Settings for realistic progress in My Team Mode

[raidR]

Hi,

im searching for settings that make progression in my team mode somewhat realistic. I am more of a casual racing sim player, so i play with some driving assists. My problem is, when playing with hard AI (70 of 100) im already winning with my first car. My honda engine car shouldnt be 2 seconds faster then the mercedes in qualifying. even a almost perfect lap from my honda engine car shouldnt be faster then a red bull / mercedes lap time.
i could turn off all driver assists, but then the game wouldnt really be fun for me. is there a setting so the progression is somewhat realistic in my team? like i expected to maybe finish in my first year at around position 15-17, then progress forward from there. but the AI is unable to beat my times most of the time. worst i did until now is p3 in qualifying in the third race.

[mozart in a go-kart]

turn difficulty up? lower certain assists?

[nut nut ⁧⁧🐔]

The way i went around finding the "Perfect" difficulty,
Looked at the performance index chart : So lets say Haas is ahead of me by a large margin, and Williams is behind me just by a little bit.
1. Then jump into and do Qualy, then I compare the results. If Im not between Haas and Williams , restart the Qualy, back out to menu, and re-enter the event by changing AI difficulty on loading. And repeat from step 1. until i end up between Haas and Williams in results. And from there stay on that difficulty for rest of the career.

[raidR]

LohaTronsRS lähetti viestin:

The way i went around finding the "Perfect" difficulty,
Looked at the performance index chart : So lets say Haas is ahead of me by a large margin, and Williams is behind me just by a little bit.
1. Then jump into and do Qualy, then I compare the results. If Im not between Haas and Williams , restart the Qualy, back out to menu, and re-enter the event by changing AI difficulty on loading. And repeat from step 1. until i end up between Haas and Williams in results. And from there stay on that difficulty for rest of the career.

Alright will do that, thx

[raidR]

bigfoot46 lähetti viestin:

turn difficulty up? lower certain assists?

My point is, the standard difficulty is like at 50 and i dont unterstand why the make a mode where u instantly win.even at hard its way to easy to drive in the top 10. not gonna change assists like i mentioned above, then its not fun to play

[Happy]

I drive at 103 AI, 104 is too hard, 102 is too easy, you need to find the sweetspot for yourself. as LohaTronsRS said, do the qualifying and restart, tho AI is much faster in one lap pace. btw if you have already won and continued i would recomend restarting, so you dont get challenges you cannot meet.

[Cyklope]

Change difficulty to 90 and see what your best lap time is compared to best drivers. I haven't a lot of assists (except DRS, ERS, fuel, no tyres blocked) and finished 6 seconds behind my teammate (Correa) in free session, first track (Australia). He was 20th just before Williams and after Haas drivers.

I'm also a casual driver, needless to say! I think I can improve my best time but I'm sure I'll be slower than any other car, especially in highest speed (307 kph!!!). Though I've noticed that AI is slow in deciding to overtake, while it's clearly easy to do so in Australia. Because it's during free session maybe? I think that I may get nice results in some races like Vietnam, Monaco, ... with longer pit stop strategies if available (one pit stop for example) or when raining.

Obviously I hope I'll catch up thanks to R&D improvements in other races!

[JB™]

Good topic but is somewhat subjective to each player's capabilities and equipment. I personally would consider myself as average at this game. For career mode, historically for each edition of the game I end up in career mode with a difficulty level of 85 when using my gamepad, and 88 with the wheel. I play with ABS on and medium TC. I could up the level and compete but I don't have flashbacks enabled and I'm a bit erratic.

I have played at 91 on my wheel and completed a few races in my first seasion in the top 10 with McLaren (F1 2019) but not tried it on this year's yet as I haven't played it much.

Anyway, as far as My Team is concerned, I have started a season and played through the first 2 races. I used my gamepad for these races and had the difficuly at 88 with the assists as described. I finished 13th in Australia, 12th in Bahrain. I think if I was trying to do what you are doing, I might up that difficulty to 90 and I would expect to have dipped 1 or 2 places from there. Just because your team is new to F1 doesn't mean you have to be the worst team.

I also always maximise the practice sessions and do all the testing. To me it does seem that the testing is harder to hit purple at these settings than it was last year but green is mostly doable, eith the odd exception to the Qualifying pace.

As I said, it is all subjective, so other people's experiences will be different. It does sound like you play at a similar level to me though. Good Luck!

