Where next for racing games?

Errkal wrote:

Gemini73 wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Gemini73 wrote:After playing F1 2016 yesterday one thing that does need improving, across all racing titles, is AI. Some are better than others, true, but generally it's not great and often feels like playing with a bunch of noobs online who just power into every corner, ramming anyone in front of them thus causing a huge pile up.

This! Every time I play I have real issues on harder dificulties as it tends to just mean they smash into you more and somehow keep up speed whilst doing it so they puffle you in a corner and speed off like they never touched you.

Yep, it's a really strawberry floater sometimes. To quote myself from the Currently Playing thread:

I got spun out by Verstappen and just watched as the AI just bumped and shoved into each other as they tried to push through the Red Bull and each other so as to maintain their 'programming'. Bloody awful.

In the end I had to take of full damage mode because it's practically impossible with it on due to the shitty AI.

It's a real shame because the rest of the game is pretty spot on, and if you manage to avoid the haphazardness of the crappy AI then it can be exhilarating at times.

That's always my experience, I love making it as simple as I can but damage is just not possible with the gooseberry fool head ai.

Really ruins what should be an epic game when the ai is on rails and goes through you etc. especially when I did full races and the strawberry floater would do it in the last few laps wasting a lot of your time.

PCars 2 has better AI, but even that has a habit of just piling into you rather than braking or outmanoeuvring you. Worse still you're the one who gets penalised!

DriveClub is really awful for this too and has some awful rubber-banding, which is why I just stopped playing it in the end.

I must admit the AI is sometimes a real twat on Forza Horizon 3 as I've been trying to race a lot cleaner and not hit anyone but sometimes the AI will just ram into me especially at the start where it will just force me into a wall.

Peter Crisp wrote:I must admit the AI is sometimes a real twat on Forza Horizon 3 as I've been trying to race a lot cleaner and not hit anyone but sometimes the AI will just ram into me especially at the start where it will just force me into a wall.

I found myself just driving about doing roads and billboards as the ai had strawberry floated me off so much.

Errkal wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:I must admit the AI is sometimes a real twat on Forza Horizon 3 as I've been trying to race a lot cleaner and not hit anyone but sometimes the AI will just ram into me especially at the start where it will just force me into a wall.

I found myself just driving about doing roads and billboards as the ai had strawberry floated me off so much.

I recently had loads of fun in a 60's race in a Fiat that had a top speed of about 70 .
It was super slow but fun as hell as there was no bumping (bumping just killed any speed you had) and drag races out of corners were hilarious .

I've also got into a habit of painting all my cars special red with special luminous green bonnet, wheels and wing mirrors. They look strawberry floating awful but I love it .

Peter Crisp wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:I must admit the AI is sometimes a real twat on Forza Horizon 3 as I've been trying to race a lot cleaner and not hit anyone but sometimes the AI will just ram into me especially at the start where it will just force me into a wall.

I found myself just driving about doing roads and billboards as the ai had strawberry floated me off so much.

I recently had loads of fun in a 60's race in a Fiat that had a top speed of about 70 .
It was super slow but fun as hell as there was no bumping (bumping just killed any speed you had) and drag races out of corners were hilarious .

I've also got into a habit of painting all my cars special red with special luminous green bonnet, wheels and wing mirrors. They look strawberry floating awful but I love it .

Hahaha I used to do that in underground every car was purple with green bits.

How about a free needle and a diagram with every game,the diagram would show where to stick the needle to induce an all over body paralyzing effect.

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