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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Overall I've been loving the AI and have had some awesome battles that just wouldn't ever happen in previous games. I like the aggressiveness, but I've had issues with them that I wouldn't attribute to aggressiveness, but more to just being broken. Earlier I went for a move up the inside on Vettel at T10 in Spain and he got a better exit and had his front tire next to my wing and I was getting ready to hang it around the outside of him at T12 but he just drifted into me through T11 to get on the normal racing line. I get that drivers make mistakes in real life too, but drifting into a car you literally just saw next to you is pretty egregious. It's not even that it ruins my race or anything, if I think the AI did something implausibly stupid I'll just rewind. But it usually means throwing away what was going to be (or already was) a great battle. Fortunately I feel like I rarely encounter these issues and most of the time when I make contact with the AI it's my fault and I just have to suck it up (by which I mean rewind until I'm not torpedoing them).
Another thing that bugs me is that ironically with the aggression they have, sometimes they just seem to come to a near stop when exiting a corner if I just overtook them which also kills the potential for good battles. It doesn't seem like it has anything to do with a lack of space either because they'll do it closer to the midpoint of the corner before I even have the opportunity to squeeze them outside or anything.
