Re: Constant AI DRS train

You are one of the lucky ones I would say. First thing I did was check all settings. I believe enough people have raised/mentioned this for it to be a known issue. Even the videos I’ve seen from content creators, the only DNF I’ve seen is one which they caused themselves. 

Just doing a gp in gp mode and I’m getting AI mistakes and mechanical failures so it’s driver and my team careers that are broke (not the whole game) This should be a quick fix and patched by tomorrow surely. 

obvs still got the drs and ers issues. I’m worried we will be waiting a while for these fixes. 

Yeah no problems with dnf and mistakes in gp mode. To be honest that's less of a killer than the drs thing.

Sometimes there are too many mistakes in gp mode. Usually all at same corner but not a big deal

I actually think the main issue here is the way the ERS has been designed. You almost have to use overtake out of every corner to keep up with the AI, as thats how they use it. It's like a strange corner exit button for them, you can see them use it in replay. There's far too much overtake button available and they use it constantly to exit corners and defend.

Just experienced another race. Verstappen escaped the train and won be a minute. Rest were stuck in it. The ai battle each other too much at the front of the trains. Further back they don't bother at all. The constant side by side stuff slows everyone down and causes the big train of cars to form.  Even when the quickest car is at the front of the train they never pull away. Only thing that breaks up the train is pit stops.

If the ai could stop battling so much at the front of the trains it would become a lot less of a issue as the field would eventually spread out a bit.

Races are way too easy because once you fight through the drs train you can easily pull away while they battle. 

It is spoiling the experience from a realistic perspective.

I agree that the way the new ERS system has been implemented/designed could be resulting in these excessive DRS trains.

I'm personally not a fan of it at all. The racing was so much more realistic and enjoyable the way it was.

Do you all think it's because the overtake deployment is too strong? I certainly do. I've seen videos where you can overtake 6 cars on a straight! Which is just ridiculous!

I hope they fix it otherwise the game is broken.

Yeah it’s definitely the ERS causing the DRS train problem. Hopefully they just revert it back to how it was in f1 23.

They should also have AI mistakes and DNFs like in f1 23 career mode. 

at the moment f123 with mods is better than f124

Agreed, they either have to reduce the power of the overtake deployment or drop it altogether in the race. Like I mentioned above. You can overtake 6 cars in one straight. Beyond ridiculous!

I find the issue here is a combination of slipstream / ERS / DRS all being overpowered and a lack of much dirty air effect. This seems to make it almost impossible for an AI or even a human player to get out of DRS of the car behind, even if you get to about 0.8 ahead of the car behind often by the end of a long straight they have caught right back upto you again. 

This is true about team performance. Gaps should be bigger in the race than qualifying too.

The two cars at front of the train forever battling is the biggest thing though..that's why you get stake and williams cars still in battles with top teams throughout despite being a second a lap slower. If the drs train was lapping at full speed it wouldn't be as bad. But they are often a second a lap slower due to battling so any car that does escape.. often just Max at the front.. ends up 50+ seconds up the road