Playing in the wet weather sometimes, I have noticed that sometimes I have access to the Hotlap ERS mode, sometimes I’m limited to only Medium and None. Sometimes when I restart the session, I regain access to Hotlap.
According to some people I know, this bug also occurs in multiplayer races, some drivers have access to Hotlap in the wet, some don’t, which means that some drivers are completely disadvantaged.
We’ve just had a wet race in a league and this has happened to us. Hoping for a quick fix because I love a wet race. Having fixed dry for a year is gonna get boring.
For what it’s worth, hopefully this can help other leagues and or the devs fix the problem. Myself and a couple of guys from my league did some testing to figure this out, and we feel fairly confident that the issue is linked to qualifying.
Through multiple testing sessions, it did not matter if qualifying was wet or dry. Anytime that we added a qualifying session, during the race random members would have access to Hotline mode while others were limited to medium, or none we tested with different people using hot lap or not using hot lap during their qualifying runs, as well as mixing up, set up modifications and race strategy modifications prior to the race, and there was no clear correlation between who would have access to hotlap.
Anytime that you only do a race session. It is far across the board in the sense of every member is limited to none or medium the workaround that we have figured out is you basically run a qualifying session, retire from the race, then reset the starting grid without qualifying based on those results. Hopefully with knowing that it’s linked to qualifying, they can make a hot fix for this.
This urgently needs to be fixed. In league racing, this creates a huge competitive disadvantage. It’s unacceptable that the game allows this to happen. In my championship, we had to race only in dry conditions because of this issue. It’s yet another feature that doesn’t work properly, just like the formation lap and the red flag. I really hope these issues are addressed and fixed as soon as possible.EA_Groguet
New rule changes are coming in right now. They should take them into account and fix this issue at the same time. [Hotlap should be available in the rain].
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Community ManagerHi everyone, thanks for reporting this.
We've passed your report on to the team so they can investigate this further.
We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Thanks again for helping us improve the game.
Community ManagerIt looks like things are different on PC compared to console.
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Is ERS Hotlap available in the rain after update 1.24?
I hope it is, it was one way of equalising the ridiculous wet AI
Update 1.24 (PC)
In the rain (wet tyres), Hotlap ERS mode is available during GP practice and qualifying sessions, but NOT during the race.
