AI balance issues in Career mode
I have now played through a JWRC season and pretty much all the way through a WRC2 campaign and gave noticed undesirable patterns of behaviour in terms of ai competitiveness. For reference I ran 90a...
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Ive also had this issue. I beat the ai by 2mins in one stage at sweden, winning the rally by 4, even though I had a broken steering rack for the last sector and couldnt go straight without going slow
AI was already unbalanced in previous Codemasters games but here it went completely broke at least in career mode.
Most of the time it's just too easy on highest difficulty and then in some specific cases it becomes hard. This needs fix.
After 2 month of release maybe EA fix the problem, not first....
I actually think AI in Need for Speed is well balanced so maybe they could learn a thing? At the same time NFS team should learn about handling from Codemasters cuz it's awful in NFS.
Hi Everyone,
I've had a flick through some of the EA Forums for WRC and I've not yet seen anyone bring this topic up.
I am by no means the quickest driver out there on this game, but I'm finding it disappointing how easy the game is to win stages and events on 100 AI difficulty. For me, I think 100 should be close to unbeatable, requiring clean stages constantly, like it is in real life WRC.
I love this game so much, but there is no challenge aspect with it being so easy to win events, while having crashes occasionally and spins.
An example, I recently started a custom JWRC championship, first event is Sweden and generally I struggle on the snowy events, I had a massive roll on the first stage, lost maybe 15s, but I was just 1s behind the leader on that stage. Clean stages I was winning by 15-20s easily without really having to push hard or take risks. This was on 100 AI difficulty. It just feels so easy and not a challenge!
I'd love to know if anyone else agrees with this point.
Cheers,
Ewan!
- @EwanLeesGTI AMEN! i set the AI to 100% and im a solid 30 seconds ahead of them every stage
Does the AI 'stage leader' on the progress bar actually mimic the stage being driven (with fast and slower parts of the stage) or is it just a count down timer to the finish stage time of the leader? On multiple stages with a lot of twists and turns in sector 1 I have found myself being left behind by AI who seem to progress as if for them the sector is just a straight only to "easily" catch back up at moments where the stage actually becomes a bit faster.
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PlayStation 5
Summarize your bug AI difficulty varies in different modes at the same level
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Try racing 100 AI in both career and quick race and you will find out that in career with builder car it's very hard to come out with good times while in quick races with the same AI level you can finish first by a decent margin!
What happens when the bug occurs? I finish in last position in career in every race, but in quck race I finish on first position
What do you expect to see? You should make both career and quick races having the same difficulty at the same AI level.
AI difficulty is not the same in every mode while setting it at the same level.
How many more time need wait for fix a bug of IA?! for your programmers it takes 5 minutes.
you're doing it on purpose, there's no need to wait until December 15th for a patch, just release this fix yourself
I buy one game on 23 october, and today on 23 november after 1 m9nth I have a game broken uplayable because IA not work, or fix the IA in few days or make possibility to have refund, because the online game I don't interest! I buy game for career and career its broken, than i want legitimate refund
The problems its your, i understand if the team working to fix and the timing for release game its too small, but im consumer, and pay for one product if the game its broken or incomplete, EA he shouldn't have released it
Has anyone tested whether this issue happens if you do a short race and don't restart the race or quite mid way through ?
i.e. if you don't do a replay or quite the stage mid way through
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PlayStation 5
Summarize your bug IA change de performance between different stages in the same rally, in Batukangkung stage they beat me for 2 minutes and in the next stage in Moearaikoer I beat them for 2 minutes. Both in Group A this bug make career mode unplayable
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play thus stages un career mode. IA 95%
What happens when the bug occurs? Ia change her performance
What do you expect to see? Similar performance in similar stages and conditions
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Same here.
Same here.
I noticed that in difficulty 50, everything was fine, but the competitors were pretty dull, so I started increasing the difficulty steadily to 60. When I arrived at 60, the game started to "invent" the timings from the competitors. For example, I am leading in the first stage, and in the second stage, I beat the leader of the class. When I finished and checked the Class table, I was 12th while the one I beat on the stage was leader. I went back to difficulty 50, and everything was fine.
It seems a bug, as the game is inventing timings.
Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:PlayStation 5
Summarize your bug A.I. low difficult performance in championship after restarting the game.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? - Start a "new" championship with AI difficult at least in 60%; - Compare the diference times from the opponents after the 1st race; - Quit the championship and restart the game; - Resume the championship and after the 2nd race compare the diference times from opponents again.
What happens when the bug occurs? The AI performance change to very easy besides the setting is in higher levels, noticed in championship.
What do you expect to see? A balanced level of AI difficult, reflecting the setting.
When playing in championship mode (I don't know in other modes) the AI performance difficult change itself to very easy if you quit to resume after restarting the game, no matter if the game is set in a high difficult level of AI (like 60 for exemple).
