EA Staff (Retired)I'll paste here the same message I wrote in the David Greco's Q&A discussion since it migh be a bit more fitting here for feedback purposes. Yesterday in my Brazil sprint race in career mode I was able to keep both the Mercedes and Red Bull pace (I'm in a McLaren which was a bottom 3 car before the update but managed to bring it in line with Mercs and Red Bull with upgrades), today after the update I was a second slower with the same difficulty percentage (100%) and was getting past like if I was a cone in the middle of the track, even though the performance update brought the McLaren closer to Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bulls.
Even worse, next race in Abu Dhabi I was 2 seconds slower than Lando in qualifying (23.5 by me, 21.6 him), even though before the update we were basically on the same pace in every track, with only a 0.1/.2 difference depending on the track we were racing.
I get that the AI might have been improved but 1.5/2 seconds with the same difficulty setting seems a bit too much. Generally speaking they seem to have retained the insane traction and straight line speed they had before the update without suffering from the enhanced understeer that was introduced in this patch. I'm not the only one suffering from this problem so this is definitely an issue.
I’ve tried a few Time trial laps on different circuits and I’ve restarted my career. I find the ai have a slight improvement in speed. I finished 5th instead of 2nd at Bahrain. Nothing I can’t fix by lowering the AI a few points.
The handling I feel is improved with the patch. I can finally turn TC of and have control of the car. I can feel when I’m loosing grip and the improvement in grip makes it so much more comfortable to handle the car both in slow speed and high speed corners.
Series X, controller.
Despite the new graphic glitches occurring in broadcast view I find the patch being a step forward.
@Luigi48GP ha scritto:I'll paste here the same message I wrote in the David Greco's Q&A discussion since it migh be a bit more fitting here for feedback purposes. Yesterday in my Brazil sprint race in career mode I was able to keep both the Mercedes and Red Bull pace (I'm in a McLaren which was a bottom 3 car before the update but managed to bring it in line with Mercs and Red Bull with upgrades), today after the update I was a second slower with the same difficulty percentage (100%) and was getting past like if I was a cone in the middle of the track, even though the performance update brought the McLaren closer to Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bulls.
Even worse, next race in Abu Dhabi I was 2 seconds slower than Lando in qualifying (23.5 by me, 21.6 him), even though before the update we were basically on the same pace in every track, with only a 0.1/.2 difference depending on the track we were racing.
I get that the AI might have been improved but 1.5/2 seconds with the same difficulty setting seems a bit too much. Generally speaking they seem to have retained the insane traction and straight line speed they had before the update without suffering from the enhanced understeer that was introduced in this patch. I'm not the only one suffering from this problem so this is definitely an issue.
Ok I'd like to partially retract my previous statement, the AI being extremely fast is a career mode issue only, I just tested Grand Prix and it works just fine. I don't know what's the problem specifically but it's almost like in career mode the AI are running with a fully upgraded car, hence why they might be so much faster than the player car (this is just speculation though).
