Re: Bring back ability to adjust difficulty once session has been loaded

maybe it's because you got used to the track, or maybe the difficult you are using has something weird

because in my case 75-80 in all 23 tracks (I tried them all did 2-3 full my team season) whatever is in the practice reflect in the qualification

obviously, 1 or 1.5 second faster than practice (sometimes even 2)

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@Pekish79 wrote:

maybe it's because you got used to the track, or maybe the difficult you are using has something weird

because in my case 75-80 in all 23 tracks (I tried them all did 2-3 full my team season) whatever is in the practice reflect in the qualification

obviously, 1 or 1.5 second faster than practice (sometimes even 2)

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@Pekish79 For me there is a massive difference in AI between practice, qualifying and the race. Yes you can change between sessions, and that will get you a long way in the right direction - but it’s still useful to be able to change in the session (and restart) to make fine tune adjustments if needed - you cannot do that once you have started the session as you cannot get back to the “team base/ workstation” setting screen so you’re stuck in the session no matter what you do.  100% agree with @s00zster  on this one.

Of course, the option should always be there not sure why they removed it between sessions since it is a single-player game; we should be able to do what we want.

But I feel 1 sec 1.5 sec between practice and real qualification is normal in practice unless you are testing qualif. time you have much more gasoline on the yellow or white tire (especially if u want to save a red one). And when you are using red, you are probably testing setups. I think they are balanced.

I personally set one level and never change it for the all-season because I suspect when it is easy is because I know the race very well, and when it's hard, I feel I need to improve myself instead of lower the level. Don't get me wrong, Devs make a mistake like qualification-challenge in practice (awfully wrong by a lot), but overall, tweaking the level too often, I feel it is more because of our inconsistent capacity than their problem. Then again, each one play however they want!

@s00zster it deserves to be added to the section https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Suggestions/bd-p/f1-23-drivers-lounge-en 😉

I get it you like the game to reflect your abilities and never really struggle I like the game to be fix and if I sux to improve to match the game instead of move difficult up and down to reflect my abilities on the specific track

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@Pekish79 wrote:

I get it you like the game to reflect your abilities and never really struggle I like the game to be fix and if I sux to improve to match the game instead of move difficult up and down to reflect my abilities on the specific track

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Again, you're focusing on the wrong thing about this. I have absolutely no issue in sticking to one difficulty and being good at one track and bad at another. That's how I want it. I want to struggle. Somehow you seem to have taken it as the opposite.

What I don't like is having a level I'm comfortable with, good or bad, during practice and then suddenly during qualifying, I'm two entire seconds ahead of my teammate. That is unrealistic and ridiculous. It's not about struggling, it's about the game suddenly, in one session, being way too easy.

It was mindblowing enough to have Ayrton Senna 1.9 seconds ahead of Prost in 1988 at Monaco in qualifying, I'm not a legend though.

I am focusing on reality. Sometimes tracks are easier than others. You want a fake environment where you struggle and keep changing challenging levels and thinking they are "wrong." You think you are the meter and measure of the game. I respect the difficulty of the game, so sometimes I struggle sometimes it feels more manageable.

And If I want to struggle, I put a level where I find the "easy" race challenging (the one I am good at), and I am the worst ever in the one I am bad at.

In other words, you measure the game with your experience and think some difficult levels of some race are "wrong" ad they don't follow your skills. I respect the game and understand that I am up and down. The difficulty is probably based on math and statistics; my skills are messy. That is what is up and down, so there is nothing to fix "difficult-wise" in the game, but I need to improve myself more in some races than others and be more consistent with the actual level, whatever it is.

@pekish79People get what you meant, there're tracks where you perform well and others you aren't, we all understand that part. However, when you went from being pushed by Latifi to suddenly being ahead of Max with time to spare, then there's a problem.

Pretty much the entire community agreed that there are some tracks that the Ai are either unreasonably quick or slow compare to the rest of the calendar, but with an option where you could tweak the setting conveniently would instantly fix 90% of this problem, which the series had before but was removed for unknown reason. 

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@Apophis-STR wrote:

@pekish79People get what you meant, there're tracks where your perform well and others you aren't, we all understand that part. However, when you went from being pushed by Latifi to suddenly being ahead of Max with time to spare, then there's a problem.

Pretty much the entire community agreed that there are some tracks that the Ai are either unreasonably quick or slow compare to the rest of the calendar, but with an option where you could tweak the setting conveniently would instantly fix 90% of this problem, which the series had before but was removed for unknown reason. 

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@Apophis-STR Agreed. A while ago (on the old CM forum) I suggested they need to farm user data like Race Practice Programs and TT to set AI levels - from previous games if need be. From this they would easily be able to see what an average lap time is, the could easily apply standard deviation to figure out the extremities. It’s really not that hard. 

I am no pro i do my team 75-79 but I know I swing 1-2 second between track I like and am good at and track that I am not familiar with and 1-2 second is 10-12 position but I don't really blame the difficulty because If try hard with lot of flashback I can do the track all more or less with the same result

 I was able with a constant difficulty of 79 to get all 23 track more or less between 8-12 position very constant. But if I decide not to use flashback I can get 8-9 race easily to that level the other 13-14 between 1 or 2 second slower so from 8 to 20 but I don't blame the ai level because I know I can do it (with flashback) I am just not that good in those tracks. I just feel a lot of people use themselves as unit and don't understand how we may swing much more than ai