General AI Level

Grand Prix Mode 

I run with like No Assist - Only Traction Control on Medium - Manual Shift the Whole 9 Yards and last year I was running 90% on a Good day and 85% with slower Cars and Carear mode.

This year honestly 70% and if I m in a Mercedes or lower than the Podium is out of reach.

The F2 Cars roughly 0.400 seconds a Lap faster than the rest of the field but it's challenging.

It's like EA ha e just made the game silly Difficult and there is No way I m putting the AI down past 70% for my own sanity.

I m a Leauge Racer for Christ sake with a YouTube channel - it wouldn't be good for my Street Cred lol

@scrappyusa
I should have said I was doing level 85 last year, so I think I should be about the same this year if you go by My team performance on 92 in the first race

But in GP mode, I have a theory on that, not everyone agrees. But I don't think the AI on GP mode are being affected, as they should be on tyre wear.

Take a look here. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Tyre-wear-barley-affects-AI/m-p/11824364/highlight/true#M7021

Edit 82 not 92

Ok that makes me feel slightly better.

There was me thinking I was loosing it LOL 

I had a quick look at your Link of Tests in Hungary - Took me a second because I thought you was racing as Mad Max for a minute - then I saw the Two Haas cars were highlighted.

I cannot for the life of me sort out Setups - One day I sat there watched Hours of YouTube Tutorials , read up on set ups , spent hours tinkering only for the set ups to be worse than the Default set ups and eit tyres faster than snacks in the Cool down room.

So after that day I completely gave up on set ups and only use other people's that have a wheel in Time Trail mode.

That's just my feelings after doing 3 full GP seasons in different cars. Noting official. I can say with certainty on this year's games it's probably not advisable to copy a time trail set-up as they aren't affected by tyre temps in time trail, and are a massive thing in this year's game when racing. But there are other places you can find race set-ups for. Just make sure they're post patch 1.06.

https://segmentnext.com/best-f1-22-car-setups/

Wheel settings might be worth a check, but as I use a controller I have no advice on that.

@scrappyusa It's me too.

Last year I was on 80 and for F1-22 I'm currently on 65 to be competitive (top 10 & potential podiums).

I race Career, My Team, 100% everything, No Assists, and use a Wheel in Cockpit View.

I try not to alter the AI level for the different tracks.

I started on 80 and got blown away. Then lowered the AI to 70, but the opposition were making me look like an F2 racer, ...so 65 appears to be just about right for me at the moment.

Really depends on track for me.   I blame ai inconsistency but If I’m honest to myself I’m just poor on some tracks.

For instance My team 1st in performance rankings at  Spa I can win with ai on 90-95.  But Hungary I get bullied and beaten by 75-80 ai.   Although since last patch I for the first time beat Ai last to first 50% distance. At Hungary.

When it comes to Fast tracks with fast corners I find I can and love   dancing  to their tune. But struggle finding my rhythm  on  slow tight technical tracks where the beat keeps changing 

I don’t like to change ai level through the course off a season (except practice always lower it to 60 as for me it’s about setting up how car and feels and not beating targets) 

So last full my team season I completed:  From Australia Onwards my team was 1st in rankings and with 80ai 50% race and one shot qualifying( As you can choose starting tyre No point doing full qualifying and jeopardy off one shot is more off a challenge)

I got 8 poles and 12 wins.  4 DNF  10ish fastest laps and Button got 12 poles and 7 wins and 9 2nd  place finishes and 1 DNF

Flashbacks used freely and frequently.  I play single player only I have nothing to prove. So When it benefits me I’ll cheat as the Ai gets use off scripts and cheats to beat us plus game uses scripted weather mechanics.  So it rains when it’s most likely to negatively effect us thereby getting wrapped up in immersion pointless.  As the game design relies on forcing outcomes over randomly organic outcomes 

How do I know this? Last year.   At end off my first my team season: I upload my game save to ps+.   When I go to Monza in my 2nd season the game suffered from corrupt data.  So I hate to delete and reinstall game: and also decided to delete game save and download my ps+ And start from end off first season.  Every race up to Monza. It rained at the same tracks at the same times.  Safety cars came out at the same times with the same drivers  causing accidents(different drivers did get caught up in them) or mechanical failures and not to mention I followed  my previous R&D which all failed and passed at the same time.  Thngs that make you go hmmm.  But at least the game didn’t corrupt again.

Hi, AI has been “well tuned” with the patch 1.06 if I well remember.

At the release in GP mode the AI level was “similar” to F1 2021 in my experience, after the tuning there are probably 4-5 points of difference (100+ AI) which are around 8-10 with 100- AI level. Meaning you need to lower that amount to have similar experience against the AI.

Greetings,

Nuv

@scrappyusa 

I've just added some more context to my findings on the link I shared about tyre wear.