u/NoTime_SwordIsEnough

Love PMR and how it's improving, but having to repeatedly go back to the menus to adjust the difficulty slider feels like Caveman Technology. Especially since any given car/track combo will randomly become too hard or easy.

For this reason, RaceRoom still continues to be my most-played sim. It's not my favorite in terms of physics, but it at least lets me just hop-in and have a close race every single time, due to its Adaptive AI setting (not to be confused with Rubber Banding, as the difficulty is fixed for the entire race).

It's <CURRENT YEAR>, please stop making me go back to the menus to fiddle over and over when I just wanna get a couple good races in.

The freshly-deleted thread is here.

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My reply:

The Adaptive AI in raceroom doesn't adjust during the race - rather, it's set before the race even starts.

So for any given class+track combination, the difficulty that Adaptive AI chooses is based on the average of your 10 best laps on that track.

Meaning, you will have to spend a race getting a few good laps in (usually 5 is the minimum to get the perfect difficulty), and then you will have to either finish the race, or retired to the Garage, and then clicking Finish Race (as just doing 5 laps and then Quitting will not record the lap times).

Afterwards, when you try the car+track combo again, the AI will be tuned to the average of your recorded lap times.

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CAVEATS / NOTES:

• The game can use your times from other tracks you raced in the same class, so sometimes it can guess the right difficulty without first "trainiing" it.

• The game also records the AI's average laptimes too, to help select the right difficulty. So be careful if you cause a pileup, and make the AI finish their laps like 30 seconds late!

• It doesn't matter if you use Timed or Lapped modes when recording your times.

• It doesn't matter, when you record your laps, how ahead or behind you are from the AI. All the game cares about is the average of YOUR top-10 best laptimes.

• I said "your top ten best lap times", but the game does eventually evict stale laptime entries. So if you record 10 laps getting around 30s per lap, start a new race, and record 3 really bad laps @ 40s each, it will evict 3 entries, so that 7 entries are from your 1st race, and 3 are from your 2nd race with the really bad laptimes.

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Hope this helps!

TL;DR: Start a race, and record 5 good laps for a car+track combo, then finish the race or retire to the garage. Next time you launch that car+track combo from the main menu, it'll select a suitable difficulty.

That, and I miss when her saying "but I tried so hard!" sounded like いじめヌンで～ ("don't buwwy me!") in Japanese.

That is all. Thank you for reading my blogspam.

(PS: I'm addicted to studying Korean now... have 164 hours of listening/reading practice according to an app I am using lol. Someone help me.)