F1 22 AI Analysis - What's Changed? 

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Hopefully when the full game comes out, the AI have the same traction control as what the players select (if we select OFF, it should be off for them too), use the runoff area carrying the speed coming back on track & don’t slow down so much when they go offline 👍🏼

I would love an adaptive difficulty for the AI that changes dynamically based on how the player is driving. For instance, if you are driving aggressively then the AI will be more likely to defend harder and vice versa. And changing how many mistakes the AI makes depending on the player's own mistakes too. Stuff like that would be great.

To be honest, from what I’ve seen so far, I would rather have this more chaotic version of the AI. On F1 2021, I almost never had the AI suffer a DNF or spin out the way you’re showing here. I could go an entire season with barely any retirements from the AI, whilst DNF’s occur quite frequently in real life often at least one or two per race. Sometimes the races in F1 2021 were a bit too clean for my liking, whilst real races have more incidents, mistakes, and car failures. Also, I also wished we could have more sliders that allow for more fine-tuning when it comes to mistakes, the intensity with which the AI defends, etc.

In previous game the AI didn't leave you space on the inside if you were less than halfway alongside from behind but in th end Alonso did leave the space

I do have to wonder if the AI is the way it is right now so they could show off the safety car broadcast and immersive styles a lot easier, I'd honestly love it if we get this many incidents with the full release, maybe tune them a little but right now it feels a lot more realistic

in 2021 you can just bait the ai to defend and then you can switch back them and easy overtake

It’d be crazy cool if in the future we have specific AI defense styles, like how aggressive some drivers are, for example: overtaking Verstappen & Magnussen would be much harder than overtaking Bottas or Gasly since Max & KMag’s AI would be less likely to back out and more likely to cause contact, whereas Gasly & Bottas are more likely to back off

cheeky little cut at 8:26 i see

Annoys me so much when the AI just back off on the exit like 9:14. Needs way more aggression IMO. Real people would never react like that

Hey Alex, have you checked by any chance how the AI behave in qualifying? In 2021, after I finish my flying lap and I'm doing cool down lap before entering pits (to save tires, engine wear etc.), they always slow down behind me, no matter if I'm driving slow, away from the racing line, they always come behind me or next to me, which causes chaos sometimes... Also, sometimes they come out on track right in front of you in stupid manner and ruin your flying lap. I hope Codies will fix that.

i would really love if AI could battle me harder. I always and only really play singleplayer and ive noticed its just easy to overtake them or defend most of the times (in 21). Id love ai similar to assetto corsa (hear me out!) when ac's ai are on the outside, the keep their foot in and sometimes go onto rumble strips to keep the position. The ai will never do that here and they just back off!

The only thing I want from the AI is increased chance to cause a safety car or vsc whether it be through them making mistakes or crashing into each other because it was make racing them so much more realistic and interesting

About the Inmersive Pit and SC, they should take a page from the NASCAR games and add the pit/not pit under SC and pit menu instead of the AI taking over the strategy.

AI should defend a lot harder imo

I’ve found that in the final product the AI have permanent DRS. I’m playing on the exact same difficulty level as last year and as soon as the AI are on a straight they gain a half second at minimum on me. And the qualifying pace practice program on my team is ridiculous. I will be protected to qualify 22nd but in actual qualifying I will finish p1 with four tenths of breathing room easily.

The AI in 21 were 100% a step in the right direction, they could be incredibly aggressive at times at defending depending on how you approached them and quick to slam right across and cut you off but then other times you could go from last to 10th in one massive dive bomb. I mainly wish the Ai had specific traits when defending or attacking, for example some of the higher rated drivers who are known to go for committed or audacious moves like Verstappen or Alonso would try and go round the outside and hold the line where no one else would even try it, or just throw one down the inside and just hope for the best. I also wish they were far more aggressive when defending for example being very quick to cut across to defend the inside and then purposely run deep into the corner when alongside you to square away the exit for you and prevent the undercut.

I REALLY want the AI to spin, but make it realistic where they throw full lock asap but it's too late. A lot of these spins, the AI is barely steering into the slide. In real life losing the rear requires a snap of steer into the slide and even then most of the time it doesn't catch it.

