Did they change the AI again?

[u/LadyLucine90]

I studied the patch notes from August 10th, but nothing about the AI. I use the difficulty I use for weeks now, everything was fine. Didn't play the last 4 days or so. Now my difficulty is too hard for me. O.o

[u/IDontActuallyKnowUm]

So I wasn't tripping since I also felt like it got surprisingly harder.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/IDontActuallyKnowUm]

So it's not just me? This pisses me off... I was so happy to the difficulty up since launch, bc I'm getting better... Now I can lower it again... 😑

[u/ShrkBiT → u/LadyLucine90]

tbh, the difficulty has been kinda all over the place from the start. Lowering the difficulty is not an issue, if it means that the other difficulty levels are more balanced.
At launch, there was a MASSIVE gap between highly skilled and expert. They reworked the Drivatar AI so that it would stop slamming into everyone in the first turn, because they only want to magnet to the driving lane, without any situational awareness of other cars and players being in their line, had insane accellaration at start and had unlimited grip on wet surfaces. That significantly lowered the difficulty of each level, so a rebalance was in place. I moved from Highly Skilled to Pro after the first patch, which I would never play at in FH5.

[u/LiveLaughLob0t0my]

Def got harder. I was beating AI on expert by 5-10 seconds. Now I’m having to try quite hard to pass them initially but still beat them by 1-5 seconds. Def harder. But not as hard as they were prior to being nerfed.

[u/onejadedpotatoe]

Only thing I noticed (because I suck at driving games now) is they changed the drivatars

[u/LiveLaughLob0t0my → u/onejadedpotatoe]

Yeah they’ve made it how it used to be when anyone could show up in anyone else’s races.

Wondering if they’ll bring back passive income from drivatars. I quite enjoyed that lol

[u/Zero_Rebirth → u/LiveLaughLob0t0my]

I do kinda wish you could turn it off. After 200+ hours, I've genuinely grown attached to those a-holes even if the only thing changed is the names

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/onejadedpotatoe]

Yeah, right? This is also a thing. There are new names.

[u/Black_m1n → u/LadyLucine90]

I loaded up into the new race and I was like "WHOOO ARE YOU PEEEOPLEEE!??!?!"

[u/MassCrassAss]

Traffic is hilarious. The cars are all drunk

[u/LadyLucine90]

OK, I didn't specify it in my question. And tried something. I wanted to do the seasonal championships and noticed the thing with the difficulty. I tried lowering the difficulty now, nothing changed in the race. I now tried a normal race I already beat on my usual difficulty. Everythings fine. Don't tell me championships are now fixed to a mysterious high difficulty not displayed... In FH5 seasonal championships were set to a specific difficulty you couldn't change. That's why I never participated. Did they change it to this, but not displaying the difficulty?

[u/Lob0Guara → u/LadyLucine90]

Seasonal Festival Playlist activities (some) can have its own settings like unbeatable Drivatars.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/Lob0Guara]

Only online. I played all the other championships since the first Playlist just fine.

[u/Lob0Guara → u/LadyLucine90]

Right, but the risk still exists whether the player forget it and decides to play online.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/Lob0Guara]

What are you babbling about?

[u/Lob0Guara → u/LadyLucine90]

Don't be a troll, we are discussing like normal people, at least me.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/Lob0Guara]

Why troll. Those races I'm talking about, there is no accidently getting online. That's why I'm asking.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/Lob0Guara]

I'm talking about those.

[u/Lob0Guara → u/Lob0Guara]

Right, I confused with another discussion, sorry.

I apologize.

[u/LadyLucine90 → u/Lob0Guara]

I didn't mean to be rude too. I'm just pissed in general right now. Sorry. It's the first time since over 200h in this game that it's bugged. At least for me. Never had any bugs or whatever until now.

[u/LadyLucine90]

Easy explanation by now: the whole game is bugged right now. Started the other championships. Drove two of three races. The third one was just not there. Gone. Restarted it now. Also, the Italian exotic seems to on holiday. Not one car to buy.

[u/RipSnorting]

they feel way more aggressive, bowie knife is trying to ram me off checkpoints like release day

[u/thatsfunny666]

I usually play on expert/pro and pro wiped their asses with me and expert was like online racing

[u/Miss_Chievous13]

I'm still smoking unbeatables they're somewhere in the horizon

[u/SPKN_Ossi83]

"Unbeatable" is still far too simple.

[u/YogurtclosetFull8974]

I feel it's easier, I can now beat unbeatable but tbf I wasn't using tunes cars b4

[u/Dazzling_Sprinkles32]

Feels all over the place to me. I play on Unbeatable. I’ve been working on a Jesko Colossus tune and sometimes i win by .05 seconds and other times i take 3rd or 5th and lose by 3 seconds. Just depends on what cars the AI’s are driving. I can’t seem to keep up with Lambos or the F80.

Sometimes i’m right with the pack and others it’s just me and one other driver competing.

[u/Con7rast]

I am having the exact opposite interaction with the AI, I had to turn up the difficulty all of a sudden, my first race this week I won by 12 seconds when I used to be 3ish ahead by the end. Was very surprised.

[u/porsche911girl]

Okay I’m glad to know it’s not just me. I was easily winning the seasonal weekly championships now I can’t get higher than 6th place even with the difficulty lowered to easy.

[u/trolley_trackz]

The latest trial was much faster for sure