[raidR]

B3tamax Band1t lähetti viestin:

Good topic but is somewhat subjective to each player's capabilities and equipment. I personally would consider myself as average at this game. For career mode, historically for each edition of the game I end up in career mode with a difficulty level of 85 when using my gamepad, and 88 with the wheel. I play with ABS on and medium TC. I could up the level and compete but I don't have flashbacks enabled and I'm a bit erratic.

I have played at 91 on my wheel and completed a few races in my first seasion in the top 10 with McLaren (F1 2019) but not tried it on this year's yet as I haven't played it much.

Anyway, as far as My Team is concerned, I have started a season and played through the first 2 races. I used my gamepad for these races and had the difficuly at 88 with the assists as described. I finished 13th in Australia, 12th in Bahrain. I think if I was trying to do what you are doing, I might up that difficulty to 90 and I would expect to have dipped 1 or 2 places from there. Just because your team is new to F1 doesn't mean you have to be the worst team.

I also always maximise the practice sessions and do all the testing. To me it does seem that the testing is harder to hit purple at these settings than it was last year but green is mostly doable, eith the odd exception to the Qualifying pace.

As I said, it is all subjective, so other people's experiences will be different. It does sound like you play at a similar level to me though. Good Luck!

Thanks, gonna try a higher difficulty. I do most of the practice challenges too but fuel management is not really fun for me, so i end up simulation practice 3 after finishing everything else

[raidR]

Happy lähetti viestin:

I drive at 103 AI, 104 is too hard, 102 is too easy, you need to find the sweetspot for yourself. as LohaTronsRS said, do the qualifying and restart, tho AI is much faster in one lap pace. btw if you have already won and continued i would recomend restarting, so you dont get challenges you cannot meet.

restarting seems like a good idea but i really dont wanna do vietnam again, i dont like the track^^ but probably the best option to restart

[Happy]

raidR lähetti viestin:

Happy lähetti viestin:

I drive at 103 AI, 104 is too hard, 102 is too easy, you need to find the sweetspot for yourself. as LohaTronsRS said, do the qualifying and restart, tho AI is much faster in one lap pace. btw if you have already won and continued i would recomend restarting, so you dont get challenges you cannot meet.

restarting seems like a good idea but i really dont wanna do vietnam again, i dont like the track^^ but probably the best option to restart

I dont like Vietnam too, but if you dont wanna race it you can just simulate the race.

[Maya-Neko]

Or just reduce the race length to 5 laps.

[nasd55]

Maya-Neko lähetti viestin:

Or just reduce the race length to 5 laps.

I did that to race in Monaco, yeah, i'm the only F1 fan that hates Monaco with a passion, after that for some reason i don't understand it doesn't let me change the race length, so basically i'm locked at 5 laps per race, that's it for my first team, there is no reason to race 5 lap races.

[zeogamer2x18]

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Maya-Neko lähetti viestin:

Or just reduce the race length to 5 laps.

I did that to race in Monaco, yeah, i'm the only F1 fan that hates Monaco with a passion, after that for some reason i don't understand it doesn't let me change the race length, so basically i'm locked at 5 laps per race, that's it for my first team, there is no reason to race 5 lap races.

You´re not the only one i hate Monaco from the bottom of my heart ;) and now Vietnam too but i`m cool with the other 2 Street Circuits and btw you can only change the race distance before a Race weekend.
Just simulate them it`s faster

[Dreagon]

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bigfoot46 lähetti viestin:

turn difficulty up? lower certain assists?

My point is, the standard difficulty is like at 50 and i dont unterstand why the make a mode where u instantly win.even at hard its way to easy to drive in the top 10. not gonna change assists like i mentioned above, then its not fun to play

They have that because they want their game to be playable by a wide range of players. My dad for example likes the game but only plays it maybe an hour or two per week and he is quite bad. So he plays at very low AI difficulty. And after that CM linearly increases the speed of the AI so even at middle AI difficulty they aren't that fast for people who have plenty of experience playing this game.

[Syrential]

I play with 95 difficulty, controller and all assists off. This year seems a little easier though compared to last year. Interestingly I can't get anywhere close to the qualification time I'm supposed to get in the practice, but in the real qualification I'm far ahead. Just did Bahrain quali and ended up on 7th place.

But yeah, it does take some time to find the sweet spot. One problem is also that each track has a varying difficulty. Especially if you play with a controller, some tracks auch as Monaco will be nearly impossible on the same difficulty as for example Bahrain.