The recent PGR3 auto-update features a bunch of great improvements to the game, but reader Pixelantes points out a couple of problems:
1. The rotating car class hoppers has been implemented so that the car classes rotate according to the players' local time. This means that around midnight people in different timezones see different car classes in the online races and they can't race each other. This combined with the rotating schedule itself is causing severe wait times in pre-race lobbies. People are reporting wait times in excess of 45 minutes.
2. Bizarre Creations didn't include a new garage with the auto-update, so while the total number of cars available in the game is 94 (?), there're only 84 garage spots available. This means you can no longer own all the cars in the game.
The lack of garage space sounds like a minor annoyance, but the timezone thing could be bad, especially heading into next week's global tournament. Can we get an auto-update for our auto-update?
1. Yeah I'd have to say I was really surprised to find that once I downloaded the 12 new cars, I only had enough garage spots left for a few of them. Now I have to go through and sell some of my cars to make way for the new ones. Hopefully Bizarre comes out with a new garage or two soon. I always looked forward to unlocking new ones since the detail in them is so nice.
Posted at 1:05AM on Apr 16th 2006 by Mike