I'll ask him and see if we can find a decent time where we are free for some Q&A action.
We'll it'll be David, not me. Anyone can drive in the midfield every Friday. I'll look to move a lot of the stuff we are used to seeing into EA Answers as we escalate transition.
Not sure what these percentages represent, I'm assuming loss of downforce/drag. Anyway, isn't 24-25% significantly more than 10% (potentially 5%) @Meza994?
And @ActuallyImJulie thanks for the ERS breakdown! Can't think of a reason for that.
@mariohomohYes downforce loss, base game downforce loss is 15% and 24% was the value i settled on to not have regular AI making big mistakes like crashing in the kinks on the straight in Baku (yes from 25% onwards they go wide when too close and just crash into the barrier).
Yes 24% is more than 15% but looking at IRL 47% last years its still not too significant IMO.. Especially since dirty air was always only starting at about 1s gap and by the way dirty air develops it would only reach the 24% downforce loss with 2-3 car lengths behind which you almost never are in the corners so the real difference at about 0.5s gap was more like ~4% less downforce if even that (in my mod)
Regarding ERS i think it was Codemasters way of doing a deployment mapping. So the MGU-K wouldnt deploy as much power, just like it does IRL, yes i know its not based on the speed they go at but on GPS but Codemasters probably didnt wanna go through the trouble of creating a ERS map for each track with a lot of points for deployment adjustment. Although that would be great for the sim guys as a setup option
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@mariohomoh As David revealed, AI is same dirty air as for us, so point would be right but just doesnt fit the situation :D
You dont wanna know how overtake mode was pre 2020.. didnt even come close to 100% of MGU-K sooo yeah they werent close to real life but with how they were interacting with the modes of MGU and ICE its understandable Codemasters choose an easier approach, especially as details of said modes were not too public knowledge
Yes I know ERS is not the best implementation, but we focused on more important aspects of the physics. I know players want everything, but I can assure that, time is never enough. As I explained a few days ago, at a point in the project I must stop developing, so that the AI can train and the whole game can go forward (for example, practice programs too).
With patches we can adjust a few things, but the ERS would be an important thing to change. I read a few answers before about having a separate speed deploy for overtake. That is a really good idea, thanks.
