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How to change AI difficulty
By andi9x17
A guide how to change the AI difficulty.
   
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Change AI difficulties depend on track 
That´s it 
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Introduction
Some people said the AI is too easy or too diifcult. In this guide i will show you how to change the difficulty of the AI depend on tracks.
Change AI difficulties depend on track
Well the easiest way to open the files(if you don´t have or want to install a XML editor) is using the Wordpad. The downside is, the Wordpad can not read all Data. But this doesn´t matter for our usage.

DON´T FORGET TO SECURE YOUR ORIGINAL FILES BEFORE YOU DO THE FOLLOWING CHANGES!!

1. Go to Steam\SteamApps\Common\f12013\tracks\difficulties\choose your era
2. open ai_track_difficulties
3. if you are using wordpad, you will see a lot of cryptic signs. just ignore them.

Let´s say you want to change the AI for Amateur Mode. And this should be for the Bahrain Track.

4. use CTRL+F to search "bahrain". You will see a list of decimals.
  • 1st: Amateur
  • 2nd: Intermediate
  • 3rd: Professional
  • 4th: Expert
  • 5th: Legend


5. The lowest number is 0.0000001 and the highest 0.9999999. So change the value between lowest and highest possible value. The value in the picture is 0.0400001. That´s 4.00001%.

THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO CHANGE SETTINGS FOR era_2013! IF YOU ARE PLAYING OTHER ERA, JUST IGNORE THE LAST STEP.

6. Go now to Steam\SteamApps\Common\f12013\tracks\difficulties\ and repeat steps 2 - 5.
Don´t copy the ai_track_difficulties from \era_2013 to \difficulties. Somehow the Game will not start anymore, if you do that. I couldn´t figure out why.
That´s it
Well, if you follow the instructions, nothing horrible will happen. :D
If you have questions, don´t be shy!
14 Comments
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andi9x17  [author] 15 Apr, 2016 @ 4:37am 
@Phil hmm..that´s weird. Because my gamefiles are still readable. And i didn´t downloaded any updates from this game since i created this modding page. Under normal circumstances changing files with wordpad shouldn´t hurt the intergrity. Did you secured the original files? I would try to change back to the original files. And give it another try.

If this is still not working, you can set me your files and i will look into it.
VISIONARY 12 Apr, 2016 @ 10:03am 
hey mate. nice idea but its not working anymore.

the values also have changed. the legend value of abu dhabi changed to 1.0 instead of 0.7 in your quote. and the 5th value for the other tracks is missing, just 4 values for the other tracks.
i tried to change expert value for bahrain with using wordpad and after trying the expert times were lowest possible (1:43 in bahrain, +10 secs).

i think the integrity of the file will be hurted after saving it with wordpad and the game cannot read it anymore. opening with a xml-editor doesnt work too. it cannot open the file at least.

any suggestions what i can try?
andi9x17  [author] 5 Mar, 2016 @ 1:48am 
@Hokomiji for era 2013 it works for both, campaign and individual sessions. You just need to change the difficulty you play with. Well how much difference depends on, how + or - value you chose. I needed a bit time to find the right value untill it really effected that much the AI that fits my skills.

What i found out is, if you change the digit either one of them or both 0.XX, it will affects a lot more then other digits. If you change 0.5 to 0.56...., it´a whole "new game".


Sky Captain 4 Mar, 2016 @ 9:43pm 
Is this just for those individual races (session) or for campaign as well. It doesn't really seem to affect the campaign.
Sky Captain 4 Mar, 2016 @ 9:20pm 
It doesn't seem to work for me. No change at all. Do I have to change the diffculty for the "Amatateur, Legend" bit as well or just the map.
Sky Captain 4 Mar, 2016 @ 5:48am 
Cheers! Thanks for the quick & helpful responses!
andi9x17  [author] 4 Mar, 2016 @ 5:00am 
@Hokomiji
yes, i have and it´s really easy. The AI drivers had always times like +3:33:48. That´s ridiculous. But 0.9999999 is impossible. Your own time is like +10min or more. :D
Sky Captain 4 Mar, 2016 @ 4:48am 
Have you tried 0.0000001? What is it like?
andi9x17  [author] 4 Mar, 2016 @ 4:40am 
@Hokomiji
Okay, i will try to explain as easy as i can. ;)

Changing the difficulty in-game just means, the program is going to search the pre-setted value for the AI. For example: By game start, you say you want to play on Professional. The Code behind the game will find the list(could be an array, vector or enum or whatever function, doesn´t matter) which includes all difficulty values for each track. On Professional all track Setting would be at 0.53XXXXX. Maybe that´s too hard for you. But on Intermediate the pre-setted values are at 0.41XXXXX which is too easy.

So if you change the difficulty value in your game files. It doesn´t mean, you don´t need to choose the difficulty in-game anymore. It just means, the value the code is going to find in that list, isn´t the pre-setted value from Codemasters anymore. It´s the value you have changed.

Hope that answered your question. ;)
Sky Captain 4 Mar, 2016 @ 3:32am 
Just one question: what's the difference between changing the difficulty in the game files and changing the difficulty in game?