RIDICULOUSLY overpowered. I’ve had the game since launch and until a while ago it was fine. But after one of the patches they’ve become ridiculously OP. They recovered to where they are in real life by themselves WITHOUT the patch that changed them. Since that patch, it has made especially Norris unbeatable. Now, I like Lando and he’s a good driver. But he shouldn’t be beating Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell or Hamilton with an equal car over a season (according to the performance chart) and definitely not when he’s got a slower car. I simulated 2 and 1/4 seasons of a new My Team playthrough. By mid season 2 Norris (and Alonso who replaced a retired Riccardo) had shot up to 1st and won the WCC. That is entirely unrealistic. And Alonso nearly won the WDC despite having a weaker car against Max. When Max should’ve won decisively. I don’t mind the game making teams rise and fall in the order. But the rate at which McLaren blitzed to the top and dominates every race is demoralising and boring me as a player. By early Season 3. Norris (and now Ocon) have a 80 point lead in the Constructors by Spain and Norris has a 46 point lead over Ocon in 2nd. By Spain!? 6 rounds in and Lando has pretty much already won. I tried again in driver career from Italy after the real season to see if it’s work there. What did I find? Norris and Riccardo getting a 1,3 finish in both Monza and Singapore. That is ridiculous. Even more so than it in My Team. As it’s supposed to be more tied to the real season (in season 1). As there was no way Lando would of ever won in Monza last week and even more no way Daniel would’ve finished 3rd with all cars finishing the race.

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  • @GameOfEnder95 I do get where your coming from. However. It’s not the same for everyone. Currently Mercedes in my first season of my team are dominating. Followed by Ferrari. Max bless him 12 races in and he’s only had 2 podiums. Not to mention Lando moved to Ferrari mid season because Sainz kept DNFing.

    Whenever you start a new career or my team there is a degree off randomisation amongst the teams. Otherwise everyone will have Max and Redbull dominating.

    Unfortunately if you want Redbull or Ferrari to the dominant teams you will have to restart your career until you get the desired results.
  • @ScarDuck14 It’s not random it’s constant. Playthrough since day 1. McLaren dominate. New playthrough, McLaren dominate. Driver career, McLaren dominate.

    This wasn’t the case till once of the updates. One of the previous updates that reset McLaren changed it instantly. Please don’t tell me it’s random as it’s not.

    It’s a consistent issue that breaks the game. McLaren are dominating while according to the performance chart they should be 4th best.
  • @ScarDuck14 McLaren, on the base game before updates were perfectly capable of being in the midfield ranging from 6th - 10th every race.

    If it is impossible to reverse the changes to the car. Then the only option left is to implement a stat reduction of Lando especially by at least 3-5 points across all his stats (Overall, race craft, experience, pace and awareness). Hopefully that should slow Lando down to where it better suits the abilities of the car. Not where he is dragging it from 4th best to consistent pole positions.
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
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    3 years ago
    @GameOfEnder95 As a McLaren fan and a huge Lando loveboy😍 I’d love to have your problem but In my career McLaren are third in the rankings and still generally finish best off the rest. And despite Lando is in a Ferrari(No1 ranked) in 4 races he’s best result has been 4th at Hungary 😔.
    Lewis is 1st followed by leclerc, Russell then Max.
  • @ScarDuck14 But what you’ve got is believable. As lando isn’t as good as the Generational Four (Lewis, Max, Charles and George). The difference is he’s dominating to the point it breaks the game and makes me consider binning the game if it isn’t patched soon.

    Lando is good. He’s not good enough to take a 46 point lead in the drivers and have an 80 point constructors lead by Monaco.
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @GameOfEnder95 Before I download every patch I completely delete my game saves and restart afresh. Not for everyone and Probably doesn’t make any difference. But I dont get any off the bugs and/or issues that people post about.
  • @ScarDuck14 That hasn’t done anything yet since I’ve tried new saves. I think what I’ll have to do until it’s patched is make sure McLaren finish as low as possible while having increased cash and R&D available for Ai teams while I focus on making sure they score as little points as possible so that they’ll have a long term disadvantage.

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