Occasional Tales

Having seen another player’s somewhat ropey performance in the GMC Syclone in the Trial this week, I thought I’d try it myself. The Syclone starts in mid C class, which gives it a decent amount of scope for building with tuneable components. I managed to get it to a PWR of 0.300 (weight down to 1,312kg). I was on the second row of the grid for Panorámica. Most of the other players – apart from one, I think – were prestige something. I was aware of the likelihood of chaos at the start of the race, but managed to do my usual magic on the corners and finish in 2nd. I couldn’t quite catch Teagan. I was last on the grid on Plaza Circuit, but used the usual mess on the first turn and what follows to pass most of the field and take 1st place. By the time the race finished, I was 15 seconds ahead of 2nd place. The rest of humanity (mostly) ended up in a solid block, enabling a team win. I could see one player sitting it out, waiting for the rest of us to do the heavy lifting. I’d say the Syclo...

May the farce be with you. I wasn’t surprised to find that the patch that was supposed to fix the problem with playlist points not being awarded last week was waiting to be installed. I launched the game, made some adjustments to my 2015 Corvette for the weekly, and left my house. I was about to check my messages when the game went CTD. I didn’t think much about it because the game does this from time to time, but when I started the game again, it crashed a second time as it went through the prefatory waffle. I went to the forums to see whether this was An Issue™, and found that the matter had already got 101 votes. By lunchtime my time, a second patch had been dispatched, reversing the deleterious effects of the first one, and I was able to play the game, albeit with the same glitch as last week. In my case, it doesn’t matter, but it’ll be annoying for a lot of other players. I assume that the game got confused if players had already done this season previously because some flag neede...