Occasional Tales

I did some extra things. Doh! I started with the Mazda RX-7 Spirit, doing rivals in Llanuras to complete the treasure hunt. My rival had a time of 3 hours, which, I knew, was going to be tricky to beat. Off I went, but there was something odd about the car, which had weird gears and a tendency to slide into the corners. When I checked the tuning, I found it was still set up for drifting from the previous time I used it. I retuned it without rebuilding it and managed to complete Llanuras . The weekly forced us into the 1973 Porsche 911, which understeers and slides at the slightest nudge. I managed to do the drift zone event in two goes. Fortunately, the drivatars weren’t being pains in the races. Eventlab (1). 3am Rush . This was Emerald Circuit at midnight with fog. It might’ve been worse such as a race on a custom-built track against annoying drivatars. Eventlab(2) was Scinaty Part 2 . I appreciate the effort that went into this one, but am glad there wasn’t an actual race. The SWS ...

This week’s theme was impossibly fast drivatars. I started with the weekly in the Renault Mégane and did Mulegé as the circuit race. I’ve done Mulegé lots of times with the drivatars on their usual level of difficulty without any problems. Usually without any problems. But no, one of the drivatars was an absolute missile. I lowered the difficulty setting to Dribbling Idiot, which gave me the expected advantage; but what did I see behind me? One of the drivatars pulling away from the rest of the pack. The Eventlab tiles were working. I think that’s a whole month without a glitch (in spite of all the other problems with the game). ’Scuse me while I check for flying pigs. Stadium Supercross was an unfun, unbalanced novelty circuit. It was another one where you pick a vehicle you like and then find you should’ve picked one of the Extreme E cars instead. I ended up in a close battle with a drivatar in the improbably fast, impossibly grippy FE BMW X5 in White Sands . I chose my Ferrari F40 ...