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.
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<Mass value="798" />
<MOIX value="877" />
<MOIY value="2042" />
<MOIZ value="126" />
<COMY value="0.21" />
<COMZ value="0.108" /
Looking at these rows from the game files and based on the earlier replies here, I guess COM means "Center of Mass". However does anyone have any idea what MOI could mean?
@DavidG53, I was told to look up your YT tips&tricks clip about wing setup, by @ScarDuck14 . It is interesting that "5 up, 5 down" would make such a difference (not always for me as I am not as consistent as you are shown in clip 😉 )
So if this little tweak makes the difference, why it isn't used in pre-defined setups? 😉
I also noticed that AI cars always use one of pre-defined setups, usually the one suggested to gamers in FP1. And it seems - based on UDP telemetry - all of them use the same.
Is that intentional, to put AI little bit on a back foot and give us gamers a chance to beat them? 😉
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@DavidG53 wrote:
@P4st3l1akAi actually use different setup. I don't believe udp shows it correctly. Mainly wing and ride height difference, that's all.
Interesting 😉 Would it be possible to see their setup in UDP telemetry? 😉
I'd be quite interested to see custom setups in AI car setups as I assume AI drivers are designed to have different preferences.
@DavidG53 wrote:
Why it isn't used in pre-defined setups? Because players at lower level must be able to drive the car as well. Internally we found that a lot more people would just spin and not complete a single race if we went for faster setups.
OK, understood, so you prefer stability of car to speed and then leave it to gamers to find their own limits 😉 Thank you the explanation.
@ScarDuck14 wrote:
@P4st3l1aksure listen to sir Greco dudes explanation over mine 🙄😜which I think was the same
Please, I didn't mean any insult to your knowledge. If I made such thing, it was unintentional and please accept my sincere apology.
I reached out to Sir David because topic says it's his Q&A. And because he can see behind the scene and can share details we may only guess 😉
@P4st3l1ak wrote:Interesting 😉 Would it be possible to see their setup in UDP telemetry? 😉
I'd be quite interested to see custom setups in AI car setups as I assume AI drivers are designed to have different preferences.
+1, maybe we could ask here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/F1-22-UDP-Specification/td-p/11551274
The last 20% on the triggers is actually really important for resolution for the throttle and brake. 0-80 trigger equals 0-100 throttle/brake which means there are points which in between those points which can not be registered accurately and that means the trigger can feel like an on and off switch. This is especially important for trailbraking and braking in general. Getting 100% pressure but not physically knowing when the end point of braking/trigger can lead to a guessing game every time you enter a heavy breaking zone. Or alternatively if you press to end the stop, you spend a few milliseconds more on the brake and trailbraking is impacted.
On my dual sense I had to modify the brake trigger to have a physical stop when the brake indicator hit 100% and trailbraking improved. That 20% deadzone at the end of travel is not necessary. A simple end point calibration in the menu would really helpful.
@DRudd13Why would you think so? The goal of the test is to calibrate the game difficulty to the closest performance reference you can have: an AI driver running in equal machinery.
Even if their setups are slightly different than yours, 1. setups are about handling first and foremost, hardly messing up with car potential performance, and 2. your teammate keeps on being the closest performance reference you can get.
I'd wager the tip to use a default setup was just sort of a foolproof mechanism. Making sure the player is not running a very punitive, hard-to-drive setup unsuitable for their skill level.
Even after you have your own custom setups for each and every track, running a quali session against your AI teammate would still be the recommended difficulty calibration routine 👌
In previous years you'd be running the same set-up as well as having the same machinery.
But this year you could match your teammates times in qualifying, but your tyre's might go off 3 laps earlier. So you'll not be getting as accurate AI level as you would previously.
Not knowing your teammate's set-up for this sort of setting isn't helpful. And I'm sure you could get that information from the team.
It's a bit like the tyre pressures, they open the game up, which I'm all for. But keep the players options very limited. As @mezza has said previously, we need the chance to set them for every compound that could be used in the race. As they really do make a huge difference.
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It would be good to know
1 Why they don't use the default set-ups
2 What do they gain with the set=up they decide to use
3 does their skill rating affect the changes they make to the car
4 the decisions they take in deciding a new set-up????
@mariohomohMissed reading you brother😍
Not sure if this is correct.. but the ai only controls one car at a time. Well that used to be the case. It may be more these days but for the most part the ai will follow a predefined line and speed based on the difficulty level
