Talk:Ferrari 488 Pista/@comment-37113484-20181110122714

My comments on this car (I won the championship with MAX 5053 config).

+ Very fast top speed without nitro. With nitro it's still fast, but in cases you need to drift to gain nitro it's still going fast.

+ Both steering and drifting (handling) is good but not outstanding.

+ Best Ferrari in game which could be useful in a Ferrari-only TLE (don't know the last time that happened).

+ Season 9 race is a good farming event but far from optimal. 52-55 seconds (with my config) and ~5700 credits on Rapido park and you can wreck once but still win. It's not better than the McLaren 675LT Mastery 15 which is a few seconds faster and gives ~6200 credits, but as a player who have played tons of Dubai farming races, I've grown super tired of it and wanted a different location. Therefore I currently use Pista's season 9 race for farming which is more than acceptable.

+ Uses V8 instead of FIV8 which is far easier (but still not easy) to obtain.

- Token only upgrade is a fuckin disgrace of Gameloft. Cars should not have token only upgrades at all but choice to use it should exist, however for this championship it was absolutely crucial to max top speed and nitro, and you needed either tokens or free S-upgrades which I luckily had.

- Slow acceleration. It's not superbad but I guess on tracks with a lot of curves it becomes slightly less useful. Also that's probably why it isn't viable enough in MP.

- Nitro duration. It's only average, but since this car is very fast it isn't a huge problem, especially if you have extra tank.

- Should've been king of A-class and not between 5-10th best S-class car. IRL this car isn't faster than the Enzo so I don't understand why it is in this game. If it was top A car it would still have weakness that other top A class cars don't have like nitro duration and acceleration, but heavily rely on the car's top speed.

- The championship is REALLY REALLY hard if you don't have the config I had (mentioned on top). If you can achieve that rank (by laying down tokens on top speed/nitro lvl 5) then go for it but the tokens and V8-engines could go to other better cars so consider if laying resources on this non king car is really worth it. Since this championship was so difficult, it should've been a top 3 car of a A/S-class. The reason this championship is so difficult is that with my config, the last racing location Azure Coast has 5 time attack races where EVERYONE of them requires no or incredibly small mistakes, with Extra Tank NS TK boosters to pass them, and even then you only pass every one of them with <0.5 seconds. Recommended rank is 1845 when your rank with MAXPRO is 1798. Good luck with that. I wasted 600 tokens in total on refill tyres for Azure Coast.

- Mastery rewards. You get a lot of mastery credits but on top of that only 4 advanced blueprints. Such bullshit, should've rewarded either tokens or one S-class upgrade. If Gameloft want to put blueprints in mastery rewards they better do it like at least rare cards or can't get cards of cars you already own.

TL:DR: I personally like this car, it very fast top speed and it has an alright S9 race, but the overall payoff for completing the championship, mediocre mastery rewards and token only upgrades + investing tons of V8 engines for a non S-class king is not worth it, unless you simply like the car IRL or want to own all cars in A8.