About AI balance and tire wear
Hi,
I wanted to ask if anyone other is experiencing a quite balanced AI pace between quali and race, or if it's just me with a really bad race pace this game?
First of all, in previous games I had to raise the difficulty for the race compared to qualifying about 5 to 7 points to get a challenge.
I'm playing a driver career with Alfa right now and out of habit I did that, too. In the first race it worked quite well, but there I was a monster in quali with around 5 tenths better than my teammate and than had quite something to do in race to keep that position. But in Jeddah and Australia I was a sitting duck in the race.
So it could be me and my lack of confidence in car (bad Alfa of course). I had a pause of more than half a year from the F1 games. I played F1 22 in November the last time. Because of the high praises to the physics I came back now. I can agree the turn in is much better. And I can agree that the traction has become better, but out of memory I would say that only counts for fresh tires. Due to torque curve I find it a bit hard to feel the limit, but I will get there I assume. Also the high speed grip is subject to the same problems I can remember in F1 22. After a bit of tire wear, there suddenly come unexplainable snaps of oversteer. For example, after around 20%-30% of wear with medium tires turn 5 in australia isn't an easy flat anymore, and the rear tends to step out. I had similar problems with Sector 1 in jeddah. The Ai doesn't seem to have that issue. But I have to add, I'm a sitting duck from the begin of the race, but it gets worse with tire wear. Isn't the AI as effected as the player?
I would exclude setup as a reason, usually I know what I'm doing there. I didn't do something crazy there anyways, although I will try to keep it a bit more understeery the next race. Australia setup was Aero 29-26, suspension and roll-bars with a soft rear and medium stiff front, ride height 34-37. Diff 50-50, Tire pressures were pretty low, only 2 or 3 clicks away from minimum. Maybe some F1 23 setup expert will see something stupid for races there 🙂
Apart from that, the difficulty between the tracks, at least for the first 3, seems quite balanced. Qualifying difficulty 102 and race difficulties I tried 106-109
