I was doing the marathon in my Mclaren F1 GT and throughout the race the AI in the Audi TTS (S2 985) would somehow shoot past me (at about 15-20mph faster) whilst I was travelling at over 225mph.
After I finished the race I went to upgrade my TTS to the same spec to see how the car was so much faster, however the car can only be upgraded to around S2 940 which is nowhere near the 985 that the AI had.
So I’m wondering how have the AI got the car to a PI of 985?
by magic
Engine and/or drivetrain swap possibly.
The car physically can’t get to that PI level even with swaps.
Are you sure it was Audi TTS? It could be the Audi TT RS.
It has access to parts that the player doesn’t and has a plus% avantage base on the players skills n difficulty choice
Is that really what they do? if so then that is stupid. Why not just put me up against cars which are equivalent to my car rather than some low class audis, fords and range rovers with cheats.
Thats called Rubberbanding my friend. The AI does this very often. It adapts to your driving.
If you drive fast it will also drive fast, sometimes much faster than you. I had this issue also with an Ariel Atom (i think it was that car) and also a TTS would overtake me very easy on a long straight. Had no chance to hold him behind me.
We also have seen this AI behavior in multiplayer races. We were 3 drivers, all with the same car. Two of us were in place 1 and 2 and the third driver was, due to a missed checkpoint, in 9th place. As we were driving pretty fast in the first two places, the AI was also driving very fast. Our colleague had not even a chance to catch up to the 8th placed AI driver. Then we tried to help our colleague back there. We lowered our speed in front of the race. Well what should I say the whole AI lowered its speed and our colleague could easily make up some positions. I think this was a very nice example for rubberbanding.