Try controller if you can/haven't. Was failing a bunch on m/k and got it 3rd try with a controller.

Its not that hard, get to first place in the first lap and go? maybe your ♥♥♥♥?

I tried the xbox game pass version a few times and still the same. Once the race started, the game did not register ANY input from me via game controller / keyboard. I was just stuck at the starting line. No the game did not freeze, all other things were running, just my car not moving at all. Weird.

Classic difficulty moment

Originally posted by SoloMan:

Its not that hard, get to first place in the first lap and go? maybe your ♥♥♥♥?

2025, get on the game and record yourself getting first place on classic difficulty.

Toggle the limiter right when you're about to take turns, it helped me a lot.

That race was the bane of my existence. I was doing the game in classic difficulty until that mission i had to switch to hard lol. (drive on the grass to cut corners better and if you can ram all those cars at the first curve)

Most frustrating mission on this game! 🤣

It’s the only mission in a game where I actually had to stop for a while in over 20 years.

The race is absolutely absurd. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the utterly ridiculous rubber-banding, which makes the AI racers so aggressive that a single mistake will move you from first to last place in an INSTANT.

I had to do it maybe about 10 times before I finished it, and most of the time I was able to get to first place within the first lap, and maintain it throughout the second lap... but the third lap? Something would go wrong inevitably. I'd spin out, or not make a turn, or flip the car trying to take a shortcut, or whatever. And as soon as I did, EVERY OTHER RACER tore past me like the game had just teleported them in.

I don't doubt this was hard on the original version too, but this specific instance? Unbelievably shoddily designed, the rubberbanding was a mistake and never should've been considered. It completely breaks the race. I really hate to say it but the only way of beating the race is to just keep trying until you get it. I say again, I had to do it maybe 10 times, and the final time I did it (when I won), I just grit my teeth, narrowed my eyes, and focused 110% on winning. No tricky shortcuts, no risky moves, just pouring on speed on the straights, slowing on turns, etc... and even then, I only NARROWLY won.

it took me one or two times to beat the race lmao

Originally posted by Deedog:

it took me one or two times to beat the race lmao

I hope you lose your next 10 street fighter versus matches in a row.