I have about 1 day and 20 hours til I can play the game but I saw a lot of videos that showed the AI to not be too much of a challenge. Is this true or are they faking it by saying they were on expert but really weren't?
Do you remember what times you and the AI did at Bahrein, Melbourne and/or Sepang?
I haven't had a chance to test this out yet, as I'm 5 races into my career and don't want to start again, but i've read on the Codemasters forum that even with AI on legends and all aids off the difficulty can be further affected by what answers you give in your pre season interview. One of the answers to one of the questions is "I want to test myself against the best" (or something close to that) if you choose that answer it is apparently harder.
I cant find the thread again at the moment, but as soon as i do i'll link to it.
I'm an experienced sim racer, am usually posting in the top 5 times of each week in the Radical and DP (and Lotus when i drive it) in iRacing and have won several netKar pro leagues, so I'm no slouch. I chose the "test myself against the best" answer to that question and am certainly not getting anywhere near to challenging for top 10 places in races (7 year career,Lotus, no aids, Legends AI. PC version with wheel) I've only made Q3 once, due to a wet Q2 where i stayed on slicks for ages and beat everyone by 2 secs (far to much grip for too long on slicks in the wet, but thats for a different thread ) In normal dry conditions 13th is my best qual. position.
It may be that I'm just crap at arcade games, but I feel I'm pushing pretty bloody hard.
Anyhow, I'll try later to test the theory of whether what answers you give in your pre season interview affect the difficulty if i have time.
It would be good if others tried it and gave their feedback on this theory.
I'm with Stu on this one, similar times and places in qualy (tho the pit bug has nailed me hard in my first 2 races). I think alot has to do with race distance as well perhaps, i'm also running 50% distance.
Neil, could you explain what just "clicked"?? I know at melbourne i started to freely toss the car around more and seemed to gain some time. Curbs arent as scary as they are in the DP on iracing lol. I do feel i'm getting realistic results for a Lotus tho, which makes it fun. Tho to get in RBR and have the game click i may hate myself lol.
Originally Posted by iamPADDY
It's because the qualifying times are fake. Read this:
"@T4RG4 Love the game, but 1 question;why don't you use real times in quali and practice? I caught Webber on track, but his time was faster?!"
"@Noelinho Because we couldn't make them compete in Qualy this time out Looking to sort that though"
Which basically means qualifying is a giant waste of time - you're racing against a timesheet that's already been printed. It seems that they couldn't be bothered to make the qualifying times anywhere near as quick as race pace, which is where the issue here stems from.
The AI just doesn't feel right. As a matter of fact, I think the AI ruins the entire career mode for me. The career mode itself has the promise of some fantastic racing, but it's ruined by a very unreliable and unbalanced AI.
The thing is just so unpredictable that it takes all the fun away. I drive on the Legend level with all aids off, and I simrace quite a lot. But this is so anoying that it sometimes makes me want to take my F1 2010 copy and throw it out the window.
When a car in front of me gets ahead by barely a second, there is no way I can catch up again. The bastards are just gone. The people behind same thing, but switched. Once I can get a small lead, I'm able to run away quite easily. And when I should a make a mistake and fall behind them you would think that I could at least hang on to them since I was faster then them, but nooooooooo, off they go in the distance.
Plus I always have the feeling when I'm driving alone with no one around me, that all cars suddenly start picking up this insane speed. Yesterday I was racing at Malaysia, when I got dropped back after my pitstop. I was 13th or so, but when exiting the pit I was second to last. In front of me was my team mate who must be the slowest car in the whole game most of the time (di grassi), but the guy just kept on driving the same laps as Vettel did in front. I kept pushing and pushing, but every lap I lost about 1.5 seconds on him...
Tried Shanghai just now, and again same story. I was 8th, and it started to rain in lap 4. I deceided to go in for full wets to try and get the jump on everyone, but it kinda didn't work out. WHen I came in the pit Hamilton must have been between 2 and 3 seconds behind me. When he pitted for tires 4 laps later, the guy comes out more then 7 seconds in front of me! Even Senna, who pitted the next lap, was miles ahead of me when he exitted, leaving me in last place yet again, just like in Malaysia. Where the hell is the fun in this?
I really like the way the cars drive. I really do. And the career mode had the promise of something amazing, but it just gets raped by the ever so anoying AI. It just doesn't make sense. The AI in GP4 was even better then this, and much more fair.
I read at some places that it might have to do with the fact that you don't have a legal copy, so the AI doesn't work that well. I downloaded F1 2010 a couple of days before I was able to buy it in the stores and I couldn't wait anymore, but now I have a legal version, and it's still ever so crap.