Fully upgraded cars slower/harder?

[BringerofRain]

i've seen a couple people mention this before and now im experiencing it as well. i play on 94 difficulty and with a controller. on 94 i can smash my teammates in the first few seasons when upgrades are within 1-50%.

But once the car reaches around 75%-100% upgrades my teammates on same difficulty start smashing me by about 1 second and the car just doesnt feel right to drive.

is it a bug where the full upgraded car is ♥♥♥♥ or is it a matter of needing to adjust set ups accordingly? and feedback is appreciated.

[amphilophus88]

I had this problem also in F1 2020. Had to lower the difficulty by 10 when I reached season 4 or 5. Personally I find the cars easier to control in season one when they are a bit slower. So it's easier to drive an almost perfect line then when they get so fast. And the AI then adjusts better to it indeed. Or maybe, but I'm not sure about this... is that the AI teams also get that faculty upgrade where all stats for the drivers are +15.

[BringerofRain]

Originally posted by amphilophus88:

I had this problem also in F1 2020. Had to lower the difficulty by 10 when I reached season 4 or 5. Personally I find the cars easier to control in season one when they are a bit slower. So it's easier to drive an almost perfect line then when they get so fast. And the AI then adjusts better to it indeed. Or maybe, but I'm not sure about this... is that the AI teams also get that faculty upgrade where all stats for the drivers are +15.

yeah im not sure if the CPU gets that or not, but i have a career save going to test this and our car is vastly better and its just my teammate. im pretty good at spa can take a car thats about 6/7th in car performance on 94 difficulty and win from 14th ish or so. but when the car is maxed out my teammate smacked me by a full second a lap still on 94 difficulty. just doesnt make sense.

[relampagoscanelas]

I have the impression that our car is more and more unstable as we update
it. it was the same in last year's game
but it could be a placebo effect...

[rotax]

the problem atm is the AI seem to have 2020 aero and are just godly through fast sweeping corners and can take them almost flat where as the player needs to lift or break for them, not to mention there seems to be a big difficulty spike for the last half of the season.
i can run the first 9-12 tracks on 101 difficulty, for the last half i have to turn it down to about 90-95 to even stay competitive.