Anyoe experience this before?

Catch up affects all cars in the race, with the higher the position having a great reduction in top speed. You can hear your engine basically giving up as you come around the turn behind the Turismo before you get to the big jumps, and you were in second at that time. You barely made the first jump, and only because you were in second and getting a slightly less reduction than when in first, which caused you to not make the second jump.

This is a perfect example of why catch up is absolutely terrible.

It's absolutely possible, considering the game behaves very weirdly if there's any kind of FPS stuttering (yes, even when on console this happens).

Looks to me like the last boost strip didn't work properly. Not at all at the first attempt then was slightly delayed the next few times.

With either catchup off , Non contact on or if I'm well behind I would normally come off them ramps at an angle, so as to land on the sides of the U and get a little speed boost.

Since the Special Vehicles update I'd noticed this seemed to less achievable. I seemed to be falling short of where I landed before. But I was unsure if it's real or in my head. But I've just done some testing and I'm sure I can't do it like I did before

There's also a shortcut on Spinner ( Where you jump from the opposite side of the blue U shaped section than where you are supposed to go and miss a section , save a few seconds) that I used to get about 66% of the time but now I rarely do. I feel like something has changed but as said I don't know if it's in my head, with my PC or actually the game has changed.

Like this



I can still do this but it's far less reliable.

Another section of Spinner make it even more obvious something is different.

Here is the section


Aiming to come off the ramp at a slight angle and slower so you don't waste as much time hanging in the air and exit missing the next jump.

I never got as good at this as some others but what I do know is that I used to press the brake as I hit the very first boost at the bottom of the ramp and keep it held (keyboard so has to be 100%) and I used to slow down but always make the next boost and always clear the lip of the down ramp.

Now this happens if I press and hold the brake at the first boost


If I wait until just after I've cleared the the first boost.


This never used to happen. It was a job to scrub off any speed at all. I always cleared the lip of the down ramp, often at the wrong angle so I'd miss it but I never lost speed as suddenly as I do now.

Car setup is the same.
Either the brakes are far better or the boost pads aren't as powerful as before.
My money is on the boost pad.

I was leading a race around the sports car stunt track (it's called City something), but I lagged out of the race, so I was the only one left. I got to one of the jumps with a boost and could get to the landing zone. I tried to make it about 10 times, and I never made it once.

Yea all boosters being reset would certainly hurt when combined with catch up.

Whatever has changed it is at a point after the Special vehicles update not because of it.

When the DLC first dropped I tried several of the races before deciding I did not like them that much but the Ruiner ones were IMHO the best of the bunch.

I just randomly ended up in the Ruiner race "Nightride". Even on the first straight I could tell the difference. You used to gain so much speed on that uphill section that at 0:32 you were getting airborne and if not heading straight you would come off the sides of the track before you came back down. Now you never leave the ground. And it was the other cars as well so I'm sure it's not just me now. (I did the race again solo to make the clip).



There are points later in the track going up a steep tube with boosts where you struggle to make it up the tube at all.



I'm going to submit a bug report for all it's worth