More about "AC ai is bad" myth. After years of tweaking these seasons I've found out a couple of things.
1. When the track fastlane is well made (safe and fast) like Kunos Monza, Spa, Barca... ANY
@Thockard fastlane, etc. you will NOT get any erratic behaviour by ai. But you have to watch the mirrors and keep your line in the overtake situations as long as you're clearly past the ai car. If you have a sloppy fastlane and bad cars (like unmodified SimDream) you will have terrible races and slow/erratic AI. And you also have to be very careful where to attempt the overtake. But hey, it's like that in real F1 too. Overtaking was ALWAYS difficult and risky before DRS came. So don't do any idiotic overtake attempts, it shouldn't be an arcade game, huh?
2. When ai drivers' aggression is set to values ANYHING above 25 you WILL get erratic behaviour. Many people make the crucial mistake of installing general aggression on the CM. I never touch any CM ballast/restrictor values but define everything on the champs JSON file. And these values have to be driver specific, not general.
3. Aggression 25 is pushing it but it works for drivers like Senna, Schumacher and a bit lesser extent on drivers like Montoya (when they're controlled by AI). When you have it on 25 these cars will attempt some risky overtakes and occasionally knock you out when you're trying to overtake them. They will also knock themselves out sometimes and ruin their qualifying. This happens less on quality cars like RSS, VRC etc. but it happens.
4. Always set the "lesser cars/drivers" aggression to minimum. Like 1. Take any F1 season and you will only have a few WDC contenders. 1988-1990 it was basically just Prost and Senna, Sure Mansell had a good car but he was erratic and pretty much always self destructed. A driver like Mansell could use high aggression. 1998-2001 it was only Hakkinen and Schumacher. 2002-2004 it was all Schumacher until Raikkonen and Alonso came along, etc. There must be a considerable difference between lower tier teams/drivers and the top drivers. And when the lower tier cars/drivers have smaller aggression they are not blocking you so badly and are much easier backmarkers on longer races.
Watch this 2002 race on Kunos Monza. Schumacher AI 100 (Aggression 25) and Barrichello AI 97 (aggression 1.0). It's great, great racing and on the third lap I get a bad exit on Variante Ascari and immediately Schumacher strikes and overtakes me on Parabolica. Then I have another overtake attempt behind the slipstream before Variante but I'm not clearly past him and couldn't go back to the racing line yet. Maybe I could have done that but there could have been a risk of a crash.
If you drive sensibly you will have EXCELLENT races when the evinronment (track ai, well built car, driver aggression) is set up properly. People say that AMS2 F1 has better AI. I strongly disagree. AC ai is very good when you have all parameters set up properly and you actually drive sensibly yourself. AC is not Gran Turismo, overtaking is very difficult and that's how it should be. When you have top drivers set up properly, even one spin or once going to the gravel ruins your hopes of winning the race. And that's how it should be.
15 out of 17 races in this season already completed. I haven't had one SINGLE race where I feel that ai has screwed the realism/fun. I'm not a great sim racer so AI at 100 offers very good challenge to me. You have to be consistent and sharp all through the race to get wins or poles. How is this AI on the video "bad"? I think it's absolutely superb. You have to clock constant 1:25 to keep up with the leaders. And AI is often faster on that one mandatory pitstop that I have set up. Winning is possible but hard.
I've played every single F1 title since Geoff Crammon's early works. Played AMS2 F1 mods, RF1, RF2... but AC1 has hands down SUPERIOR F1 (at least to me). We have the best community, best track makers, best fastlane makers. I don't get it how people can even look elsewhere... or play absolute trash like EA/Codemasters F1 (sorry to say that but it's the truth).
I love AC. This is the best offline F1 racing sim ever made and I'm pretty sure NOTHING can ever replace it (thanks to this community and track makers like
@Rainmaker87 and
@shi. We have so many amazingly well made tracks and we can pretty much modify EVERYTHING. How can any "locked" sim could ever compete against this? I will continue improving the TV graphics and the seasons because I love driving these.
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