Regarding Bug Report and Stage Restart Exploit in Time Trial (Akropolis example)
I’m not sure if this applies to all rally tracks in Time Trial, but I’ve noticed a potential exploit in certain Akropolis stages. Specifically, after falling off a cliff and totaling the car, if I keep pressing the throttle and then restart the stage attempt, the car begins moving forward at the start line — even though the red light is still active.
If I’m not mistaken (it’s been a few months since I last played), the car is stuck in neutral at that point, and yet it still moves forward on its own. Normally, if you try to manually shift into 1st gear and run the red light, you get penalized — but this is different. The car moves forward while in neutral, during the red light phase, and it doesn’t remain stuck behind the racing line like it should.
Depending on how straight the road is, you could gain a 5 to 10 second advantage by the time the light turns green, and the game doesn’t seem to detect or penalize it. In theory, someone could abuse this in Time Trial and go unnoticed unless Racenet (or whatever the leaderboard system is called) tracks this behavior and shows this abnormal pattern on a virtual map.
As for the “bug report permission” part — I’ve held off on recording and posting video evidence because I was expecting an admin or someone from the EA or Codemasters staff to respond first. I wanted to be sure that the issue would actually be seen and acknowledged before putting in the effort.
At the moment, I’m also busy and unable to work further on this — but I wanted to make sure the issue is at least raised.
In the coming weeks I plan to record a short video demonstrating the issue and post it here on the forum in this discussion.
Well it sucks but with all further development being stopped i expect only the most outrageous and glaring exploits to be addressed.
And as usual, didn't happen if we didn't see it hahahaha. we'll be waiting for your video.
