playing GRiD online does nothing more really than to underline the whole PEOPLE=SHIT statement. If you want a nice structured race against like minded people, forget it, you remember when GT5:P came out and there were those fucktards who seemed to like nothing more than to FUCK YOUR GAME UP, well, i think they all moved to GRiD. You'd think after all this time they would have gotten bored and gone back to playing Burnout Paradise or something but no, every race near enough HAS to be ruined. It's just the same in the ranked matches, i dare you to try and vote for something that's not a Touring Cars race!
GRiD online rules:-
(1) You will NEVER brake for the first corner, even though there are 6 other drivers doing so in front of you.
(2) WHAT racing line? use track exploits anytime you can!
(3) Being overtaken is for the weak! side slam them into the wall/chicane/other driver as they draw level while overtaking.
(4) Get a 'friend' to handbrake turn just as the race start light turns green to FUCK THE WHOLE GRID UP.
(5) If you are losing you will QUIT OUT OF SESSION.
(6) VOTE TO BAN anyone that calls you out for being a cheating mother fucker.
(7) You wil only race in the same Touring Car event.
OK, so i'm not saying i didn't go on to win several races, i think i did it more to spite those fuckwits that kept trying to ruin it, WHY does this game not have a 'griefing' option. There are some good guys out there and rarely you do get a nice balanced down to the line race, had a couple of great LeMans 24hr(minute) races, and i found the best thing to ruin the ruiners 'fun' is to disable collisions, you should her them cry when they launch a highspeed t-boner on you, travel right though your car and wreck themselves into a solid concrete wall. needless to say the quit out of session very quickly.
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I bet they keep their mic open for the whole race as well right?
ReplyDelete@ reakt - *long sigh, yepp* a prime example of a great game ruined by idiots online. luckly you can mute all the mics in the options. but some of the worst offenders had really high race counts in their stat's, like 500+ races. i could maybe understand being a twat for the first couple of races but c'mon 500 races in and they're still acting like that? i didn't play online when i first got this aeons back due to this behavior, i wrongly thought by now there would be a decent crowd of dedicated drivers playing online.
ReplyDeletei could have not been more wrong :(
not holding out any hope for GT5 online when it drops.
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ReplyDeleteI hear you on this one mate. Grid is mainly populated by twats. Another tactic they use is to wait around a corner or drive the wrong way down the track whilst trying to hit you! Like you say - fun for five minutes, but a year after the game has been out??? Jesus, go and crack one off or something.
It would probably be hard to implement and police, but GT5 should have some sort of reputation stat which builds up for example when you brake to avoid a collision or let a faster driver through (in short - gentlemanly conduct).
Those with little or no rep are confined to the bumper cars & laggy servers. Those that like to race (in a racing game of all things!) get the faster, better servers and can take part in official GT leagues, cups, comps etc...
Doubt anything like this will happen though :(
I hope they at least give us the option of private matches.
@ pablo - one thing they could do is keep a count of how many times a certain driver has had a vote to ban flagged up against them and show that on their driver stat's screen, then you could choose an option to only race against people with 0-5 flags, 10-50 flags etc. but then i guess the twats would take fun flagging up the 'real' drivers out there on the servers as they did to me when i pointed out a certain driver was using an exploit to avoid chicanes etc totally.
ReplyDeletei'm more dissapointed than anything, i put the time and effort into that game to complete it 100%, get all 10 licences, beat the ravenwest challenges and unlock ninja mode only to be confronted by THAT behavior online.
how i long for those early days again when only true fans played the PS3 and not a bunch of retards. elitist? maybe. but i see no fun in going out to deliberately ruin someone elses enjoyment.
GT5 better have private lobbies!! i note GRiD does, but who the hell plays it these days? i just hope once NFS:Shift comes out they'll all fuck off and ruin that game instead (or not because i'll probably be getting it) . i hold no hope for DiRT2 either.