Question about career mode race difficulty...

Hi there! I'd be surprised if anybody knows the answer to this.

In career mode races, you can set AI strength between 80% and 100% as you would normally in the regular race mode. However, in the opponents.ini file for career series, each opponent is assigned its own strength level, independent of the slider you choose in game.

So how do these two difficulty values interact? Is it that the in-game slider works as a multiplier for the value set in opponents.ini, so for instance if you had the slider set to 90% and the ini file assigned a difficulty value of 98% to an opponent, the true difficulty level would be 98 * 0.9, or 88.2%? Or does it work in some other way?

Thank you!

 

You probably guessed it right, but I don't think anyone knows for sure. You must be the first one to play AC career.

 

No, I'm attempting to complete the career since it's been released too (well, I technically reached the end a few times but never did all races and the progress isn't saved in the Steam Cloud).

The same question arises for custom made championships (if you copy and edit career files). I don't know how the difficulty is determined exactly either but I presume the launcher setting takes prevalence.

 

OT here: Is there a way to automatically save your settings/progress/times at Steam cloud?

 

I think your time played, the special events and achievements are the only things that get saved for AC at the moment. Everything else is offline in the game and your Documents folder.

 

According to Stefano more people play AC in single player than in multi player.

 

I have a question regarding career mode. Is it similar to the Gran Turismo games, where you start off in a little slow crappy car, earn money for winning races, and then proceed to buy better and better cars? If so, I might just start playing AC career.

 

Sort of, but you get to really fast cars pretty fast.

Also, there is no garage or something like that. You don't »purchase« the cars, you just drive them in preset events.

Could be different on console, though. Don't know about that.

 

No, nothing like Gran Turismo at all (in terms of career, not necessarily driving events). Not in the PC version in any case, we have no idea if the console version is different. You do track day-like events with in the first few career events to earn medals and then proceed to championship style events that get progressively harder with faster cars, basically replicating a racing career in a basic fashion. No money, no car unlocks, no parts tuning, no extensive narrative or anything of the likes, not at this point. If you intend to buy AC only for the career mode and expect Gran Turismo I wouldn't recommend it. There's much more fun to have with the other modes.

 

That's quite funny, because I've got the impression that—at least for me—it actually gets easier, because I'm better at driving the fast cars.

Although I'm not at the single seaters yet and only play a bit of carrier mode every once in a while, but I had the hardest of times at the beginning, with the awful Alfa and stuff like that. xD

One tip though: For fast progression focus on the hot lap/time attack events. Those are usually pretty easy.
And focus on every lap being faster than the previous one (you don't have to start with blistering lap times).

 

Well, yeah. Fully depends on the car of course, some people drive better with the later cars and similarly the AI may not handle some cars, circuits or conditions as well. The singleseater races are pretty hard though, IMHO. Of course you can adjust difficulty to a point.

Either way, we don't know if they changed anything about the career for the console version (the achievements for the console versions are different, maybe that indicates different special events and career events) and on PC the career was always a WIP affair. The AI is good enough now to deliver fun singleplayer races so I'd assume they want to expand that in the future.

 

Didn't drive single seaters in the career mode yet, but I'm doing ok in them in MP races, so I guess I could beat it.

Regarding the AI, I always found it difficult to judge. Some races were pretty damn easy (e.g. the KTM at Imola), but some races, especially at the beginning I found really hard.
That was before 1.7, though, didn't try afterwards.