I already criticized the AI myself earlier on this thread and elsewhere but after a fair amount of time playing the game I recognize it is pretty good but some time behave in a WTF manner (and ignore blue flags most of the time). I've made a short compilation illustrating this with what I've had on my HDD at the moment.
I actually think that video perfectly illustrates how good the AI is in this game. Let's analyse those overtakes.
1. Rosberg had a run on you, you squeezed him right up to the wall, just a little too much, but no serious contact, just a light touch of tyres. He was forced to take a tight entry into turn one, and as a result ran wide on exit, allowing you to come back past. As you passed him, you took the apex, which forced him to back out of it. If he had kept it planted, there would have been contact. So as you were ahead, it was your corner, he yields, and lives to fight another day. Very good! (This was exactly like one of the many overtaking attempts in the 2014 Bahrain GP by Rosberg on Hamilton, with the same outcome, you in place of Hamilton)
2. In this one it's Hamilton with the run on you. You squeeze him into the braking zone, and his entry is made very tight. Exactly the same as Rosberg. The difference here, is where Rosberg ran deep in front of you, and you switched back on him, in this one you were right alongside Hamilton at the turn in point. Your line into the corner meant if he didn't slow down that much, he would have hit you. His entry was so tight that he couldn't turn tightly enough to avoid you. He did the right thing and yielded to avoid contact. Sometimes the AI is a little too perfect in this regard, but not always, which leads to:
3. Here you have a Lotus trying it down the inside after being on the outside of the previous turn. I'm going to say it's Maldonado, because it's more funny that way. So Maldonado tries to stick his nose into an ever closing gap, and instead of yielding, like he should have, he keeps at it until he's chopped by you, which puts you off track. Another penalty for Maldonado (presumably
), but nice to see that the AI isn't always perfect when it comes to split second decisions of when to yield or when to be aggressive. The move on Ricciardo was clean and issue free. Then when you dive down the inside of the Sauber, he knows he's lost the corner and stays out wide, not turning into you, which he would have if he stayed on the racing line and drove normally. So another good yield by the AI.
I've experienced all of this as well obviously, and from my experience, the AI drivers will yield 90% of the time when they should. I agree they are more aggressive under blues than the previous codies F1 games though. But then in the earlier ones, I always felt they backed off way too early and way too much, so I think they're closer now to how they should be, but perhaps I'd like them to yield a little more when given blue flags.
I just want to play an F1 game that looks and performs like PCars, Suppose I'll wait until 2016 if they don't fix MP and their weird looking basic white girl style filtered tracks 👍
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