8:25 lmao that cutoff before you spun out

New drinking game, whenever Alex says "largely similar" you take a shot

all A.I. mistakes are purely artificial it just needs to look more realistic and be at places where real mistakes can happen. not like spinning out at turn 4, which Hamilton did 3 times in my career mode.

Really hate when the ai proceed to brake check me lol

I'm sold on an anxiously awaiting the new 22 release, mainly because of the addition of VR!! It's always a disappointment when major race tittles come out on PC without some kind of VR support. :) thanks devs!!!

I hate that the lap counter is above the driver position and overall position is on the right. Very odd

I remember I had a race in Singapore under HEAVY RAIN in F1-2021 and the AI didn't make a single mistake... I had to retire from the race tho.

I've lost so many races due to rain on the last lap and for some reason the AI are ridiculously fast in the rain on slicks. They need to change that

Whenever there is an incident on track I think it should pull up a picture in picture window so you can see what happened.

Do a penalty test? See if they have at least improved on it? I.e collisions and corner cutting?

8:25 he was spinning out😂😂

I wanna see them be more aggressive in mid corner fights. They should be more willing to push you off or more willing to maybe dip a wheel off the track to keep a position. Another thing could be that they add in escape roads so if you or an ai go off due to a lockup or to catch a spin you should have to take the escape road. I think this could be really cool seeing an ai catch a slide and have to go straight to take the escape road

You know the AI is very tricky, we just gotta adapt and make the game our own. I'm still learning. Great video bro and let's get you to that 100,000 subs, I subscribed

At least there's a few things this year f1 can beat assetto corsa on : 1- Career mode with points, transfer (ofc) 2- AI is better and more natural than AC What AC is good for? Real Simulation and mods, that's it

what would be cool if for example albon was in the podium places he would defend more than if he was 19th, and if ai pick a fight with people within their skill range, like russell wouldn't deffend from max but would from someone like gasly or hamilton, so the race is more intresting and not a cakewalk from last to first.

8:25 Don’t lie to me…… Did you crash here?🤨🤔

Rfactor aggression should be studied by codemasters👌 When they made EA’s 99-2002 challenge, you’d see AI cutting corners to get past

The distance signs for the first corner were all messed up. It went from 100 to 50 to 150. Not that it would impact the driving but I hope they fix that.

There will be many more lockups to be seen with these new tires!!

Brake boards on the entry to T1 are 100 > 50 > 150 Kinda funny honestly. AI mistakes seem great! I hope a Medium > Hard strategy is more common in longer races.

What they need to do is fix the behaviour of the AI in the likes of a 2 player career. They become invincible, smack you in the rear or just chop you when you're alongside. You then spin, get a warning or a penalty for that. That's the main thing they need to fix. It was always a bit better on single player

Yeah, the backing away part is the worst part for me and they were locking up or spinning way too much, which were the same two mistakes aswell. If they had a bunch of different types of mistakes it would feel so much better. Quali ai was also very bad in f1 2021, so that would be interesting, and there should be driver stats for tendency to make mistakes.

The ers lights are working for the first time since 2019.

8:24. You dropped it, didn't you 😂

i want the AI to attack more for certain drivers such as Verstappen and be more defensive like Hamilton idk if this is already in the game but i would like to see that

The distance boards for turn 1 are all messed up haha

Alex, would love to see you deep dive into the manual pitstops. Does the turn in trigger on initial turn in or when a certain degree of steering is applied? What happens if you don't turn in at all? What's the seemingly best/worst pitstop you can achieve?

Anyone else seeing the ai are ridiculous quick in a straight line

Great job by the way and may I ask, what brand of gloves are you wearing and where does one, find them at? Thank you and keep racing!!

I got f1 2021 as soon as it came out and I’ve played it for days in total and I’ve only ever had 2 AI spins

Been playing after the last update. Only noticed the aggression of the ai today. They are super aggressive especially when they are overtaken. After nearly every overtake they try to take me out in revenge lol hardcore. I wonder if the rage quit as well lol

Analog clutch??? PLEASE say yes.

so its pretty identical and to be fair you are braking earlier than the AI too

Thats a very ibteresting video hope it stays how it is but thx for showing us that

From Ben's Jeddah race you can see nothing is changed. The AI will still drive straight into crashed cars

they've got the brake marker boards mixed up into turn 1

This video better than i expected :D Thanks for the video.

