AI cheating or just me being bad?

[pm1902]

Heyo,

I've noticed that if I bump into the back of another car, I stick there like glue and have to brake very hard to get off. The car ahead of me usually doesn't spin out, change course, or notice the fact that it was rear-ended at all. But when an AI car drives into the back of my car, it bounces off and swerves me off course. If I get bumped hard, I'll spin out completely and the AI car continues unaffected. If I drive full-speed into the back of a Yaris or something, I spin out. I've never seen an AI car spin out after a collision unless I deliberately try to force it into a solid wall or drive into it head-on or something.

It seems that if I ever bump into another car, it's me that always spins out. I've tried smacking into AI cars as hard as I can to see if it really is just me, and I always seem to get the worst of it.

Also if I bang into a wall on a track like the Indy speedway, I get sucked in and can't pull away easily. If an AI car hits the wall, it bounces off. Why do I get sucked in but the AI bounces off?

I've been trying to do the "Like the Wind" challenge in my ZR-1 which is just fast enough I think, but the AI drives like I'm not there and I keep getting spun out, banged into walls and thrown around like my car weighs nothing and they're driving tanks. This is really starting to annoy me

Is there different collision physics for me and the AI cars? Or do I just not know how to handle a car when it receives the slightest of bumps

Why do I crash with the slightest of bumps, but the only way to make the AI crash involves taking yourself out in the process

 

[cwm33]

It's not you, the AI drives more or less like it's on rails and is VERY hard to throw off of its line.

I've done it in my Veyron though, nail one going into a turn going a good 200ish kph faster than he's going. He'll be off in the dirt right quick, but unfortunately so will you...but backwards, and the AI apparently can throw on dirt tires at will too.

 

[Stixhellfang]

If your getting hit hard enough to send you flying then your probably breaking to early, usually because your car shouldn't be going that fast, typically because you just gave it 3 stages of turbo or whatever..

If your blowing by them on teh straights and they are catching you on the corners time to check your tires and or down-force so you can hold the corners better.

As for how to react when your getting hit if your breaks are on the tires "let go" of the road because there is to much force .. if you see that hit coming let off the breaks take the hit then flutter the breaks and hope you hold the corner.