Useless Teammates!

[ChallAcc]

What's going on with the Teammate AI? I come in first, they come in last. The race then mirrors starting positions, so they start first, but by the end of the race, they're last and I'm first again!

I keep altering difficulty to see whether it makes a difference or not, but that doesn't appear to make a difference. I can only seemingly finish a tournament in 2nd overall because of my team-mate.

Is there a way to train them, or fire them and replace them with someone else? This is killing the experience I'm having.

Apart from that, I'm loving the game. Finding cornering slightly tricky with some cars, as they refuse to drift, and I love drifting. The car I'm driving now goes from 100kps to 0 if you tap the hand-brake, which I find a little odd, but yeah, it's a very cool game... just hating the team mates :S

[SpeedFreak1972]

Agree completely I mean I come first my teammate often last Ravenwest takes 2 and 3 ... do the math I lose championships because of those stupid teammates and if you join another team your former teammate will be better then ever.

[grifV8]

Me 2 , I agree, I wont 2 win CHAMPIONSHIPS.

[Langerbart]

You can look at the strength and weaknesses of your (next) teammate before accepting a new contract on season start. They can come in handy on the second race in touring cars because the grid starts in reverse order of race one. And if you are first and your teammate second you can give him the command to hold position. Made quite a difference for me on one race, the complete field dropped behind. But if he way back in the field it really doesn't make a big difference to command him to advance :)

[Cynical Cheese Cake]

I actually got a team mate from Kicker which he is quite decent. He was top 6 in 4 out of 6 races.He only got into the back of the pack once.

[Audax]

My team mate is always up with me... are you putting him to attack or just leave balanced?

[Cynical Cheese Cake]

Originally posted by Ty Rex:

My team mate is always up with me... are you putting him to attack or just leave balanced?

Always on Attack. Sometimes it just feel like he is having hangover or something.

[ChallAcc]

I keep shuffling from push to attach, to balanced to see what works. I didn't know you could see the team mate abilities.

[MasterX]

Want to talk about useless?
See the screen below.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=278188921

That's my teammate on the final straight at Sepang Circuit. 20 secondes after I told him to go full throttle. (he was 2nd place so I thought, what the hell)

Yeah... He managed to flip the car going straight. I haven't seen a single competitor wipeout or slide or anything, but my teammate, he's able to obliterate the car on the safest part of the circuit!

[BearDownChicagoBearsHo]

lol thats hilarious

[MasterX]

I wish I could make the teammate behave like any other ai opponent, seeing as they don't appear to have any problem..

Can't we mod them to behave like Ravenwest, hell they might even catch up to me or beat me :)

[SpeedFreak1972]

And attack doesn't solve anything ... my teammate was 9th on the grid I press attack and guess what he finished LAST. Useless ... I do the seasons twice now once for team x,y,z and once for Ravenwest ... with Ravenwest I can win it as team quite easily

[MasterX]

You should really avoid setting "Attack" to your teammate. They take unnecessary risks, the rate at which they crash is absurdly high in that mode. Note my screenshot above, crashing on a straight, really?

I'd say you have 9/10 chance they wipeout and end up last, no matter the position they were in previously. Leave them on standard or push.

I'm not that high up the tree yet, so haven't had a chance to test out Ravenwest as a teammate, I hope that'll improve things. Still doesn't excuse the Russian dashcam crashes the "rookie teammates" make.. :P

[Captain Picard]

I completely agree. You have to spoon feed your teammate in order to have a chance at a team win.

[Adam]

Just had a bug with the teammate which might be related to other instances of the teammate doing badly. We were in 1st/2nd place, ahead of the field. Next thing I know, someone else is in 2nd, but it was still my teammate's car(liqui-moly). In the end of race standings, team Kicker had 2nd place and my guy was dead last.

[Wobb the Great and Terrible!!!!!]

I know I am bringing up an old thread here, but I have to agree 100%.
I just ran a touring car race, I finished 1st in the 1st race, he finished almost last. I think he started like 3rd or 4th.
So I told him to defend his position. He fell to 8th almost immediately. So I told him to push. He fell to 10th within 2 minutes.
So I told him to attack. He finished dead last.
I seem to notice that once you tell them to push or attack, they just lose it completely. I guess CM were going for some balance, that you can't just have your teammate attack all the time with no penalty. So they wanted it so that if he attacks, he gets a bit reckless, and could end up losing places instead of gaining them.
But they just didn't seem to be interested in fleshing this out at all.
I have found pretty much no difference between balanced and defend, and using push and attack has never gained more than a single place, which has swiftly been lost, and he has ended up further back than he started.
The only time I had a teammate do well was when I luckily managed to push up to him in a touring race, and I stayed behind him, holding off the other cars for the entire race. Halfway through the last lap I decided I would go past, leave him to get second while I win. In just that half a lap he lost 2 places and ended up 4th. But at least it was better than the usual last or second to last.
Teammate AI is the worst I have ever seen in a racing game. I don't know why they couldn't have someting similar to the original GRID teammate system, which was excellent.