PS4 Further tweaks to AI speeds/difficulty settings possible?

I'd just like to post details of 2 races I ran to show the sometimes huge gap between difficulty settings, and whether we could still see a further improvement to the general AI pace.

Now I'm in no way an Alien, but I always tune and consider myself a decent racer, and this post is simply meant to highlight some unbalanced AI speeds.

First race:
Ferrari 458 GT2 (what a great car!) @ Nords, AI on Easy (no shame in that!), starting 16th; I was comfortably in 1st place before the end of the first lap, with the 2nd place car a long way behind in my mirrors.

Second race:
Same car, this time AI on Medium, started 8th, dropped to 9th and stayed there for 2 laps, with cars just a little further up the road and some in my mirrors; and the fastest AI cars were lapping 11s quicker than me.

That's at least 11 seconds between Easy & Medium settings and I had to drive close to the limit to even keep up with the cars around me.

With that gap a difficulty setting between Easy & Medium would be a good idea, but I think a great way to really allow players to get the perfect AI to race against would be a slider or ability to adjust AI percentage incrementally, which is what it sounds like our PC brethren are accustomed to in their version.
I think there's still too much of an AI performance gap between the current difficulty settings, which also changes massively depending on car/track combo, and I'm finding certain races either too easy or quite frustrating, especially if I run low-lap number races.

Regardless of my own driving abilities, 11 seconds between Easy & Medium is probably a little extreme. Could we see a slider on consoles? Thanks.

 

I think you're right. The implementation of a slider for AIs would be perfect. I wonder why they've done it differently on consoles. Could it be because they meant to 'simplify' things for console users, as I've read someone claim in a post somewhere here? I don't think this explanation makes any sense though. Anyway, I also hope to see this feature in one of the forthcoming updates.

 

I have been thinking something similar to this. I am far from being an alien driver, but I have won two special events on alien. In career, I have bumped up to medium on many races and win handily. Then I enter a race on medium and I struggle to hold third. On a track that I am comfortable on. There is some disparity.

 

I would love to see Alien made more difficult. That is the only difficulty I race on and the AI makes little mistakes which I like, but they take some of the corners soooooo slowly. It is pretty track and car specific because sometimes I'm 4 seconds a lap faster than them with it set to Alien and other times we are running about the same pace. I'd love to see a little more consistency across the board.