The Traffic AI should not be this horrible 3 years later

[daleylife]

I haven't played since 1.5 And I am shocked and flabbergasted that the traffic AI is still horrible. NPC drivers are getting in accidents, stopping randomly, speeding... I mean I'm driving and if I'm not careful, I'm crashed into or have to avoid a bunch of cars just blocking the road.

I mean, driving is part of this game... how are people okay with this?

Also, the game features a taxi service and there's several quests with the company, but, YOU CAN'T USE THE TAXI SERVICE?

I was there thinking I'd use a taxi so I could just admire the visuals, but no! It's just upsetting. This game is still a mess.

[Dr.Abscondus]

I'm the worst driver in Night City so I don't really care what other drivers are doing. Once I trash one car I just steal another one. I've never seen the point of buying cars in this game when everything on the road is yours for the taking. It's demolition derby time 24/7!

[daleylife]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

Yeah, it's pretty bad still. Also I'm still getting traffic crashing into each other and cars being flung into the air. Pretty ridiculous. Even the cops are driving around in burnt out vehicles.

Oh is THAT why their vehicles look that way? Geeze.

[easy_going]

This is what CDPR calls "an overhaul". I think people forgot how this patch was advertised to us for last few months. Patch 2.0. A total overhaul of almost all elements of the game. Too many improvements to be even listed in the patch notes.

[Meowser has not]

I got cars spawning on the overhead railways lmao

[Korv]

Originally posted by - EMPTY -:

Originally posted by easy_going:

This is what CDPR calls "an overhaul". I think people forgot how this patch was advertised to us for last few months. Patch 2.0. A total overhaul of almost all elements of the game. Too many improvements to be even listed in the patch notes.

So much improvement that i still need to install a mod to remove a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ vignette effect

For real i hate it i wish they just had an option to turn it off

[Metadigital]

I dunno seems pretty accurate for California.

[Storm]

Well when you randomly spawn , withing eye sight, in from some unknown dimension, it's hard to get your bearings. Ubi, Rockstar, they all do it. I almost like I have to keep my head down and not look behind me too often to break immersion hahaha

[NorthernDavid]

Who said the traffic AI was trying to mimic good drivers? I mean I personally would find everyone else driving perfectly to be more unrealistic.

[His Divine Shadow]

Originally posted by Metadigital:

I dunno seems pretty accurate for California.

Have you been to Virginia? CA drivers are fast, Texas drivers are aggressive, Virginia drivers are fast, aggressive, and dumb.

[Sentient_Toaster]

It's hilarious how badly they drive, like I've seen drivers driving on the sidewalk etc. Saw an NCPD car whose occupants appeared to be firing at civilians whose vehicle had crashed into theirs. And so forth. Given that much of the city is a violence-infested dystopian hellhole, maybe they're just distracted. ;)

I may or may not be randomly quickhacking cars to make them suddenly accelerate just to add to the chaos. *shrug*

It's actually better than when the game launched, when vehicles were strictly on rails and they wouldn't drive around obstructions, and there was even one specific corner where you could watch every single vehicle bump into the same obstacle because the preset path was a bit too close to it.

[𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖚𝖘]

Bro, make it 4 years at this point. Driving in this is like a comedy movie Naked Gun.

The dude in front of you waits at green light and does not move, the dude behind your car hammers his front into your rear few times, and then drives into the wall.
He bangs the wall with his car until it blows up in flames, then other cars do the same.
A while later the entire street is full of cars, one of top of another, like a pile of dead bodies.
Everything is on fire, and all of that just because one car was blocking the green light.

There is no such thing as traffic AI in this game, there is A, but there is no I.
All scripts break lose all the time, including collision physics.
It's a massive mums spaghetti code.

[easy_going]

Here's what I said 6 months ago:

"A total overhaul of almost all elements of the game. Too many improvements to be even listed in the patch notes."

I said it back in 2020: if this game won't release FINISHED AND COMPLETED, it never will be. I guess I was right.

[asnjas19]

Over 400 hrs and the npc driving is not as bad as people are making it sound. Far from perfect as I've had my head shaking moments with the game. But they've been very rare. Every 4th car is not doing back flips.

[Death Approaches]

nearing 2000 and oh yes, yes it is. It's better, sure. But "better" is relative. Better is not "good".

one of my favourite pathing tests is starting an NCPD badge response on a narrow side street, especially a dead-end, then get behind a planter slightly off the street or an elevated building entrance with a solid wall or steps or something and stand still and wait... here comes johnnylaw in his armored cruiser, racing in, can't get close enough, slams the planter or wall, but not close enough yet to disembark, so throws it into reverse, slam, into another building, back into drive, slam... slam slam slam.. fire starts... slam slam slam... slamslamslamslam...

KA-BOOM! Soiasil Machiquistador! Explosion of Stupidity! (that you get blamed for, 3 badge now)

[easy_going]

The most believable city in all videogames!