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2 years ago

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 90ai in JWRC and 95ai in WRC2.

Main issue is the wildly inconsistent timings of ai competitors. On SS1 (Generally ai's strongest stage) I can be 30 seconds behind and languishing in 25th place or something. On the very next stage I could be 30 seconds up and this pattern continues though generally favouring player rather than ai. I should be really battling ai at 95.

Also, when I have been in a close fight with a competitor at the top, they ALWAYS seem to suffer a mechanical break of some kind ruining the battle. I love that issues occur, but they should be significantly less common for the top few drivers so that when they do happen, it's a wow moment rather than a "not agaaain!" Moment.

Anyone else experiencing similar?

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52 Replies

Korax66623
2 years ago
All problems with AI should be solved very simply. The developers should introduce virtual simulation of AI races into the game. Better yet, they need to add AI on the track, like it was in Dirt 2. If the AI beat me by 30 seconds, I'd like to see how it did it. I want to see replays of AI races. The developers should finally take a step forward. If you want to attract more audience to your fairly niche game, then you must introduce new technologies. Just not in the graphic component!!! First ask the rally players if they need the new Unreal Engine? Or new features in the game, maybe?
EwilCZ
2 years ago
I'm not sure exactly how it's done, but from what I have seen, AI times seem to be calculated... unfortunately not always correctly. I have seen some really strange stuff hapenning, especially in Career. AI times does not seem to correspond properly to tyre wear and weather / road condition. Monte Carlo is a good example. In stage 2, I can easily get ahead by couple seconds on asphalt, be just a bit slower on ice section (I blame my skill), but I always lose a lot of time in the very last fast section. It's like AI ignores ice and snow in the last section.
Stage 3 is a similar story, with a change on asphalt in the last section (which is same as Stage 2 beginning), where I can't compete with AI, probably due to tyre wear.
I don't really think I'm constantly drifting and I also tried different setups - no significant change. DR2 had a similar issue, but it wasn't as bad from what I remember.