Re: Constant AI DRS train

It I  when it's the top 10 in the race for half a race and they just battle and over take each other every lap. It's like whoever taker lead immeadetly save battery and the  one behind attacks and vice versa. Trust me once you experience it every race you'll soon see what I mean. 

The odd drs train is great but there iis almost never a car not in a drs train!  Even Max is battling away with perez and hamilton etc the entire race. It is an immersion killer

Previous games were fine even with strong drs effects and slipstream so I'm guessing it's how they use their ers or something 

I'll keep a look out for it, I can't say I've noticed it massively so far but I've not really been looking. 

I guess in shorter races it wouldn't be so bad. I like to do 100% races and it's ruining those atm.

Yeah same %100 al the way some races I do 50 and same happened 

The problem is that the dirty air effect is too little, no changes for tyre temps for the ai nor engine temps while following another car which makes it tougher for cars IRL to follow.. Another reason is there is not enough difference in race pace so the cars are not quick enough to overtake, while IRL the field spread is about 200% in the race compared to qualifying yet not in the same running order necessarily due to different tyre wear, tyre heating, engine cooling etc, these are also not properly reflected ingame..

Besides, yes IRL there are DRS trains too but nowhere near the amount of cars or the duration as in the game now..

Yeah all the above is true but this was also the case in last few games.. and the drs trains were not anywhere near as bad then. The thing that has changed is the ers which is why I suspect the ai use of this may be a factor here.

Either way it needs to be fixed.

The Drs doesn't actually feel over powered. Could just be the may the ai is programmed. It is really frustrating though. Especially when the cars at front of train in side by side and slow everyone down.  At least people are noticing it now. Been same since the beta. 

@hartag88DRS is not overpowerd but more powerful than last year on many tracks..

What i just found is also playing hugely into it.. The AI is not affected by dirty Air or only by something like 10% of what the player gets and even what the player gets is far too little dirty air effect, thus they have almost only advantages while following another car

This sounds like an absolute disaster regarding realism. Have to say from what I've seen so far, all you see is the AI at the front overtaking each other every single lap like some some mad rat race.

In order to have a more realistic experience, this will have to be patched in some way.

Why was this not properly tested and picked up on by codemasters?

I'm beginning to wonder if one of the main reasons for this unrealistic nonsense, is maybe attributed to the new battery ERS modes? 

Please look into this EA.

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@Meza994 wrote:

@hartag88What i just found is also playing hugely into it.. The AI is not affected by dirty Air or only by something like 10% of what the player gets and even what the player gets is far too little dirty air effect

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Okay i got to take that back somewhat, they are affected by dirty air, but definitely far less than the player