I'm gonna be as honest and direct as possible (and it's ok if people disagree with me), BUT..
The AIs in F1 22 are just completely bad.
I mean.. their practice, quali and race paces are literally all over the place - not to mention their behavior when fighting for positions (attacking/defending) and all of that together is why there is such a big discrepancy in terms of performance between different sessions and it's even worse (more noticeable) in some tracks, like Miami, Baku, Singapore, among a few others..
It's also related to how they were coded - including, for example, how they 'manage' their tyre temps (always keeping them at 92 ºC, no matter how hard they push), which helps them to make their tyres last longer and keep and amazing pace throughout their whole stints (including getting their fastest laps at the very end of each stint - sometimes going up to 1 or even 2 secs faster than their regular pace during the stint) + their unrealistic and most of the time impossible to keep up with acceleration after the corners - especially the slower corners (like the one before the long back straight in Miami, for example) + super top speed and that's why and how they gain so much on us, players. at that particular sector..
I keep complaining about the AIs in this game and I apologize for sounding like a broken record, but.. this is why things like these happen: the AIs are just badly coded in this game - change my mind! 😅
@SexyBrigadeiro"...their practice, quali and race paces are literally all over the place..."
Yes, definitely.
The AI's pace can vary significantly from one track to another. Eg Bahrain and Japan -- I really like racing both circuits, I don't feel like I'm better at one than the other, and yet I have to set the AI 10 clicks lower at Bahrain than Japan to get a comparably competitive race.
And the pace required to pass practice programs, especially the race strategy program, is not indicative of the race pace you'll encounter. 90 - 92 is a competitive setting for me at Spa, yet I can pass the race strategy program by a couple of seconds each lap. Meanwhile at Singapore at roughly 84-85 I struggle mightily to pass any programs (and I usually don't pass any).
So here's how I figure my AI settings -- I keep notes on every race and make tweaks to the AI setting accordingly. I did a season in normal career driver mode with Gasly as a teammate and used him as a benchmark, and then continued to tweak season after season.
Tracks that I find easier than average (I have to increase the AI setting) are Zandvoort, Spa, Japan, Great Britain, Jeddah, and (to a less degree) Abu Dhabi and Monza.
Tracks that are tougher than average are Bahrain, Hungary, COTA, Imola, Singapore and Canada. I know the "tougher than average" isn't all on the AI (except for Bahrain and maybe Hungary). 100% Singapore with sim damage and no flashblacks is tough regardless of AI level, I absolutely stink at Canada, Imola is a crash waiting to happen and I have yet to hit an apex at COTA.
@sc31245 wrote:So here's how I figure my AI settings -- I keep notes on every race and make tweaks to the AI setting accordingly. I did a season in normal career driver mode with Gasly as a teammate and used him as a benchmark, and then continued to tweak season after season.
@sc31245 this is one thing I need to start doing!
