AI never crashes/makes mistakes

[Biggiesmallzdos]

I am in the middle of my second season in career mode and the AI NEVER crashes, runs of track, or anything. I haven't seen a single safety car or virtual safety car in my career. It really kills the immersion and makes the races seem dull. Is there anything I can do about this? Does anyone else have this problem?

My settings:
AI level: 65
Vehicle damage: Sim
Safety Car: On

[AoD_lexandro]

Nope. I had Le Clerc T-bone Verstappen in Aus turn 5 because his engine blew up. In Azerbijan Hamilton and Bottas had a DNF after they tangled at the Castle chicane. Monaco was a crashfest in the tunnel when Vettel tried to overtake me and clipped the wall lap 1.

As for settings, you need damage at sim and safety car enabled in options to get a proper race imo. You can also try lowering the AI level so that they make more mistakes and drive worse.

[Cata]

In my current My Team season 1 play through, I have had a safety car every Grand Prix so far, on two occasions twice in a race. 10 out of the 12 safety cars were due to other cars having mechanical issues.

It's actually benefited me, as on the 3 occasions I've managed to score points it is because of strategy choices made around the deployment of the safety car.

In comparison to reality, I would say for my current experience it's close to reality, as every time a car parks up in a dumb place they seem to instigated the VSC or SC these days. The way that Jules died in Japan seems to have really affected the mindset of race control.

I just wish the AI could choose better places to park a broken car. As I have had occasions where a car has broken down, parked up in a good spot and no safety car was deployed.

[Biggiesmallzdos]

That is the experience I want so badly. I've checked my settings several times and I have it set on sim damage and safety car enabled. Is there anyway to solve this?

[Dreagon]

If you look closely, the AI makes plenty of mistakes. They have quite a few lock ups or overshoot a turn or something similar. Crashes are very rare although contact damaging front wings definitely happens, especially in turn 1. But you're right the safety car needs some tweaking. Some people don't get any, some have quite a few. Personally I get not that many, maybe 1 every 4 or so races.

[Elrick IV]

I see plenty of VSC and SC and like Louka have had multiple SC in a single race. Could it be the difficulty setting maybe?? I play on 90 difficulty with full damage

[Dreagon]

Originally posted by Elrick IV:

I see plenty of VSC and SC and like Louka have had multiple SC in a single race. Could it be the difficulty setting maybe?? I play on 90 difficulty with full damage

That's not it. I play on 95 with sim damage. And I didn't really get any when I was playing on 90 difficulty.

[bennyboy0751]

i had verstappen lose it into copse when i stayed just alf car behind him for 5 laps the pressure got to him lol

[m0z4rt]

there was a time when this game would have a working SC, but nowadays i only get VSC every race. Last time i saw the regular SC must have been before this latest patch. Is there a fix or something? I only get VSC

[X_Pilot]

what race length % are you guys playing on? I get a SC nearly every race, either from somebody crashing or somebody retiring :/

[neit]

i play 105% difficult ,and have 1-2 sfc x race

[Ovan]

Originally posted by williambigelowjr:

I am in the middle of my second season in career mode and the AI NEVER crashes, runs of track, or anything. I haven't seen a single safety car or virtual safety car in my career. It really kills the immersion and makes the races seem dull. Is there anything I can do about this? Does anyone else have this problem?

My settings:
AI level: 65
Vehicle damage: Sim
Safety Car: On

I'm playing on AI 90 and every race they make some mistake. I give to you that it's far from a real person, you'll never see an AI crash on the wall under safety car, or simply see them going past a braking point and make a turn wide, but sometimes they crash into each other and have reliability problems on their cars.

What i think is the worst by far is how a car can crash in the middle of the track and the race director only gives it a yellow flag, while at other times a car breaks and stop on the grass and that is reason for a full on safety car.

[Fluid Druid]

The A.I. only make small mistakes that costs them time, they never ever make a mistake that sees them leaving the circuit unless another car, mainly your car but not always is involved. Some people are misleading the op here..here is the rub...
A.I. contact with another car involved = yes
Safety cars = yes
A.I. mistakes that lead to an off under own volition = no
A.I. mistakes that lead to slight time loss = yes
A.I mistakes that force them to pit = yes
Pressuring A.I. to make a big mistake = no
Mechanical failures = yes
Player mechanical failures = possible but easily avoidable, should be some random chance apportioned.

I'm 4 full seasons in and this is pretty much it. If you want to see some carnage then DL the 2020 extreme mod over at race dept, brief summary and prepare for safety cars...


This mod increases damage sensitivity in "Simulation" mode to increase amount of AI crashes.
It has the same effect on player and AI, so be careful.
Accidents are not scripted. They occur mostly when AI or player touch each other's wheels and wings during a fight. This means that the more fight, the greater chance of crash will be.

Affect only for modern F1 cars.

Included options:

Extreme: ultra crashes for funny experiments and videos.
Medium: Between 0 to 13 crashes per race(25% and more). Recommended for 5 laps-25% races.
Realistic: Realistic amount of crashes. Sometimes 2 crashes, sometimes zero.

[SpectorEuro]

Originally posted by williambigelowjr:

I am in the middle of my second season in career mode and the AI NEVER crashes, runs of track, or anything. I haven't seen a single safety car or virtual safety car in my career. It really kills the immersion and makes the races seem dull. Is there anything I can do about this? Does anyone else have this problem?

My settings:
AI level: 65
Vehicle damage: Sim
Safety Car: On

AI Level at 65............... I think your problem lies in your question.