Glad it wasnt just me struggling - I kept overshooting or not being able to keep up - good job!

Thank you Shane! I’m so glad it was not just me! Jumped into this same ride this morning just to cruise for a little recovery and have some fun and it ended up being quite frustrating. Thought I had forgot how to ride on zwift.

I did Delta Daring for the spacesuit. It held steady at 1.7W/kg the whole time, but going thru Titans Grove was hell trying to stick with him. And we did it twice! First time I made it thru, but second time I got too far behind or ahead twice and had resets, one with what should've been less than a minute until I'd completed the suit! 😭 Much preferred the scavenger hunt for the dino costume last year. Both for the less stressful method and the fact that you got to keep it outside of just the hunt for it, so I could do things like ride with the dinos in as a dino. Being able to ride the 'lunar landscape' at the top of Ventoux as the spaceman or alien would've been cool.

That was a job in patience and dedication. I gave up after 30 minutes. All the Halloween bots appear random in effort.👏

So glad this is entirely optional, it’s fancy dress stuff like this which turns people away from Zwift to other platforms such as RGT

I had a tough time as well. Found it was a bit easier staying in front of the bot. I would say it’s a bit like learning to pace line without using your brakes. Just small pressure adjustments on the pedals. Can’t imagine trying to talk to a camera or live stream at the same time. Lol

I rode for the dino costume yesteray. 30 mins later and I wasn't even close to having the first costume piece. And it's on the mountain bike course, which, if you don't know going in, leaves you on a road bike in dirt. It sucked. Highly unlikely I'll try again.

LOL, that name of your gear settings in the Stages Link app :)

I experienced the same "washing-machine" bizarre cadence effect in a large Zwift Academy Group Ride. I found it extremely difficult to keep pace with the 'bot. However, I know my own metrics VERY well, (I'm generally riding a fixed-gear track bike and my power output is cadence dependent) -- and usually cycle within very tight workout zones. It's my conclusion, based on observations and direct experience, that this weird rubber-banding effect is a delayed-reaction in the processing power on the Zwift end of things. In other words, the screen display is NOT reacting to power outputs in real-time when there are LARGE groups... it's actually only displaying one's power output from some (variable) amount of time earlier. Solution (for the time being): keep your power output in much tighter ranges, rather than alternating between 350 W. Lag effect is on the Zwift end. I experience a measurable difference in power displays between the companion app and the PC display (smoothing?), but it's not as dramatic as the annoying yo-yo-ing occurring with the pace-partners. I'm going to try the same ride, but keep within 40-50 Watts plus/minus of the guideline pace when making adjustments to stay in the peloton. @wesfree

Good the see that I wasnt the only struggling keeping de multiplier going. When you follow a pacemaker, does the trainer difficulty automatically lower? The ' climbs' of 5 % felt like nothing during this ride.

Climbing the radio tower, the pace bot just stopped, I slowed and then stopped when it gave the warning, but I still dropped the bot. That was at 16/18 min on my second attempt.

Been using Kickr '17 with AppleTV 4, got frustrated with AppleTV, bought a gaming PC using Ant+ dongle, night and day difference. I also have a deposit down on a Kickr Smart Bike, looking forward to not having to use road bike for indoor cycling.

I was 2 minutes from getting the full Dino costume when I lost it on the jungle bridge

btw, the circle around you in Companion now gives ride ons in the opposite direction too...

i was only able to get the head. These special pace partners were inconsistent in their pace on purpose, i had heard.

Would adjusting the trainer difficulty make it easier to keep in the partner bubble?

I tried the costume challenge, but the pace bot kept jumping around, it would do multiple u-turns and kept dropping the multiplier

Are the normal pacebots still ok?

I wonder, does it have something to do with the 'weight' of the PP? The one going 1.5w/kg and I were doing the exact same speed, but I was riding 2.5 w/kg (230w) and it at 1.5 w/kg, on 0% incline. My understanding is that on 0% incline it's more raw power that matters, oppose to climbing where weight is impacted. The 1.5 w/kg PP basically stops dead on any form of incline, I've found. Let's theorize that the 1.5 w/kg PP 'weighs' 160kg ingame, but the PP which rides at 4.0 w/kg weighs 60kg, with both of them riding at 230w. What's the impact of this, instead of making all PPs weight the same (say, 70kg), but ride at different watts? So the 1.5 w/kg PP rides at 105w and the 4.0 w/kg PP rides at 280w. How is climbing and descending impacted? I assume zwift obviously tested this.

OK this is why I gave up over under got dropped was giving out the power but could not get back I would like to know why that most odd

I tried this and COMPLETELY FAILED....over 90 minutes and I couldn't get ONE piece of the costume. The #$%#@&^% alien surges and slows so randomly that it was impossible for me to stay on the "bubble." It was an infuriating experience. IMO Zwift failed with this one.

Duuuuuude use the first person camera view for stuff like this.

How tall are you? I looks like you do not raise your knees at all. Or do you have 10 cm long crank arms ;-)

The problem is is that w/kg is not the same as watts. Fine metric on the hills, useless metric on the flats