They must have scanned in whatever variant of the car they could get their hands on... The owner modified the engine?
Project CARS' AI isn't any better. I remember driving in a Koenigsegg Jesko in PCARS 3 and suddenly an AI opponent in a Bugatti Chiron Sport was almost borderline cheating, and this was done on the Daytona oval. In real life, there is no way that a Bugatti Chiron will beat a Koenigsegg Jesko, let alone on a banked oval track.
It's hard to be sure what is happening, but I don't think it's necessarily rubber banding. The AI slows down a huge amount when it encounters other cars, so I think there is an element of it going much faster as the field becomes more spread out.
In that era it was popular for Prototype and sports cars to use different engines from many different manufacturers. I remember reading recently that Huffaker motorsports from the early 60s used like 5 different engines in one of their earlier can-ams.
True, but in 1965 there still wasn`t too many choises and there was no lightweight 5.8 liter awayable yet. But there were 7.0 liter
I've personally only encountered 1 real bug in my many hours playing the PC version: If I use the car design/paint menu to for example download and install a livery, my game frame rate immediately drops by half and races become unplayable until I restart the game. I suspect this is a GPU VRAM bug (playing with an 8GB VRAM GPU).
Damn, the more you know moment. Good info man didnt know Ford did that but it makes sense as to why they were so dominant.
It wasn't uncommon for an older race car/chassis to be re-engined after passing to new hands (say, a privateer) or else even in factory hands for subsequent competitions. It is possible they got it wrong, of course, but it might be a car that Lotus or some private owner changed to try and compete in later years.
I also think that's the reason. I've not watched a replay of a single player race so I can't say for sure but just looking at what I see in front/behind. Usually about halfway through the first lap the AI will be spread out enough to speed up. The beginning is a mess as they all fight over the same singular driving line and slow each other down. It ends up looking like rubberbanding but I think it's just more that they can drive their intended lap times after they stop "fighting".
they were always bad it just other games as evolved with their AI and Forza hasn't.I don't remember the AI being so bad in the early Forza games
Forza's AI has always been very basic and barebones. I know they made a big deal out of drivatars when it came out but if you go back to play the pre-drivatar games... it doesn't actually feel that much different. If anything the drivatars are just a little slower on max difficulty and drive a little less efficiently overall. The pre-drivatar AI being even more glued to the racing lines. There's for sure more subtle differences, but for the things a player would actually notice there wasn't much difference going back and looking at it.I don't remember the AI being so bad in the early Forza games
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I saw footage of the GMA T.50 in action and that's also completely wrong, as it depicts the driver using the headlight and horn switches as paddle shifters.
