@Monzstar83 wrote:Hey guys,
This game really doesn’t like it when you’re “out of position” does it?
I have loads of examples of when I’m “out of position” in a positive sense, and something weird happens that is just too much of a coincidence…
Like the car directly ahead breaking down right in front of you, cars magically coming back from miles behind despite no DRS and no drop in my pace to explain, wet weather coming in much earlier than predicted…
My latest example is probably the most extreme;
New patch, started a new MyTeam career. AI 90, Started as a newcomer team. Fault frequency set to low.
Car is 9th in the dev rankings. 1st in the durability rankings though.
Race 1 - Bahrain - finish 9th. All good.
Race 2 - Saudi - DNF mechanical issue - control electrics. Was on for a points finish. OK…
Race 3 - Australia - lap 10 - SC comes out close enough to my pit window, and just as I’m coming round to pit entry. I immediately pit. A few laps later, DNF mechanical issue - control electrics… Was riding in 4th and would have definitely finished top 10.
Each time I DNF’ed in this season, I got no research points gained from failure like other times before, like in previous MyTeam saves…
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, OK 🧐🧐🧐
Curious to hear your experiences 🖖🏽
P.S. @ScarDuck14 you know what I’m talking about 😂
The "best" part of all this is in Race 2 and 3 in your example I bet if you restarted the session in both of those races you'd have the exact same DNF on the exact same lap. So would any AI failures that weren't accident/crash related. It's all pre-programmed.
I know when the game first came out you would at least get some R&D points for failures as you stated, but now it's just showing 0 all the time. Likely got broken in one of the 15 patches. Almost every failure that is mechanical/fault related outside of a collision is scripted before the race it seems. So, I don't think it's a conspiracy thing as others have stated, it's just destined that way.
I have also noticed when creating a new MyTeam save; the voice you get when setting up your team seems to determine the path your R&D failures and mechanical failures will take. There's one particular voice for example I note always results in my first few R&D developments failing. No matter what I do, with that particular person talking as part of my team there are more R&D failures. If I restart with one of the middle eastern sounding guys; first few R&D developments pass. However, if I can get that same voice (it sounds british in a way) it never fails my first few R&D developments fail. Maybe it's coincidence, but every single time I've had that particular person my first 2 or 3 developments always fail and I usually have a failure in Bahrain too.
