Started playing beta 3.1. Amazingly good. Few comments though:
- Having close to 100 athletes (just like in real life) would be great
- Skating
- Penalty lap of around 20-22 seconds instead of 6-7 like currently. Missing a shot isn't very punishing for those top skaters.
- Laps should be longer (setting ?). This will probably make it easier to have more athletes on the course.
- The top skaters just fly by the worst skaters. It's a bit exaggerated I think (20% quicker).
- Shooting
- Range should have space for 30 athletes
- It would be nice to specify which target we want to begin with so we avoid wasting time when the shooting screen shows up (setting)
- Shooting time in real life is longer (19 standing - 23 prone for the top). They all shoot like Dorothea Wierer on her best day in this game ... even on "individual" where shooting times are usually longer because ... 1 minute penalty is heavy. If I check Elvira Oeberg's shooting at Kontiolahti this year, she took 33 prone and 37 standing (lost 30 seconds to the quickest shooter... and 80 additional seconds for 3 penalty laps).
- Impossible to compete in shooting time on hard difficulty
- somehow there is an auto targeting mechanism in place which messes how you can move to the next target correctly
- after some time, the rifle starts moving like madness and after that good luck hitting the target (I guess the auto-targeting with me trying to compensate makes it bug somehow)
- seems like everything was divided by 3-4 (lap length, penalty loop, shooting time variation between athletes) ... but still I can't divide myself by 3-4 that easily.
- Having some whether forecast to better choose skis would be great. Currently you choose some skis and hope that the weather doesn't change to cancel the bonus.
- Season:
- It's very rare to not have a pursuit after a sprint. Yet in my current season it's so often.
- Mass-start is always last, but I have multiple occurrences of "sprint, mass start, individual"
- Rules for the mass start include the best "not qualified" for the week, not simply the 30 (21 in this game) first of the standings.
That's all I can think of now. The game mechanics are great and hope all the best for this game.