User blog:Raydulous/My Personal Opinion About the Renault Alpine Celebration R&D

Today, the Renault Alpine Celebration's R&D has ended, and it truly was an interesting experience.

Everything leading up to the final Ultimate AI was easy, as I have prepared early by racking up around 1,000 tokens.

What I've basically done was fully complete tests that only took 1 or 2 Proto Keys, and if a test exceeded that, I'd use tokens.

The best tactic to do in terms of upgrades is to focus on only maxing out the Top Speed & Nitro and Tires & Drivetrain, since all 4 focus around Top Speed. Since this was a C Class car, upgrades weren't as expensive to upgrade as a B-S Class car.

All Ultimate AI races from the first to the penultimate were pretty easy, and here's the thing:''' The Tuning Kit will be your best friend, as it adds +45 to the rank, that is once you get to the final Ultimate AI. '''

Everything was smooth sailing until I got to Lab 4's second Ultimate AI. I had the car at 5/5/4/5 and 5/5/5/5, but it was not possible for me, as I was unfamiliar with any of Patagonia's tracks, and every time I started the race, my heart starts to beat at an extreme rate because I knew the intensity of the AI. This one proved a great challenge, but maybe it was a bit too challenging. I may go as far as to say that the AI has either rubber-banding AI or the ghost may actually be at a higher rank and stats than the actual car. This is noticeable as with using triple nitro, the AI will get right inside you in the first 2 seconds before you even get to top speed w/ nitro.

As a result, I have lost the R&D and have not gotten the car, simply passing it as another vehicle I will never get. Yet here's the odd part, as the R&D was about to end, I was racing in the Career/Mastery events and had the Wi-FI off and airplane mode on just to stop the ads from playing since I was farming. I returned to the HUB screen and realized I forgot to turn off airplane mode and turn on Wi-Fi, as everything was connecting to the internet, I was waiting to see the expired screen for the R&D but instead got the R&D button with only 19 hours to participate, so of course I participated and have done the first three tests.

I thought that once I finished the first test the message saying that I've already claimed the reward and kick me out. But no, I was still there and did the next two tests as normal. I have never come across this situation where an R&D would expire and all of a sudden be revived afterward. Maybe it had something to do with me being disconnected from the internet as the R&D ended, or maybe Gameloft could have immediately revived the R&D with the final Ultimate AI a little less violent this time. This sucks since I am now not prepared with only 100 tokens as of the time of this post. This is a very interesting situation regarding R&D events, so I wonder if anyone else has experienced this or something similar, and I wonder what later into the R&D will be like.

'''(TL;DR): The Renault Alpine Celebration's R&D was easy as I was prepared and stocked up on tokens, but the final Ultimate AI was extremely challenging, especially for those who are inexperienced in Patagonia. What happened to me was that when the R&D supposedly ended, it was immediately revived. Did it have to do something with the fact that I wasn't connected to the internet when it ended or did GL immediately revive it with a calmer final Ultimate AI?'''