AI ERS management seems wrong on final lap

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After doing several short races in Bahrain and Silverstone I noticed a pattern with the AI. On the final few corners of the last lap they go into harvest mode and are easily caught or left behind if I am ahead. I feel like they should be managing their ERS to be able to defend or attack on these final corners. In Bahrain for example, in a 5 lap race at 100AI I struggle to keep up with the the top 5 cars throughout the lap. While their straight line speed seems slightly overpowered it feels good and challenging and stay within their DRS and bide my time for an attack. However, on the last lap I can easily pass them in the last 4 corners without any ERS enabled. Laps 1-4 were not like this at all.

This was an issue on day one and after today's patch.

In F123 the AI went into full attack mode in the final lap and it was fun to defend. F124 needs this fixed.

ragekumar666 · Answer

@TomasSlb24&nbsp;you're right. The AI only seems to use the Medium and Overtake modes. I observed this from telemetry data

tomasslb24 · Answer

@Hansenhaus This is probably due to the fact that the AI are not fully well programmed with this new ERS system. Before in the race you only have medium and overtake, now you have all of the options available. This may be one of the reasons why the AI form long DRS trains.

hansenhaus · Answer

I am bumping this thread because it is still an issue and it ruining the end of races for me. AI is harvesting energy through most of sector 3 on the final lap making it so easy to run them down or escape from. It has greatly diminished my interest in playing F124. I am hoping this issue is part of the DRS train fix that is coming soon.

I only race in GP mode if that matters with this issue.

tomasslb24 · Answer

@Hansenhaus I believe the problem is during all the race, not only at the end of the last sector. They just seem not to know how to actually deploy it. In qualifying they seem not to use overtake, and now in races they seem to have the OP straight line speed. On top of that, you have the mega DRS trains. All this completely kills the immersion during races.

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