AI overtaking slow cars

Beeping sir @ScarDuck14, expert in all things AI behavior on track.

I’m not getting any beeps for @ing me.  

Meza is right:  whenever I’ve won a race in first season off my team it’s generally because Bottas and Hamilton have hit into the first corner and the one with front wing damage comes out in front.  Won spa because exactly that happened.  End off first lap had 5 second lead and considering I didn’t take the lead to midway through second sector.  

Think something needs like Meza suggests needs to be applied.  But also like he says it’s all good when he goes in our favour.   But real problem is when my team is 1st in performance rankings and I’m on pole:   I’ve managed on occasion to get a 8 second lead by the end off first lap. 

Should also add.. if anyone is wondering why other ai didn’t overtake Bottas in sector 1.  When Ai receives front wing damage.  Like the ‘real world’ the ai cars don’t lose any acceleration or top end speed.  

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@Meza994 wrote:
@ScarDuck14Thats why im suggestion divebombing, because the AI brake earlier, or going around the outside of a corner due to way slower cornering speed 🙂

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I’ve watched tons off 22 you tube vids and dive bombing AI seems to be in full effect.  So I’m going to guess the game will launch with super aggressive ai until the devs listen to people whinge and it’s patched and put back on its rails again. 

Also should point out in tom97 last video at COTA he received front wing damage but didn’t slow him down and still put in fast laps.  I assume this to be due to ground effect. So would assume ai  don’t suffer as badly either

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@Meza994 I don’t doubt it.  It’s pretty hard to know until in my case I’m behind the pad.  And get a feel for the handling. But from just what I’ve seen I don’t think ai will patiently sit behind other wounded ai cars this year. They look feisty 

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@Meza994 wrote:

We all know it, we all hate it (except for when we gain from it😂). When an AI car has damage they (usually) get extremely slow and crawl like 5-10s slower per lap around the track. The other AI cars usually crawl behind them almost only overtaking on a straight and therefore losing a lot of time.

A solution would be to mark cars with such damage as "slow cars" for the AI, allowing the AI to go wild and even go around the outside of these "slow cars". Especially on long sweeping corners they can go just around the outside but never do it. They could be trained to take these wider lines or divebomb down the inside if directly behind a "slow car" to make sure it works properly.

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Agree and quite important as well regarding AI behaviour, don't want to tag EA anytime so as not to become annoying but really this kind of suggestion can make the game better and better if the developers take them into consideration 😉

Regards,
Nuv