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This game really is great I love it. I always look for simple racing games that involve times and racing against other real people. This one does it amazingly!

There’s just one smaaalllll racing mechanic that I can’t stand. Sometimes when I’m turning around some corner, I’ll get really close to the corner. This is so that I can get around it as quick as possible. But when the front of your car gets to within a certain distance of an object, the car will actually brake and slow down a little bit. I guess it’s a safety mechanic so that you have less of a chance of running into something? But there have been countless times when I’m in the lead and I’m trying to cut the corner just fine, but because I’m too close to the corner the car will slow for half a second and that’s more than enough of time for the racer behind me to pass me up.

I know it’s a small mechanic but it actually happens way more times than you’d think. And if this small thing were to be removed or improved somehow, this would really be the perfect iOS racing game

I really love this game, I love being able to drive different kinds of cars but there are some personal flaws to me. I personally don’t like the ranking system, as once I got to league 19, all of my cars except my horizon were recommended not to be used as they weren’t up to the standards of the league, and my horizon isn’t fast enough to win races, making it harder to level up my cars. Also the energy is a turn off, I don’t like having to wait hours to race once I’m out of energy, I feel like a better alternative would be that you only lose energy if you lose a race, so more like lives that you get back over time, so if you win you are rewarded by being able to keep racing. Also personally I’m not a fan of the luck factor to get better cars, I am never able to get good cars just the same taxi or rv, and I find that when I’m racing I’ll be using a level 18 atomic and it’ll put me against a level 21 maverick and I just do not stand a chance. And I find that some car types are way better than others. Like a street car would never win against a muscle car, there’s no way, but I really like the Horizon I customized, but I just can’t win unless I use a muscle car. I do love the idea of being able to make your own livery designs, and I think that should be expanded on to other cars as well. Those are my personal gripes but other than that I love this game!

River Peak ruins the late game. Skill matters for the first ranks, but late rank winners are determined by who can glitch the other first. car stats are ballpark estimates. I absolutely loved this game until I hit later leagues (I’m league 16). Once I made it past league 10 or so, I noticed the game was less about how well you could race on the track and more about how many times you can hit the other person or crash them into a wall. Since bumping the other car significantly slows them down and hitting a wall will either slow you, or glitch you and bring you to a stop, late leagues turned into bumper cars. Whoever can glitch the other car first will be the winner, no matter how skilled of a racer you may be. This is a major issue on river peak, since the controls are not optimized well enough for that track, and in later leagues you will race on river peak 1 out of every 3 races guaranteed. As a minor issue, car stats are not accurate at all. My lvl6 ghost tops at 277, but it runs to HIGH 280s. Same with my lvl6 satin. All this together killed the game for me because I loved how heavily skill based the racing is early on, but skill won’t actually end up making a difference if you start to progress through the ranks. This doesn’t affect time trials of course, but it makes the ranked races frustrating and not worth the attempt.