thank goodness, I was about to trade this thing in from utter frustration

if this makes a difference i may buy this game.

Patch... or "Title Update" ? :P

Please post if you know whether or not this makes a big difference.

i hear ya GalvanizedNails i was about to abandan this game too. its a shame cause its got some cool concepts... lets hope they fix this

well yes if this patch actually makes a significant difference to the gameplay difficulty then I may actually purchase this game come early new year... otherwise I'l just have to stick to grid for my driving game fix.. not that i've played grid in a while mind you!...

but will it work?

This is fantastic, now I will actually pick up a copy.

Man you would have hated MSR.

Are you saying that pre-patch, LA was harder than Midnight Club 2?

I haven't played MC:LA yet but I have been interested in it. I just built a gaming PC so I'm trying to get all my worth out if it that I can to justify the price, so I haven't done enough 360 playing to check it out. After seeing how poorly GTA4 performs on PC, I don't think I'll wait for MC:LA (which uses the same engine) to hit that platform to check it out; especially with this news.

Although the game is quite unforgiving, I REALLY don't see why people thought it spoilt the game. 
I like a challenge and would of found it boring if it was easy.

*edit* Although I can understand its frustrating if you need to blast through the game relatively quickly for a timley review reasons.

This is good news. I'm getting this game for Christmas, so it'll be nice that it won't be as hard as 2 (which is ridiculously difficult).

I'm not sure how I feel about this. MC2 was incredibly difficult, but it was damn satisfying when I finally beat it, and that's probably the only racing game I've ever played that I actually finished everything. I bought LA as soon as it came out and have played a good bit of it, and overall thought the challenge level was on par with 2. I haven't put much time in it since Gow2 and L4D came out though. I'll have to pop this one in tonight and see how it holds up.

damn this sucks, so i'm at 70% now, does that mean that the remaining 30% for me will be the easiest part of the game. This difficulty change should be optional.

Great news for the game.