Thread:Feuerrm/@comment-27736210-20170922075619/@comment-27736210-20170922151749

I just placed the Cobra above the Camaro SS because I find the Cobra easier to drive (though I still rated the Cobra as "Extreme" and the Camaro SS as "Nightmare").

Also, as you know, I own both, and I've used both of them in Multiplayer before. \

I used the Cobra at around 1150, then 1180, then 1200, then 1220, then 1231, then 1245. I've made the decision that 1245 or 1262 are by far the best tunes, though 1234 and 1231 (level 1 nitro, level 4 tires) are both pretty decent anyway.

I used the Camaro SS at 1394, with the tune 0500 3030. This is obviously worse than 1390 with 0400 5050, but it's still 95% as good. I used this tune and just managed to make 2000 rating. Sure, I may have been a "novice" to some extent, but it's not as easy as it sounds to transition from the Camaro Z/28 to the Camaro SS in one go, which means I was definitely above-average in skill level/experience if I was able to pull that off. It only took me around 2 days to get to 1750 from 1600, then it took me a few more days to get past 1800, and I stayed at 1800 for several days, without moving rating. Suddenly, my rating exploded from 1800 all the way up to 2000 in practically 1 or 2 days. But then, as I've mentioned before, I got put on the "Cheaterboard" and I ended up losing all of my rating points by racing with the Porsche 918 Spyder with Weissach Package at 5555 2121 0808, with the Datsun 280Z at 0505 2222, with the Nissan Juke Nismo at 0104 0202, and with the Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe at 0404 0402 (or somewhere near that) since I had given up on Multiplayer after being banned.

Now, I use the Camaro SS at 1500, with the tune 2502 5051. It's still very good, and I have noticed that it can build my rating up very quickly. However, the Camaro SS has not achieved much more than what my Cobra has achieved, with the Cobra having taken me to Champion two times in a row after my Cheaterboard experience with the Camaro SS (the second time is the current season). I have been doing a combination of Porsche 959, Renault DeZir, Shelby Cobra 427, and Chevrolet 2016 Camaro SS races, but I always fall back to the Shelby Cobra 427, and sometimes, the Porsche 959. I find the Cobra to be a lot more reliable than the Camaro SS, for starters, and even though I'm decent at driving the Camaro SS, I've become very good at driving the Cobra, specifically, because I use Season 8 to train with both cars (London, Elimination, and Venice, Classic).

I think my experience with driving the Cobra at 1231 helped me to understand its strategy more. Before I did actually think the Camaro SS was better since the Camaro SS gets to fight the TVR Sagaris, BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage, McLaren MP4/8, Holden Coupe 60 (so far, I've only seen one ever), and Lamborghini Estoque. However, the Cobra's main strategy is actually quite interesting as well, and not many people actually realise how many rating points are going around down at 1250. For starters, my main prey is actually other Cobras, who aren't as good at driving it. When I was at 1231 with a triple-boost, I managed to beat a 1285 Cobra who was also triple-boosted and who started in front of me on 1 lap of The River Fort. He lost because he jumped off that ramp after the cave, while I went on the inner route without any nitro. At the end of the race, I saw that his rating was OVER 2170!!! And this was the race that specifically took me from high 1900 to low 2000, last season.

Also, the Cobra can actually target the Camaro SS quite effectively. I'm not sure why, but there are a LOT of Camaro SS', and, surprisingly, a decent amount of Cobras. I also know that most Cobra users have at least 90-110 cars, so it's quite obvious who's in a Cobra or not. Having 90 cars doesn't mean you're in a Cobra, but it does mean that anyone who has less than that probably doesn't have a Cobra. The Camaro SS is slower than the Cobra at 1250, and if I get mismatched with a 1300-1320 one, they are slightly faster but I still have the acceleration and skill advantage (since any Camaro SS that low is probably a guy who just bought the Camaro SS). I also see a handful of BMW M2 users, and they only beat me on Sector 8 Reverse if I get pummelled by Donkervoort D8 GTOs the entire time. I have once been beaten by a 50-rank higher McLaren M14A (who has a speed of around 400 km/h, the same as me) on Azure Coast because I wrecked twice due to glitches. But, I beat most of those players, and their ratings are actually quite high. Also, I beat all ED Design Torqs and Honda Integra Type-Rs, which are both common and have high ratings, and I beat all Range Rover Evoques, even if they are 50 ranks higher. I also beat GLC Coupes quite easily.

I think the Cobra is still on-par with the Camaro SS because it's at the top of the food-chain. Of course, 1285+ gives really horrible matchmaking, but there's NOTHING that definitively dominated between 1285-1390. Sure, the Camaro SS, and to some extent the TVR Sagaris, dominate at 1390. But they only dominate because horrible matchmaking often pairs them up with players slightly lower down, even at 1340, for example, meaning that all of the 1340 players are stuck at 1700-1900 rating points while the 1390 players are at 1900-2100 rating points. Those rank 1340 players fight 1320 players, who fight 1300 players, who fight 1280 players, and so on. The matchmaking is terrible, and no one wins. This is relevant because the exact same thing happens below 1200. At 1000-1100, the Porsche 959 is obviously dominant. However, they're quite rare at that rank, meaning that good Evoque users can still get to 1800-1900. In turn, those Evoques get beaten by 1120-1130 BMW M2s and 1150 Evoques, and those guys all get beaten by 1180 BMW M2s, who get beaten by 1200 BMW M2s, who get badly matched against 1220/1234 Cobras, who I GET MATCHED WITH. So, I'm essentially at the top of a very chaotic "food chain" with lots of rating points flying around, but they all eventually go to me. The players above my rank, at 1250-1300, aren't much faster, and the Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG Special Edition is extremely rare, and I've actually beaten a few before, because they were at 1180-1200 instead of 1250-1300.

Of course, the entire Cobra empire will die in an instant if the SLK SE is, for example, given away for free in a TLE. However, with the very fluid and dynamic gameplay from ranks 1100-1300, the Cobra still manages to find a niche where it can get to a rating of 2200-2300. Yes, there are actually players using Cobras who have ratings that high; I've played against them. I don't have a rating that high because I play very infrequently; I'm at 2021. But I'm pretty sure I can get to 2200-2300 if I tried very hard.

The Camaro SS, in my opinion, can't get you much further than 2300 either, since its gameplay is very similar to the Cobra's. Any rating points you gain are based on a very fluid and dynamic system, with the Camaro SS somewhere near the top, just below the SLK SE, and everything else below. The system works in the same way, and players don't necessarily have more rating points at 1400-1500 just because their ranks are higher, when compared to players at 1100-1300. There are people in Champion League using BMW M2s, and I have seen one of them in a recent game.

Overall, I rated the Camaro SS worse than the Cobra, because, from experience, the Camaro SS is harder to drive, due to having worse acceleration. The Cobra is a lot more reliable because you don't have to worry about some dumb MP4/8 or TVR Sagaris knocking you down. And, the Cobra is rightfully superior to the Camaro SS; it costs 1050 licenses, which are a lot harder to obtain than a mere 6,250 tokens. I obtained the Cobra in 4 months, but most people take a lot longer than that, like 6-8 months or even a year or more. I only obtained the Cobra quickly because I play a lot of Asphalt 8 and I also like EVERY car from Mastery. I put so much effort in to get the Camaro Z/28, when I was just a scrub. Then I put a lot of effort in to get the Datsun 280Z, so I could test it out in Multiplayer. At that point, I found myself at 900 licenses, as a consequence of my previous efforts, so it was actually not that hard to unlock the Cobra at 1050 licenses. I MAX + PROed an absurd amount of cars in such a short time frame, in order to get those licenses. Also, I valued licenses more highly than any other currency, until I unlocked the Cobra.