Is it just me, or are the cars performance figures all over the shop. I bought the Alfa 4C and tuned it up to Tier 2. Yet tuned Giuliettas are leaving me for dead. I don't know if anyone told Codies, but they have the exact same engine, yet the 4C weighs 500kg LESS than the Giulietta. Go figure! 

The online is truly borked at the moment. It's supposed to rate you on crashing and then put you with people with a similar rating. The problem with that is if someone crashes into you deliberately, you both get an increased impact rating. So you get lumbered with more morons with higher ratings who crash into you on purpose, so you get a higher rating....repeat until you give up in disgust. And the corner cutting penalty is ridiculously inconsistent as well. Perfect example is the Red Bull Ring where the second corner hairpin is so easy to get caught out on and get bogged down, yet after the next corner, you can effectively cut right across the grass and miss the long left hander and no penalty....which is being exploited by everyone now.

Bug of the week, however, goes to a brilliant sound quirk. After last night's patch, everytime you go past a gantry or pillar that's supposed to make a whooshy noise, you now get a car engine noise instead. It's hilariously funny on Chicago under the train line where it sounds like your being passed by an entirely different invisible race grid.

Online is smooth if you're careful with who you connect to, agreed, but the whole impact rating business needs to be seriously altered. It really peeves me when people crash into everyone on purpose and you all suffer for it in your rating. If they can't do it properly, they should just drop it. The Ai isn't so much aggressive as a bit blind. You get the sense that a bit more CPU time has gone on the pretty backgrounds at the expense of the first GRID's better AI. 

Online is all about surviving the first few corners, getting in front and staying there. If you get stuck mid pack, you're scuppered.

Won't work for me now, the disk is buggered. Is there anything I can do without the receipt?

Without a receipt? Doubtful.

OK, I'll give it a go. It hasn't even been out of the machine since I bought it and it didn't stop working until the patch was installed.

The online is laughably bad.

As is Codies decision to impliment a penalty for cutting the corner but nothing for running wide which is hilarious when it's the fastest line as people don't have to slow down.. you get given one car.. but in the matches I ran in people where using what ever they wanted. You can also see how bad the handling model is because you can actually see people putting in different steering inputs so the cars turn in little jumps.

The rest of the game continues to be laughably bad too.

Clipped an apex yesterday and ended up missing the enterance of a tunnel VERTICALLY.. the car bounded up in to the air and crashed into the wall ABOVE the tunnel enterance..

The game crashed during events. No problem. I'll reload.. only it's saved the crash so hangs in exactly the same place..

I could go on.

I'd go as far as saying Codemasters deserve to go under for selling lazy shit like this.

The most annoying thing was having my impact rating affected by hitting the wall in a drift event when I over drifted.. thanks for that.

It's a travesty of poor play testing.

Chief wrote:

Well, I've learned something new. The way Codies explained the Impact Ratings, it was only supposed to be affected by hitting other drivers, yet you guys are telling me it's also when hitting walls? I'm still loving the game but that's definitely something that needs clarifying/fixing.

Walls definitely have an affect. I had a race on the Japanese mountain track where I was just getting used to the RX7 and hit off a good number of hairpins but was too far behind to hit or be hit, yet my impact rating went up. I don't think the code is remotely capable of making these decisions and it should be dropped as a result.

Bob wrote:

It's a travesty of poor play testing.

It's a travesty of too many graphical effects being added and  resulting in the once commendable physics and AI being dumbed down for the lowest common denominator on a generation that can't really cope with it.

Do you think we can persuade them to switch on the original GRiD PS3 servers seeing as everyone is moaning about this?

The writing was on the wall the minute they said no cockpit cam, shortcuts all round.

Errrm, I wouldn't bother to be honest.

It has it's moments, but it's a league or two below the original from 5 years ago.

I'm glad your enjoying it. I too enjoyed the original. This is a lot worse.

Lol. I don't have the patience on my phone to answer all those points but I'll get back to you.

The PC version looks stunning. Diving into multiplayer this weekend.