Community ManagerI can't see much improvement in the AI DRS ERS trains since the latest patch. All I see is 3 DRS trains separately now.
Definitely more work required, it's far from realistic at the moment.
I know it's not as simple as this, but whatever you did for the AI in F123, please do the same for F124.
Agree that there is no real improvement on the ai drs/ ers trains. Perhaps suggesting it isn't really a ers issue.
I think it is a combination of 3 things.
Drs being slightly too powerful
Dirty air being almost non existent.
The teams being too evenly matched on race pace. The same clumps of teams are in drs trains every race.. mclaren/ merc/ ferrari... alpine / rb.. Williams/ stake / haas... need more variance in race pace.. more strategy.. maybe more tyre wear to stop these races just falling into 3 drs trains and big gaps in between where you have massively boring races.
@hartag88 wrote:Agree that there is no real improvement on the ai drs/ ers trains. Perhaps suggesting it isn't really a ers issue.
I think it is a combination of 3 things.
Drs being slightly too powerful
Dirty air being almost non existent.
The teams being too evenly matched on race pace. The same clumps of teams are in drs trains every race.. mclaren/ merc/ ferrari... alpine / rb.. Williams/ stake / haas... need more variance in race pace.. more strategy.. maybe more tyre wear to stop these races just falling into 3 drs trains and big gaps in between where you have massively boring races.
I do think the drs Is overpowered. It's too easy to sit behind the AI and rely on DRS alone. It also makes it extremely difficult to break away.
An observation I've also made with the AI and depending on your AI difficulty setting, it is hard to break away from them. This was never the case in F123 which to this day had the best AI of any.
I can break DRS occasionally early on, but it's like the AI are automatically programmed to send a driver out of the pack to hunt you down and reel you back in. Then the rest of the front pack follow.
I don't mind this if it's realistic. But if I'm driving in a top team with fast race pace, despite either using up battery or not they always seem to reel you back in. Unless it's set on an easy difficulty.
I'll say it again, the AI straight line speed on some tracks is so unrealistic and enjoyment sapping. Just as it was in F122.
I honestly do think there is huge potential in F124, I really do. There are a lot of things I like over F123.
Unfortunately until the awful AI issues are fixed it's a considerable departure from F123.
Needs much more work.
