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SunhiLegend
The state of GTS online at release was a terrible mess from my experience: the penaltys were a catastrophe, people cutting corners averywhere, lag,... bugs... I really can't agree with you.
Got much much better...but the way online is designed is still very flawed if you ask me... having to wait forever to start a race (I get some people love that... but this is some elitist shit to me "well... it forces you to be involved... serious business... blablabla" or, it's because the player base is too low to offertoo many options: both explanations are weak imo) , not being able to chose your track/car for a whole week, lobbies that lack so many features they are useless if you want to improvise a race ... and the most shocking of all being the lack of "INVITE FRIEND" feature. If I m not mistaken, you still can't invite a friend in your lobby...in 2019, in a AAA online focused game... this is ridiculous.
So yes: GTS has great highs...but way too many lows to be praised imo.