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Rising Traveler

Re: I finally figured out why the players car is so slow in a straight line!

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.

2 Replies

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
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.