The AI has ruined this game for me.

[AlexH]

It's just awful, and I can't even escape it in multiplayer as there are so few other people playing that AI are added in!

It's too aggressive, too perfect and just simply not fun... Loved all the GRID games till now, but this has completely killed the game for me, and no amount of extra tracks or new cars is going to fix it :'(

[Fluffski]

Welcome to the "WE HATE THE AI!" club.
And you are correct in everything you say imo.

[Cheese is Life]

I don't own the game but i'm considering it so my question is....What is the problem exactly with the AI?

[Fluffski]

1. Way to aggressive
2. slow
3. blocking
4. ramming on corners
5. set path when racing
and many more

[Neon1024]

I wouldn't say that the AI is aggressive, but they will block you if you are trying to overtake. You have to get quite far off line in order to pass, or you have to slipstream and try to slingshot past with some late breaking. I do find that taking them through corners is by far the easiest as they never vary their line or breaking points, making a late or early brake a good way to get through on the inside or if going early getting them on the switch back on the exit of the corner.

However, once you are in front it's very easy to block chasing cars. If you can get just ahead, then you can nose across them and they'll actually back off and let you get in front.

Slowness I'm not sure I agree with. Perhaps you need to up the difficulty? I'm playing on Medium and am finding that in most races (I've just unlocked the first Grid cup lv3~) that I'm finishing around position 5-10 in most races.

Ramming is something which I can see how it would be perceived as such but in fact it's aggressively driving the line. You are approaching from behind and no-one will give way to you in a race. I too have been smashed off track when trying to overtake an AI through the inside of a corner, when they've cut across into me to stay on the racing line. The only thing I can suggest here is be prepared. Look at the approaching car, pick a later braking point and brake hard, really hard. Be on the brakes through the apex, so when the AI car swings into you the car will not react as quickly to the impact. Then just pray that they haven't smashed up your steering.

For this I'd like to see a similar thing to the cutting corners penalty applied to cars who, when alongside another car, veer into them.

Hope this helps you beat those dastardly AI drivers

[AlexH]

For me its the way that it completely doesn't feel realistic.

The AI is crazy aggressive, they'll bash you and keep their foot in it without even knowing you are there.

They all have perfect starts every single time from a standing start.

They do brake really early into corners and such which can be so difficult to play around, yet they somehow seem to keep up.

Ravenwest AI is just silly. I understand they are meant to be fantastic racers but they are just completely god like at times.

It's just not fun to play against, I wish it was more like GRID 1 or GRID 2 or even the AI in DiRT was much more fun and balanced than Autosport.

[Maskerader]

They are too aggressive and too random.

I get their "block the line" behaviour but their pit-manouvers are clearly across any racing rules and should be prohibited at all.

For the random thing - they often do some meaningless moves or stupidest mistakes so you can't "trust" them preparing a clear overtake on them. Should it be some kind of a real-players simulation? Doubt it, because good real players (those who have brains in their heads) don't act that way. They understand that a contact can have serious concequences for either of you, so to minimise it's chance they all try to act "understandably" for another drivers yet they are still purposeful and persistent in being fast and stable all the time.

But AI here doesn't. They just don't care, because they don't have a goal to win, they just roll forward along a track and don't afraid to loose. And because they have a weight and a stability of a tank, so most of the time the only one who suffers after contact is you, not AI who caused a collision in simple situation.

Simply said, Codemasters created a bunch of real-oriented racing series and what should be "professional" AI drivers to participate there, but made them all to behave like annoying and dumb teenagers. While that AI may be realistic enough for that role-model I have zero pleasure to race with such opponents.

[Meszes]

Originally posted by Fluffski:

2. slow

Try very hard difficulty and you'll change your mind on that one. Especially in touring.

[F8RGE]

Can you take a look at this thread?

AI is something we're looking into but don't have anything further than that at this time.

[Ð乇ｷ乇ζЦ乇Ð]

Trying to get the hang of this game, but the AI is way overpowered! Can't even place 5th on medium difficulty. If I slowdown to pass, they ram me! If I turn the corners on point, they pass me! If I do a perfect lap they still stay in front! Only games from codemasters I liked was "Dirt:1" and "GRID:1"

[Ð乇ｷ乇ζЦ乇Ð]

Last lap on medium settings and got 1st. On a straight the car behind me somehow got 30% more speed and rammed me off the road. I see no point to play if I'm forced to play on easy mode. Easy is extremely easy. Medium for some reason is way to hard.

[RisboSi]

I'll add my 2 cents.. in what race in real-life will they let you drive like these AI drivers do? I mean, devs,.... get real. No freakin' real race will let you block, ram or push a fellow racer off the track. That is usually disciplined by penalizing the driver or even worse, they take your racing permit for ever.

[wirroj]

The AI is really inconsistent. The early braking is a bit of a mare, sometimes they pootle round corners like little old ladies on a sunday drive. This last race on medium, no abs, no tc, I was really finding quite difficult, and then on the last lap it was as if the AI decided to slow down to let me win. Ridiculous. Don't get me wrong am enjoying the game, but as above, you can't trust them to drive fas, and so it becomes a demolition derby where playing dirty is the only way. Disagree with above, it's not too difficult to bash them out the way, spin them round on tight corners etc, play by their rules.

[rob_every05]

AI only exist in this game because the online system is soo appalling!

What you have to understand about the AI in most modern racing games as that the only thing they want to do is make like difficult for you. They dont want to win, go fast, help you as a team-mate or learn, just block and attack you. If you establish that you might be OK.

Their programming will make them slow down in corners, brake test you, drive into you, change lines to prevent you outbraking them at the last minute, drive into walls to prevent you getting past.

The devs have made the AI in this game basically a barrier, not a race car, a barrier.

I tried an experiment earlier. As usual I start at the back, am faced with a 2x2x2x2x2 field in front to make the course narrower as usual for the first few bends, then get into second or third when they inevitably start hitting each other as theri AI tries to block you and therfore they block each other too and casue mayhem.

If you are third the second placed car regardless of team will block you to try and allow 1st to get away, so you must know this and try outside lines. You will never beat them on power or acceleration out of corners because every AI has a mysterious ability to find NOS from somewhere exiting a bend, no mattrr what they do, what apex they miss, what wall they hit. You will never out accelerate an AI, they WANT to hit you in corners or block you as you are so close to them to outbrake, thereby putting damage on your car, it is a clear programming input.

Once into second, the leader will slow down, again will do anything they can to block you, put you in a wall, touch your car in just the right place to spin you or make you "Grid oversteer".

Until you get in the lead, then he will sit on your chuff for a week if you let him waiting for you to make mistake miraculously finding seconds of latime that he couldnt find on his own in the lead earlier, and if you do, he will forget that pace he just had and play blocker again.

You just need to try and learn this awful AI, pass outside always never inside and you will be fine.
Whether you enjoy that or not is debatable!

[Setec Gibson]

I just watched a car roll multiple times off the track, then the AI was able to catch up to me, perform a ditch manuver, and finish ahead of me. If a car rolls, that should be it. Insta DNF. uhhhhg