The AI straight line speed is absolutely absurd. I can have DRS and dump the entire battery running 0-0 wings and still not overtake or be able to defend. it was the same on launch for either F123 o...
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I'm just trying to explain what might be causing everyone's difficulty, if it's making you uncomfortable I apologized, my writing is poor.
And, I wouldn't even consider myself half-decent, I was struggling to beat AI across F1 2020 up to 23, and even skipped more than an entire year because I didn't even have f1 24. However, F1 25 is the first time where I could actually compete with the tougher settings of AI, the new driving model & the ability the play with ERS settings is really helping a lot, and, at first I felt the AI was very quick on the straight too, but once I've gotten used to playing with the battery and strategy, the speed they had became mostly just an illusion, I'm not joking.
To a point, I agree with you, I even said in a previous comment that I don’t think the issues is as bad as I first thought once I got used to the new handling and tweaked setups. But on high speed tracks it’s completely obvious that the AI is very overpowered on straights.
There was an issue with f1 24 that was never fixed, where the AI didn’t seem to affected in any way by dirty air, but the player was. That could easily be contributing if that’s still a thing.
I’ve also seen people mention that when delving into the coding on the PC version that it could be an issue with the AI having an unlimited battery and a mod somebody brought out already seemed to fix the issue. So an issue is definitely there. Unfortunately I’m a console player so I don’t have the luxury of mods.
As you say, it may not be as bad as everybody first thought, but I’ve raced in the top teams cars at varying AI difficulty from 105 downwards and low downforce setups, with a full battery and DRS I can barely catch up to AI cars on certain tracks - and that’s with a good exit from corners after catching the AI on technical parts of the track - which tells me traction shouldn’t be a problem.
I logged this bug two days before the game was launched and it’s still under ‘needs info’ when there is an obvious problem that many, many people are all saying they have a similar issue with.
Either way, if it gets fixed or it doesn’t, it would be nice if EA_Groguet would change this to ‘investigating’ and actually investigate it, because a lot of people are getting very annoyed, you are claiming you’re not ignoring us but we’ve had zero updates and it’s not been put under investigating on this post, or under the community raised issue post. So it looks rather like it’s being completely ignored…
I need to know, was the car ahead during your test also closely following another car, if so, you will barely gain anything even if you dump the entire battery on that straight, because they are doing the exact same thing as you're doing, that's the one biggest problem DRS train is causing, even irl.
Only, unless you were significantly at a higher speed on the corner exit before the long straight than the car ahead, it will take them time to match your speed until you plateau at around 320kph, and by that time you should revert the ERS setting to Normal or even None because you would barely gain any speed after that even with Overtake.
I've played around with modding dirty air and drag, the AI are definitely affected by dirty air (they understeer visibly into corners when the dirty air values were tuned up, even crashing into places where they normally wouldn't)in each test I can generally be between 0.5 and 0.2 seconds behind the AI. and what you say about the ERS doesn’t make any sense, the AI can switch to overtake mode exactly the same as me yes. But I’m in the AI cars slip stream, in overtake mode and when I open the DRS and the AI in front does not have DRS, or a slip stream then surely being 0.5-0.2 seconds behind said AI car, I would catch the car before the end of the straight.
With this particular problem, that isn’t happening.
and in this situation, approx 80% of the time other cars behind catch and attempt to/ overtake me.As I say, It seems to mainly be a problem with the high speed circuits.
but driving a McLaren for example, running a low downforce setup, with DRS open, overtake on, in a slipstream, I should be able to catch/not be caught by any lesser of a team.Also, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love this game, I think it’s a huge improvement on last years and I think there are only little tweaks that need to be made, but this issue is one of those little tweaks.
other than that, bravo EA/Codemasters for making a much improved title.
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