Cars all pit after first lap in a short 15 minute rain race

[andrewdaniele]

This happened before the update as well, and I'm not sure if it is exclusive to GT3, but whenever I do a rain race, they all pit after the first lap, which is basically unplayable (I either continue and it becomes hot lapping, or I go into the pits too for no good reason).

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any fix?

[r33fermadness]

I only race wet online but I wonder, maybe make sure the track is set to wet. Might make them start with the right tires.

[r33fermadness]

Hey!

Good news. I just tested it and they all used wet tires. Party on!

[DC2Dixon]

My guess is you are setting rain conditions but not a wet track like poster above said.

Did have this once but only when I left track dry.

[andrewdaniele]

thanks guys, that's the odd thing, they're all using wet tires to start, I'll try changing the track to wet and see what happens .. maybe it calculates that the track isn't wet enough to keep the wet tires and swaps them out (though, the spray starts in the same first lap). I'll also check if I can see what tires the AI ends off with.

[andrewdaniele]

thanks again guys, ok so that ended up working, the track has to be set to at least a little wet and then they won't pit. I still think the AI can be improved here, either changing the tyre selection going into the race or changing the pit strategy. For now, it sort of works (I'd prefer the smarter AI with tyre/pit decisions)

so the main problem was that they went in with wet tyres, but it wasn't wet enough for them to keep them so they all pit together and change to softs (presumably).

[andrewdaniele]

another update:

Ok, so, I made sure the first slot was heavy rain, and then made the rest of the slots sunny. It stopped raining before the first lap finished, and didn't even get to the point of spray. No one went into the pit, everyone kept the wets on the entire race. I also didn't change the track's default wetness.

This is a good result, so as long as the first slot is heavy rain at least, the cars will start with wets and not pit to change them. I am ok with this, just have to remember that first slot to be heavy rain.