Talk:Research & Development/Renault Alpine Celebration/@comment-67.175.219.107-20170204061916

I actually won the car!! This is the first R&D car I've gotten. I was at 5555 5355 and I had to  buy the V6 box to finish PROing it. I was putting in perfect (or very nearly perfect) laps on the final test but the AI was simply outrunning me. Once you PRO it, however, the final race is very challenging but doable. I am by no means the best driver around (I usually get ~top 10,000 in TLEs) but it took me about 10 tries to beat it. Triple boosted of course. Follow the same route that youtube videos show - some additional strategies that seemed to work for me were to 1) skip the barrel roll on the first jump you encounter (you should still have nearly all your nitro fuel anyway), 2) do flat spins instead of barrel rolls on the second jump (unless you hit the curved ramp just right it will send you flying and you spend way too much time in the air), and 3) It seems that the only "mistake" the AI makes is excessive drifting around the following dirt corner, so drift-triple tap once or twice here instead to open up a lead.  Making that corner cleanly was the biggest challenge for me.  Congrats to those who have won it as well, and those who haven't - keep grinding and good luck!

Thoughts on R&D in general:

It really comes down to 1) how much spare time do you have in your life and 2) how quickly can you farm credits and PRO cards. I am a student so I actually have free time at regular intervals - getting up at 7am and playing every 3 hours isn't too challenging for me. If I had a *real* job however I don't think I could have come close to finishing. Perhaps GL could allow more proto-keys to accumulate at a time (still at a 1 key/hr rate), so people who have fewer chances to play could still keep up the necessary pace. I know there's probably no chance that'll happen but hey, GL, isn't the goal to have as many players as possible? I also have some MAX PRO cars that let me rack up the credits really quickly (LOVE my 675lt) and I happened to have tons of boxes saved up, so I was able to MAX and (nearly) PRO the Alpine fairly easily and quickly.

Sorry I ended up writing a short essay but this site and all the commenters have given me invaluable help since I started playing! Thanks everyone and keep it up!