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im on legend AI and i was driving in the williams at australia and did a 1:26.868 rosberg did a 1:27.195, thats 3 tenths slower than me and hamilton has this stupid habit of qualifying late and he never looks for a gap and just gets held up and gets a terrible lap in, in q2 i think rosberg did around a 1:27 something on prime tyres.. and the option tyres are apparently 1.1 seconds quicker?

and usually for my teammate to do well i have to hold him up make sure he gets a gap, and then move out of  his way so he gets a clean lap in.. come on codemasters the AI was honestly better last year even though they didnt race you in 2014, they atleast were smart in qualifying/getting out of your way, sometimes i honestly feel im racing them in qualifying because they dont get out of my way when im on a flying lap and i saw them just exit the pits, and dont get me started on back markers..

i should add that i was 1.5 seconds quicker than bottas, on LEGEND AI, how am i that far ahead of him.. i dont even consider myself to be quick, feel bad for the people that are genuinely quick cause they just destroy the AI

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Yeah I've been finding that Q2 time's are over a second quicker than the pole lap in Q3, but yeah Hamilton annoys me with his Q3 antics

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I've noticed on Legend difficulty that the AI is slow/terrible in qualifying if you select "flying lap" when exiting the pits.

If you select "drive out" the times are pretty much as they should be throughout the field. I've been on pole in Australia (1.25.7xx) and Malaysia by around a tenth or two as Vettel and qualified 2nd in China, 1 tenth off Hamilton.

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All sounds like the exact same problems Codies F1 games have always had. I refuse to believe they built this new engine from scratch

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Yep there are a few drivers that do 1 hot lap. Annoys me when rain expected. Sit there and wait till its too late 

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Previous F1s also had realistic AI pit exit behavior. They always pulled over and off the race line on exiting the pits. The less realism (in any aspect of the game) means less immersion. CM have tried to fix too many aspects of this game that weren't broken. Not all aspects of AI needed fixing for example.

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I've also noticed from watching them onboard that they brake going through turns which you take flat out costing them a lot of time vs the player

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Dambo84 said:
I've noticed on Legend difficulty that the AI is slow/terrible in qualifying if you select "flying lap" when exiting the pits.

If you select "drive out" the times are pretty much as they should be throughout the field. I've been on pole in Australia (1.25.7xx) and Malaysia by around a tenth or two as Vettel and qualified 2nd in China, 1 tenth off Hamilton.
I'll need to try this

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Yes, the AI issues in quali are a big problem, as well as the fact that they do not go out on the proper tyres sometimes! You have the Mercs going out there on the options in Q1 while you might see a McHonda on primes...

And also, while in real life F1 you see everyone going out on options from Q2 on, in this game some cars will still go out on primes.

They rushed F1 2014 out the door and yet the very basics of quali and racing (i.e. cars properly yielding to blue flags) was right. The AI in terms of wheel to wheel racing may not have been the best but at least the backmarkers did not ignore the rules.

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First post nailed it, the AI does not look for gaps.

I have been sat in the pits watching the AI qualify and amazed at how many times they pit in during a hot lap. If you set the fastest time in sector 1 and 2 why would you pit in, even if they were yelling at you over the radio to come in? Finish your hot lap!

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