8:25 when you spin and cut the video. Yes I’m a Tiametmarduk fan no hate.

I think they make the AI back off easily so we're not getting rammed by AI all the time, I'm guessing it's pretty hard to code the AI to know when to back out or keep pushing.

11:42 is what made me not want to buy this game for me. Always the same shit with different color

"this is an early game" f1 2021 still feels that way and like how do cars lock up into T1 so dumb

the grip is complete bs wheelspining in 4th gear now while drivers irl are flat from 2nd gear i get that the game engine they use is arcady and very unrealistic and the only way to make a skill gap in this game is by how progressive you are on the throttle but if you ever drive an f1 car in asseto (a 3 euro racing sim) its impossible to go back to this childish game.Imo if ea is serious about this the following years f1 games will be made by kunos or some other studio that knows what theyre doing

F1 2021 ai ruined the game, the number of times I play with friends and they get clipped from behind or they dive-bomb a corner, or simply just use a police maneuver to take you out... Most of the time my friends get bored of being clipped and stop playing. Hope they fix the ai this year.

It's just annoying how u can easily predict every single move of em, it's just too easy

I will make my own mind up thx!

Hope EA/Codies adjust the traction control its far too slippery

porca miseria, f1 2021 sembra un gioco di 10 anni fa la grafica al confronto! 😍

Hi Alex I wonder if you could help me with choosing a wheel for getting into sim racing well f1 really,I really want the realism and a realistic amount of force feedback I used a wheel many years ago and really wasn’t impressed with the lack of effort needed not real at all.

The AI in this game are some of the best I've ever seen in a racing game. They didn't brag about the AI at all yet they are making Forza and GT AI look like absolute dog shit. Both of those devs bragging about how their AI is the best AI and blah blah blah... Bullshit. The Forza AI is exactly the same unaware cheating bullshit it always has been. This AI in F1 22 feel like they are actually racing in real time. The AI isn't just following a set path... they actually acknowledge your existence and act as if they are in real time calculating race lines. Forza also feels like one AI controlling all the AI racers and as if it uses the cars not in the lead to troll the shit out of you. This feels like independent AI all using different tactics.

Typical EA tweaking very little of the sport experience but wanting to give you a RPG style.

😍I would love to have it

From what I see there's still a lot of work to do: AI makes a lot of silly mistakes and back off in strange way...

What wheel / base you're using and settings wheel / in-game please?

So far not much improvement on the AI to be very honest.

Looking forward to co op

Looks like, still no flat-spotting i.e. you can brake hard and burn rubber without real consequences..

Let the BUG FEST begin 😂

Will they fix the noses of the cars? They all look the same

thy are the metre boards reversed in the first corner?

the ai should not think ur not there on racing line

Awsome vid!

Can you start from the pitlane?

Should’ve just called this video largely similar to last year because that’s all you said😂 these new AI are 1 poorly located building away from being terrorists

They are going to give cars their real models and steering wheels right?

Is that a trophy with whilton mill on it?

Didn’t leave Fernando any space, should’ve been a penalty

I find project cars 1 had the best ai of any modern racing game as you were able to force them to make mistakes. the f1 series is still too predictable especially after the first two laps causing them to form a train. I skipped out on f12021. I have high hopes for this one.

It looks like you lost that when coming out of the pit on hards 😂

2021 engine sounds tho

You a phone game so good and exciting upgraded Spanish Grand Prix so nice what do you think

Last year spins were scripted, if I made a crucial mistake and restarted a race I can guarantee lando norris spins lap 24 or whatever of that race

AI are same and boring when it comes to wheel to wheel racing easy to pass.

What's changed - they added a stupid house and clothing....... that's it 😂

Why is there no difference in the sidepods?

You’re crashing to other cars that gain position. That’s CHEAP

Ai Is stupid top in this game...aahhhh, there Will be so manu years until the ai start ti become decent

LASHIER

alex over crofty? pffft 🤦‍♂️😂

F1 21.5

Hello

The ai are terrible let’s be honest they just back out everywhere

i want ai to get penalty