[EXTREME ISSUE] Broken Simulation of AI
Product: F1 22
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Summarize your bug A nasty simulation bug causes ridiculous things to happen when you retire from a session or skip to a Flying Lap or back to the garage in Practice/Qualifying. Among them are ridiculously fast times which you would never match on your usual AI Level, and race results that never would've been possible if the player would still be driving.
Which area is the bug/glitch in? My Team
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either retire from any Practice/Qualifying session after the AI set one lap under normal conditions, or destroy the front wing of an AI in a 50% race and then retire from the session.
What happens when the bug occurs? The simulation bug generates times that are almost 3 seconds faster than a lap set under the normal conditions, meaning no skipping to a Flying Lap, or retiring from a session early.
What do you expect to see? An update which fixes that simulation bug, because these ridiculous things are insane.
You will not believe what recently happened to me in Imola...
It was already more than halfway through the race. Max Verstappen was in a fight with me for 3rd, out of which I DNF'd and he lost his front wing. And when I retired from the session, the game cut to a Red Bull winning sequence and showed VERSTAPPEN as race winner, with no front wing. You can't tell me that it's normal that drivers can win races with no front wing, even though they're like 10 SECONDS BEHIND THE LEADER with a lot of laps to go, this stuff doesn't happen! This is clearly proof that the simulation in this game is horribly broken.
That's not all. I have seen videos in which AI set a decent lap time under normal conditions, and after retiring from the session, it shows three drivers at the top with lap times that are 4 seconds faster than their previous lap times.
This bug has never occurred in any F1 game ever, so it definitely needs a proper fix. It simply kills the fun of this game, and makes you feel extremely worthless as a driver. This is not creeping up the difficulty with every game, this is a bug that requires fixing.
Please work on it, because this is absolutely ridiculous that the simulation punishes you for retiring from sessions or skipping to Flying Laps and back again.
- Nico
PS: Unfortunately, I don't have a Report Code, because I didn't write it down, and the race was already over.