I hope they revive old mechanics as an option for private lobbys instead of just giving us the same Multiplayer with a little more feel-good factor.
Namely no ghosting of any kind (collission, lapping), the tail happy collision mechanics where you spinned out very fast and had to develope defence methods, walls and grass slowdown increased like back then, the strict penaltys from the beginning.
Like an option for classic Driveclub gameplay, because it was altered a little too much for my taste with patches. Give us classic Driveclub options or sliders for every altered mechanic.
The current implementation is good and all for random races, but private lobbys have a completely different feeling and the now "good" mechanics may and i'm sure will feel out of place there, too casual.
One very dissapointing moment for me was to realise lapping cars is no thrilling experience anymore, instead they just ghosted these players a few patches ago and you can drive through them, very not entertaining. Before that, you had to make sure to drive by fast and safe, you never knew wether this player wants to fuck you up or lets you pass fairly. Some drivers even made room for an easy lap which was always a good fair moment for me, as well for him. Sensable respect on both sides is always good thing.
I can understand why some or better many poeple didn't liked this, but it's just same same now with every lapped car in endurance races.
And it's not like the skill ceiling here on Gaf is any different than in random MP races, you have slow drivers here, fast drivers, very fast drivers, insanely fast drivers, some inbetween. So even in GAF only endurance races (and sometimes even normal races) lapping will occure. Imagine how unfun and disconnected from the experience they feel when the lapped driver sees someone driving through them and the lapping driver doesn't have to make any difference in his driving behavoire while lapping. And both are friends talking to each other over voicechat while this happens. Thrilling, NO, Boring!
The same with other altered mechanics. There is absolutely no real harm from crashing anymore, hard crahes transforms the crashing car in a ghost (meh), touching a tale of someone does so much nothing that nobody noticed it happend. I really liked it too counteract a try to spin me or to stabilize an unintentional touch. Now, they are the same nothingness = Boring!
Touching the wall, forced or just normally unintentional does almost nothing now, sometimes it even helps you. The same with grass contact, some of the best times or more like all of the best times are abusing the small impact grass and dirt has as better brakes. Hell, even i use it very often on almost all tracks. I find that ridicoulus sometimes, like the first two corners on Tamil Nadu (but not only them), drive through dirt and you get a better time.
I hope they think about this, if not in the upcoming patch which would be understandable, then maby in future patches.
