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Feedback after 25 hours of gameplay
First of all, GREAT WORK!
This game is awesome and I'm loving every second of it. I started playing with the worst valued team (Night) and I'm trying to climb my way up to the top. I finished the first season on 8th position and now I'm struggling to get to 7th.

Now I have a bunch of feedback, as well as questions. The feedback is just QoL stuff and things that would fit MY playstyle. The only bug I found is that the game crashed once on me but it was probably my PC's fault and the game was saved anyway.

Feedback:
- Race strategy should not be a popup for each driver, I should be able to keep both open at the same time and just click the icons. It is a little annoying having to click to open and again to close the popup. Also, I lose the ability to hover over the timeline to see the tooltips while the strategy is open.
- Hovering over past laps in the race timeline does not show any info. I understand that it may not be the same info as for future laps, but at least the lap number would be useful.
- I would like to be able to see the full results of previous races. This info would be nice to have even during the qualy/race.
- It would be nice to be able to save mid race.
- I feel that allowing the teammate to pass (defend / not defending) and trying to overtake him (pass / don't pass) should be 2 different settings. Alternatively, the team orders could be a single setting for both drivers (driver 1 priority / driver 2 priority / fight each other / allow to pass if faster).
- Messages from drivers should not dissapear while the game is paused.
- Clicking the screen re-centers the map. Also, just a minor glitch, the map auto centers at the end of the race.
- Being able to zoom in and out, (besides the follow cam) would be nice.
- There is one track which does not have any names in the turns, I forgot which one, sorry.
- Driver's comments are a little off sometimes: They say "eat my dust!" when overtaking a car who just crashed. They say "this is going to be a good/bad lap" when they are finishing their last lap. They say "I can't overtake X" when X just lapped them. Sometimes they say "I got overtaken by X" and "I can't overtake X" in quick succession.
- I noticed cars always crash on their own, never into each other. I would also suggest other incidents like going out of track but not crashing, this would lose you some time and potentially damage the car a bit.
- Having a real time game speed between 1x and paused would be nice.
- Also nice would be to have a tooltip with the season standing, team name / standing when hovering over drivers in the race standings.
- It would be cool if the change of positions in the race standings were animated instead of immediately changing.

Questions:
- Does the tuning carry on to the race or is it just for the qualy? Shouldn't I be able to do one last tuning of the car at the end of the qualy? I feel like I should be allowed at least if there is still time in the countdown.
- I know part of the game design is trying to find out what works and what doesn't, but the tuning is a total guess game for me. Sometimes I try to give each driver a different focus and analyze the results, but even if there are differences I can't pin it to the tuning, it may be the drivers themselves, or the status of the car parts, etc... I would like some pointers on this.
- During yellow flags, I noticed that cars who are lapping me are still able to overtake me, why is their speed limit higher than mine?
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Hey, it's awesome that you're enjoying the game! Thank you for the elaborate feedback! Some of your suggestions are already on our wishlist, so hopefully we can get them into future updates. 🤞

To answer your questions:
- Tuning from Quali carries over to Race. You can't tune or send out in the last 20 seconds of Quali.
- Higher focus mostly decreases the chance to crash so it won't directly give you faster times. As for the tuning, different tracks require better performance from different parts - you can see more info in the track trait tooltips.
- In Race lapped cars make way for cars on the leading lap.
abud123 21 May @ 11:10am 
I agree with most points, and I have almost 200 hours of gameplay. This game is really awesome! The only suggestion I would add is "Dark Theme" because the game colours are too bright for me.
Other thing is that "saving mid-race" could open the game to exploits so maybe not cool.
The "See full results of previous races" would be very important for me too. Also Keyboard shortcuts for changing race strategy like "engine mode" would be very nice.
Still confused about what to prioritize when tuning. I'm currently in a circuit that's bumpy and wet. What does that tell me?
abud123 23 May @ 3:02pm 
Bumpy tracks I usually tune Steering then Chassis.
One more suggestion to the list:
The FREE/KEEP buttons for staff at the end of the season are very confusing for me. I'm not sure if the button says KEEP does that mean I will keep that person or that I should press the button to keep them?
I think it should be a checkbox. Maybe a sliding checkbox with keep on one side and free on the other...
Originally posted by abud123:
I agree with most points, and I have almost 200 hours of gameplay.

Thank you for your support and the suggestions!

Originally posted by Atilio, el perrito raro:
Still confused about what to prioritize when tuning. I'm currently in a circuit that's bumpy and wet. What does that tell me?

Those 2 traits don't directly affect the tuning strategy, so if you don't have an ongoing related sponsor challenge, I'd say try to get the best cost/reward value. On tracks with traits that affect part performance focus on tuning parts that get a bonus, and avoid tuning parts that lose performance.
Originally posted by Atilio, el perrito raro:
One more suggestion to the list:
The FREE/KEEP buttons for staff at the end of the season are very confusing for me. I'm not sure if the button says KEEP does that mean I will keep that person or that I should press the button to keep them?
I think it should be a checkbox. Maybe a sliding checkbox with keep on one side and free on the other...

I Agree!
My game keeps getting rid of my save files, however sometimes I can exit and reload and they are there, is anyone aware of this
Originally posted by Black2Blaze:
My game keeps getting rid of my save files, however sometimes I can exit and reload and they are there, is anyone aware of this
This is not a Golden Lap issue. It's likely your Windows blocking access to the save folder. Check the system notifications when you launch GL and allow access.

Also, please don't go offtopic in existing discussions. Next time you have an issue please create a separate post or contact the team directly.
Last edited by miketsukami bo.; 7 Jun @ 12:26am
Tomsy 7 Jun @ 11:35am 
I chose team Night and last season came 2nd
Way too many "I can't focus....." messages. I really think that whole system should be scrapped,
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