Update AI

the AI is very aggressive when it comes from behind, and crash into my car.
Will it ever be an update?

 

I don't actually completely get the request above, which tends to surface every now and then. In my experience, if you brake along with the AI and don't do foolish moves during braking in turns and your pace in general matches them, there is no problem with AI bumping you.

This definitely was a problem with R3E earlier, but IMO this was addressed pretty well already during the second latest AI update. I'm not saying AI bumping to you doesn't happen ever, but I don't see it as a problem anymore, at least not on the tracks I've mostly used. There is other more crucial issues with AI, which I hope will be addressed with the latest patch, such as AI retiring due damage, blue flag behaviour and AI's difficulty to overtake lapped cars.

This is of course just my opinion, but the key is to set the AI speed correctly (or using adapting AI) and practice your braking points and it all comes together nicely at least for me.

 

Can't say I've had the problem either

 

In my experience the AI is fine if you do nothing unexpected. I see similar "requests" all the time on other sites and then they post videos about somebody completely messing up a turn and expecting the AI to politely slow down and wait until they put their stuff together. What's the challenge if the AI is too forgiving?

 

I had a race at minds the other night in a gt3 car and I got clipped at the parabolic from 4th place, it sent me into a spin and almost every car behind ploughed into me and wrecked my car, was most peed off as only had one lap to go. Luckily this is a rarity nowadays.

 

I've had this issue before too!

I only experience this issue in the prototype (lemans type cars) series, wich I don't race anymore..

 

I've had it happen on a few occasions, even when just holding my position steady in the pack, however for the most part I've found the AI to be pretty good.

Having only a single monitor, I've also found Crew Chief (Kudos to mr_belowski) to be very helpful in close quarters situations.

 

Does happen. It's still good ai

 

The AI are vastly improved from what they used to be. My main problem is that in any collision, whether you hit them or vice versa, you're almost guaranteed to come out of it worse off than them.

 

It will happen so now and then, mostly in conjunction of sub optimal braking. Like in real life, Sainz vs Verstappen last race: Sainz locked up his wheel under braking, Verstappen could not manage the new trajectory and bumped on Sainz from behind. This is inherent to racing.

 

I don't even bother with the ai because of this.

 

Fantastic to know, many thanks Robert. This is going to be patch of the century if all the promised improvements and content materialise.

 

Thank you for your opinions. I am perhaps a bit spoiled by the excellent AI in rFactor2.

 

Many of us are. My advice is, if you get too frustrated with R3E AI, go and play pCARS. After 30 minutes with the psychopathic AI in that game, R3E will look like a league of gentlemen