Aggressive AI and their lack of awareness
The AI aggression can really spoil your race and is very frustrating. Perhaps it is more that their awareness of the player car is absent. They force themselves into positions that will often result ...
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@Bauersome AI seems like a big improvement to me, is more aggresive, you can't overtake them so easily this year, they do make mistakes when you put pressure on them. Regarding some AI crash into you (which many are completely understandable if you look at the replay), they crash into each other in real life too, so what's the problem with some random crash? Do you want to be the only one on track able to crash the AI? For me the AI is a real improvement this year.
@HempyjrExactly, and had to wholeheartedly disagree with OP.
I've mentioned on a lot of threads, where if you try to race the AI like how you race humans - keep your awareness up, be cautious and respect the spaces, then you'll have a much better experience than just about ANY racing game on the market in this generation.
I genuinely have never had a bigger blast racing with AI in my 20+ years of gaming, and I'm not being sarcastic.- @Apophis-STR Same, ai straight line speed issue apart racing closely with them is fantastic
One constant issue i find is when the ai has the inside line into the corner. Every single time they slowly dive through the corner, giving no space and pushing the player outside of track limits.
I learned that ai is tought to match player movement and this explains a lot.
Example in turn 1 at imola: once, while on the outside line, i used my regular braking point, where i would turn for the apex. Ai did the same, as they should as they had the inside line. But as i was on the outside, i accelerated slightly to get around the ai to get to the outside line where i belong. Ai responded by matching my acceleration just as the ai was to turn in. This caused the ai to drive all the way to the outside white line, pushing me completely out of the track. This does not even make any sense, as in addition to braking the rules of leaving space for the car aside, the ai then completely ruined their turn 2.
This was in addition to weaving on the straight, and doing late blocking moves. Even worse and later than Grosjean in Silverstone 2020, when he was penalized.
I do like an aggressive ai, and sometimes the ai can be raced properly, but more often the ai seems as broken as the fighting between Verstappen and Hamilton at the end of last season.
- @Hempyjr You can’t easily overtake them because they are much faster on the straights
So is every single person having this. Because I'm not. I've adjusted my ai level and all is fine.
- @Dan78loki EXACTLY what the OP should be doing too. But nah, he wants to play with same AI settings as last year I guess. God forbid that he would have to lower the AI difficulty....Jesus!
@SomaticCoast375Your R&D progression? Setup? ERS management? Engine wear? Were you in the DRS train? Did you even realize dirty air is in the game?
This game demands a lot more from the players and is not so straightforward like most racing games in the market. Just the fact that there were so many players mentioning that they drained their ERS or having major issue at launching the car at start, is a good enough indication that most of them are probably new and have yet to understand the fundamentals here.
It's not entirely their fault as the game or the sport itself is complicated, but it's not the game's fault either if it's too difficult for certain players who decided to play it like doing a bare-fist run in Elden Ring. The biggest deception here is the game is seemingly advertised for everyone, but in reality it's much closer to a sim, and because of the fact that it's not an actual sim, at times it could be even harder than the real ones so you'll need to adapt it differently.- @Apophis-STR when you pass on kerbs you feel the arcade stye of this game.
Have you ever tried a simulator? The phisics of this game it's a joke...
It's only a good vr effect game, but ACC or iracing are better in every other things
- @SomaticCoast375 Maybe only in career where it's a known bug which will be fixed pretty soon from what i know, in GP they are not faster than me and i play with a pretty high AI level. You can't easily overtake them because they are defending much better, it's much more fun now, it's not the boring AI that will only defend on the outside line and you can overtake them on the inside line, now they move on the inside or ourside line depending on the corner and where they see you will try to overtake. For me it's the best AI i had in F1 games.
