Hello drivers, We have seen a number reports regarding inconsistent AI performance in EA SPORTS WRC. While the team is currently investigating and working on fixes where possible, we need additional information to help fully diagnose the issue and develop a definitive fix for a future patch. If you are encountering this issue, please reply in this thread with the following information: AI Difficulty Setting: Stage: If Career, then which career event it is: Time of Day: Weather Condition: Vehicle Class: Thank you very much for helping us in our investigation. -Groguet

I believe the main trigger has been when quitting and resuming mid event in championship or career. The ai can very suddenly become slow, 2 or 3 minutes per stage slower on any ai setting. Personally, I have not had the same issue whilst playing an event all the way through but others have, particularly it seems, when creating an event outside of career or champ with more than 9 stages per event though I haven't tested this. Possible tyre selection issue in this case? Others have reported random mid event pace inconsistency even when playing an event all the way through but I have not experienced this recently and the only trigger suggested is that it tends to be later in the event when these issues occur..

AI Difficulty Setting: 50-70 (haven't tried outside this range)Stage: VariousIf Career, then which career event it is: All events in Championship and customTime of Day: VariousWeather Condition: VariousVehicle Class: VariousAs said above, the trigger for me is quitting and resuming an event.

As above, I have found the AI times to become several minutes slower when you quit the event and continue it later. Almost as though the game unintentionally resets the AI difficulty slider to 0 when it reloads offline events.It doesn't appear to be game mode, location or vehicle class specific. It always does itGlad it's finally been acknowledged 🥳

Additionally to the already named issues with resuming saved championships there is also a problem with the AIs tire strategies. During longer rallies the AI will use almost every service to switch to new tires leading to them running out of tires way to soon. For I example I created the 2023 Finland Rally in Quick play with a setup like this:Day1: Service - Stage 1- Service - Stage2 - Stage3 - Stage4 - Stage5 - Service - Stage6 - Stage7 - Stage8 - Stage9 - Stage10Day2: Service - Stage11 - Stage12 - Stage13 - Stage14 - Service - Stage15 - Stage16 - Stage17 - Stage18Day3: Service - Stage19 - Stage20 - Service - Stage21 - Stage22With this rally the game grants you 1 set of Soft tires and 2 sets of medium tires, with an addition set of your choice through the shakedown. A proper tire strategy might look like this:Day1: 1x Set of Softs (from Shakedown)Day2: 2x Sets of MediumsDay3: 1x Set of SoftsInstead the AI will always show a fresh set of tires at the beginning of Day2 with them never changing afterwards, which makes me suspect they go through their 4 sets changing at every available service (marked above with underline). This leads to them falling back minutes each stage after around stage16 or stage17.The expected behavior would be for the AI to check the overall rally length, number of available services and spread of the services to try to minimize the number of stages running worn out tires.###################################Side-note: It would also be cool to give the option to set the number of available tire sets as a rally option somewhere. While I actually like how it plays out in the example above because you have to actually think about how to use your tires and you will have to run a few stages with low grip, it still might be cool to make it easier if wanted or at least spice up the tire choices a bit.Still it's worlds better as DR2.0 where you got free tires every service making the choice trivial, so kudos for that!

AI Difficulty Setting: 100Stage: Vargassen, SwedenIf Career, then which career event it is: FIA Junior WRC Championship Time of Day: I think it was Evening but can't remember really Weather Condition: Clear Vehicle Class: Junior WRCI just booted up the game and went into the rally. Drove the first stage quite carefully but I still won by 40s. I usuallg win by around 5 or 4 on this difficulty so I knew something was off

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ss900ie
2 years ago
AI Difficulty Setting: 85%
Stage: More or less all the stages
If Career, then which career event it is: Career mode, particularly the WRC events
Time of Day: Any
Weather Condition: Any
Vehicle Class: Rally1
As reported before I confirm that it seems nearly impossible to win twisty stages like Mexico or Acropolis, the AI seems incredibly fast when the road is narrow with slow corners.
It seem that I can be competitive only on mid to high speed events like Sweden, Croatia, Sardinia and Estonia.
Where the speed is very high (like CER) the AI seems to behave inconsistently between stages.
masa9o
11 months ago
Well atleast it is not as impossible to most as :A Defiant Monte-Carlo Defence (Monte Carlo)
Really that challenge is extreme, win by over 45 seconds on 5 minute stage.
TheRagebeard
Hero
11 months ago
@ss900ie Sorry to bring an old thread back to life, but I stopped playing because of the messy AI times. Is it safe to say the AI are still an inconsistent mess after all these patches?
Thanks in advance for the advice.
Cheers.
ss900ie
11 months ago
@TheRagebeard,
unfortunately I don’t know as I stopped to play as well because of the messy IA times.
TheRagebeard
Hero
11 months ago
@ss900ie no worries, thanks for the reply.
masa9o
4 months ago
The challenge Muddy Business is just again miles more difficult than anything else.
I am ahead of Evans, then all of the sudden he just speeds up and rockets by. Which is really weird considering how easy most of the challenges in Chile are. This is close to unbeatable to most.

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