So out of curiosity I set my Drivatar Difficulty to “New Racer” which is the easiest setting you can set the game’s difficulty to and yet these guys remain firmly on my butt the entire race. The cars are supposed to be on the easiest difficulty, but they’re completely infallible instead. Everything they do is absolutely perfect. They finish the race only .1 second behind me and the game’s like “You’re winning too easily, do you want to increase difficulty?” and I’m like “What about that whole race was easy?!” I almost think the game is easier to play on Average, which is two difficulty levels higher than so called “New Racer”. In fact I just lost this Hot Wheels race twice in a row on this difficulty. Cars just blow by me like I’m nothing to them. It doesn’t matter how good my lap times are, they just go right by me at 1000 mph. It’s Hot Wheels too so if I don’t drive just right my cars will slide all over the place or fall off the loops, but not the A.I. They’re flawless every single time. It feels broken to me.
In Hot Wheels they’re very inconsistent. Sometimes they do this.
If the track features the Cobra Coil, this is gonna happen regardless of the difficulty, as they usually drive impossibly fast through that section.
However, it seems to me that they behave just fine until the game asks you whether to move up in difficulty. If you say “no”, strange things happen. I swear the game begins to pick one or two Drivatards and makes them stick close to you the whole race despite your choice to stay in the easier difficulty. The game can do this, as your ability to manipulate the grid is limited (there are 12 cars and you can only pick 5 of them, that is, yourself and the Drivatards you hire). In championships, it’ll start picking competent Drivatards from the same club if you win too much, which can be recognized by their liveries, which are the same, as if they were part of the same racing team.
the unbeatable drivatars are too easy for me on most tracks tbh theres only like 1 or 2 rubberbanders every once and a while