In the latest patch 1.08 it says: "Improved AI speed over 100 difficulty"I am starting a second season of a career and i am getting VERY BAD vibes of the AI Straight line speed BS from F1 22:https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Bug-Reports/AI-gaining-Massive-Speed-on-the-straights/td-p/11597195The gain massive speed on the straight and i can 100% confirm that there hasnt been a single change to setup or the engine is worn, etc.I even lowered the Downforce (Melbourne) and the straight line speed of the AI is INSANE. Was similar in Bahrain/Jeddah.Anyone else finding them to have increased top speed for no real reason?

@PBR3491Would be good to know for that case if Russel had used ERS, if he did then the 305 are totally fine, considering he might have a more slippery car that is possibly a few kph + ERS is 10kph more on many straights too so being 5 slower could be fine, just depends on the exact circumstancesBut definitely give more feedback from your next race, ideally multiple instances so we can analyse the situation better 🙂

Ill check that next race.I was constantly checking if they were using ERS or not and well if they used it i basically had no chance.Teammate (Leclerc) was similarly fast as them (Mercedes, RBR).EDIT: I remember one kph number Russel vs. me, i was leading, had DRS from a backmarker, he was out of DRS and with DRS i only hit like 310kmh while Russel had 305 without DRS and no real slipstream (Melbourne, back straight before the end of sector 2)Seemed kinda weird and got me thinking about F1 22.

The AI seems to use weird burst of ERS in a chaotic fashion if they are not going for an overtake, like on/off in rapid random sucession.

I use the same tactic but only out of corners or when shifting into 8 gear for a bit more momentum, but they just turn it on/off.Did 2 races: Miami, Imola (partly rain) In Miami i was equally fast on the straights, i have no idea whats the difference, again no change to the setup. In fact Charles was slower in the straights 2-3kph.Imola: Rain race and i love Imola, so they stood no chance anyway. But in the first few laps they definitely had an edge again but that is 100% due to my setup.Maybe its just Melbourne or i had a fault that my engineer did not tell me? I have to try melbourne again (next season or start a new season at least)Will come back to you.

@tn132 Would be helpfull to know what setup you are using especially the wing settings because when i just did a test race at Jeddah with equal cars the AI would gain on me on the straights as long as they are in my slipstream as slipstream this year is very strong and gets ever stronger the closer you are. However once they fought themselfes so hard that i got out of the 1-1.5s window in which dirty air works in the game (sadly only this short) they didnt gain anything on me on the straights, didnt need to use overtake at all to keep the gap the same and always observed the gap, besides slight fluctuations because of a bad exit or good exit there wasnt anything!If anything then the problem is the strength of the slipstream which is almost realistic if close by, just too short, however the dirty air/downforce loss is much weaker than IRL probably only 50% and instead of making the car understeery as its always said to be like it makes the cars just lose downforce so that the rear end gets less planted, making it more difficult for players to get the power down however AI is never as bad at traction as the player, they are trained to go to the limit without going over it (90% of the time) so the AI can follow close to the player without getting too many bad exits but has then the advantage of very close slipstream which can easily make them 10 kph faster if they are really close.Regarding a car in front especially at Qatar id need to now your setup as the AI would use something around balanced setup however most players and especially in TT use higher downforce (as its faster on this track) but therefore would be a lot slower on the straight vs medium downforce AI. Also the DRS gets less effective for some reason the more downforce you put on - the opposite of real life

Is the AI straight line speed "bug" back?

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GT_Moto70
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
I just drove a career season 1 race in Australia in Mclaren and i feel the same. I had my normal setup that i picked up from YT or timetrial, wings are something like 30-25 and i even lowered the wings about 5 clicks both fronty and rear. AI still pass me like they had DRS when they didn't and i tried to burn ERS. I think the problem is that AI is using low downforce higher topspeed setup which AI has like 15-20 wings comapred to custom setups that have around 10 clicks more wing front and rear. It is really hard to race with low wings around Australia.
Meza994
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@GT_Moto70 I can absolutely agree with this, i dont know why Codemasters have chosen the low downforce setup for Australia when during the actual grand prix they talked about how teams might even run more downforce than last year with the additional DRS zone in the end they had maybe a little bit lower downforce but maximum the balanced setup would have been appropriate ingame
ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
In the last patch I think Alex Gillon said they reduced Ai car’s weight to increase difficulty. How true that is I don’t knows.
3kwqbc2f5xoy
3 years ago
Racing against the AI is unplayable at the moment, I just overtaken by DeVries who had a broken front wing on the main straight of Bahrain.
I always think tyre wear is disproportionate as well....I can start feeling tyre wear on the mediums about 8 laps in and the AI just go around like a train on tracks without any mistakes until their time to pit.
I can lower the difficulty but then I would be overtaking many cars easily at the start and the first few laps.
I'm not playing this now until it is patched. Waste of money !!
s00zster
Rising Ace
3 years ago
@ScarDuck14 Could you point me to where he says this? I thought they worked on increasing difficulty for just 100-110%. I'm at 81%. I only know of the XMLs controlling car weight but that would affect AI and player regardless of difficulty.

Either there's another way of controlling weight specific to difficulty, in which case I shouldn't be noticing any quick AI, or they've used the XMLs and reduced weight for everyone, which in turn could also cause the other (now officially denied) issue of the car feeling like it's on ice through low speed corners with a controller.

Hmmmmmmmmm....
ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
@s00zster Can’t remember which video but Alex mentions it on one of his videos.

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