u/Mr_TigerZ

Like I obviously understand the advantages it has over the DRE build. Since the 100th ring gives you the same speed boost as the first 99, it lets you stay at 100+ rings without instantly losing it to the ring counter ticking down. Plus it’s also far easier to get to 100 rings in the first place when the counter isnt moving down at twice the speed.

But none of that is new. The HRE130 build has existed since ring engines were added, but it was generally thought of as being worse than the DRE build. DRE was by far the most dominant build in Legends comp 4, and was banned in Legends comp 5, yet suddenly in legends comp 6, it seems to have fallen off in favor of the HRE130 build.

As far as I can tell, it didn’t get buffed at all. What changed? Why are top players using HRE130 over DRE now all of the sudden?

Does it turn you into what that person looks like now, or what they looked like 10 years ago?

Ok hear me out

Right now accel vehicles are basically useless, since the hidden gear shift mechanic means they don’t get up to max speed any meaningfully faster than the other vehicle classes, and even if they did, you can quickly get up to speed by just charging a level 1 drift, making acceleration as a stat basically worthless. And since acceleration venicles are rather poor in all other stats, they pretty much see no use.

Now imagine instead if Acceleration vehicles had have built in quick recovery, the same way power vehicles have built in bumper guards, and boost/handling vehicles have the built in feature of not losing speed while drifting. Right now, acceleration vehicles have the anti-slip gadget built in, which neither makes sense, nor is it useful at all. quick recovery on the other hand would not only be on brand for an acceleration vehicle, as it would let them get back to speed faster after being hit by an item/obstacle, without having the rework the existing acceleration mechanic; It would also let them compete with the other vehicle classes since they would be the only class that can counter the item spam without using half the gadget slots, letting you run quick recovery on top of a meta build, balanced out by the fact that you still have a vehicle with shitty stats. Accel vehicles would gain a perfectly respectable position in the meta game whilst still not being overpowered

Thoughts?