AI Sudden outbursts?

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Hi all, I have one question. Can AI have sudden speed outbursts?

Heres how it happened: I was in the Japanese 80's race on Autumn Ring.My bob was winning so I watched a battle for 3rd with 3 cars.Then a MX-5 comes from nowhere and passes them all, then 2nd and then moves onto me. But he'd no Mental Strength left so the MX-5 could'nt pass me.

Can someone explain this?
 
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They do speed up, I have watched lap times and they do push, they also make more mistakes when they do. Also if you have let your bob drift without too much direction he will slow down. I have seen him drop 5-10 seconds a lap easily if he has a big lead and you just let him cruise.

You need to occasionally remind him to maintain speed or speed up if you notice that his heat bar is way down in the blue and he is being caught.
 
Even in the A-spec races, the ai speed up on the final lap. This is most noticable on the historic race car series. I used a Toyota 7 and the 2J got on my tail on the last lap and I had to do some serious blocking.
 
I'll concur with the others. It's as if the drivers (B-spec or Ai) sometimes conserve their energy until the very end, when they'll do an all-out sprint to catch up.
 
yep I've noticed the same thing. I would have a good lead then on the last lap they are right on me again (It's more noticeable in some races).
 
Its because your bob cools down and get slower when he gets far infront. If your in a car that easily wins this doesn't matter but for more equal cars when he is completely cool press increase pace to speed him up again.
 
Noticed it especially in the historic racing car championships. I did it in a jag xj13 unmodded and would go from having a 10 second lead with 2 laps to go to having a toyotA 7 marking my moves with half a lap to go
 
I noticed the worst possible instance of this behavior in the FGT Monza race. I was about 40 seconds ahead in 16th lap and ended up winning by 0.3 seconds! This, despite my last 4 laps being the best in the race at around 1.21. I was driving flawlessly during those laps and I even managed to better my best practice lap time of 1:23. BTW, I managed a 40 second lead because the AI pitted and I didn't.
 
Ive noticed that as well but in some cases its ridiculous. Like cutting down 10 seconds in one lap on your Bob while he is in a superior car and mid temper.

OT: Has anyone else noticed the comp drivers getting artificial boosting of both mental and strength bars? I remember quite a few times noticing the same driver with near depleted vitals when I checked and then a minute later I check back and see it rise slowly to almost half way. Straight up cheating imho. Same driver, same lap. I notice it mostly when Im doing the Nurburgring 4 hour enduro. I really hate silly, lazy programming tricks like rubberbanding, rolling land mines etc that are in some racing games. To see it in GT is disappointing.
 
This phoenomenon doesn't just exist in the short term (i.e., within a race) - I've heard accounts of people's Bobs suddenly becoming proficiant auto racers at some time.
 
Well, if you keep shooting him, eventually the yellow truck will get mad and lap everyone.

Oh, wait.. that was RC Pro-Am for the Nintendo....

I digress - but I've seen this a bit in A-Spec, it seems like (maybe just my imagination) but in the last couple of laps of a long race, the competition seems to gain on me just a bit, even if I've been way ahead.
 
Sometimes the CPU hits the "cheat button" as I like to call it and can gain tons of time in just one lap. In the Dream Car Championship at Monza in the dry, it went from being 12 seconds behind me at the start of the lap to over 6 seconds infront by the end, after that I closed a little each lap running similar times but just couldn't make up the time it gained in that one lap.
 

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