Lately the drivatars seem to have some extreme imbalancing issues like one or two of them will break away from the rest of the racers and suddenly mid way through a circuit race start to get insane lap times that are like two to three seconds faster than your own best lap time and take corners losing no speed and suddenly speeding past you and making it nearly impossible to win a race. This seems to happen on all difficulty levels wether playing online or offline and is usually the same player’ drivatar each time it happens. Is this happening to anyone else?
same here, annoying as all get out. I usually end up ramming them into the trees along the road when they catch up tho lol.
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One of the causes of this is the Driver lineup. If you followed that noisy girl’s tips on adding new drivers to your lineup, then you’re screwed. Sure, they help with the lineup bonus perk once you hire them, but they are impossible to beat during races. I was lucky to ignore that girl as I find her extremely annoying. My lineup only has one driver lvl 7 since day one and I have no problems beating drivatars in any level but the highest. Races are very close and a lot of fun. There is nothing you can do in this case as you cannot fire drivers, but replace them with higher-leveled ones.
Another reason might be having very high level people on your friend’s list. Their drivatars will appear in the grid as well. They higher the level, the harder they get. If this is the case, then delete your friends.
I hope T10 changes this for FM7 since drivatars were also an annoyance in FM6. Same with PG for FH4.
You can replace them with lower level drivatars if you want to
That’s all i get offered nowadays
Ya I’m a higher level than 2 of my 4, the other 2 are 999+ I think, and I have no problem winning other than unbeatable. Not trying to sound like a dick btw just saying I don’t have the problem.
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All 4 of mine are LVL 999+ (I’m 995)
The last race I did, they finished 3rd, 8th, 9th, 12th (Above Average AI) On Woodlands Circuit my fastest lap was 3s quicker than any others even though I used automatic gears and assisted braking (which I heard slows you down)
Although I know what rubber banding is, I’ve never actually seen it in real life, nor seen a video/game clip of it.
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Rubber banding is keeping the th AI cars at the same pace as you eg if you slow down to 100mph for the entire race so will the AI this also makes it impossible for you to get to far ahead as most of then will catch up with you. Try for your self run a race at half pace and see what happens
Isn’t driving at half pace just driving too slow? I often slow down to get drafting skills so would expect the AI to catch up, they’re trying to win, not get XP The lower the AI, the longer it takes to catch up. I’ve always found the AI performs the way it should. I’m guessing now that people don’t post game clips of rubber-banding because others would point out that they need to drive better? Maybe people think that they’re better drivers than the AI level they can’t beat?
I am not a good video game driver, I don’t brake very well, usually leave it far too late, but I always beat Above Average AI on all tracks, Highly Skilled I win 80-90% on unfamiliar tracks, 100% on favourites. I know my skill level and don’t blame the AI for not being able to beat them. I’ve done over 1800 races btw so I feel that I’ve got a good overall knowledge of how the AI works.
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I still don’t get why they do not have a difficulty slider with a range wide enough to cover all skills levels +/- a little bit.
Project Cars did it and as far as I know people were able to make it easy enough or hard enough as the case may be.
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Same here
Lately? Been going on since day one!!!
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I had to fire DJS from my lineup because he was unbeatable and the rubberbanding with his drivatar in particular was insane.
Only seems to happen with drivatars in your lineup where they seem to ignore the difficulty preset and becomes unbeatable AI.
They are however not very obvious as long as you use a car with a high enough acceleration and traction that can keep up with unbeatable. It becomes impossible with a sub tuned or stock car.
Having got to 2000/2000 and looking for more of a challenge - I now have a couple of quick guys back in my lineup and spend a lot of time in 3rd place although it’s interesting seeing their different techniques and lines (ones a big favourite of momentum lines the others a more traditional slow in fast out kind of guy…)
Although I get at least 60K a day from the lineup bonuses so it ain’t all bad…
Are you saying you think the drivatars are driving like the specific players drive?
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Lately Unbeatable has truly been just that. On Rainforest and Highway Circuit there is always one drivatar that can set beyond leaderboard quick times. I mostly race S2 class Hyper Cars and Extreme Track Toys. I like the challenge when 3 or 4 drivatars are battling with me and setting comparable lap times. Every once in a while a drivatar goes super rogue and disappears from lap one onward. The next race I get in the same car and battle them again. Most of the time I am having fun with the challenge. They are super aggressive and will take any gap you give them.
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The pi system is screwed up in this game. Since theyve decided that adding horsepower apparently means nothing, odds are you need a power build to compete at the top of a class. I personally only run either stock or partially upgraded cars so i dont see this issue often.
Rubberbanding is even more visible in just cruising. I pass a drivatar with a specific livery on their car. After a short while there they are again in front of me on that same exact road. Really? Not only its not realistic at all (I know that this is a game, but still), but it’s annoying as well. I don;'t want them to keep driving around me, give me some freedom on that map. If I want to race them I will find them myself. This was much better executed in TDU, AI racers didn’t keep on driving with you all the time. I wish there was just an option to turn drivatars off. Not too mention they can’t drive for anything, constantly crashing into player etc… Overall FH3 is not a bad game, but TDU that came out 11 years ago had so many cool features and some things were just done much better. It would be cool if in future we would get a buying personalization like in TDU (interior colors, and new things like kind of seats, radio or navigation that works, but I won’t go there because it belonngs in a different topic).
What you described is respawining of drivatars, not rubberbanding. I’ve seen some rubberbanding in races, but some of my cars are set up well enough that I can usually “break the rubberband”. It’s the rogue drivatar that really burn my hide, tho. Running off and posting times faster than the leaderboards in the class of car they are currently in? That crud needs to stop.
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this has been going for a long time, I do rivals mostly now because of the nonsense but the other day I did a race and I’m sure that some drivatars were just blatantly blocking me so that the front of the pack could get away from me. They would literally brake right in front of me with no apparent reason other than to block me, I restarted a couple of time and they did the same thing over and over again. I don’t mind losing but when all your competitors compete against you as a team that is a huge problem. Every driver should be out for themselves imo