#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR MOD#
#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR MODS#
#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR PLUS#

Some, like BOZ Sprint Cars and DirtMotorsport 16 Late Models, have dedicated AI cars you must select in your opponents list to keep the AI stable. So the physics the player uses for a lot of them breaks the AI, they can barely complete a lap if the game hasn't already CTDed out. I think at some point, many dirt oval modders gave up on the AI, and just focused on multiplayer. Notably, with the DirtFactor cars, the AI does some drifting even on tracks where Bandit cars drive undeviatingly on the line. I wonder whether the game's AI has any inbuilt understanding of driving on off-road surfaces-or at least provides some for mods.

#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR MOD#

And I'll need to do the same with any other mod that I'll want to use-bruteforcing my way through the table of the tracks and the mods. So, it appears that I will now have to again check each track for whether it can be properly used with DirtFactor late models-I'm sure that the cars still have trouble on some of the tracks. (In fact, I had to lower the AI strength way down to 75%, instead of running it at 110-120%, like with Bandit cars-but that might be just a poor default setup, or these particular tracks may have exceptionally strong AI.) They don't lose the rear too much, and don't end up driving across the track instead of just skidding a bit. I switched again to heavier DirtFactor Late Model cars, and the AI does a lot better on some of the tracks that were a challenge for Bandit cars. So the prescribed AI trajectory on a track is necessarily made for some particular mod, or at least for cars that are close-ish in power-to-weight and handling. My guess is that track authors indeed built their vision of proper dirt racing into the AI's racing line-but, since Bandit cars are very light and plenty powerful, they swerve too much and lose control. However, at least with 321 Bandit Sprint Cars, this behavior varies between tracks-on those where the AIs can drive around the track without problems, there's less or none of the swerving. These swerves are where the AI cars lose control and run into the wall or collide with each other. There may also be a second swerve on the straight for some reason. Turns out, on many tracks the car swerves right before the turn, in the characteristic motion of a Scandinavian flick. What I learned so far: if I enable the autopilot and watch it drive laps, I can see firsthand what the AI is doing. However, I also noticed that offroad cars in general tend to have questionable AI, so maybe the game just can't cope with them-though again there's difference between tracks.

It's kinda awkward when NR2003 tends to have better AI on dirt ovals than rFactor-even if they just drive the same as on pavement-considering that rFactor has a much wider ‘range’ of physics, so dirt racing and various weird cars feel better in it.

#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR MODS#

I've heard about the technology of ‘training’ the AI, but it sounds rather suspect to me: I hoped instead that people who know more about dirt racing would put some of that knowledge into their mods and tracks, so I could judge my novice attempts by the AIs' performance-instead of getting some generic AI driving that the ‘calibration’ should deliver. It would be understandable if the AIs worked when the mod matches the tracks-but instead, 321 Bandit cars are poor on 321 tracks, and DWD Late Models are poor on DWD tracks. Neither the mods nor the tracks mention which pairings should work, maybe with a couple exceptions. However, perhaps I don't know something about choosing the mods and matching them to tracks.

#DIRT LATE MODEL 2 TRACKS RFACTOR PLUS#

The consistency of problems between mods, plus what I heard about the AI before, suggest that this is a fault with the tracks, and I just need to leaf through them until I gather a few good ones. Is there some trick that would make the AI run well? Or are these tracks made solely for multiplayer?

I haven't tried all of the same tracks with other mods, but various attempts show exactly the same problems. Mostly, however, they just swerve randomly, running into the walls or off the track, colliding with each other and the player, generally getting in the way of others, and not doing any actual driving.

On the rest, at best the AIs drive too slowly even at high strength settings, and are easy to overtake despite my noob skills with dirt ovals. So far, with ‘321 Bandit Sprint Cars’, out of 48 tracks that I've tried, the AI can be said to drive properly well on three. And I almost completely fail to get any semblance of decent racing with the AI.

I installed several highly-rated dirt-oval mods from RFC, a few tracks from RFC (that were still available) and a couple track packs from the TrippTeam server.

Dirt late model 2 tracks rfactor