AI difficulty unbalanced & too difficult vs PC version

Here is some more PC vs Xbox One AI difficulty comparison.

For tl;dr here is the short version - Console difficulty level Easy = PC 88%, Medium = PC 91%, Hard = PC 95-96%, Alien = PC 100%. Effectively console players do not have the option of the easiest 80% and 85% type difficulty levels, which make the game more accessible when starting out and mean you can race without concern for setups etc.

Long version with screenshot data:

I carried out this test on the PC and Xbox One using as close to the same track, temperatures and cars as possible. I say as close as possible because it is currently impossible to create the exact same conditions,

Temperature: although I set the same time of day and temperatures there was a 4 degree difference in track temperature.
Cars: On PC custom car grids can be set freely, on the PC version I chose only GT3 cars. On Xbox One there is only the option for Same Class, so with my car set as the Nismo GT3 and same class selected the Xbox One version selected both GT3 cars and some GT2 and other similar cars.
Using Brands Hatch Indy and the GT3 class in a quick race weekend with 5 minute qualifying cars here are the screenshots for the qualifying lap times at various difficulty levels. There is a lot more data you can dig into here about individual cars too if you wish.

PC AI 80% - no Console equivalent available


PC AI 85% = no Console equivalent



PC AI 88% = Console Easy difficulty


Console difficulty Easy


PC Difficulty 91% = Console Medium difficulty


Console Medium difficulty


PC AI 95% = Console Hard difficulty


Console Hard difficulty


PC AI 100% = Console Alien difficulty



Console Alien difficulty

 

Great post.

 

Brilliant work.

Some (not all) of the races on console are currently impossible to win.

There are lots of threads here about the difficulty of the AI but I can't find any response from Kunos. Does anyone know if they have acknowledged the difficulty discrepancies between PC & console ?

 

The only official word is in Stefano's Chit Chat video. A rebalancing of the AI is planned but first they want to update the console version to a "decent playable state".

I wouldn't expect an update regarding the AI soon.

 

Thanks very much for the thread and the unbalanced AI is the reason I left out the carrer so far.

This is waaaaaaaaay too difficult and also unfair (race with the M3 E30) and should be patched sooner
than later.

 

Something I've discovered the past couple days is that the AI is inconsistent. What I mean is that if I get a really good start, I'll rocket right by all the AI cars before the first corner, and then run away. However, if I'm having to work through the pack, it feels like the AI difficulty (and their corresponding speed) gets ramped up quite a bit. At least it feels that way to me.

 

I'm getting discrepancies between classes / tracks.
On Monza, the classic F1 AI is almost unbeatable. On Brands Hatch in the Alfa 155, it's like taking candy from a baby. They are literally pedestrian.

 

On the Nurburgring they are slow as snails

On other tracks they are difficult, maybe i an just to slow on anything but the Nurburgring.