Forza 4 AI compared to Forza 5 AI

Forza Motorsport Legacy Motorsport FM4 Discussion
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I was wondering with the implementation of Drivatar if AI driving has gotten better in Forza? Whenever I watch a youtube video of drivatar I’m hardly convinced that it accurately replicates human drivers. But leaving that alone for a second, Is forza 5’s AI more competitive, and do they react at all to other cars driving around them?

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In terms of actual AI in racing games in general, I’ve found it very hard to determine if the computer controlled opponents have any sort of real reactionary tendencies. I can’t speak for Forza 5, but I did notice a jump in AI difficulty between 3 and 4. Horizon is harder to peg, especially since you can control the opponent difficulty level. It seems to affect their car characteristics more so than their actual intelligence. The computer drivers never seem to be really competing against one another, and just following the racing line to the end.

-k

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Well I would say that you do notice that they are not actual humans that are driving, but you certainly see occasional “human aspect” in there.

We could say that in single player for me (unbeatable drivatar, all assits off except normal steering and driving line - braking only) I have seen clearly 3 different charesteristics of driving,

  1. aggressive “anything to win” kind of driver.

  2. aggressive, but clean, who is hard to pass but don’t try to put you to wall if you try.

  3. Clean but bad driver, all sorts of mistakes, and drivingline often far from optimal.

They are very competitive in general, I hardly ever get to first place, 2nd and 3rd are often quite possible. This is because there often is 1 car that literally escapes from the pack fairly early.

Then there is clear human aspect on some of the drivatars. that are somewhat car spesific. Right now I’m driving “trackday toys” and there is quite many drivatars who I have been racing before in the drivatar list. These drivatars have been fairly fast, and hardly ever had serous problems driving, but right now I see them having stankslappers, going off the track ETC quite often. And as a driver of same model car. I’m not actually having trouble to keep up, I have the same problem as the drivatars do, and I often find my car going sideways or outbraking myself as the car is quite twitchy to drive.