Best way to find ideal difficulty?

[Mystic Monkey]

Whats the best way for me to find the ideal difficulty?

[Happ]

pick a track and a car and do a timetrial. depending on what you want to achieve with the difficulty do a qualifying with a difficulty and compare those times to yours in your car. if they are slower, bump it up, if they are faster, tone it down to where you feel comfortable.
Currently I am running a career with Williams at 73%... mostly because the car is crap and the development is kinda sucky.

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by Happ:

pick a track and a car and do a timetrial. depending on what you want to achieve with the difficulty do a qualifying with a difficulty and compare those times to yours in your car. if they are slower, bump it up, if they are faster, tone it down to where you feel comfortable.
Currently I am running a career with Williams at 73%... mostly because the car is crap and the development is kinda sucky.

Well i totally suck at the game and im using a wheel, im on 30 atm easy and im still only 1 second faster then the ai and im on soft and they on medium, this is in my team doing the challenges

[HayesPlays]

I was at 75 on f1. Im now sitting at 80 on myteam, its hard but around the right level.

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by HayesPlays:

I was at 75 on f1. Im now sitting at 80 on myteam, its hard but around the right level.

and what did you start at when you first starting playing game?

[Dreagon]

Last year you could do a qualifying practice program to see where you're at. The basic time to beat is a reasonable time for your car that in theory places you in an appropriate spot. So 19th place for a Williams or a 2nd place for a Mercedes. For every tenth over or under that time you would increase or decrease the AI difficulty by either one or two, I forgot. But that doesn't really work anymore because the times required in the qualifying program are absolutely insane.

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by Dreagon:

Last year you could do a qualifying practice program to see where you're at. The basic time to beat is a reasonable time for your car that in theory places you in an appropriate spot. So 19th place for a Williams or a 2nd place for a Mercedes. For every tenth over or under that time you would increase or decrease the AI difficulty by either one or two, I forgot. But that doesn't really work anymore because the times required in the qualifying program are absolutely insane.

Yea i was on the edge of my seat as i got qualifying pace points in myteam finally got 1.29 on australia

[Andrzej MAGIERA-GORZKA]

The best way to find a difficulty level is to do a race strategy programme. If you are somewhere around 0,3-0,6 seconds above the delta every lap you are on the correct difficulty

[Dreagon]

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

Originally posted by Dreagon:

Last year you could do a qualifying practice program to see where you're at. The basic time to beat is a reasonable time for your car that in theory places you in an appropriate spot. So 19th place for a Williams or a 2nd place for a Mercedes. For every tenth over or under that time you would increase or decrease the AI difficulty by either one or two, I forgot. But that doesn't really work anymore because the times required in the qualifying program are absolutely insane.

Yea i was on the edge of my seat as i got qualifying pace points in myteam finally got 1.29 on australia

You can't really rely on those times anymore. The time that would've gotten me 19th place according to the program was basically the fastest time that session. But I guess you could do something similar with your teammate although that is a bit less objective than the qualifying program. Just compare your time to his and do the same thing but this would make you perform like a driver of his skill rating instead of making you perform like your car should.

But personally I haven't figured out the right difficulty yet. So far I'm simply doing 10 laps in time trial on every circuit to get the hang of the new handling and doing 10 laps on Hanoi and Zandvoort every day to learn those. But I did do the practice and quali in myteam. At 80 difficulty I barely passed (I got the exact time required) the quali program. After that I qualified in 15th place. I'm just not sure if I did that at 80 or 85 difficulty because I definitely have it at 85 now. But in a short grand prix race I finished 5th with a Red Bull so 85 difficulty might be right.

[AceMagase]

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

Originally posted by Happ:

pick a track and a car and do a timetrial. depending on what you want to achieve with the difficulty do a qualifying with a difficulty and compare those times to yours in your car. if they are slower, bump it up, if they are faster, tone it down to where you feel comfortable.
Currently I am running a career with Williams at 73%... mostly because the car is crap and the development is kinda sucky.

Well i totally suck at the game and im using a wheel, im on 30 atm easy and im still only 1 second faster then the ai and im on soft and they on medium, this is in my team doing the challenges

Crank up the difficulty to where the cpu is 1 sec. faster than you, maybe 40-50. When you can beat that, move it up again. You want the cpu to push you to be better.

If you're beating the cpu by a second in qualifying, you'll probably murder them in a race. They run slower than their qualifying times in a race.

[wedge]

Originally posted by Happ:

pick a track and a car and do a timetrial. depending on what you want to achieve with the difficulty do a qualifying with a difficulty and compare those times to yours in your car. if they are slower, bump it up, if they are faster, tone it down to where you feel comfortable.
Currently I am running a career with Williams at 73%... mostly because the car is crap and the development is kinda sucky.

If you are running on Williams at the start of the season with no upgrades/R&D, you are supposed to be at the back of the pack. One thing is the AI and the other is the car capability.

But the time trial method sounds good. I'd just pick a better car like Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull and compared to their driver's times.

[black]

Bump difficulty to max, pick the best car & upgrades and reduce diffculty till you can go #3. This is the setting for your skill, leaving room for improvements. Using low end cars will make you go #8 or lower but thats supposed to happen and you will know why, preventing rage quits :D

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by acemagase21:

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

Well i totally suck at the game and im using a wheel, im on 30 atm easy and im still only 1 second faster then the ai and im on soft and they on medium, this is in my team doing the challenges

Crank up the difficulty to where the cpu is 1 sec. faster than you, maybe 40-50. When you can beat that, move it up again. You want the cpu to push you to be better.

If you're beating the cpu by a second in qualifying, you'll probably murder them in a race. They run slower than their qualifying times in a race.

yea but they were on mediums and i was on soft tires

[Cypher Prime]

Aim for mid pack. That way, you can equally practice attacking and defending. You have a clear path for progression so when you are really doing well, you might get a podium, and if you're having troubles, you'll rightfully lose out on some positions. Never set the difficulty lower than your skill.

[black]

found this, just check the table: https://youtu.be/6M6xbFLsevs?t=68

[WKY]

Ignore everyones post - Do this - Do a grand prix and do a Qualyfying session start from 100and work your way down until you become 1st place consistently and you are also FLATOUT. You will notice the more you do this you will slowly up the difficulty. Used to do 105 on F1 2019 now im 100 coz ai is harder but slowly getting there. You can also restart sesh if slow or if you cant squeeze more time