Difficulty settings gone after starting career?

Question

At some point today I lowered the AI difficulty setting, and I think later I started a new career. But come the first race I realized I had lowered them too much and it was too easy, so not much fun.

So I went into the settings, and I go from the first category to the last one, one by one, setting by setting inside each, and I can't find it. So I go online, and watch a YouTube video where the user shows there's actually a category called Difficulty. Well, this category seems to be gone completely. I can't access it neither from the main menu settings or the settings once I go into my career (I'm not sure if these are different, or the same settings just accessed from different places).

I exited the game a few times, loaded it again, but that settings category is gone. This seems to me like a bug, but I'm hesitant to report it as such because I'm very new to the game.

BTW, this is on Windows 11.

cpayne32 · Answer

Can you share a screenshot of the workstation and the settings menu so i can see if there is a way to assist

def988c7ad6a5927 · Answer

I remember seeing one of these tiles called "Difficulty", and I'm pretty sure it was all the way to the left on the second row. In fact, I kind of remember seeing it a few weeks ago. I don't play the game every day so I'm not totally sure.

But, is that tile supposed to be there after you start a custom career? The main problem I have right now is that I'm about a month or more into this career, and when I started it, I set the difficulty to 5 I think. As I became a little better with time, that level doesn't work for me anymore, because I win every single race rather easily. Sometimes I may finish with Verstappen and Russell right behind me, but I still win, and for most of the race, it feels like I'm driving in practice mode because I don't have cars behind for most of the race.

I'm not saying I'm a superb driver, I'm just better than when I started, so ideally I would like to raise that level to 10 and see what happens, and maybe keep racing it as I progress in my career. Is that possible, or the whole career stays at the difficulty level you started it with?