I experienced exactly the same, turning bots difficulty over 100 on fast tracks like Australia in career mode is nothing but frustration, I can dominate them in narrow tracks with slow turns like Monaco or Hungary, and get absolutely trashed in high speed tracks by drivers with similar performance cars, for example my teammate. I'm going through 4th season in almost maxed out Mercedes, and I ended up 1 sec behind pole position after in my honest opinion very well driven lap on absolute limit. Shame on codies, every year the same issue is there. You just can't stick with the same difficulty level on every track, and have to vary it so much on some of them.
It's not just over 100. I had it set to 95 on Bahrain yet I got passed on the main straight with DRS open in the slipstream by an Aston who I let by at the detection zone and repassed in the final corner. The straight-line speed they have is stupid.
@@Simracingisgoated So what I can advise to you at this point is to lower AI difficulty if needed (now I drive 100 minimum on every track and only go up to 103 on narrow tracks with many slow corners), check AI default wing setups for every track you are struggling against them, and just lower your wings as well to the similar level. Some tracks don't actually require the amount of downforce provided by simracers or guys knowing how to setup the cars. Once I changed my setups on tracks like Qatar, Bahrain, Brazil I got much more competetive against AI and didn't really lose that much time in the corners. It's definetly the right way to fight these cracked bots in career mode and maintain high level of difficulty at the same time. At least it works for me, but I know that even with lower wings if I turned difficulty up to like 108, I would still be pretty far behind. So just try something different and hope the experience will improve.
@@reg1tni9 What sucks is that I can’t really run low downforce (2023 Williams) But yeah only tracks I noticed with this issue for now are Bahrain and Australia which is even worse in the wet
I experienced exactly the same, turning bots difficulty over 100 on fast tracks like Australia in career mode is nothing but frustration, I can dominate them in narrow tracks with slow turns like Monaco or Hungary, and get absolutely trashed in high speed tracks by drivers with similar performance cars, for example my teammate. I'm going through 4th season in almost maxed out Mercedes, and I ended up 1 sec behind pole position after in my honest opinion very well driven lap on absolute limit. Shame on codies, every year the same issue is there. You just can't stick with the same difficulty level on every track, and have to vary it so much on some of them.
It's not just over 100. I had it set to 95 on Bahrain yet I got passed on the main straight with DRS open in the slipstream by an Aston who I let by at the detection zone and repassed in the final corner. The straight-line speed they have is stupid.
@@Simracingisgoated So what I can advise to you at this point is to lower AI difficulty if needed (now I drive 100 minimum on every track and only go up to 103 on narrow tracks with many slow corners), check AI default wing setups for every track you are struggling against them, and just lower your wings as well to the similar level. Some tracks don't actually require the amount of downforce provided by simracers or guys knowing how to setup the cars. Once I changed my setups on tracks like Qatar, Bahrain, Brazil I got much more competetive against AI and didn't really lose that much time in the corners. It's definetly the right way to fight these cracked bots in career mode and maintain high level of difficulty at the same time. At least it works for me, but I know that even with lower wings if I turned difficulty up to like 108, I would still be pretty far behind. So just try something different and hope the experience will improve.
@@reg1tni9 What sucks is that I can’t really run low downforce (2023 Williams)
But yeah only tracks I noticed with this issue for now are Bahrain and Australia which is even worse in the wet