Tons of traffic, cops won't chase, and spike strip randomly spawns...
I've played this game enough now to know that I never know what to expect when I start this game. Sometimes things are fine and other times I get a persistent bug that won't go away until I restart the game.
I started a night and went through three races. Something seemed off at first when the steering felt stiff and I couldn't drift. Drifting was just broken on every car, even my drift car. My first race finished and randomly without a cop chase I was at Heat 2. No audio to tell me about my heat going up. Then I got into a "cop chase" except the cop was chasing my competitors and not me? Okay. Then I pass a cop and he ignores me with no chase at all. Then I race again and get in a 3 car cop chase but again, they aren't chasing me. This race weirdly has a ton of traffic. There are cars just everywhere to the point even the computer was getting in accidents all over. I had a couple of times a car spawned right in front of me. In all of this, while running in first with a heat level, the cops never once came near me. I didn't care, I had a lot of rep and no worries.
I finish the race. My heat level never changed. It's still 2. I head my way to a garage and escaped the police without trying. On my way a spike strip just spawns in front of me before I have a chance to react and like that I lost my rep and a ton of money. No chase. No audio banter about spike strips. No cops talking about support and my heat level was still 2.
Am I wrong in assuming this is all way broken?