To me, I feel like the quality of the AI has gone backwards and by "Quality" I mean their ability to race properly or even at all.
In terms of speed, fair enough. They are a lot faster than F1 2015 but that could also be down to not fully getting use to the game. I race with Legend AI and I'm happy with their raw pace because it's a target to work towards and finally make the step up to Ultimate AI
Here is where I've seen a variety of threads..... The AI's behaviour/raciness. Basically, it's a step back. They are so cautious at the first corner apart from one who more often than not decides to divebomb a lot of cars. If I get a better start on some of the AI cars in front, a lot of the time one of them decides to turn in regardless either spinning me out, pushing me on the grass or even into the wall (Especially at Spa) It's a nightmare.
When the "Race" finally gets going, a train always develops and it looks so stupid and unrealistic. You always get the front 4 or 5 cars who bolt straight away but you are also guaranteed to get this huge train of cars that completely take the exact same lines and never seem to move out of the slipstream. This makes it incredibly easy to overtake a lot of cars into a slow corner because they refuse to make a move.
Slipstream is EXTREMELY OVERPOWERED
If an AI car loses his front wing, he will stay on the racing line. For one, surely he must move to the side and even if he doesn't, the other AI cars refuse to drive round him. They are so stuck to the racing line it's unreal.
If you overtake an AI car up the inside going into a fast corner , they kind of stab at their steering wheel from the centre to which ever direction the corner is until they eventually run off the track. They then decide to return to the racing line with no consideration for other oncoming AI cars and cause a crash which NEVER BRINGS OUT THE SAFETY CAR
FINALLY, their abilty to overtake the actual player is a joke. To say they love the racing line so much, when they finally decide to overtake on the inside of a long straight, they never return to the racing line making them incredibly tight going into a corner and so slow it's easy to just fly round the outside of them and regain the position.
Can only pray all of these issues get fixed in a patch. It has the potential to be such a good game but the AI ruins the experience for me so much.
In terms of speed, fair enough. They are a lot faster than F1 2015 but that could also be down to not fully getting use to the game. I race with Legend AI and I'm happy with their raw pace because it's a target to work towards and finally make the step up to Ultimate AI
Here is where I've seen a variety of threads..... The AI's behaviour/raciness. Basically, it's a step back. They are so cautious at the first corner apart from one who more often than not decides to divebomb a lot of cars. If I get a better start on some of the AI cars in front, a lot of the time one of them decides to turn in regardless either spinning me out, pushing me on the grass or even into the wall (Especially at Spa) It's a nightmare.
When the "Race" finally gets going, a train always develops and it looks so stupid and unrealistic. You always get the front 4 or 5 cars who bolt straight away but you are also guaranteed to get this huge train of cars that completely take the exact same lines and never seem to move out of the slipstream. This makes it incredibly easy to overtake a lot of cars into a slow corner because they refuse to make a move.
Slipstream is EXTREMELY OVERPOWERED
If an AI car loses his front wing, he will stay on the racing line. For one, surely he must move to the side and even if he doesn't, the other AI cars refuse to drive round him. They are so stuck to the racing line it's unreal.
If you overtake an AI car up the inside going into a fast corner , they kind of stab at their steering wheel from the centre to which ever direction the corner is until they eventually run off the track. They then decide to return to the racing line with no consideration for other oncoming AI cars and cause a crash which NEVER BRINGS OUT THE SAFETY CAR
FINALLY, their abilty to overtake the actual player is a joke. To say they love the racing line so much, when they finally decide to overtake on the inside of a long straight, they never return to the racing line making them incredibly tight going into a corner and so slow it's easy to just fly round the outside of them and regain the position.
Can only pray all of these issues get fixed in a patch. It has the potential to be such a good game but the AI ruins the experience for me so much.