Broke 4.5 million players, so connectivity is kind of shit. Randomly disconnects, so trying to do any online modes is a crapshoot. I've also read that a lot of wheels don't work properly and Fanatec wheels even cause the game to crash. Oh, and the AI cheats harder than in previous games. The car list is very lacking compared to FH4. Other than that it's pretty good.
Edit: Hotfix announced for wheel, crash and connectivity issues coming this week.
Now that I played for quiet a while, I see what you mean with the Ai. It's absolute bs. Tuned my Taycan to 0-100kph in 1.9sec, and it gets beaten by every single other car on race start while having the best launch stats in the game lol
On avarage and even lower difficulty! It's ridiculous. It's so transparent when the ai let's you have a chance, like on the last few corners, and when no matter what you do you can only keep up. It's just baaaad. Honestly at this point idgaf about the ai competitors, I just set it to novice ai and have fun drifting every corner while staying in first place.
I haven't had a single moment when the game was online, and I played every day since day one. I tried all the tips, turning off VPN and firewalls and stuff, nothing. It just won't do online and that's it.
There are some other bugs I found, I installed race slicks on 3 cars, and they all show up as off road cars.
But the most annoying bug is that I don't get my wheelspins when it says I got a wheelspin for level up or otherwise. I get to do single spin about every 3rd or 4th notification, no matter what I'm doing at the time.
Edit: wanted to add that unlike in previous games the off-roading/rally racing is pretty fun in this one. I love my little nugget of a Pug 207 rally car, it's so fun to slide around!
Also I had zero issues with performance apart from the known memory leak, you just gotta restart it sometimes when it starts chugging for seemingly no reason. The game crashed once though.
What's annoying is the characters never shutting up! I turned down the volume apart from tires engine and environment and put on some podcasts instead. Cutscenes can't be skipped which is also annoying but not that bad. Radio stations are modern trash music with very few exceptions but I'm used to that by now, FH didn't have decent songs since 2...
Photo mode is set up great from the getgo, I wish it was this easy to take decent looking shots in SC.
So with all the above issues, it took me quiet a while to get the second one of the cars I really wanted, the Divo. It's rather slow compared to the Jesko but I just love the shape so much!
TLDR.: DO NOT GET THE GAMEPASS VERSION! If you really want to buy this game, get the Steam version, I heard it at least gets the hotfixes and was able to get online, unlike the gamepass version.
