When you progress further in CSR 2, you will get more and more into the Live Races – they are more difficult in their structure but probably the most effective way to farm RP later in the game. I have here everything wrapped up for you and when you stick to my tips, you will have no problems at all at Live Races.
CSR2 Live Races Matchmaking & General Info
First of all I would like to give you some insights into matchmaking and how Live Races actually work, this is important to understand how to win them.
Matchmaking & Lobby
You might have recognized that you see only a few other racers in the lobby and some of them have a higher or lower tier class car than you have – no worries, you can also race higher tier cars as the matchmaking is based on your car’s performance.
Basically, when you go into the tuning settings and let the dyno run, this is the time relevant for the matchmaking. Cars in CSR2 Live Races are placed into roasters within 0.2 seconds – so, if your car makes 1/2 mile in the dyno with 12.099 seconds, you are seeing cars in the lobby that get dyno times of 11.900 to 12.099 seconds. If you get 12.101 seconds in the dyno, you will see cars doing 12.100 to 12.299 seconds.
So, you always want to have a setting that is making the bottom set in the dyno (12.101, 12.301, 12.501 etc.) – this will give you already the best possible advantage over the other cars. Don’t be afraid if you get challenged by a 5-Star Purple Stars car, it is not so fast that you can’t beat it as long as you make sure that your dyno time is not at the slowest end of the roaster set 🙂
So you sometimes need to down-tune (if that word makes sense) your car a little bit in order to win more Live Races!
Opponents still too hard?
When you win a lot of races in a row the game will automatically place you in a harder lobby. You can simply prevent this by losing some races here and there (ratio should be like 3 lost races vs 7 won races).
However, you can also reset it yourself by removing a stage 6 upgrade from your car and tune according to what I told you above, do dyno and a test run in the tuning section and then enter live races again. After you won again and get harder opponents, re-apply the stage 6 upgrade you had and remove another stage 6 upgrade. You can repeat this a couple of times easily 🙂
The reward cooldown
Every 8 hours you can get bronze keys and silver keys by winning 15 live races. The game also offers you one additional 15 races when it took more than 8 hours to finish your cycle.
Always make sure to win at least 1 live race in a fresh cycle to keep the cycle timer moving on, even if you only have little time. This will give you a full extra reward cycle you can farm later when you have more time to race 🙂
The Best Car for Live Races in CSR2
Applying the above matchmaking, you will that it actually doesn’t matter what car you take as long as you make sure that your dyno times are not unfortunate – the faster your car, the faster your opponents, so there’s no really use in going for THAT car.
However, I recommend you to take your best car to Live Races as the better your car the higher the reward you will win for a victory.
If you see some help for tuning and a general car guide, you might want to refer to my car guide here:
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Why Doing Live Races?
Live Races offer a much higher amount of RP than regular races and will help you and your crew a lot in unlocking milestones and getting a nice end of the season reward. Also, you will get RP when you lose a race plus every 8 hours you can get 25 Silver Keys and 175 Bronze Keys for winning Live Races.
Reset The Lobby
Sometimes you only see a few opponents in the live race lobby, simply exit it and go back in after a few seconds, this should help getting additional opponents.
How To Win All Live Races in CSR2
Now that we talked the basic mechanics how Live Races work in CSR Racing 2, I’d like to give you some additional tips that will help you making the most out of it.
The Perfect Launch – Super Start
Live Races add another layer of reaction that is called the launch – in normal races, you simply need to find the point where you release the gas and you will get your perfect launch every time.
In Live Races, you will do the same but when the countdown end you also need to press the launch button – so you need to have the needle in the green area PLUS press the launch button at the very moment the countdown ends – this will give you a nice start boost that will often times even win you the whole race.
In the first races, you will mess that up and that’s totally normal. Simply stick to the point where you release the gas in normal races with that car and then focus to press the launch button.
If you don’t know how to find the perfect moment to release the gas, I’d like to recommend to you my general guide where I explain this technique here.
No Bets (except your opponent bets)
Only a few people really bet in Live Races in CSR2 – so, most of the times you will scare off opponents as they don’t want to bet money on races. You basically scare off those weaker opponents and only the ones that are strong will hold your bet.
If you opponent bets money you can think about taking the bet if you want to, of course 🙂 I also like to bet 5-10k when an opponent wants a revenge race, they often take the bet and if you beat them once you can very likely beat them a second time.
You just should be sure to know if you have been lucky to win the first race or not – always take a fast look at the results and check the launch times, if you opponent made a horrible launch that is more than the time you beat him, chances are high that he will win the revenge race and you should think about taking that risk – if your launch times have been similar, go for the next victory in another Live Race 🙂
Farming Simulated Opponents in Live Races (Bots)
Often enough CSR2 adds “fake” racers to the lobby so everyone has enough opponents to continue Live Races – these opponents are really easy to beat and you can farm them for a couple of races easily as they don’t do perfect times.
The bad news is you don’t see them in the first place but I have a strategy how I find out of an opponent is a simulated racer or not.
If you beat the racer quite comfortably (without him messing up big time at launch), you should get back to the lobby as fast as possible and challenge him again – if he’s simulated he will take the challenge every single time, even though he lost five or more times against you.
Also have a look in the racing lobby for opponents that have no crew – in 95% of all times they are bots that you can farm easily with 100% win ratio:
