Misc True to Life AI 2013 Season 1.4

Philip Morby · May 11, 2013

Because I don't fancy 31 pages of reading, does this mod work for co-op championship? Me and a mate wanna do a season or 2, and this looks like an awesome mod to use for it!

snthennumbers · May 11, 2013

carrot1401 said:
Because I don't fancy 31 pages of reading, does this mod work for co-op championship? Me and a mate wanna do a season or 2, and this looks like an awesome mod to use for it!

I haven't tried, but I'm going to guess it does not work. But try it and let us all know

snthennumbers · May 11, 2013

ksucarl said:
Yeah, first race of Career mode. I did Malaysia and China earlier today without changing anything and it seems that Melbourne was a fluke. Finished 16th in a very rainy, extremely fun Malaysia (4 retirements) and 19th in China. Was running in 12th after the first round of pit stops but then I locked up into the hairpin. Thought Grosjean was past me as he was right behind, so I went to go back to the racing line and took his back end out. Drive-through penalty, but it was my fault so I didn't use a flashback. Qualified both races a couple tenths above Bianchi.
The driver placing is very, very realistic! I've noticed that Pic almost always beats Van der Garde, Gutierrez is always pretty far down the order, Button beats Perez, etc. Also noticed (pure coincidence I'm sure) that Maldonado retired in the first two races.
Also, and very thankfully, the leaders aren't shy about passing under blue flags. Before you had to practically stop to get them to pass.
I have nothing but positive feedback so far!

Edit: The Melbourne thing isn't isolated; I started again, same settings, same team, on a clean install (with the mods). Went 13th to 8th this time. Not sure what the teammate did, he somehow got stuck on the pit wall on lap 5 and stayed there until the end.

Glad to hear things are working well, but regarding your edit when you "started again". Did you start Career mode again? Or a quick race?

It's been discussed somewhere in this thread already, but in Career mode the cars are not fully developed, so some teams will have both good and bad races as their cars develop and parts fail, etc.
During a quick race, the cars are fully developed, so the results are closer to real life. I used quick races when doing the testing & tweaking for this mod, so quick races will give you the most realistic results. But like I said, Career races will have mixed results as the careers and seasons progress.

morgadox40 · May 12, 2013

What happens when we go to the second season? The AI changes to stock again? I'm asking 'cuz I would like to try this mod using a top team or something closer to that. Racing at Sauber is already damn fun, so I guess racing for Mclaren/Ferrari/RBR/Mercedez would be even better!

snthennumbers · May 12, 2013

morgadox40 said:
What happens when we go to the second season? The AI changes to stock again? I'm asking 'cuz I would like to try this mod using a top team or something closer to that. Racing at Sauber is already damn fun, so I guess racing for Mclaren/Ferrari/RBR/Mercedez would be even better!

You should have contract offers from all teams by the end of season 1. Sauber is a very fast car during season 1, just FYI. I haven't made it to season 2 yet, but the AI remains the same. You'll have good battles with front-runner drivers if you're in a front-running car for most races. Some you'll run away with, but that's real life.

ksucarl · May 12, 2013

snthennumbers said:
Glad to hear things are working well, but regarding your edit when you "started again". Did you start Career mode again? Or a quick race?

It's been discussed somewhere in this thread already, but in Career mode the cars are not fully developed, so some teams will have both good and bad races as their cars develop and parts fail, etc.
During a quick race, the cars are fully developed, so the results are closer to real life. I used quick races when doing the testing & tweaking for this mod, so quick races will give you the most realistic results. But like I said, Career races will have mixed results as the careers and seasons progress.

It was career again on the fresh install. I'm fine with it though, those points will help the team in the Constructor's in the end!

gianNucci_07 · May 12, 2013

Man, I need some help. I've installed this mod, but I believe I made some mistake, after instalation the AI is much more slow than before, even in Legend Mode.
In QuickRaces the DRS don't active in DRS Zone and its impossible to make a pit stop.
I have no 2013 mod installed, so I raplace all files but the database.bin.

someone has an idea what is causing this?

snthennumbers · May 13, 2013

gianNucci_07 said:
Man, I need some help. I've installed this mod, but I believe I made some mistake, after instalation the AI is much more slow than before, even in Legend Mode.
In QuickRaces the DRS don't active in DRS Zone and its impossible to make a pit stop.
I have no 2013 mod installed, so I raplace all files but the database.bin.

someone has an idea what is causing this?

Verify files with Steam, then install my mod and confirm overwriting, but like you said, without the database since you're not using the 2013 mod.

Nicolas. · May 13, 2013

hey, i've installed this mod with the database file (that corrupted my save btw) but when i should choose a team i can only pick between williams, toro rosso, etc. what's the problem, have i done anything wrong??

snthennumbers · May 13, 2013

Nicolas. said:
hey, i've installed this mod with the database file (that corrupted my save btw) but when i should choose a team i can only pick between williams, toro rosso, etc. what's the problem, have i done anything wrong??

The overview page says that the database will corrupt your profile, so that's to be expected.
Regarding team selections - I'm assuming you're talking about during the start of your Career? If so, the overview page explains this - you'll have contract offers from all teams by the end of Career season 1.

Matthew14 · May 13, 2013

How do you change the difficulty of the AI?

snthennumbers · May 13, 2013

Matthew14 said:
How do you change the difficulty of the AI?

You read the overview page for starters

Matthew14 · May 13, 2013

snthennumbers said:
You read the overview page for starters

ok, sorry

Nicolas. · May 13, 2013

snthennumbers said:
The overview page says that the database will corrupt your profile, so that's to be expected.
Regarding team selections - I'm assuming you're talking about during the start of your Career? If so, the overview page explains this - you'll have contract offers from all teams by the end of Career season 1.

thanks.

whitewash · May 13, 2013

Im finding Singapore to be a bit grippy for the player, I can easily floor it out of the slow turns and the front tyres seem to have a little too much grip as well.

Im still using 2.1 though so maybe it was already reported.

morgadox40 · May 13, 2013

hey snthennumbers, don't you think Kimi and Lotus need to be a little bit better? I don't know if it's only on my carrer, but they're a little bit slow here, I've done 4 races(100%) on my carrer so far and Grosjean qualifies really bad(he missed Q2 once) and Kimi never got into the top 4. Not a podium so far. Just a guess, I only want this mod to be improved as the season goes, this is just a sugestion, maybe you don't like Kimi

just kidding, thx again for this mod mate, cheers.

allbrain · May 14, 2013

Thanks for this mod,snthennumbers. Absolutely brilliant. I have only had 4 races so far (racing for Toro Rosso), and the mod has made them absolutely fun to play.

I was wondering if you could help me with this... I tipically play 25% races, but I wanted to experience the tyre wear that only applies to 50% and above races, so my last race was 50%, and, man, was it really long for me (although compelling). I don't have much time to play, and one hour races are just too much. Are you aware of any parameter within the database/files that could adjust how long the races are? I mean, keeo them look like 50% in the menus, but then really being shorter.
Another thing I have experienced is that AI cars tend to crash a lot in my back, in most of the slow turns, maybe is my fault since I am not the best driver around, and I feel like I am being really slow on those turns....

Thansk again for the mod, and then for the extensive support and dedication here in the forum. Regards.

sunnymtx · May 14, 2013

snthennumbers said:
Install v1tek's mod first.
Install my mod second, saying "yes" to overwrite any files.
Then follow the instructions I've included for the Lotus fix
Text being garbled has been discussed on v1tek's thread, you'll find the answers to fix that there. Has something to do with the language files, but I just can't remember exactly what to do right now off the top of my head (hungover, sorry lol)

The fix works good. Thanks for that. What I don't understand is, where the skin you included in TrueLifeAI is coming from? theoriginalskunk? I had the 2xHD version of v1teks mod installed. The gen_file in livery_main of the lotus has ~180 MB in that resolution. In your update the livery_00 and _01 have only ~33 MB and are obviously are not DHD and are not as crisp as I wish. The skin is also completely different than the one in v1teks 2013 mod. Where can I get a DHD version for each driver?

snthennumbers · May 14, 2013

whitewash said:
Im finding Singapore to be a bit grippy for the player, I can easily floor it out of the slow turns and the front tyres seem to have a little too much grip as well.

Im still using 2.1 though so maybe it was already reported.

I'll look into it, haven't raced there in a long while so it might need some tweaking. Thanks for pointing that out

snthennumbers · May 14, 2013

morgadox40 said:
hey snthennumbers, don't you think Kimi and Lotus need to be a little bit better? I don't know if it's only on my carrer, but they're a little bit slow here, I've done 4 races(100%) on my carrer so far and Grosjean qualifies really bad(he missed Q2 once) and Kimi never got into the top 4. Not a podium so far. Just a guess, I only want this mod to be improved as the season goes, this is just a sugestion, maybe you don't like Kimi

just kidding, thx again for this mod mate, cheers.

Kimi is as good as he can get in the database. Romain could probably use some tweaking, but so far I'm not seeing consistency from him in real life - so waiting on that. I think in Career Season 1 that Lotus isn't the best car. In my Career I'm at Spa and Lotus isn't doing terribly well. They're a tier 1 car though and in quick races Kimi is 5th or higher usually, so I think it's just a career/car development thing.