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ImpartialCross06's avatar
ImpartialCross06
Rising Traveler
3 years ago
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I finally figured out why the players car is so slow in a straight line!

I finally figured out why the AI is so overpowered in career mode and my team mode, and why they get a bigger advantage the longer you get into your career mode. There is something wrong with how th...
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svensen86's avatar
svensen86
Rising Scout
3 years ago

Just to be on the same Page,e.g. we mean Qualy start,you press options Button and restart Session. Same for every Session you need your "updated" car. So most important qualy and race. In race right after the start you restart it badically? 

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @svensen86 Yup just Restart session. Pretty sure it just relates to drag upgrades. But with this game you can never tell🤷🏻‍♂️
  • morphan86's avatar
    morphan86
    3 years ago

    I'm just at season 1. But my problem is like this. Drive out to do some laps and test the setup.

    Setup feels fine, lets do the "Practice programs"

    Starts the quali program, the car should be on steriods at this point!

    But I am 3-5km/h slower.

    Same with "Race strategy"

    So I drive out again  for a "free run", the speed is back :/

    Same in the race itself. Slow

    So for me it dosent happen when I go to a new GP or gets new upgrades.

    Changes in the same session, and when I am testing the setup, I restart the session many times.

    But thinking about it I havent restarted the session when I started a program. Will check that! :D

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @morphan86 You will be slower in race due to high fuel load. But. Qualifying you should be dancing. I’d try restarting qualifying session and see if that works.
  • morphan86's avatar
    morphan86
    3 years ago
    @ScarDuck14 Yeah, that I know. But in "quali program" I should fly, but are slower. I started to think that maybe it is that "Low fuel mode" that kicks in and lower the top speed? I dont know how low the fuel level needs to be to get the effect of that option, I have it on "Easy". But I think I tested to fuel up for 5or6 laps instead of 4, still no effect......
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @morphan86 Can’t help you with Qualifying. Fuel should be fine. I play my team and my car is significantly better than the rest off the field. So I do one shot qualifying so gives me more jeopardy. Only having one lap to get it right means more change off me finishing down the grid.
  • morphan86's avatar
    morphan86
    3 years ago
    @ScarDuck14 will try and restart session when I have started a proram now. Thanks for your time! Have a good one meanwhile!
  • morphan86's avatar
    morphan86
    3 years ago
    @ScarDuck14 Re installed the game, and I actually think it fixed the problem...But I will see when I get the "quali practice program".
  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @morphan86 I also do a fresh reinstall from time to time including nuking my all my game save data. I feel it works especially after a large patch. Maybe a placebo. But it works for me 💪👍
  • ImpartialCross06's avatar
    ImpartialCross06
    Rising Traveler
    3 years ago

    Hmm, that was weird. At first I thought it might be that when you do normal practice programs you can use overtake rather than hotlap, which should

    be around 3-6 km/h faster because overtake uses 100 percent of the ERS power, hotlap 60 percent and standard only 15 percent. But since

    you mention that you are also slower in "Race strategy" that's really weird. I will test if this is something I never noticed.

    I never even do the practice programs anymore, have grown tired of them over the years. It might also work as you say to restart the practice programs.

    I do not think it can be lean fuel mixture suddenly kicking in because that will only give you 90 percent of the engine power which I'm quite certain

    should be more than 3-5 km/h.

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @ImpartialCross06 I noticed this on last years game. Posted about it over at codemasters forum. Top end speed during practice was massive compared to Race.
  • ImpartialCross06's avatar
    ImpartialCross06
    Rising Traveler
    3 years ago
    @ScarDuck14 Oh, that's really bad and really weird. I wonder what's happening. Do we get more upgrades on practice sessions or something? I never noticed this. But then in theory practice sessions should be easier not harder than specially the race, in qualifying I feel the AI is already good. But from what I remember the practice programs were generally harder than the race.

    I think one of the reasons practice programs is so hard especially qualifying programs is that they compare you with the times of the other teams around you. Let's say you are the 9 best car in my team and your car is 5 tenths slower than 8 best team (green) and lets say a second behind the 6-7 best car (purple). This is obviously rarely the case that you are that far behind the cars in front of you but it can happen and they still expect you to beat those times. And in practice there is less grip which is were I find the AI to be better than we as Human can perform.

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